Documentary

From Executive Producer Robert Redford comes a limited series event chronicling the westward expansion that took place in the years after the Civil War, which gave America the reputation as "the land of opportunity. Includes interviews with Robert...

In January 1973, four young African-American Muslim men held up a Brooklyn sporting goods store for firearms-and the police response resulted in crossfire, a dead patrolman, 11 hostages, and a 47-hour standoff. Psychology-trained traffic cop Harvey...

Hidden Star Blu-Ray

A longtime fan, documentarian Robert Weide first approached Kurt Vonnegut about a biographical effort in the early '80s-and the project fostered a quarter-century friendship that lasted till the author's passing in 2007. Weide's hours of footage have...

Bloodless: Path To Democracy Blu-Ray

The Lure of this Land is an award-winning exploration of why people leave the places they know and love. Why do they leave their homelands? What are they looking for? What do they find? Filmmaker Alexandra Lexton came to Belize and found these stories: A...

Cow Bd Blu-Ray

Back in mid-'80s Richmond, punk bassist Dave Brockie met vocalist and practical effects buff Hunter Jackson-and the over-the-top outrageous horror-metal act they co-created has continued to perform and record ever since, through roster churn,...

From the time that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Emerged as a resonant voice in the American civil rights movement, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover regarded him as a danger to the status quo that needed to be discredited. This stunning documentary lays bare...

There are certain horror movies for which the unholy scenarios that play out on-screen are matched by the unnerving legends spawned by fateful production accidents or subsequent misfortunes that befell cast and crew. Every season of this Shudder...

The various intersections between African-American history and the evolution of the Hollywood horror film receive a fascinating examination in this documentary. From '70s Blaxploitation to the first-to-die tropes of the '80s and '90s to the positive...

In 1956, magnetic recording was still limited as a technology to capturing audio. At that time, Russian emigre engineer Alexander M. Poniatoff and his collaborators at his self-named company AMPEX created the first rotary head videotape recorder-the...