Documentary

Legendary Beat poet and jazz performer ruth weiss (deliberately lowercase) grew up in 1920s Vienna, escaped the Nazis in 1938, hung with Jack Kerouac in the 50s, and was still on stage on her 90th birthday in San Francisco. Filmmaker Thomas Antonic...

Sleep: simple in it's basic description, elusive in attempts at a comprehensive understanding of all it's manifestations. What happens behind closed eyes when we lose consciousness and give ourselves over to dreams? And how is our perception of reality...

Meet Shabu, a 14-year-old Dutch-Surinamese aspiring artist from "The Paperclip," an innercity apartment complex in one of Rotterdam's most notorious neighborhoods. Shabu has big dreams but even bigger problems. He's just totaled his grandmother's car and...

Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher - Allen Ginsberg's remarkable life shaped the very soul of American counterculture. For...

Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It traces the history of money from the ancient world to the modern trading floors of Wall Street. By exposing the practices of central banks and other financial actors who brought the world to it's knees in the 2008...

One of the world's most elusive and admired choreographers, Paul Taylor was on the cutting edge of modern dance for over 60 years and helped shape the artform until his death in 2018. Beginning in 2010 he allowed the camera to delve into his creative...

Francoise Dolto & L Ecole De La Neuville DVD

Sur La Piste Du Mammouth DVD

Psychomagic, A Healing Art- a new documentary following Alejandro Jodorowsky's therapeutic work of?Psychomagic, the film draws from a life-long study of philosophy, psychology, ethnology, and world religions -?from Freud to shaman, from Kabbalah to...

Pare Lorentz's "The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)," and "The River (1937)" are landmark American documentary films. Aesthetically, they break new ground in seamlessly marrying pictoral imagery, symphonic music, and poetic free verse. Ideologically,...

Accordion is a filmed document by Pierre Barouh traveling around the famous Accordion festival of Tulle (France) with some sequences of the Montmagny accordion festival (Canada) - where amateur and the greatest professional players (including Richard...

Made for the 1939 New York World's Fair, this seminal documentary film is distinguished for the organic integration of narration (scripted by city planner Lewis Mumford), cinematography (Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke), and music (Aaron Copland).