Documentary

Jean Painlev was a film director, critic, theorist, and animator, yet his interests and studies also extended to mathematics, medicine, and zoology. Painlev forged his own unique cinematic path, creating countless short films for both the viewing public...

A landmark documentary, "Salesman" captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses-then face the demand...

One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, La jette (The Jetty) and Sans soleil (Sunless) couldn't seem more different "yet they're the twin pillars of one of the most daring and...

Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career, the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies...

Gimme Shelter DVD

There has never been a filmmaker like Marlon Riggs (1957-1994): an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction. An early adopter of video technology who had a profound...

Narrated by Emmy½ Award-winning actor Ray Liotta, The Making of The Mob: New York is an eight-part series that begins in 1905 and spans over 50 years to trace the rise of Charles Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, and other notorious New...

Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele DVD

The rhythmic complexities of the Sacre are notorious but, in the hands of a master of modern music and one of the world's top orchestras, the London Symphony Orchestra, the elemental barbarism of the music is thrilling. Boulez's definitive reading of...

This BAFTA, RTS and FIFA winning film enters the world of Britain's most eccentric, celebrated and controversial artistic double act in which life and art are inextricably linked. The film explores their history from their student days at St Martin's in...

The mirror of life and people parade across the big screen in black and white moving images and then with sound and in color. Film historians Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg illustrate the birth of cinema and then guide you through the evolution of modern...

Teach Me to Be WILD explores the work of a sanctuary in Northern California, where a team of injured, non-releasable wild animals become Wild-Teachers and are helping heal generations of hurt children (at-risk teens, justice-involved youth, foster kids...