Documentary

Once they were larger-than-life idols created to entertain children and were dismissed by the adult world. But in the new millennium, characters created over half a century ago have risen up to conquer popular culture. This is the story of how...

Dear Santa - As thousands of letters to Santa Claus flood post offices during the holiday season, it's up to the US Postal Service's 107-year-old Operation Santa to deliver them to Kris Kringle himself.

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...

Bridging The Gap DVD

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...

Breaking a Monster - DVD - Bonding over their love of music, three grade schoolers from Brooklyn spend their weekends playing heavy metal/speed punk in Times Square as "Unlocking the Truth." When the band's internet fame explodes and the music industry...

Cow DVD

Eighty-three-year-old Chicago blues guitarist, multiple Grammy winner, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Charles "Buddy" Guy has seen and done it all... performed alongside generations of greats, profoundly influenced generations more. His desire to see...

It's been over 75 years since the destruction of the Third Reich... and yet, the mythology of Adolf Hitler and Nazism remains a tangible presence for adherents of fascism the world over. Using Sebastian Haffner's 1978 tome as a springboard, and...

In 2010, ex-Air National Guard intelligence analyst and hacktivist Matt DeHart was indicted for possession of child pornography. After attempted flight and bids at asylum, he was taken into FBI custody, where, he claimed, he was tortured over the actual...

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,...

In the late '70s, after controversy scared off the original backers of "Monty Python's Life of Brian," former Beatle George Harrison mortgaged his home to step in... and started a production house that jump-started a moribund British film industry in the...