Documentary

Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding arrived in California virtually unknown. Returning stateside from London, where he had moved to launch his musical career, Hendrix exploded at Monterey, flooring an unsuspecting audience with his maniacal six-string...

A rare look at the making of the cast album of the hit Broadway play featuring music by Stephen Sondheim. Go behind the scenes with stars Dean Jones, Barbara Barrie, Charles Kimbrough, Donna McKechnie, Elaine Stritch, George Coe, and Beth Howland under...

Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the...

Heart of a Dog marks the first feature film in thirty years by multimedia artist Laurie Anderson. A cinematic tone poem that flows from a sustained meditation on death and other forms of absence, the film seamlessly weaves together thoughts on Tibetan...

During a working-class adolescence in Rockford, IL, Chinese-American emigr? Bing Liu turned to filmmaking, skateboarding, and his bond with board park buddies Keire Johnson and Zack Mulligan. In this remarkable, Academy Award-nominated directing bow, Liu...

Before Woodstock and Monterey Pop, there was Festival. From 1963 to 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached it's peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan,...

Burden Of Dreams DVD

In 1974, Leon Gast (Our Latin Thing) traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger...

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES include: New digital restoration, 2 audio commentaries, a new documentary, additional scenes, excerpts from Siskel & Ebert tracking their acclaim for the film, and more. Two ordinary inner-city Chicago kids dare to reach for the...

On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer fresh from the controversy over his essay The Prisoner of Sex and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's...

John Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him from undertaking the adventure of a lifetime on "Fishing with John." Traveling wit his special guests to the most exotic and dangerous places on Earth, John battles sharks with...

Documentarian Kirsten Johnson was looking for a way to process the inevitable passing of her father Richard-a retired psychiatrist, now widowed and diagnosed with dementia. With his agreement, she found it-and staged and filmed a succession of...