Documentary

For 50 years, she has represented all that is good about the enduring bonds between human beings and their dogs. She first leaped to stardom in the 1943 MGM film, Lassie Come Home. At a time when families, still stunned from the Depression, were then...

Alla Nazimova, the Russian-born, theater-trained actress decided, on the occasion of her contract release from Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1921, to make films with merit. The second - and last - of these was Oscar Wildes controversial Salome. Her director was...

From the early race to build gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germanys final surrender, Silent Wings - The American Glider Pilots of WWII narrated by Hal Holbrook, reveals the critical role gliders played in World War II offensives...

Project Recover, a small team of accomplished scientists, historians, and military veterans, scour the depths of the ocean and the farthest corners of the earth, to search for and recover the remains of the more than 80,000 Americans who have been...

It might reasonably be contended that Humphrey Jennings is the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced. - Lindsay Anderson, Director These astonishing films show and explain essential news and propaganda functions of the movies during the...

The Hollywood hunk who began life as a streetwise nobody dared to dream big enough and reach high enough to become one of Hollywood's greatest actors. His story from humble beginnings as the son of a New York postal worker to circus acrobat to superstar...

The Kybalion is a documentary exploring the Master Key to the mysteries: the immensely popular 1908 occult classic of the same name. Occult historian Mitch Horowitz guides us through the book's seven principles of Hermetic philosophy.

Humphrey Jennings was one of the greatest figures in the celebrated British documentary film movement, and he is most remembered for the way his work reflects the concerns and conditions of World War II-time in the United Kingdom. He is undoubtedly of...

Cruel and Unusual is the story of three men who have spent longer in solitary confinement than any other prisoners in the US because of the murder of a prison guard in 1972 at Angola, the Louisiana state penitentiary. Robert King, Herman Wallace and...

It was said of him that in more than seventy films, he never once gave a bad performance. He was a charming and unconventional man with a wild streak and a compulsion to test himself at every turn. At his peak he became a leading man of immense...

CHICAGO: THE TERRY KATH EXPERIENCE is a documentary about a daughter discovering the legacy of her father: the late Terry Kath. Kath was one of the founding members of the band Chicago, whose powerful guitar playing and husky, melodic voice has been...

Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz. Her ballet training and her long-legged pixie charm led to rapid success on...