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Popular Documentary Movies
Joel-Peter Witkin: An Objective Eye
A new documentary about world renowned photographer, Joel-Peter Witkin.
Hidden Cinema: A Journey in the Art of Subliminal Communication and Message Encoding
A feature documentary by Rob Ager exploring hidden communication in movies through the analysis of popular fiction films and media and the author's experience of writing and directing.
The Cast of a Christmas Story: Where Are They Now?
This one-hour special includes some archival interviews with the film's biggest stars like Peter Billingsley, but there are new, original interviews with some of the supporting actors and updates on their lives and careers. The actor who played Flick gives away the secret of how they filmed the flag pole scene. "Where Are They Now?" also visits the Cleveland house used for the film's exterior and previews the musical version of the film that's been making the rounds during recent holiday seasons and is now on Broadway.
The Origins of Football
"The Origins of football" tells the story of football from its remotest origins. The documentary is a faithful reflection of the evolution of this sport, from its beginnings until it became the greatest spectacle in the world. The film is based on the wealth of archaeological evidence which clearly shows that games similar to present-day football have been played since the third century before Christ. The most representative games that could be regarded as ancestors of football and that have been played through the course of history in very different culturesю
I Am Breathing
Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the impossibility of terminating a mobile phone contract. With 5 months left to live, and paralyzed from the neck down by Motor Neurone Disease, he ponders how to communicate about his life in a letter for his baby son. How can he anticipate what he might want to know about his father in a future he can only imagine?
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The Incredible Bionic Man
From bionic arms and legs to artificial organs, science is beginning to catch up with SF in the race to replace body parts with man-made alternatives. How to Build a Bionic Man follows psychologist Bertolt Meyer, who has a bionic hand himself, as he meets scientists working at the cutting edge of research to find out just how far this new technology can go. Now, thanks to research on advanced prosthetic arms and legs, as well as artificial eyes, hearts and lungs - and even hybrids between computer chips and living brains - scientists can finally replace body parts and even improve on human abilities. While Bertolt's search shows just how far science has come, it also asks questions about what it means to be human and where this technology could lead in the future.
Vatnajökull National Park
Among Europe's biggest national parks is Vatnajökull park; reaching over Europe's largest glacier from the South to the North shore of Iceland. The versatility of this vast area is almost unbelievable as the film shows; glaciers, glacial rivers, waterfalls, nunataks, glacier mice, flora Inthe middle of the glacier, volcanic eruptions under ice, catastrophic floods, ravines, deserts, oasis, table mountains, tuff mountains, lava, craters, calderas, lakes, birds, reindeers, people, festivities, giant trolls, hidden people?
Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
Beginning in 1982, after Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the Manchester-born musician's obsession with Middle Eastern conflict began. His music, a mix of industrial, hip-hop, techno, and dubstep, and usually without any lyrics, could never easily be identified for its politics. But his pro-Palestinian beliefs were at the center of his inspiration. As the head of Muslimgauze's first long-term record label recalls about their first meeting, "We didn't talk about music, we talked about politics and the whole situation that brought his music to life."Mixing news broadcast recordings, drum kit beats, pots and pans, and classic instrumentals, Muslimgauze pioneered a new style of music that sounded little like anything else at the time or since.
Bobby Womack: Across 110th Street
Documentary about singer-songwriter Bobby Womack, from his early gospel days of the 1950s through soul stardom in the 70s to a career Indian summer with Gorillaz and Damon Albarn.
Bidder 70
Bidder 70 centers on an extraordinary, ingenious and effective act of civil disobedience demanding government and industry accountability. In 2008, University of Utah economics student Tim DeChristopher committed an act which would redefine patriotism in our time, igniting a spirit of civil disobedience in the name of climate justice.
Esperanza Macarena: Puerta del Cielo
“Esperanza Macarena: Puerta del Cielo”. This is the title of the new film by the Brotherhood of the Macarena. This work, whose script was written by Carlos Colón Perales, who also directed it together with the Sevillian director Carlos Valera Bastida, with the collaboration of the production company Valdeluxe, and the voiceover by Antonio García Barbeito, revolves around the history and legend of the Brotherhood of the Macarena, throughout almost five centuries, of the sacred and spectacular beauty of its processional departure, at dawn on Good Friday, of the devotion that overflowed Seville from a neighborhood and of Seville's love for the Esperanza Macarena which, arriving to Rome, culminated in the canonical coronation of 1964, the fiftieth anniversary of which this Macareno Jubilee Year commemorates.
Olga
Olga is believed to be a mentally disabled, orphan girl who is following reindeer herder along the hiking trails in Russia. But she is a very smart teenager and an excellent storyteller.
Animert i 100 år 1913-2013
Norwegian film institute celebrates 100 years of Norwegian animated film with the release Animated for 100 years. Animated in 100 Years 1913-2013, is a unique collection of 34 films on Blu-ray. This is a celebration of Norwegian animation film with a broad presentation of various films, techniques and directors. The collection spans 100 years of imaginative film and reflects the technical development and diversity of Norwegian animation. Here is Roald Amundsen On The South Pole (1913), which is one of the first animation made in Norway, the early Caprino film Music in the Attic (1950), Morten Skalleruds The Year along the Abandoned Road (1991), which has been voted the best Norwegian short film of all time, the Oscar winner The Danish Poet (2006) and Anita Killis; Angry Man (2009).
Roads
The main themes of the film "Roads" were tolerance, hospitality and respect for other peoples and religions, which is very typical for Kazakhstan – there are more than 3,000 religious associations in our country, representing more than 40 denominations.
Skywire Live with Nik Wallenda
On live television, Nik Wallenda attempts to be the first person to walk over the Grand Canyon on a high wire more than 1500 feet in the air.
Eupoly
The euro has been the official means of payment in Germany since 2002. Now – more than 10 years later – the Eurozone is sinking into chaos. This documentary takes a look behind the curtain and tries to find out who the actual beneficiaries are and were. Where will the journey go and what will be the consequences? Can the crash still be prevented and what alternatives are there?
La Casona
Several pregnant women needing particular attention live in the Cuban Maternal Waiting Home 'La Casona' ('The Big House'). Yudi, a 15-years old girl tries, just as the others, to maintain a distant and dysfunctional relationship with the father of her future child.
The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood
Historian and author AN Wilson explores the life of Josiah Wedgwood. Wilson reveals the achievements of the self-made, self-educated creative giant famous for his pottery.
Here Was Cuba
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 resulted from a Cold War standoff between two of the world's most powerful nations. Director Emer Reynolds revisits a time when nuclear war was a very real threat through revelatory interviews with former soldiers and government advisers.
The Art of Disappearing
An unknown real story of a Haitian vodou priest, Amon Frémon, who visited the People’s Republic of Poland in 1980. A metaphysical view on time of socialism through the eyes of a stranger form a different culture.
Olympic Women
The documentary Olympic Women, directed by Laís Bodanzky, shows that the history of women in sport is often entwined with the history of women as a whole. While so many Brazilian women were fighting for the right to vote, to divorce, and the right to free speech, some were fighting for the right to be present at one of the biggest events on the planet: the Olympics. And something that should have been simple and natural, was not. Some Olympic appearances were dramatic. Others, isolated and lonely. Just as in society, women in sport had to earn their rights by force.
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
Beautiful story about effervescent ninety-year-old children's book author and illustrator Judith Kerr - (a true delight) - recounting her childhood escape from Hitler and eventual return to Berlin.
The General Store
The small shop Verzlun H. Júlíusson in the town of Sauðárkrókur located in North Iceland. is not just a small grocery store but so much more. It is the last one of its kind in Iceland. Everyone entering the shop travels decades back in time. The 83 years old shopkeeper Bjarni Haraldsson sells a little bit of everything but hasn’t changed much in the store that was opened by his father in 1919. Most of the furniture in use dates back half a century as well as the old scales. One can buy everything from tea pots to packet soup, working pants and hinges to batteries, screws, and lollipops. Bjarni still serves customers, day by day. He chats a little bit with them and eventually goes hunting for something they might need.
Avi et traure d'Aqui
Thousands of people were buried in Valle de los Caídos without permission. Many were republicans who now rest next to Franco, their executioner. Their families are fighting to get them out of Valle de los Caídos and bring them home.
A research work that recounts the struggle of family members to remove the remains of parents, grandparents and siblings, victims of the Civil War, from the Valle de los Caídos, a unique monument in the world, both for its dimensions and for its connections with the dictatorship
De Tour van Bauke
The entire documentary by Kees Jongkind about the Belkin team during the 2013 Tour de France.
The Hidden Enemy: Inside Psychiatry's Covert Agenda
Today, with militaries of the world awash in psychiatry and psychiatric drugs, 23 soldiers and veterans are committing suicide everyday. Psychiatrists say we need more psychiatry. But should we trust them? Or is psychiatry the hidden enemy? Featuring interviews with over 80 soldiers and experts, this penetrating documentary shatters the facade to reveal the real culprit who are destroying our world's militaries from within. The most dangerous enemy is the one you never suspect...
Django Unchained: Reimagining The Spaghetti Western: A Making-Of Documentary
A short Making Of about the 7th film by Quentin Tarantino.
Sirs and Misters
An ironic tale about seeking for mutual understanding between desperate Ukrainian porters and their alien clients during annual Rosh-Hashanah pilgrimage of Hasidim to the town of Uman'.
The Last Moose Of Ao Lu Gu Ya
Documentary about a tribe of indigenous people in northern China.