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League of Legends: Origins
League of Legends: Origins
Fans, experts and creators of “League of Legends” detail the game’s rise from free demo to global esports titan.
League of Legends: Origins 2019
TT3D: Closer to the Edge
TT3D: Closer to the Edge
By vividly recounting the TT's legendary rivalries and the Isle of Man's unique road racing history, this 3D feature documentary discovers why modern TT riders still risk their lives to win the world's most dangerous race. The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy is the greatest motorcycle road race in the world, the ultimate challenge for rider and machine. It has always called for a commitment far beyond any other racing event, and many have made the ultimate sacrifice in their quest for victory. A story about freedom of choice, the strength of human spirit and the will to win. It's also an examination of what motivates those rare few, this elite band of brothers who risk everything to win.
TT3D: Closer to the Edge 2011
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present 2012
Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. The new league did the unthinkable by playing in the spring and plucked three straight Heisman Trophy winners away from the NFL. The 12-team USFL played before crowds that averaged 25,000, and started off with respectable TV ratings. But with success came expansion and new owners, including a certain high profile and impatient real estate baron whose vision was at odds with the league’s founders. Soon, the USFL was reduced to waging a desperate anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL, which yielded an ironic verdict that effectively forced the league out of business. Now, almost a quarter of a century later, Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning director Mike Tollin, himself once a chronicler of the league, will showcase the remarkable influence of those three years on football history and attempt to answer the question, “Who Killed the USFL?”
Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? 2009
Quand la télé dérape, 40 ans de scandales
Quand la télé dérape, 40 ans de scandales
Quand la télé dérape, 40 ans de scandales 2024
Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.
Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game 2014
Halloween: Unmasked
Halloween: Unmasked
A retrospective documentary on the making of the movie "Halloween," featuring exclusive interviews with director John Carpenter, producer Debra Hill, and stars Jamie Lee Curtis, PJ Soles, and Nick Castle.
Halloween: Unmasked 1999
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema. The singular artistic vision of Sergio Leone has transcended national borders, creating the Spaghetti Western genre and transforming the international cinematic panorama forever with his innovative stylistic and narrative solutions, which have now become part of the language of the movies. The film, which is enriched with precious archive footage from the Cineteca di Bologna, including rare audio recordings and film clips shot behind the scenes, sees for the first time the direct participation of the Leone family and has interviews both with Leone’s longtime collaborators and with icons of Hollywood who have been profoundly influenced by his work.
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America 2022
Phone Sex
Phone Sex
Celebrities and artists discuss the meaning of "What is sexy?" with award-winning director and artist Steve Balderson.
Phone Sex 2006
Horizon
Horizon
From the turtles of the Farasan Islands to the ibex that dot the Asir Mountains, this documentary captures Saudi Arabia's diverse wildlife and scenery.
Horizon 2023
Of Muppets & Men
Of Muppets & Men
Documentary about the work of puppeteer Jim Henson and his team in creating The Muppet Show.
Of Muppets & Men 1981
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Never-before-seen home movies and extraordinary personal archives reveal how Christopher Reeve went from unknown actor to iconic movie star as the ultimate screen superhero. He learned the true meaning of heroism as an activist after suffering a tragic accident that left him quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator to breathe.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 2024
Bloomberg Inside: Pixar
Bloomberg Inside: Pixar
When it comes to animation, few do it better than Pixar and Disney. They are the dreamers and doers with multi-billion dollar imaginations. Bloomberg television takes you behind closed doors to see how this powerhouse makes movie magic.
Bloomberg Inside: Pixar 2013
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee
The strange story of John McAfee, who went from millionaire software mogul to yogi, Kurtz-like jungle recluse to potential murderer, and most recently a prospective presidential candidate for the American Libertarian Party.
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee 2016
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson's early rise to fame.
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall 2016
Nothing Compares
Nothing Compares
Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narratives she was surrounded by while growing up in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland. Despite her agency, depth and perspective, O’Connor’s unflinching refusal to conform means that she has often been patronized and unfairly dismissed as an attention-seeking pop star.
Nothing Compares 2022
'Saving Private Ryan': Boot Camp
'Saving Private Ryan': Boot Camp
A look into the pre-production boot camp actors endured before filming "Saving Private Ryan."
'Saving Private Ryan': Boot Camp 2023
A Reindeer's Journey
A Reindeer's Journey
Narrated by Golden Globe winner, Donald Sutherland, this is the incredible story of Ailo, the little reindeer. This uplifting tale follows the journey of baby Ailo as he navigates his first year of life in the snowy landscapes of a picturesque Lapland. Frail and vulnerable, Ailo must learn to walk, run, leap and hide to ensure he survives the long, treacherous journey with the herd. Ailo’s Journey is an inspirational story, in which a bleak wilderness is warmed by a mother’s endless love as she watches over Ailo in his incredible adventures with other creatures of the Arctic.
A Reindeer's Journey 2018
Iron Maiden: Flight 666
Iron Maiden: Flight 666
A chronological account of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden's 2008 world tour through India, Australia, Japan, USA, Canada, Mexico and South America in a jet piloted by the band's front man, Bruce Dickinson. Features interviews with the musicians, their road crew and fans.
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 2009
Little Girl
Little Girl
7-year-old Sasha has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and find affirmation in a small community of rural France.
Little Girl 2021
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Little Richard: I Am Everything
The story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard's complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.
Little Richard: I Am Everything 2023
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
A chronicle of the last 50 years of American music, politics and popular culture through the perspective of Rolling Stone magazine. An exhilarating visual and musical experience of the magazine’s history featuring performances by a dazzling array of artists and showcasing the groundbreaking work of its writers.
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge 2017
The Art of Looking
The Art of Looking
Astronomers look through telescopes and see that the universe has a structure — it’s shaped like a web. Slime mold researchers look through microscopes and see that the tiny organisms form similar patterns. In their quest of discovering the nature of things, they both show the beauty of curiosity.
The Art of Looking 2024
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and marketing. This is an amazing in-depth piece and it's notable how many women were involved in this production, from several Lionsgate executives to novelist Suzanne Collins herself. Jennifer Lawrence talks about her "hypocrisy" in not wanting to do a big budget blockbuster after having devoted herself to indies (despite X-Men, which she seems to discount somewhat). There's also a nice sequence on the strength and weight training the actors went through and the stunts that are so notable in the film, as well as having to dance around the violence implicit in the story due to the planned PG-13 rating the filmmakers were aiming for.
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games 2012
Flux
Flux
Glimpses of the sun and sea, directed by Eli Hayes & Alex Davies and existing in two separate cuts, one supplemented by an original score and the other set to the track, "Fog," by Yellow Ostrich.
Flux 2017
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
On the 30th of January, 1969, the Beatles performed an unannounced concert from the rooftop of their Apple Corps headquarters at Savile Row, within central London's office and fashion district. Experience the final and unforgettable iconic performance of The Beatles in a special 60-minute presentation, digitally remastered into the image and sound quality of IMAX DMR technology.
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert 2022
Gasland Part II
Gasland Part II
Two years ago, Josh Fox introduced us to hydraulic fracturing with his Oscar®-nominated exposé Gasland. Now this once-touted energy source has become a widely discussed, contentious topic. In his follow-up, Fox reveals the extreme circumstances facing those affected by fracking, from earthquakes to the use of federal anti-terror psychological operations tactics. Gasland Part II is the definitive proof that issues raised by fracking cannot be ignored for long.
Gasland Part II 2013
Closed for Storm
Closed for Storm
The story of Six Flags New Orleans, a theme park devastated by Hurricane Katrina that has become a holy grail of sorts for urban exploration and the efforts to restore the park to its former glory.
Closed for Storm 2020
Rouge
Rouge
Rouge follows the current coach and four players, who shoulder the weight of the team’s celebrated history as well as the pressures of making future careers for themselves. Older legends tell tales of former victories while also exploring the challenging economic and environmental circumstances of the industrial town.
Rouge 2024
Wattstax
Wattstax
A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current-day Watts neighborhood.
Wattstax 2023
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.
Dario Argento's World of Horror 1985
Full Tilt Boogie
Full Tilt Boogie
A documentary about the production of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the people who made it.
Full Tilt Boogie 1998
Carry on Ken
Carry on Ken
A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing actors a wide range of freedom.
Carry on Ken 2006
Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction
Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, and its subsequent sequels have asked its viewers challenging questions about contemporary society under the guise of a bold science fiction saga: a fascinating look at a hugely successful pop culture phenomenon.
Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction 2024
Endangered
Endangered
A sobering look at the erosion of democracy & freedom of the press in the United States and abroad.
Endangered 2022
Waiting for
Waiting for "Superman"
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
Waiting for "Superman" 2010
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde 2011
Antoine Griezmann: The Making of a Legend
Antoine Griezmann: The Making of a Legend
With heart and determination, Antoine Griezmann overcame his small stature to become one of the world's top soccer players and a World Cup champion.
Antoine Griezmann: The Making of a Legend 2019
Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer
Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer
An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: his memories, his vision of art and his reflections on the fate of the artist and the meaning of human existence; through extremely rare audio recordings that allow a complete understanding of his inner life and the mysterious world existing behind his complex cinematic imagery.
Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer 2019