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- DirectorJay AlaimoStarsSam RockwellPeter BeardWill McCormackT.L. Beakomunnt has recently passed away and two documentary filmmakers decide to do a tribute piece on his legacy. Things go awry when the truth is uncovered.
- DirectorJon FoyStarsJustin DuerrMarc DuerrKevin RileyAn urban mystery unfurls as one man pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America.
- DirectorMark McLaughlinStarsForrest J. AckermanEric AijalaAlan AldaAn exploration of film preservation and restoration in the United States.
- DirectorDavid StrohmaierStarsLowell ThomasFred WallerJim MorrisonA nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era. Through actual Cinerama clips, rare behind the scenes footage and new interviews, CINERAMA ADVENTURE takes the viewer back to a lost era of movie showmanship, placing this American cinema phenomenon into historical perspective.
- DirectorBill JonesJeff SimpsonBen TimlettStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseTerry GilliamBehind the scenes documentary about the making of A Liar's Autobiography. Also included are stories from Chapman's friends, colleagues and fellow Pythons.
- DirectorBarbara KoppleStarsWoody AllenLetty AronsonSoon-Yi PrevinAcademy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen, seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New Orleans jazz band's 1996 European tour. Allen's relationship with his wife Soon-Yi Previn is captured on film here for the first time, and others on the European jaunt include Allen's sister Letty Aronson. Followed by press, paparazzi, and gushing admirers, Allen returns home to face a more realistic critical assessment during "the lunch from hell" with his aged parents.
- StarsDiane Charles
- StarsButch Patrick
- DirectorTim BurkeStarsAnouska O'HaraThe film centers around 8 people, from all warps of life, who thought they had bought a 'movie role' in a horror film, only to be locked inside the haunted mental asylum to test "The Lucifer Effect" experiment.
- DirectorWilliam SzarkaStarsScott SchwartzZack WardIan PetrellaA documentary about the making of the Bob Clark film, "A Christmas Story".
- DirectorTimothy SchultzStarsVicki MonroeTimothy SchultzJohn ZaffisDo you believe in ghosts? A recent Gallup poll suggests that 1/3rd of Americans swear they exist. A second poll from the UK suggests that there are now more people in the UK who believe in ghosts than in God. But what do they believe in? Documentary filmmaker Tim Schultz sets out on a 4-year journey for answers while exploring his own passion to know if an experience he had as a little boy could have been a ghost. He meets a cast of colorful characters including psychics, tarot reading wizards, paranormal investigators, skeptics, and scientists. His crew has journeyed into numerous haunted locations including the Stanley Hotel, which is famously known for inspiring the classic horror novel 'The Shining' and The Myrtles Plantation, which is said to be the most haunted house in America. The production of this film has been an extraordinary experience. If you accept that it is possible for a spirit to become stuck, for energy to haunt a certain location, no matter the cause of it, then it really brings up many questions about the nature of our true reality and life after death. The results are eerie, thought-provoking, and often terrifying. His journey into the paranormal reaches a climax when he attempts to contact a friend who committed suicide during the making of the film.
- DirectorEddie ChungStarsJoe BlevinsJeff BridgesLu ElrodThe Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski Fans by director Eddie Chung, follows the intertwining lives and sub-culture of "Achievers," fans of "The Big Lebowski."
- DirectorMarshall FlaumStarsHenry FondaLaurette TaylorMaude AdamsHenry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
- DirectorDaniel S. HurwitzTed NewsomStarsTab HunterBarry ZeVanJames BaconJoin Tab Hunter on a journey through the history of Hollywood's greatest cinematic achievements from the 1950s to the end of the 20th century.
- 1954–1997Unrated7.1 (69)TV EpisodeDirectorJeff MargolisStarsHarry AndersonGeorge BurnsMonica LacyCommemorating the opening of the Disney-MGM Studios, which happened the very next day.
- DirectorLes BlankStarsWerner HerzogKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleA documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
- DirectorJan HarlanStarsKatharina KubrickMalcolm McDowellStanley KubrickThe career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise.
- DirectorTom WeberStarsPeter CaseSlaid CleavesMark ErelliFollow the paths of modern-day troubadours as they travel the lost highways of America, singing songs of love, longing, hope and redemption.
- DirectorRobert TrachtenbergStarsGeorge CukorPeter BogdanovichJean SimmonsCukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. Noted films include What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Our Betters (1933), and Little Women (1933)
- DirectorDebbie GellerJohn Cassavetes: born in New York City in 1929, by the time of his death in 1989, Cassavetes had directed 12 films, creating a body of work that addressed serious topics and paved the way for a more vibrant American cinema.
- DirectorCynthia HillStarsKit GruelleDeanna WaltersStacy CoxOklahoma Cop Deanna was kidnapped by Robbie, her estranged husband, and beaten in the cab of his truck over a harrowing four-day journey. They were pulled over by police and she was taken to the hospital. In spite of Deanna's devastating injuries, Robbie was not arrested. Private Violence, a feature-length documentary, follows Deanna's journey as she rebuilds her life and fights to place Robbie behind bars. Accompanying Deanna is Kit Gruelle, a domestic violence victim turned advocate who navigates the complex world of domestic violence courts, shelters, and law enforcement.
- DirectorIrene TaylorCamp that encourages children who lost close family members to open up about their feelings.
- DirectorMarta CunninghamStarsJames BingJeremy BingRosalie BlackOn February 12, 2008 in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. When Larry died two days later, his murder shocked the nation. Was this a hate crime, one perpetrated by a budding neo-Nazi whose masculinity was threatened by an effeminate gay kid who might have had a crush on him? Or was there even more to it? Looking beyond all the copious news coverage of this tragic event, 'Valentine Road' tells the story of two victims: the murdered and the murderer. With keen insight, the film connects the human wreckage of Larry's and Brandon's troubled lives--both physically abused, both from broken homes, and both searching for a sense of belonging.
- DirectorKristian Ussing AndersenJonas BechStarsKristian Ussing AndersenJonas BechBirthe BrochA small, but determined crew of filmmakers venture to the remote island of Anholt, Denmark in search of a mysterious Satanic Cult, in this horror-comedy-road-movie-doc.
- DirectorDavid DriverWay of Life follows the story of Michael Daube, a young man of modest means from small town America who finds a valuable piece of art in the garbage, sells it at auction and builds a hospital in one of the most remote areas of India. The film follows an organic path around the world, focusing on the aspects of Daube's work that inspire us to consider and appreciate our own best intentions. With camera work that is both intimate and stunning, director/cinematographer, David Driver interweaves moments of this incredible journey to illustrate how Daube's simple, ground level approach to working with marginalized communities in the developing world transforms the lives of those involved.
- DirectorJon KlaczkiewiczStarsRyland BellLucas DebariJosh DirksenFurther explores some of the world's most remote mountain terrain while continuing Jones' mission to camp deep in the backcountry and on the summits of unridden lines to access nearly vertical spines and wide-open powder fields.
- DirectorAlma Har'elBombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har'el tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose troubled soul and vivid imagination create both suffering and joy for him and his complex and loving family. The story of CeeJay Thompson, a black teenager and aspiring football player who has taken refuge in Bombay Beach hoping to avoid the same fate of his cousin who was murdered by a gang of youths in Los Angeles; and that of Red, an ancient survivor, once an oil field worker, living on the fumes of whiskey, cigarettes and an irrepressible love of life. Together these portraits form a triptych of manhood in its various ages and guises, in a gently hypnotic style that questions whether they are a product of their world or if their world is a construct of their own imaginations.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsVittorio MezzogiornoStefan GlowaczMathilda MayTwo famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first. As the day of the climb approaches, their increasing competitiveness becomes destructive.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsJoaquin PhoenixEmma StoneParker PoseyA tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.
- DirectorEric SteelStarsEric GeleynseChris BrownSusan GinwallaFilmmakers use hidden cameras to capture the various suicide attempts at the Golden Gate Bridge - the world's most popular suicide destination. Interviews with the victims' loved ones describe their lives and mental health.
- DirectorRyan McGarryStarsDanny ChengAndrew EadsJamie EngA notorious trauma bay in an inner-city E.R. earns its keep as the 'hurt locker of medicine' as new, idealistic and adrenaline-seeking doctors train in an environment akin to a war zone. When the hospital moves to a swank new building, the rush fades and bureaucracy gridlocks the state-of-the-art facility, and the doctors are faced with the unexpected realities of life and death in a safety-net health-care system on the brink of overload.
- 20141h 37mNot Rated7.5 (4.4K)DirectorDavid GregoryStarsRichard StanleyKier-La JanisseMichael GingoldA behind the scenes chronicle of how clash of vision, bad creative decisions, lack of interest and really bad weather plagued the disastrous production of the infamous The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996).
- DirectorAlex GibneyStarsPaul HaggisJason BegheSpanky TaylorA documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.
- StarsPeter Graves
- DirectorMichael EmersonStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleCharles BickfordBob BirchardOne of the founding fathers of Hollywood, Cecil B. DeMille's life takes on epic proportions.
- StarsPeter GravesCathleen BairdFidel CastroExplore the rags-to-riches life of the Texas shopkeeper's son who built a billion-dollar hotel empire from the ground up, and became a high-society fixture.
- StarsJack PerkinsFascinating story of Charles Dow and Edward Jones, whose dissimilar geniuses produced the indispensable Dow Jones stock index. Financial gurus Louis Rukeyser, Lou Dobbs, and others discuss the lives of Dow and Jones, and how their index changed the world.
- DirectorJohn Griffin
- 1987– TV-142.4 (89)TV Episode
- DirectorMolly ThompsonStarsJack PerkinsAmy VanderbiltCornelius VanderbiltA look at the wealthy Vanderbilt family.
- StarsJack Perkins
- DirectorDavid Ash
- StarsJack PerkinsJ.W. Marriott features informative interviews with his sons J.W. Marriott, Jr. and Richard Marriott, granddaughter Debbie Harrison, friends the Reverend Billy Graham and Sterling Colton, a former employee and others.
- The story of R.H. Macy and how he founded a New York based shopping empire.
- StarsJohn Jacob AstorMrs. Vincent AstorNancy AstorTheir name is synonymous with wealth and glamour. Their saga is marked by five generations of tragedy, family feuds and philanthropy.
- DirectorDavid AshStarsMichael KitchenJean Paul GettyRosabella BurchA biography of 20th century petrol-industrialist billionaire Jean Paul Getty. Including his actions toward a kidnapping of his grand kid.
- StarsJoan RiversJeweller Peter Carl Faberge becomes famous for his jeweled Easter eggs commissioned by the Czar of Russia and prized by collectors.
- A look at the Perdue family founders of the well-known chicken farm and processing company.
- DirectorAaron CadieuxManny FamolareStarsJohn HorriganJeff BelangerChristopher PittmanThe Bridgewater Triangle sits within Southeastern Massachusetts, and includes a number of locations known for unexplained occurrences; the most prominent of which include the legendary Hockomock Swamp and the infamous Freetown-Fall River State Forest. The triangle's traditional borders are revealed by connecting the dots between Abington to the North, Freetown to the Southeast, and Rehoboth to the Southwest. The region hosts an unusually high volume of reports involving strange occurrences, unexplained mysteries and sinister activities. From ghostly hauntings and cryptic animal sightings to UFO encounters and evidence of satanic ritual sacrifice, the Bridgewater Triangle serves as one of the world's most diverse hot-spots for paranormal activity. The first-ever feature-length documentary on the subject, The Bridgewater Triangle explores the history of this fascinating region.
- DirectorBrent HodgeDerik MurrayStarsChristina ApplegateTom ArnoldDan AykroydA documentary on the life of comedian, Chris Farley.
- DirectorDavid Di SabatinoStarsOrion AcabaLarry NormanIf you could combine the onstage magnetism of Mick Jagger, the lyrical brilliance of Bob Dylan and the personal fragility of Brian Wilson, you would only have begun to scratch of the surface of Larry Norman. FALLEN ANGEL: The OUTLAW LARRY NORMAN recounts the rise of the father of Christian rock music as the rock 'n' roll Billy Graham' of the 1970s through to the height of success as the visionary behind Solid Rock Records before a personal meltdown and subsequent fall from grace exiled him to the margins of the Christian subculture he helped create. A study in polar contrasts, Larry Norman's story presents the viewer with a complex character grappling with the price of genius, the struggle made all the more difficult because Norman chose to make his mark within a religious subculture struggling to define its place within the world. Too religious for the rock 'n' rollers but too rock 'n' roll for the religious crowd, Larry Norman is the perpetual outsider, ultimately imploding under the weight of trying to fuse his position as the musical voice of the Jesus movement with his desire for '70s rock superstar status. Is he the misunderstood musical prophet of the Christian world? Is he an outlaw conning the faithful? Larry Norman is a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction. Told mainly from the perspective of those who worked with him and loved him during the height of his success, feel the power of the music he created as refracted through the inconsistencies of the life he led. Experience the forgiveness offered by those most hurt and witness a glimmer of grace against the backdrop of moral failure. Fallen Angel is a rock n' roll epic of biblical proportions.
- DirectorLaurie CollyerStarsSusan SarandonKelli GarnerEmbeth DavidtzMarilyn recalls her rocky marriage to Joe DiMaggio, her torturous union with Arthur Miller which failed to produce the child she desperately wanted, her affair with John F. Kennedy, and what would become her final film.