Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Twenty-four contestants compete in an endurance/sleep deprivation contest in order to win a brand new Nissan Hardbody truck. The last person to remain standing with his or her hand on the truck wins. An absurd marketing gimmick at first glance the contest proves to be much...
Country: Germany
Genre: Documentary
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. The expressive pictures are accompanied by...
Country: Sweden
Genre: Horror
A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts and a variety of styles. First there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages witchcraft and witch-hunts. Finally the film compares...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
He Has Seen War is a documentary featuring surviving veterans of Easy Company and the 1st Marine Division whose stories are told in Band of Brothers and The Pacific. From their initial steps at reintegrating into civilian life to the lasting impact the war had on each of their lives He Has Seen War features veterans and their families relaying their own unique stories. Complemented by renowned...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of Apocalypse Now and Francis Ford Coppolas struggle with nature governments actors and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Elanor Coppola wife of...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Afghanistan
Genre: Documentary, Action, History, War
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of...
Country: France
Genre: Documentary, War
Godard Miéville and Gorin aka the Dziga Vertov Group examine the parallel lives of two families - one French one Palestinian - using an exploratory combination of film and...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Genre: Documentary, Crime
What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of? This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace one of the Angola 3 and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary...
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