The Hunting of the President (2004)
documentary film
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To the Arctic 3D (2012)
documentary film
After Innocence (2005)
documentary film
Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor (1979)
documentary film
Filmmaker David Lean is scouting locations in Tahiti for a feature film about the famous mutiny on . His property master, Eddie Fowlie, discovers the whereabouts of an anchor which had belonged to Captain James Cook, and historians and experts arrive to examine it before an attempt is made to raise it and bring it to land.
The English Surgeon (2007)
documentary film, Documentation
The film was shot in a Ukrainian hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, but it is not a medical film—it is about Henry Marsh, his partnership with Ukrainian colleague Igor Petrovich Kurilets, and their struggle with moral, ethical and professional issues. Marsh is an English specialist neurosurgeon who operates on the brain using only local anaesthetic so that patients remain conscious and can provide feedback during the procedure. Marsh emphasises how hospital environment and design affect patient outcomes, and how having only single rooms in hospitals reduces infection and allows patients to have peace, rest, and…
Ballplayer: Pelotero (2011)
documentary film
Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)
documentary film
The film reports on controversies concerning and within the animal rights movement. These include external conflicts between animal rights advocates and medical researchers and restaurant operators, and internal disagreements within the animal rights movement between the animal shelter operators and the confrontationalists who demonstrate outside homes of corporate opponents.
Freedom on My Mind (1994)
documentary film
In 1961, Mississippi was rigidly segregated. There were virtually no black voters even though African-Americans comprised a large percentage of the population, the majority in some localities. Bob Moses entered the state and the Mississippi Voter Registration Project began.
GTFO (2015)
documentary film
Propaganda (2012)
Documentation, Fake Documentary
The Man from Mo'Wax (2016)
documentary film
The Anthropologist (2015)
Adventure, Comedy, documentary film, Drama
The Anthropologist tells the parallel stories of Margaret Mead, who in the twentieth century popularized cultural anthropology around the world, and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. Mead and Crate’s daughters are the film’s storytellers. Mead’s daughter is Mary Catherine Bateson, a 76-year-old cultural anthropologist.
Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe (2008)
documentary film
Last Hippie Standing (2001)
documentary film, Documentation
The Final Year (2017)
documentary film
Bi the Way (2008)
documentary film, LGBTQ-related film
The film is structured around a roadtrip, during which the creators introduce five young Americans confronting issues relating to bisexuality. Former cheerleader Pam, from Memphis, Tennessee, navigates between the tolerance and sexual openness of her friendship group and the conservatism of her southern Catholic family. Black hip-hop dancer Tahj, enjoying little success with girls, forms a relationship with a man he meets on MySpace and must weigh the rejection of his community against his newfound love.
The Stand (2024)
documentary film
Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey (2010)
documentary film
In Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey, Lohan meets and interviews victims of human trafficking in Delhi, Kolkata and a village in West Bengal. They talk about the exploitation and abuse they have experienced, describing sexual slavery, physical abuse and difficulties in bringing their traffickers to justice. She also talks to a former trafficker and parents of trafficked children.
James Blunt: Return to Kosovo (2007)
documentary film
The documentary interlaces the footage filmed in 2006 with personal videos taken by Blunt in 1999, as well as news footage from the Kosovo conflict. Blunt was reunited with the three interpreters with whom he had worked when his unit was first sent to Kosovo. Together, they had intended to seek out families with whom Blunt and others had interacted; instead, they found abandoned and destroyed homes where these families had once lived.
Three Miles North of Molkom (2008)
documentary film
Queer Japan (2019)
documentary film, Documentation, LGBTQ-related film
An ensemble documentary film interviewed artists, academics, community organizers, and activists in the LGBTQ community in Japan.
Anthem to Beauty (1997)
documentary film, rockumentary
The video combines footage from the early years of the Grateful Dead with 1997 interviews of former band members and associates. Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir, Robert Hunter, and David Grisman, among others, discuss the creation of 1968's experimental, psychedelic Anthem of the Sun and 1970's folk-rock classic American Beauty. They also listen to and analyze the original master recordings for the albums, and talk about being in (or working with) the Grateful Dead at that time.
14 Hours (2005)
Action, disaster film, documentary film, Drama, Natural Disaster
14 Hours is based on the harrowing events of June 2001, when Tropical Storm Allison stalled over the Houston metropolitan area, pouring nearly 30 inches of rain on the city within a 14-hour period. The story begins as the storm seems to be moving away from Houston. Jeanette Makins , a nurse at Memorial Hermann Hospital, arrives ready for what she expects to be a normal day.
Edith+Eddie (2017)
documentary film