Blue Island (2022)
documentary film, Drama
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If You Build It (2013)
documentary film
In 2010, Superintendent of Public Schools for Bertie County, Chip Zullinger (1951–2014) had been hired to address the school district's serious shortcomings. After completing four large architectural projects with designer Emily Pilloton-Lam (author of the 2009 book Design Revolution) and architect Matt Miller, Zullinger invited the two to create a high school curriculum. Pilloton-Lam and Miller described the curriculum, ultimately named Studio H, as shop class for the 21st century, where the design process could address the community's problems and its own sense of possibility.
Attack of Life: The Bang Tango Movie (2016)
documentary film
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember (1990)
documentary film
The Pact (2006)
documentary film
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)
documentary film
The Newspaperman (2017)
documentary film
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee is "an intimate portrait of Bradlee that traces his ascent from a young Boston boy stricken with polio to one of the most consequential journalistic figures of the 20th century."
The American Gangster (1992)
docudrama, documentary film, Drama
Turkish Passport (2011)
documentary film, Drama
Turkish Passport tells the story of diplomats posted to Turkish embassies and consulates in several European countries, who are presented as saving numerous Jews during the Second World War. Whether they pulled them out of Nazi concentration camps or took them off the trains that were taking them to the camps, the diplomats, in the end, ensured that the Jews who were Turkish citizens could return to Turkey and thus be saved. The film portrays diplomats as saving not only the lives of Turkish Jews, but also rescued foreign Jews by giving them Turkish passports.
Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004)
documentary film
The film is divided into seven sections. Part 1: The Experts consists of more than two dozen experts establishing credentials. These include former State Department, CIA, Pentagon and military officials; weapons inspectors and ambassadors; journalists and politicians.
Bret Hart: Survival of the Hitman (2010)
documentary film
In the Light of Reverence (2001)
documentary film
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)
documentary film
Tar Creek (2009)
documentary film
The documentary looks at the Tar Creek Superfund Site and chronicles the long-term effects of mining, tribal relations, United States Environmental Protection Agency management. The land within the perimeters of this environmental disaster was bad enough that the federal government bought out the homes of citizens living there and moved them away.
What's the Matter with Kansas? (2009)
documentary film
The documentary highlights the lives of people in Middle America, Central United States small town or suburb where most people are middle class, Protestant, and white, which twice helped elect George W. Bush. It shows how Kansas, once home to left-wing movements like the Populist Party, became very socially conservative in the late 20th century.
9to5: The Story of a Movement (2020)
documentary film
The film follows the 9to5 movement, an organization established to improve working conditions and ensuring the rights of women and families.
Bedrock (2025)
documentary film
Murder Music: A History of Black Metal (2007)
documentary film
The documentary links the origins of black metal to the birth of heavy metal itself with the formation of Black Sabbath, known for its early horror-inspired lyrics, it is even said that bassist Geezer Butler, who wrote many of the band's lyrics is to be considered the "godfather of black metal". It quickly moves to the existence of a similarly-named band, which was also often confused for Sabbath, called Black Widow. Black Widow's stage act was highly controversial, as it was based on a black magic act (it is stated that the band received instruction from Alex Sanders) and featured shocking elements for the time, such as ritual nudity and…
73 Cows (2018)
documentary film
The film is told through interviews with Jay and Katja Wilde of Bradley Nook Farm, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, along with footage of them, their farm, and their cows. They introduce their connection to the farm: Jay inherited it from his father, but came to see cows as individuals with feelings and personalities. This made him uneasy about eating them and about raising them for food.
Hidden Universe 3D (2013)
documentary film
Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith (2008)
documentary film
At the Death House Door (2008)
documentary film
Pickett presided over 95 executions in his 15-year career, including the very first by lethal injection. He kept his feelings about his work from his family, instead audiotaping an account of each one. Initially pro-execution, he became an anti-death penalty activist.
Neil Young Trunk Show (2010)
Concert film, documentary film, rockumentary
Naked Fame (2005)
LGBTQ-related film
At the age of 40, porn star Colton Ford decides to leave the industry and pursue his true calling—a singing career. He feels he has the voice, but his "overexposed" past could be the hook that gets him noticed or the hook that yanks him off stage. Naked Fame follows Colton and his former life-partner, porn star Blake Harper, as they try to ease their way back into the mainstream.