Racing across Los Angeles in one, unwieldy day, documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race from Beverly Hills to Watts and places in between to get Milo's brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8pm, or Leo goes to prison for three years. A story inspired by true events, the trio documents their trip from a suburban police station in Calabasas through mansions in Beverly Hills, East LA chop-shops, rural wastelands, and housing projects in Watts as they attempt to raise the $5,000 required to get Leo into the rehab clinic. Along the way encountering dozens of colorful characters, each with their own anomalous perspective on Leo's larger than…
This documentary film addresses the growth and the social, cultural and political aspects that influenced the hardcore punk music scene in Washington, DC. The film features numerous footage shot and photos of the hardcore movement. It features interviews with early hardcore punk music artists from bands and many more.
Narrated by Carl Colby, son of the late Director of Central Intelligence William E. Colby, The Man Nobody Knew traces the elder Colby's career in the U.S. intelligence community, along with and in contrast to his home life, including the secrets he kept from his family.
The film describes the life of Pelé from his childhood, his soccer triumphs up until his last soccer station with the New York Cosmos soccer team. It includes lots of archival footage including his games, his and other interviews, news reels etc. The film sometimes also touches on the political background in Brasil, including the dictatorship.
Formed around an interview between Paul McCartney and his daughter Mary McCartney (who co-produced it with her then-husband Alistair Donald, its director), it uses the McCartneys' film and photographic archive to tell the story of Paul and Linda's founding of the band Wings in the aftermath of The Beatles' split and of its gradual evolution during the 1970s, through several line-ups. From an initial atmosphere of critical disdain and personal derision for both McCartneys the film charts the band's progress to its commercial peaks of international success and acclaim before it suffers its own disintegration at the beginning of the 1980s.…
Jon Ronson visits Stanley Kubrick's estate over a five-year period, and explores the contents of some of the thousands of custom-made cardboard boxes containing Kubrick's film-making memorabilia. The documentary comprises interviews with Kubrick's family and colleagues, and features examples of the boxes' contents, which include research materials and notes for Kubrick's released films and unrealised projects as well as meticulously archived and indexed fan letters.
The Racing Scene is produced in documentary fashion, narrated by Garner, covering a slice of his 1969 racing life as owner of the American International Racing team he had created the year before. He is first seen roaring across the Mexican outback in a heavily modified 650 horsepower Ford Bronco in the 1969 Baja 1000 offroad race, along with trusted co-driver and "hard-charger" Scooter Patrick. One of six similar Bronco teams he's sponsoring, they come in 4th in their class.
The film follows the journey of leopardess Legadema over the course of three years. Unlike the standard nature documentary, Eye of the Leopard pieces together a series of flashbacks, covering the major events from her childhood all the way to adulthood[2]. These flashbacks reveal her experiences of near-escapes from predators as well as her observations of her mother's hunting skills.
