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The Captains
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The Captains(en)

2011-07-22

The Captains is a feature-length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed starship captains in the Star Trek franchise.

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
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Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy(en)

2004-09-20

From the earliest versions of the script to the blockbuster debuts, explore the creation of the Star Wars Trilogy.

Trekkies
64%

Trekkies(en)

1997-10-18

Denise Crosby takes a first look at the huge fans of "Star Trek" from around America and how the series has affected and shaped their lives.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
63%

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker(en)

2019-12-18

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

Downloaded
65%

Downloaded(en)

2013-06-20

A documentary that explores the downloading revolution; the kids that created it, the bands and the businesses that were affected by it, and its impact on the world at large.

Elstree 1976
62%

Elstree 1976(en)

2015-10-09

A documentary about ten very different lives connected by having appeared onscreen wearing masks or helmets in Star Wars.

The Matrix Revisited
69%

The Matrix Revisited(en)

2001-11-19

The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.

The Skywalker Legacy
78%

The Skywalker Legacy(en)

2020-03-18

The story lives forever in this feature-length documentary that charts the making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau(en)

2014-08-24

The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.

Bitter Lake
76%

Bitter Lake(en)

2015-01-24

An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.

Room 237
61%

Room 237(en)

2012-10-26

A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments.

Fuck
64%

Fuck(en)

2006-11-10

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

Naqoyqatsi
61%

Naqoyqatsi(en)

2002-09-02

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Koyaanisqatsi
79%

Koyaanisqatsi(en)

1983-04-27

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

The Devil and Daniel Johnston
77%

The Devil and Daniel Johnston(en)

2006-03-31

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

A Plastic Ocean
75%

A Plastic Ocean(en)

2016-09-22

A documentary focused on plastic pollution in the world's oceans.

Listen to Me Marlon
75%

Listen to Me Marlon(en)

2015-07-29

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.

Justin Bieber's Believe
70%

Justin Bieber's Believe(en)

2013-12-19

A backstage and on-stage look at Justin Bieber during his rise to super stardom.

An Inconvenient Truth
70%

An Inconvenient Truth(en)

2006-05-24

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

Back in Time
65%

Back in Time(en)

2015-10-20

Cast, crew and fans explore the 'Back to the Future' time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture—30 years after Marty McFly went back in time.

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Oat Boy(en)

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Returning to Jedi: A Filmumentary
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Returning to Jedi: A Filmumentary(en)

2007-01-20

Returning to Jedi is an in-depth look at the making of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. It features rare alternate takes, production audio, on-screen facts, cast and crew commentary, storyboards, behind the scenes footage and reconstructed scenes.

ACT
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ACT(ru)

1989-09-17

Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist.

Naran Ja
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Naran Ja(en)

2012-10-26

After being invited by Benjamin Millepied to a rehearsal for the L.A Dance Project's premiere performance, Oscar-nominated director Alejandro G. Iñárritu was inspired to make a video-exercise that documents movement and dance in an experimental way, with a stream of consciousness narrative. The story takes place in a secluded, dusty space and centers around LADP dancer Julia Eichten who seems to be on an eternal search... for herself.

Do Not August, 1991
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Do Not August, 1991(ru)

1994-03-10

The film was made in the days of the August 1991 coup in Leningrad, USSR . Respecting the manner of a proprietary parallel cinema with the use of hand-held camera . Subsequently, Lars von Trier in his " Dogma " went on the same way , using a handheld camera without a tripod or placing special light. The soundtrack of the film is the soundtrack Emergency Committee appeal for the All-Union Radio August 19, 1991 . The film captured the moment of change red tricolor flag on the roof of the Mariinsky Palace on August 20, 1991.

The Gorevision's System
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The Gorevision's System(es)

2015-08-28

Brash, disrespectful, impudence, violent and urgent entertainment called Gore. Gorevision explained and exhibited.

Spring Masks
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Spring Masks(en)

2018-07-15

Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...

Underwater Guest
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Underwater Guest(ru)

1995-09-12

Mounting of the film by Dmitry Frolov on the basis of documentary frames of performances of Russian ballet dancers and lifeless margins of the Russian outback. Symbolizes the slowly naked and dying Russian world.

Woman
50%

Woman(sh)

1968-01-01

Between four walls of her apartment, a girl enjoys in intimate idleness and being her true self.

Fanarchy
60%

Fanarchy(en)

2015-09-18

Fanarchy explores the rise of fan culture and ways in which fans are threatening the Hollywood system by becoming a creative force in their own right. With affordable technology at their fingertips, fans are producing more new content per month than studios or networks combined. Whether it's an original idea or a personal spin on a favorite film or TV show, fans are taking the reins and blurring the line between amateur and professional. Written and directed by Halifax’s own Donna Davies, Fanarchy exposes the burgeoning media landscape and the issues that complicate it – copyright, intellectual property and the concept of originality in a remix culture.

Consumers
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Consumers(en)

2015-07-22

Sammy is a 14 year old girl who makes YouTube videos. Robby just moved to New York City after college. Jerry is a single 34 year old network administrator living in the suburbs. Through their fragmented experiences, Consumers explores the dialectical problematics of the contemporary experience.

The Falconer
90%

The Falconer(en)

1998-01-01

Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean & reminiscences from various countercultural characters. A fitting epitaph for an English margin walker.

Fragments 83
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Fragments 83(en)

2018-03-22

Fragments 83 rediscovers—and repurposes—Richard Millen 1983 experimental film If You Can’t Be with the One You Love, shot in Brooklyn and the West Village in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. The resulting documentary explores the hunt for sex/love, the joy of making cinema, and the inexorable passage of time.

I Am Your Father
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I Am Your Father(es)

2015-10-05

David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has been apparently forgotten by Lucasfilm during thirty years, and decide to give him back the glory he never had. This is their last opportunity.

Hands
60%

Hands(nl)

1960-08-23

Handen (Hands) is an experimental documentary film by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. the film is a moving and poetic observation of how hands play an integral part in human life, from birth to death.

Everything Is Copy
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Everything Is Copy(en)

2015-09-29

A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

No York City
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No York City(en)

1983-01-01

Impressions of New York City. Experimental short.

Science Friction
60%

Science Friction(en)

2022-04-10

Those TV documentaries you see, and the science experts they feature? Did you know that producers often edit them out of context, and twist their words, to make it seem like they promoted some pop sensationalism instead of the real facts? Science Friction exposes these faux documentaries by name, and gives the scientists a chance to clear the record.

The Old Place
65%

The Old Place(fr)

2000-05-19

Essay on the influence of arts at the end of the 20th century produced by the Museum of Modern Art.

Playboy: The Best of Wet & Wild
33%

Playboy: The Best of Wet & Wild(en)

1992-09-30

This sensational collection features the very best from Playboy's best-selling "Wet & Wild" series, plus provocative never-before-seen footage.