JA Documentary

My Name is Happy (Happiness Film Project)(en)

Film focused on happiness and how to live authentically happy.

The Suicide Letter Project (Letters)(en)

The project entails a letter about a mother dealing with suicide and she tells her story to provide awareness to prevent suicide. Focused on true Events.

The Secret Death to Life Purpose Film(en)

A film about life and purpose and finding your way through life. A path of finding yourself.

Who Did it?(en)

A story about a women you tries to prove herself innocent and thee possibilities of a person taking their own life in prison fro crime they didn't commit or did they?

Secret Death & Life Purpose(en)

A compelling story about loss and suicide prevention and how to find purpose instead of giving up.

Who Did it? (Now)(en)

A man in prison trying to prove himself innocent for a crime he didn't commit.

My Name is Addiction(en)

A film about addiction and how it takes over a persons life. How to overcome some obstacles and change your life. A girl named Addiction that overcomes to find her identity.

Deaf President Now!(en)

Discover the story of the greatest civil rights movement most people have never heard about. During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world's only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead a revolution—and change the course of history.

Haramain: The Train of the Desert(es)

The pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the most important religious journeys for millions of people around the world. But how to get there? This documentary shows us how 12 companies met the immense challenge of running a high-speed train through Saudi Arabia's sandy rocky desert in temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius. A true marvel of engineering and cooperation, and together, overcoming obstacles.

The Endless Summer(en)

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.

Land Without Bread(es)

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

Megacities(en)

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

Confusion(cs)

Showing his own original footage of Prague Spring, director Evald Schorm describes the atmosphere these days in 1968.

Tempus fugit(es)

Pequeña Babilonia(es)

Fueye(es)

The citizen music performed on the bandoneon serves as a poetic framework to talk about a Buenos Aires that little by little is disappearing.

Edward & George: Two Brothers, One Throne(en)

The complex relationship between royal brothers Edward VIII and George VI, who were both at the heart of the infamous abdication crisis of 1936, is the subject of this excellent documentary. From British Pathé TV's Royalty Collection.

Railway Station(pl)

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.

Gimme Shelter(en)

A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on December 6 at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, an event of historical significance, as it marked the end of an era: the generation of peace and love suddenly became the generation of disillusionment.

Primary(en)

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occurring. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998.