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- DirectorDavis GuggenheimStarsAl GoreBilly WestGeorge BushFilmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsLouis-Do de LencquesaingBenjamin UtzerathVincent NemethA history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.
- DirectorLouis LumièreSeveral little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- StarsMark HamillGeorge LucasAnthony DanielsA look at the making of the original Star Wars trilogy.
- DirectorGilles PensoStarsRay HarryhausenPeter JacksonTerry GilliamThe life and work of the renowned film visual effects artist and producer.
- DirectorGabe PolskyStarsViacheslav FetisovVladislav TretiakScotty BowmanThe story of the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.
- DirectorMorgan SpurlockStarsMorgan SpurlockDaryl IsaacsChemeeka WalkerWhile examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.
- DirectorPeter AskinStarsDalton TrumboJoan AllenBrian DennehyThrough a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico with his family, to poverty, to the public shunning of his children, to his writing under others' names, and to an eventual but incomplete vindication. Actors read his letters; his children and friends remember and comment. Archive photos, newsreels and interviews add texture.
- DirectorBill JerseyStarsMilos FormanPeter ShafferSaul ZaentzThis riveting film takes a look behind the scenes at one of the 20th century's cinema classics and at one of contemporary cinema's most maddeningly brilliant directors, Milos Forman. Using never before seen materials, from original costume and set sketches to an innumerable collection of intimate on-set photography, blended with vibrant and revealing new interviews of the cast and crew, The Making of Amadeus weaves a spellbinding tale, filled with drama and humor. ...And at the center of it all is the indisputable creative genius of Milos Forman and a cast of characters behind the lens as unique and idiosyncratic as that of the fictional world of in front of the lens. From start to finish, The Making of Amadeus takes an unblinking look at the trials and tribulations of this mammoth production effort. - From the conflicts as Forman goes head-to-head with the world-renowned playwright Sir Peter Schaffer as they take Amadeus from stage to screen, to the seven months of on location filming in communist era Czechoslovakia. With sets crawling with undercover secret police, Milos Forman returns to his native land from exile for the first time in 20 years. He discovers that in order for the film to succeed he must put all his personal emotions aside. In a world in which communist inefficiency reigns supreme and logic seemingly does not apply, the cast and crew embark on a voyage filled with some of the most memorable filmmaking experiences of their lives - as east meets west. Featuring interviews with Milos Forman, producer Saul Zaentz, playwright Sir Peter Schaffer, choreographer Twyla Tharp, conductor Sir Neville Marinner, lead actors Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, and Elizabeth Berridge, among many others, The Making of Amadeus provides a riveting glimpse at a world most never get to see. Executed with a tenderness and craft rarely seen in other "making of films", The Making of Amadeus is a film that can hold it's own against the power of the work it seeks to chronicle.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsStephen HawkingIsobel HawkingJanet HumphreyA film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.
- DirectorMark CowenStarsJames Alley Jr.Roderick BainLynn 'Buck' ComptonCompiled over two years, an 'on-camera oral history' of Easy Company, told by the veterans themselves. Accompanies the mini-series Band of Brothers.
- StarsTom HanksDavid LelandTony ToInterviews made of the various actors and cast members that provide the knowledge and production skills and sets required to make the film a success.
- DirectorSheridan ClelandStarsTim GrayTrey HarrisAlbert MampreReturning to Normandy is a short documentary that follows the dedication ceremony of the Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument, and features Easy Company veterans Al Mampre, Ed "Doc" Pepping, Frank Perconte, and Herb Suerth, Jr.
- DirectorChris SmithStarsJim CarreyDanny DeVitoMilos FormanA behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon (1999).
- DirectorJérôme PlonStarsKevin BishopDominique ColinFederico D'AnnaThis made-for-TV documentary details the work that went into the production of L'auberge Espagnole, the 2002 film about a group of students from around Europe living together in Barcelona as part of an exchange program. Romantic comedy fans are treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this look at young love, as well as to interviews with director/writer Cedric Klapisch and all of the cast members, who give their insights into the efforts that were needed to bring this project to completion.
- DirectorGideon BachmannStarsFederico FelliniGideon BachmannMax BornA behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
- DirectorErwin WagenhoferStarsMark MobiusMirko KovatsK. Sujatha RaajuMost of us don't know where their money is. However, one thing is for certain, it's is not in the bank to which we entrusted it. The bank and our money is already a part of the cycle of the global money market.
- DirectorTobias KatzInterviews with a Health food store owner in Hawaii, and a native Hawaiian Healer, and Ravi Shankar's daughter, Anoushka.
- DirectorLes BlankStarsWerner HerzogKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleA documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
- DirectorLouis LumièreStarsAuguste LumièreAuguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wall hits the ground, a cloud of white dust whirls up. Three workers continue the demolition of the wall with picks.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreCharlton HestonMarilyn MansonFilmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonStarsWilliam K.L. DicksonThe earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
- 200720m6.9 (104)VideoDirectorMark RanceStarsChristopher NolanHugh JackmanRebecca Hall
- DirectorJennifer DeschampsStarsMatthew LeeAnton ValukasOliver BuddeInside Lehman Brothers is the autopsy of a crime by those who tried to prevent it from within. Mortgage brokers from California and a handful of New York executives called out these fraudulent transactions. But nobody listened.
- DirectorLouis HeatonStarsBob BeneckeMaria Palacios de EricksonChazz PalminteriThe behind-the-scenes story of the making of the classic Western.
- DirectorJean-Michel CarréStarsPeter CoyoteBernard GiraudeauVladimir PutinA remarkable documentary that delves deep into the mysterious and murky circumstances surrounding the Kursk submarine sinking.
- DirectorJim ProserStarsJeff SugarmanI'm Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone. He is arguably the most famous Marine of all time, a war hero known as "Manila John".
- StarsTrent ReznorTrent Reznor introduces viewers to one of the unique instruments that played a critical role in the film's soundtrack. He explains and demonstrates the capabilities of the swarmaton, a newfangled electronic instrument used in the film's score.
- DirectorSteven VinacourStarsRick Edwards
- DirectorNatalia LoskutovaThis film is a portrait of the most celebrated citizen of Koenigsberg, the greatest philosopher and humanist of the Age of Enlightenment Immanuel Kant. The purpose of the film is to refute popular idea of the philosopher's life as of a tedious one with no significant events; to convincingly prove deep and true relationship between the life and philosophical ways of the brilliant scientist and an extraordinary man.
- StarsJim HensonBrian FroudWendy MidenerA behind the scenes look at Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal".
- DirectorGabriel Le BominFormer French Presidents and Prime Ministers were "at the heart of power." They tell for the first time how these crises are happening at the Elysée since 1958.
- DirectorBastien DuvalStarsMarion CotillardDidier LavergneBryna RifkinDocumentary from France's TV channel Canal+ about the making of the 2007 film 'La Vie en Rose' and Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her performance as French singer Édith Piaf.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsCatherine DeneuveAgnès VardaMichel LegrandA recital becomes part of the French culture; 25 years later the performers return to the village where it was first launched.
- DirectorRenny BartlettStarsNicholas AgnewHelen BradburyAdam BurtonA dramatised documentary detailing the bitter feud between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. The two Queens never met, but communicated for many years via letter. Mary's turmoil is shown, and the events which led to her destruction. Elizabeth, one of Britain's most infamous monarchs would be haunted in later year's by the death of an anointed Queen.
- DirectorLaurent BouzereauStarsSteven SpielbergKathleen KennedyEd VerreauxA behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.'
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsEdward SnowdenGlenn GreenwaldWilliam BinneyA documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
- DirectorGary GlassmanChristine Le GoffScott TiffanyStarsJoan R. BranhamMario BrassardMichael DavisGothic cathedrals are marvels of human achievement and artistry. On this journey inside the jewels of Gothic architecture, discover how medieval builders, drawing from hidden formulas in the Bible itself, reached such spectacular heights.
- StarsEd SikovNancy OlsonAndrew SarrisFilm critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious stories on the acclaimed Billy Wilder's masterpiece "Sunset Blvd."; its cultural importance by being one of the most iconic and revolutionary films ever made and a picture that still stands the test of time.
- DirectorGeorge ButlerRobert FioreStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLou FerrignoMatty FerrignoArnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a no-holds-barred competition for the title of Mr. Olympia in this critically-acclaimed film that made Schwarzenegger a household name.
- StarsRae Dawn ChongSteven E. de SouzaBill DukeAn overview of the making of Commando (1985).
- StarsRae Dawn ChongSteven E. de SouzaArnold SchwarzeneggerA look at the importance of humor in the film Commando (1985).
- DirectorDave McVeighScott McVeighStarsDwayne JohnsonClint EastwoodSylvester StalloneThis short documentary explores just how the film Pumping Iron revolutionized the fitness industry and created an international icon in Arnold Schwarzenegger. It also touches on what Hollywood's idea of an action star was and is.
- DirectorDave McVeighScott McVeighStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerMike KatzLou FerrignoA documentary on the making of "Pumping Iron" to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Aired on Cinemax.
- DirectorCécile Denjean
- DirectorTracy TrostStarsArthur GreenoA Record Breaking show featuring Arthur Greeno as he attempts to break another world record.
- DirectorJimmy LeipoldStarsAnn BernaysEdward BernaysCharles ChaplinComment influencer les foules ? À travers la figure d'Edward Bernays (1891-1995), l'un des inventeurs du marketing et l'auteur de "Propaganda", un passionnant décryptage des méthodes de la "fabrique du consentement".
- DirectorBarbet SchroederStarsAshin WirathuU. ZanitarKyaw Zayar HtunA view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.
- DirectorGeorge ButlerStarsBev FrancisRachel McLishLori Bowen RiceJudges and bodybuilders (Rachel McLish, Bev Francis, Carla Dunlap) try to define femininity at the 1983 world championship, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
- DirectorCédric VillainStarsCédric Villain
- DirectorVictor GuillonJulien MauranneA modern day tale of two brothers from the Shipibo Amazonian tribe, their dreams of modernity and their reconnection with the tradition of their forefathers.
- DirectorAlbert KnechtelStarsMaria Alves dos SantosElvenicio Anunciação dos SantosTasso AzevedoLarge uncontrolled fires and flames have severely damaged the Amazon rainforests of Brazil in the summer of 2019 and destroyed countless trees. The main cause of the fires seems to be the man-made slash-and-burn. The drought, which has lasted for months, favors the situation. Likewise, the radical policy of the new Brazilian government under right-wing populist President Jair Bolsonaro contributes to the destruction of the Amazon jungles. When the green lung of the earth burns, not only experts and international politicians are terrified. Protecting the world's unique ecosystem is of vital importance to all people of the world. The film examines the current environmental and humanitarian catastrophe in the Amazon region and gives voice to environmental activists as well as relativizing proponents of the fires.
- DirectorFrédéric CompainStarsFidel Castro
- DirectorSabiha SumarStarsKalki KoechlinDorothea ReinickeSabiha SumarA transnational journey through India and Pakistan, uncovering the common humanity beyond the divisive political rhetoric.
- DirectorDavid Gomez RollanClimate change, bad practices and mismanagement of environmental and social changes, have put Mongolia in a very extreme situation. In the middle of all these changes,thousands of new shamans have appear in Mongolia in the recent years and have risen against the mistreatment of the environment and against the difficult situation of the nomadic people. But the problem is that not every shaman is looking for the same kind of interest. 'Shaman' presents a reflection on the relationship between the human being and the environment and show us different stories, where everything is interconnected,about nomads, miners, climatic refugees and shamans.
- DirectorMarjolaine GrappeNorth Korea has covertly developed a weapon whose secret the superpowers believed they alone possessed: the nuclear bomb. How has this country, ostracized by the international community and one of the world's poorest nations, managed to build up such an arsenal? Five years of investigation will reveal, clearly and simply, the secrets behind the financing of North Korea's nuclear weapons. A film revolving around the testimonies of the men and women at the heart of the system: the financier of the regime, the diplomat as well as the 'little hands', these North Korean workers sent abroad, who make the regime between 1,2 and 2,3 billion euros a year (according to UN estimates). Each year Pyongyang sends tens of thousands of North Korean workers outside the borders of the 'Hermit state', and rents them out to more than 40 countries across the world where they will be working in very difficult conditions, in isolation, permanently monitored by agents of the state in order to prevent them making contact with the outside or defecting. First-hand accounts of men and women who have played a role in this well-oiled system are extremely rare because defections are rare. Those who flee not only put their lives at risk but those of their families back home. This documentary reveals an ongoing tragedy, that of the Dictator's Men working in the wings to bring cash into the country at all costs and ensure the regime's survival.
- DirectorPatrick ForbesStarsPatrick ForbesAndrew BridgenKenneth ClarkeAward-winning director Patrick Forbes goes beyond the headlines to film the bitter battle to govern Britain after 2016's referendum vote. Filmed over one extraordinary year, it's a story of low politics, high ambition and bitter personal animosities. Can the prime minister tame the judges, the opposition and the public to deliver Brexit?
- DirectorMartin FraudreauStarsBenjamin Egner
- DirectorPatrick ForbesStarsPatrick ForbesVladimir PutinThis documentary will provide the first authoritative account of who Vladimir Putin actually is. What drives him, what does he fear, who does he love and hate?
- DirectorEtienne HuverFélix Seger
- DirectorJobst KniggeIn northern Germany, the Teutoburg Forest is home to many Germanic legends. Since the end of the 19th century, the statue of Hermann - known in Latin as Arminius, has watched over the vast Teutoburg Forest.
- DirectorSean DunneStarsBoom MicA love letter to the weird and wonderful people of the Sunshine State.
- DirectorAchim Scheunert
- DirectorVincent Pouplard
- DirectorMartin A. WaltherStarsErlend HansbakkenIver Svenning BrevikMathias Holst IversenDuring a two year period In the mid 90's, large amounts of goods was stolen from freight trains in Trondheim, Norway. The case got an unexpected turn when the culprits turned out to be boys aged 11 to 15.
- DirectorTomasz SliwinskiStarsMagda HueckelTomasz SliwinskiLeo Hueckel-SliwinskiThe film is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with an incurable disease of their newborn son.
- DirectorGéraldine CharpentierLou's relationship to the genre. Girl or boy, he / she chose not to choose, for now.
- DirectorFranck Duprat
- DirectorAnthony CorteseStarsRicky BriganteJeniLynn KnoppLou MongelloWe'll explore the Disney magic with a community of entrepreneur Disney super fans who've made careers out of living their Disney dream.
- DirectorThomas AdersStarsMagnus RookIn 1998 a bloody war broke out between Ethiopia and its neighbor Eritrea. More than 80,000 people lost their lives in what was called one of the most pointless wars of all time. Eighteen years after a fragile peace was declared in 2000, there was a sign of new hope when Ethiopia's recently elected president Abiy Ahmed Ali publicly met with his Eritrean counterpart Isayas Afewerki on June 5, 2018 and declared to give up the village of Badme which had been at the center of the dispute.
- DirectorJean-Baptiste RenaudStarsMilton AllimadiJoseph BowoGuillaume CailleauxSo gigantic the success, so reprehensible the backgrounds. The video of the social campaign 'KONY 2012' of the NPO 'Invisible Children, Inc.' was clicked one hundred million times within a very short time after its publication. But under the pretense of sincere humanitarian intentions against the misdeeds of the alleged war criminal Joseph Kony, this appeal was intended to manipulate public opinion in a manner that led the US government to seek military intervention. This documentary leads to Uganda, the Central African Republic and the United States, and shows what obscure intents - from economic mining interests to religious fundamentalist proselytizing - were actually hide behind the operation of the US military in Africa and the activities of the opaque nonprofit organization with their Christian-right, evangelical financial backers.
- DirectorJason RussellStarsSusan DavisShepard FaireyJames InhofeA documentary that explores why African cult and militia leader and indicted war criminal fugitive Joseph Kony needs to be arrested by the end of 2012.
- DirectorNicolas GlimoisStarsDogan AkhanliMustafa Kemal AtatürkErdogan AydinThe tormented and violent history of a young nation of 100 years, through the destiny of its two most emblematic leaders, Mustafa Kemal, "Atatürk", the "father of the Turks", and the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the "re-founder".
- DirectorLisa LadenStarsS. Epatha MerkersonMaria Prats GomezAnnah Elnora ThurberWe meet individuals from marginalized communities who describe what it was like to live through the 1918 flu pandemic. Their experiences raise questions about the pandemic: why did it kill so many people? Why were so many of the dead young adults? Where did this lethal flu come from? How can we keep a pandemic like that from occurring again? The film follows the search for answers from an expedition to Alaska in 1951 to collect tissue from bodies buried in the permafrost, to the scientists and epidemiologists working on the same questions today. It explains the relevance of research into the 1918 pandemic to the threat of current and future flu pandemics.
- DirectorPatrick ForestierLast month, 82 Nigerian schoolgirls were released after 3 years of imprisonment. In exchange, 5 terrorist leaders walked free - These leaders belong to Boko Haram, the most bloodthirsty terrorist group on the planet. The group gained global notoriety after their kidnapping of 276 students in 2014, over 100 of which have not yet been released. Their objective: to establish a Caliphate and impose sharia - Islamic law - in the heart of Africa. In an attempt to understand who these terrorists are, how they operate, and what kind of a threat they represent to Africa and the rest of the world, we have investigated in Nigeria, Cameroon and on the border of Niger and Nigeria, meeting former prisoners, repented jihadists and troops on the frontline.
- DirectorMiyuki Droz AramakiStarsTamim Bin Hamad Al-ThaniBertrand BesancenotDexter FilkinsFrom the Arabian Peninsula to the United States, this film explores the rivalry between these three princes and the unprecedented crisis it is provoking in the Gulf, the most militarized zone in the world. It is a schism which destabilizes the wider Middle East, since all the region's countries are forced to side with one of the two camps.
- DirectorDaniel DeleforgesStarsChristophe BarratierFrançois BerléandMarie BunelA conducteur of an orchestra meets a former teacher of the reform school of his childhood. This visit brings out from his the memories of a failed composer who put joy in their life thanks to music.
- DirectorInigo WestmeierA Journey to the new Eldorado Black China.
- DirectorFrançois-Xavier TreganAfter three years of war, Yemen is facing its most serious humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War. 'Yemen, Chaos in silence' is an unprecedented journey which tells the story of a conflict taking place virtually without exterior witnesses. From Aden in the south to Sanaa in the north, via Taez, the front line, this film explores a devastated country eroded by political and religious divisions and ravaged by cholera.
- DirectorJean-Michel VecchietStarsAbbas AbdiMahmoud AhmadinejadHossein AlaIran is on the rise after a century of political upheaval. For the first time, access has been granted to Iranian national archives and rare footage, looking back over 100 years of Iranian history. Delve into the veritable wellsprings of the confrontation between Iran and western powers, focusing on real-life encounters, finally giving Iranian men and women a chance to speak. Featured by XIVETV.
- DirectorMark CowenStarsTom HanksJohn CorbettAndrew HusmannThis program strives to give the viewer an impression of what it is like to actually be on the moon. It provides a romantic, inspirational depiction of the Apollo astronauts travels on the moon peppered by their quotations of their impressions.
- DirectorSimon BrightStarsMike AuretDavid ColtartGuy de LanceyRobert Mugabe... what happened?, charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country, and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist, then knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern African archive to powerfully evoke each of the decades of Mugabe's reign. This is a complex and compelling view of Zimbabwe the country and Mugabe the man.
- DirectorRehad DesaiJabulani MzozoStarsJacob Zuma
- DirectorDieudo HamadiDocumentary about the Democratic Republic of Congo when Joseph Kabila sought a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be elected president for a third term. The film follows three protagonists of the resistance.
- DirectorTrevor SnappSam WolsonWe Who Remain is a immersive live action documentary that shows life during the fighting season of one of the longest ongoing wars in the world.