Banned from Television
A series of videos containing footage of real life events that were too disturbing for television.
Leonardo: A Dream of Flight
Leonardo da Vinci finds it difficult to pursue his own dreams while serving as the Duke’s court artist, but young Roberto takes risks to convince the Master not to give…
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with…
Desperate Search
Josh Gates goes on the adventure of a lifetime when he and Christopher Lloyd set off to track down the most iconic movie car in Hollywood history, The DeLorean Time…
James Brown: Body Heat
In 1969 at a concert in Monterey James Brown announced his intention to retire from touring but it wasn’t until 1975 that he finally stopped. Then in 1979 three young…
Italianamerican
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.
Definitely Dusty
Documentary looking at the life and work of soul and pop diva Dusty Springfield.
Cousin Jules
An ode to rural France and the simple joys of life, Dominique Benicheti’s glorious masterpiece Cousin Jules captures the daily routine and rituals of Jules, a blacksmith, living with his…
Boys of Summer
On a tiny Caribbean island of Curaçao, they take their Little League® Baseball very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that Manager Vernon Isabella has sent his Little League All-Stars to…
Searching for Tadzio
An account of Italian film director Luchino Visconti’s travels in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella Death…
Nanook of the North
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada’s northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful…
Burden of Dreams
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents,…
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
In the remote and forgotten wilderness of Lake Natron, in northern Tanzania, one of nature’s last great mysteries unfolds: the birth, life and death of a million crimson-winged flamingos.
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