Film Documentaries

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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Film Documentaries · RT Certified Fresh · Staff Picks

Alice Guy-Blaché was a true pioneer who got into the movie business at the very beginning—in 1894, at the age of 21. Two years later, she was made head of production at Gaumont and started directing films. She and her husband moved to the United States, and she founded her own company, …

Becoming Bulletproof

Becoming Bulletproof

Film Documentaries · Documentary

BECOMING BULLETPROOF documents the making of Bulletproof, the Western film featuring Zeno Mountain Farm's actors with and without disabilities

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

Biography · Film Documentaries · Tribeca Film Festival

A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960's and 70's to profoundly embrace life and…

Blank City

Blank City

Film Documentaries · Art Documentaries · Documentary

BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (LA Times) when a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history.

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Film Documentaries · RT Certified Fresh · Staff Picks

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technolo…

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Film Documentaries · Sexuality · Documentary

THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, revealing the personality and philosophies of one of our most iconic screen stars.

The Coolest Guy Movie Ever

The Coolest Guy Movie Ever

Film Documentaries · Documentary

The ultimate tribute to THE GREAT ESCAPE has arrived, revealing some little known facts about the timeless classic.

Dawson City: Frozen Time

Dawson City: Frozen Time

Film Documentaries · RT Certified Fresh · Photography

This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Discovered buried under the permafrost in a former Canadian Gold Rush town, their story reveals the links bet…

Filmworker

Filmworker

Documentary · Film Documentaries · RT Certified Fresh

After starring as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, Leon Vitali gave up his acting career to toil in obscurity as Stanley Kubrick’s devoted aide-de-camp. This candid, often funny, and sometimes shocking documentary offers a singular perspective on a creative genius.

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Film Documentaries · Avant Garde · Art Documentaries

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several…

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Film Documentaries · Music & Dance · Art Documentaries

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a personal documentary about the iconic actor in his intimate moments, with clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs.

Hitler's Hollywood

Hitler's Hollywood

Film Documentaries · Documentary

This follow-up to From Caligari to Hitler traces the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the cinema of the Third Reich: an explosion of lavish, escapist films celebrating a German utopia and subtly legitimizing a brutality that continues to haunt the modern world. Features new English narration by…

I Am Heath Ledger

I Am Heath Ledger

Biography · Film Documentaries · Documentary

I AM HEATH LEDGER is a feature-length documentary celebrating the life of the actor, the artist, and the icon that was Heath Ledger, filmed and performed by himself.

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Film Documentaries · Lesbian · Documentary

MUTANTES is a documentary about pro-sex feminism, a movement that seeks to redefine how we understand pornography and its role in media. Through interviews with sex workers, porn actresses, and other members of the sex industry, the film demystifies and explores the various sexual niches of punk por…

Somos Lengua

Somos Lengua

Film Documentaries · Music Documentaries

For three years, director Kyzza Terrazas has followed over thirty men and women from all over Mexico to explore the underground hip-hop movement growing across Latin America.

The Projectionist

The Projectionist

Film Documentaries · Documentary

This documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou moves from 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting a charming odyssey through the history of film exhibition and New York City.

Iranian Cinema Before and After the Revolution

Iranian Cinema Before and After the Revolution

Film Documentaries

Dr. Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian cinema. A former editor of Iranian film magazines, he has published extensively, presented numerous lectures, curated film series, and produced a number of films, including the feature-length documentaries The Lost Cinema, on political filmmaking unde…

Two in the Wave

Two in the Wave

World Cinema · Film Documentaries · Art Documentaries

Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. TWO IN THE WAVE documents their intensely combative and creative relationship.