Film Documentaries

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Blank City

Blank City

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Art Documentaries

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

RT Certified Fresh · Film Documentaries · Documentary

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

Documentary · Sexuality · Art Documentaries

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.

Dawson City: Frozen Time

Dawson City: Frozen Time

RT Certified Fresh · Film Documentaries · 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…

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Film Documentaries · Documentary

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, this film captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish li…

Filmworker

Filmworker

RT Certified Fresh · Film Documentaries · Documentary

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.

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (Kino Cult #50)

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (Kino Cult #50)

Cult · Film Documentaries · Documentary

This unique documentary recounts the history of the shock-value driver's education films that haunted American teens. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, these grisly movies used unflinching color footage of fatal accidents to scare young drivers.

I Am Heath Ledger

I Am Heath Ledger

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Biography

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.

The Man You Loved To Hate

The Man You Loved To Hate

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Biography

A full-length documentary on von Stroheim’s life and career. Filled with rare photographs and excerpts from Stroheim’s legendary and lesser-known works, it is the definitive documentary profile of this most fascinating artist. U.S. 1979. 78 min. Color/B&W.

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.

The Village Detective: a song cycle

The Village Detective: a song cycle

RT Certified Fresh · Film Documentaries · Documentary

Four reels of water-damaged 35mm film recovered by an Icelandic fishing boat serve as inspiration for Bill Morrison’s latest meditation on cinema’s past—this time centered on popular Russian actor Mihail Žarov and offering a journey into Soviet history and film accompanied by a go…