Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy. Among the materials he found in the estate of Robert and Frances Flaherty’s daughter Monica were the film reels and video tapes detailing several years of work on realising her lifelong dream project: a sound version of her parents’ 1926 docu-fiction axiom, Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age.

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...

In rocky Newfoundland, renowned French artist Jean Claude Roy gathers his paints and sets off to fac...

During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed befor...

What happens to a relationship if a partner suddenly becomes severely disabled after an accident? Fo...

In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, ...

A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO wh...

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, ma...

Through an intimate conversation, Steph Jane, age 28, shares the struggles and lessons her second di...

Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."

An Australian icon found on every supermarket shelf, and coating every game day pack of hot chips. B...

The historic gathering of three hundred indigenous activists from North, South and Central America w...

Still today, people say that during the stormy night from March 31st to April 1st, 1922, the devil h...

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the...

1972. During the government of Salvador Allende 34 artists made works that were included in the cons...
Swimming. The Russian swimmer Romantschenko visits Copenhagen. He jumps into the water and swims aro...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman t...