An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. The Carthusians finally contacted Gröning 16 years later to say they were now willing to permit Gröning to shoot the movie, if he was still interested.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

A strange and mischievous documentary on an archeological site in the Qaytarieh hills in Tehran. Thi...

While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and cus...

State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading u...

Jesus Camp is a Christian summer camp where children hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled i...

It seems that in recent years Angel sightings and experiences are everywhere. Perhaps this is becaus...

In this documentary, Prof. Laércio Fonseca presents facts and connections between cosmology, the uni...

Switzerland is presently the only country in the world where suicide assistance is legal. Exit: The ...

The oldest Quebecois Benedictine convent open its gates to a documentary filmmaker for the first tim...

Boujad: A Nest In the Heat is a personal and anguishing look at issues of separation, independence a...

Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a st...

Arami Ullón must return to Paraguay to make an important decision: what will happen to her sick moth...

A filmmaker's lifelong dream quickly becomes his worst nightmare when he attempts to make a low budg...

Altötting in Bavaria, around 120 km from Regensburg, is a much-visited pilgrimage site. Numerous Cat...

A Cow at My Table explores Western attitudes towards farm animals and meat, and the intense battle b...

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt an...

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Gr...

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produ...