On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.

Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later...

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival f...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

"England 79" - 17 scenes from Great Britain the winter of discontent, 1979.

George Clinton's somewhat absurdist take on Parliament-Funkadelic history. Features never-before-gra...

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

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep ...

This film describes a psychological state "kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols)...

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...

Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking proce...

Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.

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

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboard...

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...

German TV film, also shown on Spanish TV in 1976, this is a film all about TD which includes informa...