Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch ill...
Documentary about Stanley Kramer, included on the 40th anniversary edition of Guess Who's Coming to ...

This cinematic portrait shows the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work. The much-discussed ‘Seidl...

Discussion of the making of the film Summer Stock (1950).

Explores the life and death of one of the first onscreen flappers. By the time she appeared in The F...

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his lon...

First ever feature-length documentary on the world-wide phenomenon that inspired an entire generatio...

The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.

What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to un...

Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impa...

Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-...

Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth ...

On August 15th, 2006, filmmaker Ryan Dacko set out to get a 30-minute meeting with a major Hollywood...

Short documentary of the making of Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2004).

Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-20...
The Invisible Subtitler is an independent documentary about the use of subtitles in cinema and the l...

An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder.

Let’s Make Money is an Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer released in the year 2008. It is abo...

Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is o...