After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies less than a week later. Shaken by the sudden string of deaths, McElwee becomes depressed. After spending time with his friend and former high school poetry teacher, Charlene, he goes to meet his brother, a doctor. In a series of interviews, McElwee contemplates his morbid preoccupation with death and tries to figure out how to shake it off.
Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but m...
AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...
In the half-hour tribute, friends and colleagues remember the three-time Emmy winner, who died June ...
A documentary on the life of Jack Kirby, co-creator of Captain America, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man...
With four strikes against her (black, female, poor and a lesbian), our trailblazer, Jewel Thais-Will...
This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China....
Photographer Imogen Cunningham presents her own work in this Academy Award-nominated documentary.
Legendary British actor Michael Caine, who began his brilliant career on stage during the 1950s, tal...
A landmark court decision in Massachusetts allows gay people in that state to marry - forcing activi...
Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mys...
Surpassed only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the most successful writer of all ti...
Another kind of biography, one that unravels the mysteries of Dalí, the conflicts with himself and w...
Director James Toback takes an unflinching, uncompromising look at the life of Mike Tyson--almost so...
This insightful documentary feature from PJ Letofsky serves as a profile of iconic Austrian-American...
The film accompanies the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist around the world, shows her at work in her stud...
A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and wo...
Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has ...
In postwar Liberia Clarice Gargard searches the truth concerning her father's dubious connection to ...
A documentary on the life of famous Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer.