Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Six years in the making this documentary film follows outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest through his life-threatening struggle with addiction to his transformation into one of the most influential and controversial drug counselors in the US today. BOB AND THE MONSTER crafts contemporary footage animation and compelling interviews with archival performances and personal videos from Bobs...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, War
Body of War is a documentary following Tomas Young an Iraq War veteran paralyzed from a bullet to the spine on a physical and emotional journey as he adapts to his new body and begins to question the decision to go to war in Iraq. From soldier to anti-war activist the film takes an unflinching view of the physical and emotional aftermath of war through the eyes of an American hero. The film...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Musical
Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Harel tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish a young boy diagnosed with bipolar...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Short, Adventure
This heartwarming film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them-saving endangered species one life at a...
Country: United States, Canada, Germany
Genre: Documentary, History
The USA of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns violent national history violent entertainment and even...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Back in the days of the Brady Bunch series all the cast members were given home movie cameras as a gift. For the first time ever the footage they shot has been assembled in a loving sometimes irreverent tribute to the show that would not...
Country: United States, Canada, China, Norway
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Some say that to embrace ones greatest talent is to make the world a better place. Others see a grown man spinning a sixteen-foot hula hoop and snicker about trivial obsessions. Breaking world records is a mysteriously seductive tradition alternately inspiring reckless and bizarre. Follow a joggler a grape catcher and a man who cycles nowhere as they battle the odds - and their respective...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 - an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level - that also happens to have the best most winning junior high school chess team in the country. If Albert Einstein who was rated 1800 were to join the team hed only rank fifth best. Chess has transformed the school from...
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