Documentary movies

Complete History of My Sexual Failures, A (2008)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Documentary
Countries: UK
Actors: Boyarskaya, Alexandra | McLeod, Danielle | Trench, Olivia | Waitt, Hilary
Directors: Waitt, Chris
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Independent filmmaker Chris Waitt attempts to interview his ex-girlfriends to find out why they dumped him. This revealing and humorous documentary sees the slacker filmmaker go on a sexual and emotional odyssey in a desperate quest to solve his innumerable problems.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Stein, Ben | Berlinski, David | Cooper, Anderson | Dawkins, Richard | Dembski, William | Egnor, Michael | Gonzalez, Guillermo | Hitler, Adolf | Khrushchev, Nikita | Marks II, Robert J. | Meyer, Stephen | Meyer, Stephen C. | Myers, Paul Zachary | Nelson, Paul | Provine, William
Directors: Frankowski, Nathan
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Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom … What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth … that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the crime of merely believing that there might be evidence of design in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance. To which Ben Says: Enough! And then gets busy. NOBODY messes with Ben.

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Aikman, Troy | Beatles, The | Bin Laden, Osama | Brando, Marlon | Castro, Fidel | Christopher, Warren | Clinton, Bill | Edison, Thomas A. | Einstein, Albert | Hitler, Adolf | John, Elton | Khrushchev, Nikita | King, Martin Luther | Kissinger, Henry | Lama, Dalai
Directors: Reggio, Godfrey
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

Future by Design (2006)

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: King, Larry
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Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a “generalist” or multi-disciplinarian — a student of many inter-related fields. He is a prolific inventor, having spent his entire life (he is now 90 years old) conceiving of and devising inventions on various scales which entail the use of innovative technology. As a futurist, Jacque is not only a conceptualist and a theoretician, but he is also an engineer and a designer.

Ghostride the Whip (2008)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Sway | Hicks, Andre | Shaw, Todd Anthony | Hammer, M.C. | E-40 | Akon | Archer, Gary | Banjoko, Adisa | Bavgate | Baygeen | Cel, Celly | Chamillionaire | Costen, John | Da Undadogg, Coolio | Daut, Big
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From acclaimed executive producer Peter Spirer comes A DJ Vlad film. The first film to definitively capture the energy and danger of “Hyphy,” the Hip Hop youth movement exploding out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Narrated by Oakland native and television/radio personality Sway, this film explores the political, social and musical history behind the culture that popularized ghostriding the whip - walking, running or dancing next to a moving car with no driver. GHOSTRIDE THE WHIP also follows the fascinating life and career of a young Vallejo rapper named Mac Dre, who has dominated the Bay Area underground music scene for years. Prolific, iconic, and revolutionary, Mac Dre’s music and legacy is inextricably tied into the Hyphy movement. Featuring music and interviews by top Bay Area Hip Hop artists Mac Dre, Too $hort, E-40, MC Hammer, Keak the Sneak, Mistah F.A.B. and more.

Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ with the Godmother (2008)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
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Set in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life is changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco, who is serving time at a nearby federal prison. Six months later, Cosby is a multi-millionaire, Blanco’s lover, and the head of her $40 million a year cocaine business. Also known as “The Black Widow” for her propensity to permanently dispose of her men when she’s done with them, Blanco will stop at nothing to ensure that Charles is faithful to her. Cosby soon learns that he’s in way over his head.

Roger & Me (1989)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Blanchard, James | Bond, James | Boone, Pat | Eubanks, Bob | Hamper, Ben | Jackson, Timothy | Kay, Tom | Koppel, Ted | Lennox, Correy | MacDonald, Brian | Rather, Dan | Reagan, Ronald | Ross, Fred | Sawdon, Richard Earl
Directors: Moore, Michael
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

Tyson (2008)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Documentary
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Actors: Tyson, Mike
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A documentary about the one of the most frightening human beings ever to step into the boxing ring…

Battle of Long Tan (2006)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: Australia
Actors: Worthington, Sam
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In the gathering dusk of 18 August 1966, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are separated and surrounded, fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. And, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, with their ammunition running out and another Vietnamese battalion massing for the final assault, the digger’s situation seemed hopeless. Long Tan is the true story of ordinary boys who became extraordinary men.

Pumping Iron (1977)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Documentary | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Barnes, Mark F. | Callard, Roger | Columbu, Franco | Corney, Ed | Cort, Bud | Ferrigno, Lou | Ferrigno, Matty | Katz, Mike | Nubret, Serge | Reynolds, Patrick | Riedmeier, Helmut | Robinson, Robbie | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Waller, Ken | Weider, Joe
Directors: Butler, George
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From Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. Five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young deaf Lou Ferrigno, whose father is his coach; the ruthless champ psyches out the young lion. Sardinian Franco Columbu competes in the lightweight class; at home in Italy he solves a tight parking problem by lifting the car into place. Joe Weider is the marketer; Mike Katz and Ken Waller go for the title of Mr. Universe. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream.