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An assortment of great documentaries from past and present, all available for free!
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Buena Vista Social Club and Heima
An Inconvenient Truth (A Matter Of Degrees)
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Davis Guggenheim; Stars: Al Gore)
Al Gore investigates global warming.
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Constance Marks; Stars: Fran Brill, Joan Ganz Cooney, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell), Official Site
Documentary about the man behind the Muppet.
Buena Vista Social Club
(Country: Cuba; Year: 1999; Director: Wim Wenders; Stars: Luis Barzaga, Joachim Cooder, Ry Cooder, Julio Alberto Fernndez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Carlos Gonzlez, Rubn Gonzlez, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo)
Documentary about the Cuban stars who went on to become an international phenomenon.
Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (Caves of Forgotten Dreams)
(Year: 2010; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: Werner Herzog; Stars: Charles Fathy, Werner Herzog)
An exploration of the Chauvet caves in Southern France where the oldest known human paintings can be found.
Fabalous
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ed Emsley)
In his flat, filled to the ceiling with the artefacts of his life, Michael J. Howells tells us his story. When he’s not caring for his cat or his MS-stricken wife, he returns to his art, determined to keep depression at bay.
The Globe Collector and An Inconvenient Truth
The Globe Collector
(Country: Australia; Year: 2012; Director: Summer DeRoche; Stars: Andrew Pullen)
Meet Andrew and his amazing collection of lamps.
Heima
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2007; Director: Dean DeBlois; Stars: Sigur Ros), Official Site
The most original and successful Icelandic band travels the country giving free concerts.
In The Shadow Of The Moon
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2007; Director: David Sington; Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Jim Lovell, Edgar D Mitchell, Harrison Schmitt, Dave Scot, John Young), Official Site
The surviving members of the 1968-72 Apollo missions tell the story of the moon landings in their own words.
Jesse Owens
(Country: United States; Year: 2011; Director: Laurens Gant)
The story of the black Olympic athlete whose prowess humiliated the Nazis but who returned home to a life of opression and exclusion in racially segregated America.
Koyaanisqatsi
(Country: United States; Year: 1982; Director: Godfrey Reggio)
A movie with no conventional plot: merely a collection of expertly photographed scenes. Subject matter has a highly environmental theme.
In The Shadow Of The Moon and Cave Of Forgotten Dreams
The Last Waltz
(Year: 1978; Director: Martin Scorsese; Writer: Mardik Martin; Stars: The Band, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ringo Starr, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John), Official Site
A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
The Love Competition
(Country: United States; Year: 2012; Director: Brent Hoff)
At Stanford University’s first annual love competition, no touching is allowed. It’s all in the mind for the contestants, as they spend five minutes in an MRI machine thinking about their nearest and dearest...and trying to trigger the most neurochemical activity.
Maya Deren's Sink
(Year: 2011; Director: Barbara Hammer)
This evocative experimental film pays tribute to Maya Deren, the mother of avant-guard American film. In a kaleidoscope approach, director Barbara Hammer layers many images with recreations of scenes from Deren’s films, projected into the homes where they were originally filmed.
MES
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Ian Gamester)
Cath Gamester has quite a story to tell. When her GP puts her on anti-depressants, she soon finds her waking hours accompanied by a surreal musical choir, as she recounts in this delightful short documentary made by her grandson, Ian.
Naqoyqatsi
(Country: United States; Year: 2002; Director: Godfrey Reggio)
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
One Breath - The Story of William Trubridge
(Country: United States; Year: 2012; Director: Nicolas Rossier)
It looks simple: you hold your breath and go as deep into the water as you can. But as William Trubridge has learned, triumphing in the dangerous world of free diving is all about mind over matter.
Paint the Way
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Josh Bamford, Sebastian Feehan)
A Saudi artist haunts the streets of her once beautiful neighbourhood in Jeddah – where the collapsed, neglected buildings give little testimony to those who once lived there. Spraying her graffiti and then quickly running away, she watches reactions from afar.
A Place We Call Home (Naslaitynas)
(Country: Lithuania, Estonia; Year: 2012; Director: Albina Griniute)
It’s a dog’s life, in the biggest no-kill animal shelter in Lithuania – an old abandoned house in the centre of Vilnius. Like a nursery school, the daily routines of meals, play and rest are familiar to the dogs, who are all dependent on the loving care of their human volunteers.
This Life That Chose Me
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Chloe White)
Bea, Carol and Jenny grew up as men, but experienced from early on the certainty that they were trapped in the wrong body. Each tells about her transformational journey from an unhappy male to the middle-aged woman we see today.
Tripoli Stories | Graffiti
(Country: UK, Libya; Year: 2012; Director: Anas El Gomati, Ibrahim El Mayet)
“In every spray of the can you feel a part of your emotion is released from inside of you, to the wall to the people.” After the Revolution, long suppressed feelings are appearing on building walls in Tripoli.
Where Is My Mind
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Martin Ginestie)
A letter through his postbox informs 42-year-old Lee Gilliland that he has been classed as “lacking mental capacity” and will lose most of his rights, including the right to decide where he lives. Lee is determined not to go without a fight, and barricades himself inside his home.
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