A superb selection of documentaries that will make your eyes open wide in wonder.
Three Miles North Of Molkom and Tyson
The Age Of Stupid
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Franny Armstrong; Writer: Franny Armstrong; Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Jamila Bayyoud, Adnan Bayyoud, Alvin DuVernay, Piers Guy, Layefa Malini, Fernand Pareau, Jeh Wadia)
Docudrama about a future archivist looking back on the events that devastated Earth.
Bronson
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Nicolas Winding Refn; Writer: Brock Norman Brock; Stars: Tom Hardy, Matt King, Terry Stone, Amanda Burton, Jonathan Phillips, Hugh Ross, Kelly Adams, China-Black, Joe Tucker, Edward Bennett-Coles, Katy Barker),
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Examination of the life of Britain's self-titled "most dangerous criminal". Out on re-release.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Christopher Bell; Writer: Christopher Bell, Alexander Buono, Tamsin Rawa)
As entertaining as it is informative, this documentary goes beyond simply examining the truth about anabolic steroids and the athletes - professional and amateur - who use them. Focusing on his own family's personal history, Bell looks at why Americans feel the need to be the biggest, strongest, and fastest.
Modern Life (Profils paysans: la vie moderne)
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Raymond Depardon)
Established chronicler of rural France, Depardon, returns to the Haut-Garonne area to revisit the subjects of his previous Profils Paysans films.
Religulous and Bronson
Religulous
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Larry Charles; Writer: Bill Maher; Stars: Bill Maher, David Rosen, Kamal Farah, David L Parsons, Shmuel Strauss, Levi Halperin, Aki Nawaz, Jimmy Turkmani, Ferre van Beveren, Fatimah Elatik, Geert Wilders, Reginald Foster, John Westcott, Francis Collins, Dean Hamer, Jeremiah Cummings, George V Coyne, Andrew Newberg, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, Brian Weiss, Ray Suarez, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Kathy Maher, Julie Maher, Mark Pryor, Joe Copland, Ken Ham, Steve Burg, Ted Bachman, Bill Gardiner),
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Comedian Bill Maher champions scepticism in an age of rising religious fundamentalism.
Tyson
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: James Toback; Writer: James Toback; Stars: Mike Tyson),
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Intimate portrait of the heavyweight boxer.
