Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson’s early rise to fame.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: David Byrne, Esperanza Spalding, Kobe Bryant, Lee Daniels, Mark Ronson, Michael Jackson, Misty Copeland, Pharrell Williams, Quincy Jones, Rosie Perez
First Graders
A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school summoned by their superintendent for…
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
In the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel’s Meet the Filmmakers series, director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip) visits the ever-iconoclastic auteur Paul Schrader during the making…
Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer
A true icon of British history, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) laid the foundations of modern nursing. A beautiful tribute to a pioneer whose integrity, selflessness and zeal are to be admired.
Generation Iron 2
From the director of Generation Iron, comes the anticipated sequel that will depict 5 of the top bodybuilding and fitness mega-stars on a quest of achieving the ultimate physique and…
Mystery of the Nile
Filmed in IMAX, a team of explorers led by Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown face seemingly insurmountable challenges as they make their way along all 3,260 miles of the world’s…
The Hunt for Dark Matter
CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive substance that physicists and astronomers believe holds the universe together — dark matter. Where is…
The Beaches of Agnès
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of…
Gun Fight
In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting, Oscar winner Barbara Kopple takes an in depth look at the issue of gun rights and gun control. She interviews both gun…
City Of Joel
“City of Joel” is documentary – with unprecedented access – to a 1.1 square mile shtetl in the suburbs that is home to 22,000 members of an one of the…
Baratometrajes 2.0: Spaniard-low-budget-films with High Ambitions
Baratometrajes 2.0 is a feature length documentary on low-budget films made in Spain and dives deep and directly in the guts of most independent films, their characteristics and their reasons…
Habla Women
Take a uniquely Latina view of life in the United States in this no-holds-barred 10th installment in the ‘Habla’ series. From a newspaper CEO-publisher to an Olympic boxing medalist, and…
Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel
The end of an eight-year upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us…