Documentary Movies

Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex: he asks children where babies come from, young and old women if they are men's equals, men and women if a woman's virginity matters, how they view homosexuals,

Tôkyô orinpikku is a movie starring Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, and Ahmed Issa. Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the...

A "hidden camera" takes the viewer on a worldwide tour of sexual practices and rituals, including Tijuana strippers, Asian sex shows, British prostitutes, New York devil worshipers and a Mexican slave market.

The Endless Summer is a movie starring Robert August, Michael Hynson, and Lord James Blears. The crown jewel to ten years of Bruce Brown surfing documentaries. Brown follows two young surfers around the world in search of the...

GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was Lionel Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. He interspersed these harro

The Forbidden is a movie starring Baby Bubbles, Bob Cresse, and Pat Hall. This documentary explores assorted "forbidden" topics from all over the world. Among the subjects depicted herein are a racy TV commercial for a female...

A documentary from a group of film students who work to organize a group of the under advantaged citizens of Newark New Jersey.

In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy and support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam war.

Dont Look Back is a movie starring Bob Dylan, Albert Grossman, and Bob Neuwirth. Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.

The behind the scenes of a national drag queen contest in New York City, including the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition.

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is a movie starring Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, and Jonathan Gordon. Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously shooting the...

A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.

Four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics.

Le chagrin et la pitié is a movie starring Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, and Alexis Grave. An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of Nazi invasion.

Fårö dokument is a TV movie starring Arvid Andersson, Sven Bernander, and Carl Ekman. Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow...

Black Roots is a movie starring Jim Collier, Gary Davis, and Larry Johnson. Rogosin took the fight for equality to his homeland with his astonishing and powerful fourth feature Black Roots. The film, which is ripe for rediscovery,...

Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.

A visual exploration into the origins of witchcraft in the UK and in particular the demystification of symbolism still embedded today within many modern religious artefacts and rituals.

When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60's / early 70's.

FIDEL provides a unique view of Cuba's controversial and most polarizing leader. In 1968, Castro took filmmaker and activist Saul Landau on a weeklong jeep ride through the eastern mountains. There, he plays baseball with a group of

Mr. Page and his two sons and two daughters live a primitive life in the woods in southern England with traction engines.

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world f

Glastonbury Fayre is a movie starring Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Arthur Brown, and Fairport Convention. The atmosphere and events of the second Glastonbury Festival, held in 1971.

An analysis of the construction mechanism for the magic in dominant narrative cinema though the filming of Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht (1970), a commercial film by Jesús Franco.

A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in the early 1970s. The group put on shows called "F.T.A.", which stood for "F**k the Army

Journey Through the Past is a movie starring Buffalo Springfield, David Crosby, and Graham Nash. Don't look for a narrative, it's an Art Film. A series of vignettes referencing the South and a commentary on religion as opiate. See...

Wattstax is a movie starring The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, and Kim Weston. Documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac...

Jimi Hendrix is a movie starring Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, and Stella Benabon. This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix's untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done, but...

F for Fake is a movie starring Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, and François Reichenbach. A documentary about fraud and fakery.

Eight film artists from different countries are given carte blanche to make a collection of short documentaries on the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, offering unexpected, original and often humorous perspectives.

Li Xiao Long De Sheng Yu Si is a movie starring Mei Wang, Bruce Lee, and Linda Lee Cadwell. A documentary that examines the life and the untimely death of superstar Bruce Lee.

A Bigger Splash is a movie starring David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, and Celia Birtwell. Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to...

Italianamerican is a movie starring Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, and Martin Scorsese. Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York City and the family history back in Sicily. These are two...

Investigation into alternative didactic methods and the relationship between independently expressive surfaces and texts. The film is composed of five sequences, each preceded by a quotation.

A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.

Les Blank's first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period (1972-1974).

Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait is a movie starring Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, and Golda Meir. A documentary on the military dictator of Africa's Uganda.

The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a movie starring Yûichirô Miura and Douglas Rain. This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.

Daguerreotypes is a movie starring Lucien Bossy, Leance Debrossian, and Marcelle Debrossian. Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camel

It's the mid 1970s and the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), a radical (and violent) offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, explains to leftist filmmakers the difficulties and experiences of being underground and wa

Pumping Iron is a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, and Matty Ferrigno. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a no-holds-barred competition for the title of Mr. Olympia in this critically-acclaimed...

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Shot on one day by 25 different cameramen across the USA under the co-ordination of Arthur J. Bressan Jr. this film documents Gay Pride parades across the United States in the late 70s.