Cast: Norman Mailer

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Timothy Leary · Ed Emshwiller · Jack Smith · Mario Montez

Plot Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of...

Direction Leon Gast

Cast Muhammad Ali · George Foreman · Don King · James Brown

Plot In 1974, boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman came to the still-emerging and politically unstable African nation of Zaire for what Ali called the "Rumble in the Jungle," a highly...

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Howard E. Rollins Jr. · Moses Gunn · James Cagney · Brad Dourif

Plot Based on the acclaimed and popular E.L. Doctorow novel, RAGTIME tells the intricate story of four New York families--three of which are fictional--at the turn of the 20th century, each...

Direction Robert Bader

Cast Muhammad Ali · Dick Cavett · Jimmy Breslin · Jim Brown

Plot Eye-opening documentary explores the life of boxing legend Muhammad Ali through the lens of his many appearances on Dick Cavett's iconic, long-running talk show. Ali & Cavett: The Tale of...

Direction William Karel

Cast George W. Bush · Colin Powell · George Bush · Tony Blair

Plot The 1000 days of George W. Bush's presidency from the 9/11 attacks to the iraqi quagmire. How a bunch of people influenced by neo-cons hawks took control of the US...

Direction Fenton Bailey · Randy Barbato

Cast John Waters · Larry Flynt · Erica Jong · Ruth Westheimer

Plot Inside Deep Throat examines the unanticipated lasting cultural impact generated by Deep Throat, a sexually explicit film first shown in a midtown Manhattan adult theater in June 1972 that quickly...

Direction Matthew Barney

Cast Norman Mailer · Matthew Barney · Lauren Pine · Scot Ewalt

Plot The Cremaster Cycle is a sequence of five films by Matthew Barney, entitled Cremaster 1 to Cremaster 5 which create a self-enclosed aesthetic system. The conceptual departure point for the...

Direction Ebs Burnough

Cast Truman Capote · George Plimpton · Norman Mailer · Jay McInerney

Plot Using the tapes, animation, and new on-camera interviews with people who knew him, the film explores the impact of Capote's explosive unfinished novel "Answered Prayers."

Direction Rob Garver

Cast Pauline Kael · Quentin Tarantino · Woody Allen · Alec Baldwin

Plot Pauline Kael was likely the most powerful, and divisive, movie critic of the 20th century. Her love of movies was revealed in her ruthless pursuit of what made a movie...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Burgess Meredith · Leos Carax · Woody Allen · Julie Delpy

Direction Norman Mailer

Cast Norman Mailer · Rip Torn

Direction Chris Hegedus · D.A. Pennebaker

Cast Norman Mailer · Germaine Greer · Diana Trilling · Jacqueline Ceballos

Plot Town Bloody Hall is a 1971 documentary film of a panel debate between feminist advocates and activist Norman Mailer. Filmed on April 30, 1971, in The Town Hall in New...

Direction Richard Schickel

Cast James Cagney · Treat Williams · Milos Forman · Norman Mailer

Plot During the filming of Ragtime, the 81-year old Cagney talks about his career. Cagney tells us about becoming a dancer and meeting his wife, his route from Broadway to Hollywood,...

Direction Dick Fontaine

Cast David Bradley · Dick Fontaine · Amanda Lear · Norman Mailer

Direction Norman Mailer

Cast Rip Torn · George Plimpton · Norman Mailer · Mickey Knox

Plot A night in a Manhattan police station.

Direction Norman Mailer

Cast Norman Mailer · Buzz Farber · Mickey Knox · Beverly Bentley