Cinematography: Joan Churchill

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Patrick Boland · Kent Foreman · Carmen Argenziano · Luke Johnson

Synopsis "Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The...

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Bent Andersen · Kai Schøning Andersen · Mogens Andersen · Oluf Andersen

Synopsis Evening Land presents fictitious events in the Europe of those days. It opens in a Copenhagen shipyard with a strike due to the construction of four submarines, potential carriers of nuclear weapons for the French Navy, beside the salary freeze...

Direction Karen Thomas

Cast Sigourney Weaver · Scott Subiono · Sewell Whitney · SCott Beehner

Synopsis Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producers, directors, composers, editors, writers, and...

Direction Ron Mann

Synopsis In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us...

Direction Rory Kennedy

Cast Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · Henry Kissinger

Synopsis During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral quandary: whether...

Direction Nick Broomfield · Joan Churchill

Synopsis Nick Broomfield's second documentary on Aileen Carol Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the state of Florida. This second installment includes the filmmaker's testimony at Wournous's trial. Wuornos' case was worldwide knwon...

Direction Nick Broomfield

Cast The Notorious B.I.G. · Tupac Shakur

Synopsis Biggie & Tupac is a 2002 feature-length documentary film about slain rap icons The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, made by Nick Broomfield. It is an investigation of the deaths of the two icons, which some people claim were orchestrated...

Direction Barbara Kopple · Cecilia Peck

Cast The Chicks

Synopsis With unprecedented access to the behind-closed-doors world of celebrities in the ventre of a political and pop culture storm, DIXIE CHICKS - SHUT UP AND SING provides a view of the real and raw emotional rollercoaster of three strong women...

Direction Nick Broomfield

Cast Kurt Cobain · Courtney Love · Nick Broomfield

Synopsis After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobain's aunt who provides home movies and recordings, the estranged father of Cobain's widow...

Direction Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

Synopsis Bedlam is the first major documentary to explore the crisis in care of severely mentally-ill citizens. Set in Los Angeles, the film tracks wrenching individual stories of mentally-ill patients caught on an endless merry-go-round of ineffective care, exposing the anatomy...

Direction Dick Fontaine

Cast Sonny Rollins · Ornette Coleman · Roy Haynes · Jim Hall

Synopsis In 1948 Sonny Rollins left high school and went on to make his first album as a saxophonist. In 1959, he had the jazz world at his feet and he quit the scene. In 2010, the greatest living saxophone player...

Direction Paola di Florio

Synopsis Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its effect on her family.

Direction Gary Weis

Direction Nick Broomfield · Joan Churchill

Synopsis Nick Bloomfield's sequel documentary reacquaints us with the lives of the children and officers and examines the scars left by the stark events of Part I.

Direction Charles Koppelman

Direction Joan Churchill

Synopsis Patton State Hospital is one of California’s institutions for the criminally insane. Asylum takes us behind the walls of this facility, presenting straightforward accounts of the lives of several inmates and the medical treatment they receive on their journey to...

Direction Haskell Wexler

Cast David Agus · Annette Bening · Gilbert Cates · Billy Crystal

Synopsis A documentary that highlights the deadly combination of sleep deprivation and long days of work.

Direction Nick Doob · Chris Hegedus · D.A. Pennebaker

Synopsis This is a documentary about the musical artists who performed the songs in the Coen Brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Direction Paul Cronin

Cast Bill Ayers · Warren Beatty · Verna Bloom · Peter Bonerz

Synopsis Production history of Haskell Wexler's ground-breaking 1969 feature Medium Cool.

Direction Carl Deal · Tia Lessin

Synopsis Wisconsin – birthplace of the Republican Party, government unions, “cheeseheads” and Paul Ryan – becomes a test market in the campaign to buy Democracy, and ground zero in the battle for the future of the GOP.