Soundtrack: Philip Glass

Direction Godfrey Reggio

Synopsis An art-house circuit sensation, this feature-length documentary is visually arresting and possesses a clear, pro-environmental political agenda. Without a story, dialogue, or characters, Koyaanisqatsi (1983) (the film's title is a Hopi word roughly translated into English as "life out of...

Direction Brett Morgen

Synopsis Using a trove of unseen footage, the film tells the story of Jane Goodall's early explorations, focusing on her groundbreaking field work, her relationship with cameraman and husband Hugo van Lawick, and the chimpanzees that she studied.

Direction David Gelb

Synopsis In the basement of a Tokyo office building, 85 year old sushi master Jiro Ono works tirelessly in his world renowned restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro. As his son Yoshikazu faces the pressures of stepping into his father's shoes and taking over...

Direction Errol Morris

Synopsis "The Thin Blue Line" is the fascinating, controversial true story of the arrest and conviction of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976. Billed as "the first movie mystery to actually solve a murder," the film...

Direction Errol Morris

Cast Robert McNamara

Synopsis Documentary about Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, who subsequently became president of the World Bank. "Fog of War" combines an interview with McNamara discussing some of the tragedies and glories of the 20th Century,...

Direction Scott Hicks

Synopsis Scott Hicks ("Shine") documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.

Direction Andrey Zvyagintsev

Cast Aleksey Serebryakov · Vladimir Vdovichenkov · Elena Lyadova · Anna Ukolova

Synopsis A present day social drama spanning multiple characters about the human insecurity in a "new country" which gradually unwinds to a mythological scale concerning the human condition on earth entirely.

Direction Basil Gelpke · Reto Caduff · Raymond McCormack

Synopsis Enlighten yourself to the wonders of oil, Earth's swiftly diminishing non-renewable resource. Produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, this documentary explores the past, present and future of oil through archival news footage...

Direction Godfrey Reggio

Synopsis An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

Direction Stephen Daldry

Cast Meryl Streep · Julianne Moore · Nicole Kidman · Ed Harris

Synopsis The Hours (2002) intertwines the lives of three women from different eras, each grappling with profound existential questions. In 1923, Virginia Woolf begins writing her novel "Mrs. Dalloway" while battling mental illness. In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, feels...

Direction Neil Burger

Cast Edward Norton · Paul Giamatti · Jessica Biel · Rufus Sewell

Synopsis In The Illusionist (2006), a mysterious magician named Eisenheim captivates early 1900s Vienna with his extraordinary performances. His haunting illusions blur reality, drawing the attention of Crown Prince Leopold and his fiancée, Sophie—Eisenheim's childhood love. As the magician's acts grow...

Direction Godfrey Reggio

Synopsis In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology,...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Ken Ogata · Kenji Sawada · Yasosuke Bando · Hiroshi Mikami

Synopsis Divided into four sections titled "Beauty," "Art," "Action" and "Harmony of Pen and Sword," Mishima is based -- in a fascinating creative choice -- not only on Mishima's life and scandalous death, but also on his work. Schrader uses three...

Direction George Butler

Synopsis A pair of uncrewed vehicles transmit images from Mars.

Direction Bernt Amadeus Capra

Cast Liv Ullmann · Sam Waterston · John Heard · Ione Skye

Synopsis A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet friend (John Heard) in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medeival island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja (Liv Ullman), a scientist in recluse, who joins in...

Direction Andrey Zvyagintsev

Cast Nadezhda Markina · Elena Lyadova · Aleksey Rozin · Andrey Smirnov

Synopsis Elena and Vladimir are an older couple, they come from different backgrounds. Vladimir is a wealthy and cold man, Elena comes from a modest milieu and is a docile wife. They have met late in life and each one has...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Judi Dench · Cate Blanchett · Bill Nighy · Andrew Simpson

Synopsis Notes on a Scandal (2006) follows the lives of two women at a London secondary school. Barbara, a lonely and manipulative history teacher, becomes obsessed with Sheba, a new and younger art instructor. When Barbara discovers Sheba's illicit affair with...

Direction Nathaniel Halpern · Mark Romanek · Jodie Foster · Kim So-yong

Cast Rebecca Hall · Duncan Joiner · Daniel Zolghadri · Nicole Law

Synopsis 8 Episodes. The townspeople who live above "The Loop," a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe, experience things previously consigned to the realm of science fiction.

Direction Robert Barry Ptolemy

Synopsis TRANSCENDENT MAN chronicles the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist that presents his bold vision of the Singularity, a point in the near future when technology will be changing so rapidly, that we will have to...

Direction Godfrey Reggio

Synopsis Image and music are intertwined in this third collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. The film was produced to celebrate the World Wildlife Fund's Biological Diversity Campaign. The film combines images of nature with pulsing rhythms in...