Soundtrack: Philip Glass

Direction Godfrey Reggio

Plot 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...

Direction Brett Morgen

Plot 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...

Direction David Gelb

Plot 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...

Direction Errol Morris

Plot "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...

Direction Errol Morris

Cast Robert McNamara

Plot 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...

Direction Scott Hicks

Plot 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,...

Direction Andrey Zvyagintsev

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Godfrey Reggio

Plot 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

Plot In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in...

Direction Neil Burger

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

Plot The film stars Academy Award nominees Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti as two men pitted against each other in a battle of wits: Norton as mysterious stage magician Eisenheim, and...

Direction Godfrey Reggio

Plot 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...

Direction Paul Schrader

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

Plot 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...

Direction George Butler

Plot A pair of uncrewed vehicles transmit images from Mars.

Direction Bernt Amadeus Capra

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

Plot 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...

Direction Andrey Zvyagintsev

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

Plot 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....

Direction Richard Eyre

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

Plot Barbara Covett (Dame Judi Dench) is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing...

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

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

Plot 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...

Direction Robert Barry Ptolemy

Plot 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...

Direction Godfrey Reggio

Plot 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....