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Direction Nathaniel Dorsky

Plot Experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky composed a tone poem devoted to images capturing the change of seasons as well as the stuff of daily life. Shot over four years, the silent...

Direction David Attenborough · Elizabeth White

Cast David Attenborough

Plot TV Miniseries. 6 Episodes. "Frozen Planet" is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, who himself travelled to both polar regions in the making of the series. Sir David first visited Antarctica...

Direction Craig Mazin · Johan Renck

Cast Jared Harris · Stellan Skarsgard · Emily Watson · Paul Ritter

Plot TV miniseries (2019). 5 Episodes. In April 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the USSR becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.

Direction Kim Sung-Yong

Cast Nam Goong Min · Ahn Eun-jin · Lee Hak-ju · Lee Da In

Plot TV Series (2023). 2 Parts. 20 Episodes. A love-story between a noble woman and a mysterious man set in Joseon during the Qing invasion

Direction Claude Lanzmann

Cast Simon Srebnik · Michael Podchlebnik · Motke Zaïdl · Hanna Zaïdl

Plot Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film...

Direction Giulia Amati · Stephen Natanson

Plot Hebron is the largest city in the middle of the occupied West Bank, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. Hebron is famous as a holy city, a place of pilgrimage for...

Direction Dan Harmon · Justin Roiland · Pete Michels · Bryan Newton

Plot TV Series (2013-Present Day). 4 Seasons. 41 Episodes. Animated comedy that follows the adventures of mad scientist Rick Sanchez, who returns after 20 years to live with his daughter, her...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Artur Barcis · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Olaf Lubaszenko · Piotr Machalica

Plot TV Mini-Series (1989-1990). 10 Episodes. Originally made for Polish television, 'Dekalog' focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face...

Direction Alex Lanchester · Jane Atkins · Orla Doherty · James Reed

Cast David Attenborough · Jamie McPherson · Bertie Gregory · Mark Brownlow

Plot It follows life in the entire frozen quarter of the planet, including polar bears, Siberian tigers, snow monkeys, and penguins.

Direction Rick Hancox

Cast Amanda Hancox · Scot Denton · Bill Hancox · Mary Hancox

Plot "Here is the quintessential Hancox 'personal documentary,' a film in which both the production and role of traditional documentary and autobiographical filmmaking are thrown into question. Using his camera to...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · George Macready · Adolphe Menjou · Ralph Meeker

Plot Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) is the commander of the battle-decimated 701st Infantry Regiment of the French Army, dug in along the Western Front in a stalemated WWI. It is 1916...

Direction Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle

Plot TV series (1969-1974). 4 Seasons. 45 Episodes. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (also known as "Flying Circus", "MPFC" or just "Monty Python" during the fourth season) was a popular, surreal BBC...

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues · Leandro Firmino · Phellipe Haagensen · Douglas Silva

Plot Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Anthony Perkins · Janet Leigh · John Gavin · Vera Miles

Plot Office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is entrusted with $40,000 to take to the bank. Seeing the opportunity to...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast George O'Brien · Janet Gaynor · Margaret Livingston · Bodil Rosing

Plot A farmer (George O' Brien) lives happily with his wife (Janet Gaynor) until he meets an attractive woman from the city (Margaret Livingstone). The farmer falls in love with this...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Jackie Coogan · Edna Purviance · Carl Miller

Plot 'The Kid' is the story of a child abandoned in a limousine by his unwed mother (Edna Purviance). When The Little Tramp finds him, he tries unsuccessfully to find a...

Direction Jeremy Isaacs · Hugh Raggett · John Pett · David Elstein

Plot "The World at War" is a 26-episode television documentary series on World War II, including the events leading up to it and following in its wake. The series interviewed leading...

Direction Huw Cordey · Nick Shoolingin-Jordan

Cast David Attenborough

Plot Perfect Planet analyzes, in five episodes, how the forces of nature, including the power of the Sun or even humans, drive and shape life on Earth.

Direction Peter Jackson

Cast The Beatles · John Lennon · Paul McCartney · George Harrison

Plot Documentary about the music group The Beatles featuring in-studio footage that was shot in early 1969 for the 1970 feature film 'Let It Be.'

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Fred MacMurray · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Tom Powers

Plot Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife (Barbara Stanwyck) encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent (Fred MacMurray)....