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Direction Ron Howard

Cast Russell Crowe · Jennifer Connelly · Ed Harris · Paul Bettany

Plot Obsessed with finding a truly original mathematical idea, the brilliant student John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe) arrives at Princeton in 1947 for graduate study – as an outsider, a loner,...

Direction Miguel Gonçalves Mendes

Cast José Saramago · Pilar del Río · Gabriel García Márquez · Gael García Bernal

Plot "José and Pilar," a documentary by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, is a deeply moving story about love, loss and literature. It follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist,...

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Sergei Bondarchuk · Pavel Boriskin · Zinaida Kiriyenko · Pavel Volkov

Plot The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughter were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Helmut Berger · Romy Schneider · Trevor Howard · Silvana Mangano

Plot Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love...

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Aleksei Lyarsky · Varvara Massalitinova · Mikhail Troyanovsky · Elizaveta Alekseeva

Plot The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Detstvo Gorkovo) was the first of Russian director Mark Donski's trilogy based upon Gorky's memoirs. Alexei Lyarsky plays the young Maxim, who grows up under...

Direction Estela Bravo

Cast Fidel Castro · Nelson Mandela · Vlasta Vrana

Plot Documentary about Fidel Castro, covering 40 years of Cuban Revolution. Rare Fidel Castro footage: he appears swimming with a bodyguard, visiting his childhood home and school, playing with his friend...

Direction Damani Baker · Alex Vlack

Cast Bill Withers

Plot "Still Bill" is an intimate portrait of soul legend Bill Withers, best known for his classics “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lean On Me,” “Lovely Day,” “Grandma’s Hands,” and “Just the Two...

Direction Nitesh Tiwari

Cast Aamir Khan · Sakshi Tanwar · Fatima Sana Shaikh · Sanya Malhotra

Plot Biopic of Mahavir Singh Phogat, who taught wrestling to his daughters Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat. Geeta Phogat was India's first female wrestler to win at the 2010 Commonwealth Games,...

Direction Charlotte Zwerin

Cast Thelonious Monk · John Coltrane · Harry Colomby

Plot A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk (1917-1982). Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the...

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Colin Firth · Helena Bonham Carter · Geoffrey Rush · Michael Gambon

Plot This is the story of King George VI. When his older brother abdicates the throne, nervous-mannered successor George "Bertie" VI (Colin Firth) reluctantly dons the crown. Though his stutter soon...

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 Yung Chang

Cast Robert Fisk · Amira Hass · Nirmeen Hazineh · Sulieman Khatib

Plot The groundbreaking and often game-changing reporting of legendary foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk is profiled in the latest from acclaimed documentarian Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze).

Direction Robin Shuffield

Plot A documentary film about Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso. Sankara was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his devastating...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Hideko Takamine · Misako Watanabe

Direction Rodrigo H. Vila

Cast Mercedes Sosa

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · Aleksandr Sokúrov

Direction Armando Robles Godoy

Cast Julio Alemán · Sandra Riva · Raúl Martin · Lorena Duval

Plot A young couple forsakes their urban existence for life in the exciting but dangerous Peruvian jungle.

Direction Amparo Castellano · Román Parrado · Joanna Pardos

Cast Nieves Concostrina · Carmen Barrantes · Elena González · Rocío Peláez

Direction Rodrigo Espina

Cast Luca Prodan · Alejandro Sokol · Germán Daffunchio · Ricardo Mollo

Plot The fascinating story of Luca Prodan, Italo-Scottish Idol of Argentina's mythical 'SUMO' Rock Band, and innovator of Latin American rock. His past as a pupil in Gordonstoun, Scotland's elitist college....

Direction Ellen Hovde · Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Muffie Meyer

Plot Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary film by the direction/cinematography/editing team of Albert and David Maysles, Susan Froemke, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. The film depicts the everyday lives of...