Hard Time: The Making of Prison

Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker

1975

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form.

You've Been Trumped Too

2016

A timely film exploring the confrontation between a feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow and her family and a billionaire trying to become the most powerful man in the world.

The Big One

1997

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and would happily be hired by such companies as Nike.

Hidden Universe

2013

An extraordinary journey deep into space offering fresh insight into the origins and evolution of the universe.

One Ticket Please

2017

A documentary about a 78-year-old Indian woman in New York who is the world's most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane has been seeing a play every day for more than 25 years, acquiring free tickets using a variety of ingenious means.

Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film

2000

A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943).

Psycho Path

2000

Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo

2016

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo?

House of Flying Arrows

2016

The popular rise of darts is charted in this pin-sharp documentary that follows the trajectory of arrows from local pub to beer-soaked arena. Featuring archive footage, behind-the-scenes access and interviews with current darting personalities such as Michael van Gerwen, Gary Anderson and Raymond van Barneveld, the film traces the sport's evolution from humble beginnings through to the glamorous heyday of the 1980s and on into the lucrative professional era.

Making Utu

1983

Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. Merata Mita discusses complex issues of inter-cultural conflict.

Fanalysis

2002

Actor/cult icon Bruce Campbell examines the world of fan conventions and what makes a fan into a fanatic.

Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire

2004

A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film "The Name of the Rose".

Wicked Wishes: Making the Wishmaster

1997

Play God

2011

Play God is a humorous documentary that neither apologizes nor whines but simply recounts, with brutal honesty, the story of a failed splatter film project.

Appalachian Journey

1991

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, fiddlers, banjo pickers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life there. Performers include Tommy Jarrell, Janette Carter, Ray and Stanley Hicks, Frank Proffitt Jr., Sheila Kay Adams, Nimrod Workman and Phyllis Boyens, Raymond Fairchild, and others, with a bonus of a few African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont.