Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

1983

Comrades in Dreams

Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of t

2006

Shooting the Darkness

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around

2019

Bernardo Bertolucci: The Italian Traveler

Documentary about Bernardo Bertolucci, and his film The Last Emperor, tracing the director’s geographic influences, from Parma to China.

1987

Notes from Under the Volcano

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

1984

Making F.R.I.E.N.D.s: Behind-the scenes of 'Jellyfish Eyes'

Documentary giving an extensive look into the design and development of the creatures created for artist Takashi Murakami's first feature film, Jellyf

2015

The Last Sequence

A documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½

2003

Planet of the Apes: A Milestone of Science Fiction

Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, and its subsequent s

2024

Hollywood Comedian

Exploring the gritty underbelly of the stand-up comedy scene in Los Angeles.

Circus of Books

For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their director daughter documents their life and times.

2019

Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art dir

2002

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

Documentary about the 1970 film, "End of The Road."

2012

My Own Normal

Filmmaker Alexander Freeman who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of two, was raised by his loving and supportive parents but the one thing

2024

Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film

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

2000

Chaplin Today: 'Modern Times'

Award-winning filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne profess their love for the classic "Modern Times." The directors expose their views on the many

2003

Terror Studios

How the Islamic State has created a powerful propaganda factory that manipulates and twists at its convenience the subjects and icons of the Western p

2016

Dadi's Family

Dadi manages an extended family in Haryana, Northern India, where daughters-in-law face loneliness and unrealistic expectations. The film delves into

The Search for Weng Weng

The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond supe

2013

Score: A Film Music Documentary

Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on t

2017

Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth

After 40 years, Tom Cruise continues to push the envelope in film. Exposing one's heart to the world through their work is not only risky business, as

2020