Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000-09-05Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life eve...
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Spiritual Voices
1995-08-01In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experien...
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Ciao, Federico!
1970-10-28A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
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The Canadian Conspiracy
1986-06-08A mockumentary illustrating a supposed conspiracy to infiltrate American culture through employing Canadians in the U.S. entertainment industry.
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The Legends Behind the Comic Books
2007-09-15This new documentary film recognizes the comic book as a true art form, as indigenous to American culture as jazz. It presents comic books as reflecto...
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Steve-O: The Early Years
2004-08-24How did a college drop-out with a drug and alcohol problem use a home video camera to become an international icon of bad behavior? Don't Try This At ...
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Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025-03-28In 1965, Janis Ian, a 14-year-old singer-songwriter from New Jersey, wrote “Society’s Child” about an interracial relationship. Recorded and released ...
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Something to Do with Death
2003-11-18Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in...
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Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains
2007-10-26A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
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Do I Sound Gay?
2015-07-10What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.
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Arakimentari
2004-01-18A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.
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Mother Creature
2026-03-14A daughter attempts to pull the monster of her childhood out from under the bed in an original, deeply personal and creative film about her mother's m...
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50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014-05-24Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936-09-11Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the...
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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994-10-25Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it ever since. The history of the creatu...
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Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"
2019-02-21An essay on how could Welles' Touch of Evil and his story about the border between USA and Mexico influence Trump's imagination.
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Way Out on a Limb
2016-10-11Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style an...
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The Battle of France
1964-06-03A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.
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The Foreign Eye
2006-10-26Fantasies and clichés about Brazil and Brazilians as reinforced by international films, even those actually shot in Brazil. This documentary features ...
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