Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Documentary about the legendary nightclub Max’s Kansas City and the New York Rock Scene of the 70s.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Danny Garcia
Actors: Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Harley Flanagan, Jayne County, Lenny Kaye, Paul 'H.R.' Hudson, Penny Arcade
Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality
The documentary proposes an exhaustive journey through the life and work of Salvador Dalí, and also of Gala, his muse and collaborator. It starts in 1929, a crucial year in…
South Bureau Homicide
South Bureau Homicide, set in South Los Angeles, explores the unsung bond created by the homicide detectives of LAPD and the local community’s anti-violent-crime activists who together investigate and cope…
A River Below
Deep in the Amazon, the population of the indigenous pink river dolphin is dwindling. Docile and easy to catch, this near-mythical animal is being hunted to extinction and used as…
Sheroes
Chantal Birman has devoted her life to defending abortion and the rights of women. At nearly 70 years old, she has no intention of retiring from her job as a…
Riotsville, USA
An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to…
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.
Ice Age America
Led by archaeologist Ciprian Ardlean, this groundbreaking special unearths fresh archaeology that is transforming the understanding of when and who the earliest humans traveled to the Americas.
Heavy Petting
Celebrities and creatives — including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg– recall their earliest sexual experiences.
Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana
Florida, 1994. Artist Mike Diana is convicted on an obscenity charge in the wake of an undercover police officer purchasing his limited edition zine Boiled Angel. Here is the very…
Buena Vista Social Club
In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native…
Between Us, A Secret
In 2014, Malian Toumani Kouyaté was urgently summoned to his native country to hear his grandfather tell his final story. Feeling death approaching, the experienced man decided to pass on…
Glitzer & Staub
The unsolved rape, mutilation and murder of young G.I. Darlene Krashoc has haunted Joe Kenda in the years since he turned in his gun and badge. Until a crack team…