Ban the Sadist Videos!
An in-depth analysis of the “Video Nasty” scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.
Genre: Documentary, History
Director: David Gregory
Actors: Chris Theobald, Dario Argento, Jesús Franco, Julian Petley, Mary Whitehouse, Mo Claridge, Romano Scavolini, Ruggero Deodato, Stephen Woolley, Wes Craven
The Impressionists – And the Man Who Made Them
Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of their contemporaries, fetch tens of millions of dollars around the globe. But who were…
Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image
A documentary about body image and the industry leaders challenging society’s unrealistic and dangerous standards of beauty.
Heroin
A film about the work of painter Victor Rodriguez, whose sole subject is his ex-wife.
Water & Power: A California Heist
Uncovering the profiteering of the state’s water barons and how they affect farmers, average citizens, and unincorporated towns throughout California.
Millennium After the Millennium
In 1996 Chris Carter followed up THE X-FILES with the darker, arguably more sophisticated series MILLENNIUM, a gothic horror show that pit actor Lance Henriksen against a thousand points of…
Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
Pulp found fame on the world stage in the 1990s with anthems including ‘Common People’ and ‘Disco 2000’. 25 years (and 10 million album sales) later, they return to Sheffield…
Jim: The James Foley Story
In August, 2014, a video of the public execution of American photojournalist James Foley rippled across the globe. Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant…
The World Trade Center -Rise and Fall of an American Icon
“The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon” discusses the planning, construction, collapse, recovery, and cleanup of the buildings in the aftermath of their destruction by an…
To Be and to Have
The documentary’s title translates as “to be and to have”, the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme,…
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught…
Mary Magdalene: Art’s Scarlet Woman
Waldemar Januszczak explores the impact of Mary Magdalene’s myth on art and artists. In art all Christian saints are inventions but Mary Magdalene has been the subject of more invention…
The Forever Prisoner
The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never…