The Lost City Of Machu Picchu
An investigation into the mysterious people who built Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel located in southern Peru.
Genre: Documentary, History
Actors: Craig Sechler, Fernando Astete, Johan Reinhard, John Verano, Kenneth Wright, Stella Nair, Valerie Andrushko
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…
Kim Novak: Hollywood’s Golden Age Rebel
Kim Novak never dreamed on being a star, but she became one. Most famous for her enigmatic performance in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), the Chicago-born actress never quite fitted into the…
Homework
Documentary Abbas Kiarostami directed in 1989 after realizing he was having difficulties assisting his son with his homework. Kiarostami interviewed young male students at a local school to find out…
The Guv’nor
A feature documentary about the life of Lenny McLean, as seen through the eyes of his only son, Jamie.
Capturing Reality
From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world’s best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of…
Everything Is Copy
Jacob Bernstein’s extremely entertaining film is a tribute to his mother Nora Ephron: Hollywood-raised daughter of screenwriters who grew up to be an ace reporter turned piercingly funny essayist turned…
Häxan
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle…
McEnroe
Legendary “bad boy of tennis” John McEnroe finally tells his side of his storied career and famously hot-tempered performances on the court in this engrossing documentary revisiting the record-setting career…
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today’s out-and-proud LGBTQ advertisements.
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
Documentary about the life of Yogananda, who brought Hindu spirituality to the West in the 1920s.
Fantastic Laloux
A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with Laloux from 2001.
Caniba
Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his…