Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Charlotte Zwerin
Actors: Harry Colomby, Jimmy Cleveland, John Coltrane, Nellie Monk, Nica De Koenigswarter, Samuel E. Wright, Thelonious Monk
Lightning Over Water
Director ‘Nicholas Ray’ is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies…
Take the Ball, Pass the Ball
Take the Ball, Pass the Ball is the definitive story of the greatest football team ever assembled. For four explosive years, Pep Guardiola’s Barça produced the greatest football in history,…
Monster Hammerheads
Tristan Guttridge wants to prove that hammerheads are eating other sharks.
Once is Enough
After losing his mother to obesity, a thirty-two year old chubby ginger comedian and vegan son-of-a-pig-farmer sets out to avoid the same fate by running one hundred miles through the…
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
A documentary directed by Winding Refn’s wife, Liv Corfixen, and it follows the Danish-born filmmaker during the making of his 2013 film Only God Forgives.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman…
On The Line: Where Sacrifice Begins
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…
William Dobson, the Lost Genius of Baroque
Acclaimed British art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, investigates the few known facts about William Dobson and seeks out personal stories he left behind as it follows him through his tragically short…
Every Valley
A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.
Original Copy – Verrückt nach Kino
The heroes, heroines and villains of Bollywood cinema act out their parts in the hand-painted, one-of-a-kind movie posters that Sheikh Rehman still makes for an old Hindi movie palace in…
The Gentleman Driver
The Gentleman Driver is a documentary about four world-class businessmen who moonlight as race car drivers. Outside the racing world people remain unaware of the gentlemen driver phenomenon having never…
Collective
In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move…