Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Amanda Ladd Jones, Amanda Ladd-Jones
Actors: Ben Affleck, Elizabeth M. Daley, Mel Brooks
Machete Maidens Unleashed
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way…
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Nearly 30 years-old, Hélène still looks like a teenager. She is the author of powerful texts with corrosive humor. It is part, as she says herself, of a “badly calibrated…
Stiv
The life and times of Stiv Bators, legendary frontman of the Dead Boys and The Lords of The New Church.
Night Is Not Eternal
For seven years, award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows Rosa María Payá, daughter of the five time Nobel Peace Prize nominated activist, Oswaldo Payá, in Rosa’s fight for democratic change…
The Fourth Window
Behind the international success story of Amos Oz, a symbol of the Israeli conscience and a writer translated into 45 languages, lurked a double tragedy. When he was 12-years-old his…
Jon Snow: A Witness to History
Documentary in which Snow, the former Channel 4 News anchor, looks back on his five decades of reporting from trouble spots around the world and tells us what he’s learned…
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America—with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett.
For No Good Reason
For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly from interview to animation and in the finest Gonzo…
Paul Simon and Friends: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song will honor either a songwriter, interpreter, or singer/songwriter whose career reflects lifetime achievement in promoting the genre of song as a…
Cartel Land
In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as “El Doctor,” shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has…
VICE News Presents: ‘Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself’
How the mysteries surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s life and death gave rise to a conspiracy theory that will never die.
101 Seconds
101 Seconds follows two families as they join the gun control movement after members of their families are killed in a mall.