Unsinkable: Japan’s Lost Battleship
October 24, 1944, the world’s greatest battle at sea begins in the Philippines. Japan’s navy gambles on a decisive victory against the United States to turn the tide of World War II. Instead, Musashi, its top-secret super battleship, ends up at the bottom of the ocean.
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Genre: Documentary, History, War
All American High Revisited
In 1984—before cell phones, the web, and reality TV, a young director set out to document a year in the life of a typical California high school. The result was…
Listening to Kenny G
A humorous but incisive look at the saxophonist Kenny G, the best-selling instrumental artist of all time, and quite possibly one of the most famous living musicians.
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
After escaping Russia’s communist revolution, Leon Theremin travels to New York, where he pioneers the field of electronic music with his synthesizer. But at the height of his popularity, Soviet…
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
A look at the history of fame in the world through the eyes of pop star impresario, Rodney Bingenheimer
Pencils vs Pixels
A documentary told from the voices of the “second golden age” of animation in the 1990s and 2000s about the rise, fall and rise again of hand-drawn animation. They were…
Victoria Falls: Africa’s Garden of Eden
One can see them from distances up to 30 km: like a mumbling, bubbling volcano, ready to erupt, a glowing cloud rises from the earth. This is how one can…
George Lopez: The Wall, Live from Washington D.C.
George Lopez returns for his fourth live solo stand-up special on HBO. George Lopez: The Wall, Live From Washington D.C. features Lopez with all new material, performed before a live…
Verloren in La Mancha
Fulton and Pepe’s 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam’s attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage…
At Berkeley
Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous debate taking place over tuition hikes, budget cuts,…
Sign Painters
There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. Today, the proliferation…
Miles to Go Before I Sleep
A young Congolese woman shares her story of becoming a victim of child trafficking and being thrown into a whirlwind of drifting between continents.
Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s the Fantastic Four
A history of the ill-fated 1994 production of “The Fantastic Four” that was executive produced by Roger Corman.