
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Secrets of Scotland Yard breaks through the façade of the most famous police headquarters in the world: the very name Scotland Yard is synonymous with all that’s best in the detection of crime. Scotland Yard is the headquarters of one of the oldest police forces in the world – London’s Metropolitan Police Service – known to Londoners as ‘the Met’. Today, 33,000 Scotland Yard police officers safeguard one of the largest cities in Europe, patrolling nearly ten thousand miles of street, more than 200 miles of waterway, six hundred square miles of airspace, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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The Paris Opera
A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissner.
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Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins
The first documentary on José Mojica Marins’s (the legendary Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe) life and work. The film tells Mojica’s history, from his poor childhood in Vila Anastácio,…
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Lyubov: Love in Russian
For several years, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich traveled around in Russia and Belarus to investigate the relationship to love of the Russian people. One, as Svetlana means, is an acute…
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Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
The larger-than-life story of Kim Dotcom, the “most wanted man online”, is extraordinary enough, but the battle between Dotcom and the US Government and entertainment industry – being fought in…
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Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me
Portrait of an important American musician through the testimonies of fellow musicians and people from his environment, but also through archival material and documents from various stages of his life…
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Gambling, Gods and LSD
An exploration of ecstatic states.
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I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969. At 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.
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Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
Through interviews we meet some of the people who risked their lives to hide Jewish children during World War II and how this experience has continued to affect the survivors.
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The Demon of the Derby
This documentary portrait follows Roller Derby’s “Meanest Mama on Skates”, Ann Calvello. Now in her 70s, Ann refuses to give up the limelight – she is still bashing heads on…
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Majestic White Horses
This equine odyssey travels such little-known turf as General George Patton’s involvement in a daredevil World War II coup called “Operation Cowboy” that rescued 500 of Austria’s famous white Lipizzans….
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Insha’Allah Democracy
Excerpt from the documentary Insha’Allah Democracy, which screened at Doc NYC Film Festival.
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Chop Suey
A homage to Bruce Weber’s Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer and a 16-year-old wrestler.
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Elegy of a Voyage
From a misty night into the dark exposition rooms of a museum to ponder philosophically at paintings by ‘Pieter Jansz Saenredam’ , ‘Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers’ , Hendrikus van de Sande…
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The 4%: Film’s Gender Problem
Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women…
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The Devil You Know: Inside the Mind of Todd McFarlane
A film about the life and career of the famed Canadian comic book talent.
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Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.
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Return of the Living Dead: Designing the Dead
Documentary.
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12 Days
A new documentary by filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon – where justice and psychiatry meet.
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Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story
Ramsey…found himself in charge of the elite 26th Calvary Regiment in the Philippines, where he was leading a ‘Gunga Din’-type existence playing polo with other officers until Japanese troops marched…
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Natten
A few years ago I was having trouble sleeping. One sleepless night I went for a walk to avoid going crazy. Once home again, I let my hand, at random,…
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Sacred Ritual of Truth
Solito returns to his hometown on Palawan Island and captures the sacred rituals and daily lives of its people on film. We see the ongoing disintegration of the islanders’ way…
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Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
How might your life be better with less? MINIMALISM: A Documentary About the Important Things, a feature-length documentary from the popular simple-living duo The Minimalists, examines the many flavors of…