For the Love of Spock (2016)
Biography | Documentary
An examination of the enduring appeal of Leonard Nimoy and his portrayal of Spock in Star Trek (1966)
Starring: Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, William Shatner, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto
Director: Adam Nimoy
Crocodile Gennadiy / Almost Holy (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Drama | News
Gennadiy Mokhnenko has made a name for himself by forcibly abducting homeless drug-addicted kids from the streets of Mariupol, Ukraine. As his country leans towards a European Union inclusion, hopes of continued post-Soviet revitalization seem possible. In the meantime, Gennadiy's center has evolved into a more nebulous institution.
Starring: Gennadiy Mokhnenko
Director: Steve Hoover
Den unge Zlatan / Becoming Zlatan (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
A documentary of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Starring: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Director: Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten
What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Music
On stage Nina Simone was known for her utterly free, uninhibited musical expression, which enthralled audiences and attracted life-long fans. But amid the violent, haunting, and senseless day-to-day of the civil rights era in 1960s America, Simone struggled to reconcile her artistic identity and ambition with her devotion to a movement. Culled from hours of autobiographical tapes, this new film unveils the unmitigated ego of a brilliant artist and the absurdities of her time. At the height of her fame Simone walked away from her family, country, career and fans, to move to Liberia and give up performing. The story of her life leading up to that event poses the question, 'how does royalty stomp around in the mud and still walk with grace?'
Starring: Nina Simone
Director: Liz Garbus
Investigating the Afterlife (2008)
Documentary
Can a filmmaker catch a glimpse of the afterlife? Shane Free has always been fascinated with the paranormal. Now, with the help of friends and family he documents personal experiences investigating haunted places across the United States. As Shane and his crew of skeptics and believers check-in to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania's Cashtown Inn, the Prospect Place mansion in Trinway, Ohio, and other locations, you'll find out what happens "Investigating the Afterlife".
Starring: Sean Free, Gary Hubb, George Wilson, Don Free, Dennis Free, Bryan W. Strang
Director: Shane Free
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words / Jag är Ingrid (2015)
Biography | Documentary
A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Pia Lindström, Roberto Rossellini, Isotta Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani
Director: Stig Björkman
2016: Obama's America (2012)
Documentary
Immersed in exotic locales across four continents, best selling author Dinesh D'Souza races against time to find answers to Obama's past and reveal where America will be in 2016. During this journey he discovers how Hope and Change became radically misunderstood, and identifies new flashpoints for hot wars in mankind's greatest struggle. The journey moves quickly over the arc of the old colonial empires, into America's empire of liberty, and we see the unfolding realignment of nations and the shape of the global future.
Starring: Dinesh D'Souza
Director: Dinesh D'Souza
Night and Fog / Nuit et brouillard (1955)
Documentary | History | Short | War
One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage with black and white newsreels, footage shot by the victorious allies, and stills, to tell the story not only of the camps, but to portray the horror of man's brutal inhumanity.
Starring: Adolf Hitler
Director: Alain Resnais
25 April (2015)
Animation | Documentary | War
The tragic 1915 Gallipoli Campaign of WW1 is told through the perspective of six New Zealanders who were involved.
Starring: Tainui Tukiwaho, Andrew Grainger, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Fraser Brown, Matt Whelan, Gareth Reeves
Director: Leanne Pooley
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)
Documentary | Music
A look at the life of the late pop star Michael Jackson from his early days at Motown Records to the release of his hit 1979 album, Off the Wall.
Starring: Michael Jackson
Director: Spike Lee
I Am Belfast (2015)
Documentary
A visual, poetic depiction of Belfast and its citizens, told with love and passion of someone, who has left the city many years ago but is still fascinated by it. Themes brought up in the film range from the landscapes surrounding the city, its changing architecture and social structure to the political and personal repercussions of the Northern Irish conflict.
Starring: Frank Cannon, Richard Buick, Simon Millar, Helena Bereen, Felicity McKee, Shane McCaffrey
Director: Mark Cousins
Racing Extinction (2015)
Action | Adventure | Documentary | Thriller
A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.
Starring: Elon Musk, Louie Psihoyos, Jane Goodall, Leilani Münter, Charles Hambleton
Director: Louie Psihoyos
Bobby (2016)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
A film which marks the 50th anniversary of England's victory in the 1966 World Cup, and uncovers the truth behind the man who led them to it… Bo66y is a powerful, dramatic and deeply personal portrait of a genuine footballing icon. Moore fought many battles besides those witnessed by millions on the football field. Behind the glory lies the story of a man who faced highs and lows with the same strength and bravery. But he died young, cruelly shunned by the game and by the very people who owed him so much. The story is told by his two wives, his friends and fans, including Pele, Sir Geoff Hurst Harry Redknapp, Ray Davies, Ray Winstone and Russell Brand, and more than 30 others, whose words are mixed with as yet unseen archive footage.
Starring: Gordon Banks, Geoff Hurst, Bobby Moore, Pelé, Harry Redknapp
Director: Ron Scalpello
Flamenco, Flamenco (2010)
Documentary | Music
As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African rhythms, and Iranian and Romany melodies. The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba. Families present numbers, both festive and fierce. The camera and the other performers are the only audience.
Starring: Sara Baras, José Miguel Carmona, Montse Cortés, Paco de Lucía, Farruquito
Director: Carlos Saura
Fastball (2016)
Documentary
Hank Aaron and Derek Jeter, with Kevin Costner narrating, lead a cast of baseball legends & scientists who explore the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Derek Jeter, Denard Span
Director: Jonathan Hock
Drone (2014)
Documentary | War
DRONE is a documentary about the covert CIA drone war. Through voices on both sides of this new technology, DRONE reveals crucial information about the drone war in Pakistan and offers unique insights into the nature of drone warfare.
Starring: Shahzad Akbar, Noor Behram, Brandon Bryant, Michael Haas, Clive Stafford Smith, Chris Woods
Director: Tonje Hessen Schei
I Am Ali (2014)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend's life story.
Starring: Muhammad Ali Jnr, Hana Ali, Maryum Ali, Muhammad Ali, Rahaman Ali, Jim Brown
Director: Clare Lewins
Amy (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Music
The story of Amy Winehouse in her own words, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks.
Starring: Amy Winehouse
Director: Asif Kapadia
Breath of Life (2014)
Documentary
Humans are the only species capable of imagining the future while at the same time ignoring the consequences of the future we are creating. Breath of Life reveals why we modern humans are in denial about catastrophes of our own making that could come to pass sooner than we think. Filmed in Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Hawaii the film features breathtaking cinematography and insightful commentary from the world's greatest evolutionary biologists and psychologists – but it is the common sense of farmers in the drought stricken western United States and the wisdom of Hawaiians from the most isolated place on the planet that show us the way back to a more honest and authentic relationship with the world and reality.
Starring: Robert Trivers
Director: Susan Kucera
Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)
Biography | Documentary | Music
Authorised documentary chronicling the life of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Made with the consent of Kurt's family, the feature uses footage from home movies, audio diaries and journals to document the late musician's life from his own perspective, from his alienated youth spent in the Pacific Northwest to his rise and fall with alternative rock band Nirvana. Interviews with the artist himself, wife Courtney Love and fellow bandmates Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl are also included to shed light on his private life while he was an integral part of Nirvana, battling drug addiction and at the same time starting a family.
Starring: Aaron Burckhard, Chad Channing, Kurt Cobain, Dale Crover, Dave Grohl
Director: Brett Morgen
