Category: Documentary
Posted on October 28, 2013 |
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Lil Bub & Friendz (2013)
Documentary
Called “the most famous cat on the Internet,” the wide-eyed perma-kitten Lil Bub is the adorable embodiment of the web’s fascination with all things cats. Born with a rare congenital condition that leaves her features perpetually kitten-like, Bub has won over millions of online fans through her YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram sites, which her owner Mike Bridavsky faithfully maintains. Eager to meet the rest of the web’s famous cats, Mike and Bub hit the road on a wild cross-country romp to get to know all of the Internet’s biggest cat-lebrities: Nyan Cat, Grumpy Cat, the late Keyboard Cat and a few aspiring new cat starlets. They even cross paths with Ben Lashes, the world’s first meme manager, and make an appearance at the inaugural Cat Video Film Festival.
Starring: Mike Bridavsky, Lil Bub, Grumpy Cat, Keyboard Cat, Ben Lashes, Grant Mayland
Director: Andy Capper, Juliette Eisner
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Posted on October 28, 2013 | Comments Off on Living on One Dollar (2013) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-fiend
Living on One Dollar (2013)
Adventure | Documentary | Drama
How do 1.1 billion people around the world live on less than one dollar a day? Four young friends set out to research and live this reality. Armed with only a video camera and a desire to understand, they spend just 56 dollars each for 56 days in rural Pena Blanca, Guatemala. They battle E.Coli, financial stress, and the realization that there are no easy answers. Yet, the generosity and strength of their neighbors, Rosa, Anthony and Chino gives them resilient hope. They return home transformed and embark on a mission to share their new found understanding with other students, inspiring and challenging their generation to make a difference.
Starring: Chris Temple, Ryan Christoffersen, Zach Ingrasci, Sean Leonard
Director: Zach Ingrasci, Sean Leonard, Chris Temple
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Posted on October 28, 2013 | Comments Off on The American Scream (2012) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-fiend
The American Scream (2012)
Documentary
An original documentary which follows three families in a small seaside town in Massachusetts as they prepare for their annual home made haunted houses. This story highlights their long journey from planning to opening day and cleanup until next year and the obstacles which face them during the process.
Starring: Matthew Brodeur, Victor Bariteau, Manny Souza, Lori Souza, Richard Brodeur
Director: Michael Stephenson
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Posted on October 24, 2013 | Comments Off on Into the Mind (2013) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-HDCLUB
Into the Mind (2013)
Documentary | Sport
From the creators of the award winning film "All.I.Can", Sherpas Cinema is proud to present their newest feature film, Into The Mind. With stunning cinematography and groundbreaking storytelling techniques, the Sherpas blur the lines between dream state and reality, and immerse you into the mind of a common skier as he attempts to climb and ski the ultimate mountain. Innovative athlete segments are actually a glimpse into his dreamscape, each one harboring messages that help inform our hero's current, real-life choices. As you experience the majesty of Alaska, Bolivia, the Himalaya and beyond, Into the Mind paints a philosophical portrait of human kind. How do we balance risk versus reward? Why are we inspired to rise to the challenges in our lives and what do we learn on this journey to attain them?
Starring: Joshua Pak
Director: Eric Crosland, Dave Mossop
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Posted on October 23, 2013 | Comments Off on Springsteen And I (2013) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-fiend
Springsteen & I (2013)
Documentary
"Springsteen & I" is a unique feature music documentary celebrating a rock 'n' roll icon: Bruce Springsteen. Working with the filmmakers, Springsteen's fans have helped create a film that reflects on their personal insights and experiences to explore what this timeless artist means to them. Their stories are at times touching, at times humorous, at times extraordinary and they all come from the heart. Combined with previously unseen archive footage of performances throughout Springsteen's career, this is a film by the fans and for the fans created with the full support of Bruce Springsteen. "This beautifully crafted film provides a unique insight into the powerful bond between a recording artist and those who connect so profoundly with his music." Ridley Scott, Executive Producer
Starring: Bruce Springsteen, Mitchell A. S. Hallock
Director: Baillie Walsh
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Posted on October 22, 2013 | Comments Off on Birth of the Living Dead (2013) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-fiend
Birth of the Living Dead / Year of the Living Dead (2013)
Documentary
A documentary that shows how George A. Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers to shoot his seminal film: Night of the Living Dead.
Starring: Larry Fessenden, Mark Harris, Gale Anne Hurd, Elvis Mitchell, Samuel D. Pollard, George A. Romero, Chiz Schultz, Jason Zinoman
Director: Rob Kuhns
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Posted on October 18, 2013 | Comments Off on Dirty Wars (2013) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-fiend
Dirty Wars (2013)
Documentary | Drama
Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. With a strong cinematic style, the film blurs the boundaries of documentary and fiction storytelling. Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. What begins as a report on a deadly U.S. night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. In military jargon, JSOC teams "find, fix, and finish" their targets, who are selected through a secret process. No target is off limits for the "kill list," including U.S. citizens.
Starring: Jeremy Scahill
Director: Rick Rowley
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Posted on October 16, 2013 |
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A Fierce Green Fire (2012)
Documentary
It is the largest movement the world has ever seen, it may also be the most important – in terms of what's at stake. Yet it's not east being green. Environmentalists have been reviled as much as revered, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great social innovations of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a key juncture in history, when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Isabel Allende, Van Jones
Director: Mark Kitchell
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Posted on October 13, 2013 | Comments Off on 1 (2013) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-PublicHD
1 (2013)
Documentary
Set in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing '1' tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula 1's deadliest period, and the men who stood up and changed the sport forever.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Niki Lauda, Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button
Director: Paul Crowder
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Posted on October 11, 2013 | Comments Off on India Matri Bhumi (1959) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-HRiP
India: Matri Bhumi (1959)
Documentary | Drama
The film consists of four episodes through which Roberto Rossellini’s impressions and feelings about India and its society emerge. The film opens with the story of an elephant driver getting married. This is followed by a labourer who has worked on the Irakud damn for seven years and who wants to leave the village; then there is an old peasant who saves a tiger’s life; finally, there is the story of the monkey which finds itself alone in the desert after its owner’s death. Rossellini went to India in 1957 to direct a documentary mini-series (L’India vista da Rossellini) for the Italian and French televisions. He also wanted to make a feature film. The drafted script (written with Iranian scriptwriter Fereyoun Hoveyda) completely changed as soon as he started to work with the young Indian woman Sonali Senroy Das Gupta. The feature film was shot in parallel to the documentary mini-series, with the same team.
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Posted on October 10, 2013 | Comments Off on The Waiting Room (2012) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-fiend
The Waiting Room (2012)
Documentary
The Waiting Room is a character-driven documentary film that uses extraordinary access to go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. The film – using a blend of cinema verité and characters' voice over – offers a raw, intimate, and even uplifting look at how patients, executive staff and caregivers each cope with disease, bureaucracy and hard choices. It is a film about fighting for survival when the odds are stacked against you.
Director: Peter Nicks
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Posted on October 1, 2013 | Comments Off on Hawking (2013) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-MiLLENiUM
Hawking (2013)
Documentary
A documentary profile of the world-renowned physicist and cosmologist. Choosing to tell his story in his own words, Hawking allows director Stephen Finnigan unprecedented access to his private life, resulting in an intimate portrait of how, after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease when he was 21-years-old and given two years to live, he battled against the odds to become pre-eminent in his chosen field. Documenting Hawking's journey through the major milestones in his life, from his early academic failures, the demands of his disability, his marriages and his eventual superstardom, the film also features dramatic reconstructions and testimonies from those who have known and worked with him during his life.
Starring: Joe Lovell, Tina Lovell, Arthur Pelling, Nathan Chapple, Finlay Macrae, Tanya O'Regan
Director: Stephen Finnigan
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Posted on September 29, 2013 | Comments Off on Muscle Shoals (2013) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-fiend
Muscle Shoals (2013)
Biography | Documentary | History | Music
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the 'Singing River' as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions upon millions of copies. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, he brought black and white together in Alabama's cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations while giving birth to the 'Muscle Shoals Sound' and 'The Swampers'. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Gregg Allman, Clarence Carter, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Bono, and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals' magnetism, mystery, and why it remains influential today.
Starring: Rick Hall, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards, Gregg Allman, Bono, Mick Jagger, Alicia Keys
Director: Greg Camalier
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Posted on September 28, 2013 | Comments Off on Planet Earth Live S02 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Planet Earth Live (2012- )
Documentary
Richard Hammond and Julia Bradbury are the hosts of this live global wildlife event. For three weeks they will follow the real life and death struggles of baby animals from around the world. It is a critical moment in these young animals' lives, as they try to survive the most challenging month of the year. From Kenya, Richard reports on dramatic stories of lions and elephants. From North America, Julia reports on bears, whales and otters. There will also be reports from around the world, as they follow intimate, real-time stories of meerkats, monkeys and other animals.
Starring: Julia Bradbury, Richard Hammond, Lynn Rogers, Toby Strong, Gavin Thurston, Jackson Looseyia
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Posted on September 26, 2013 | Comments Off on Its a Girl (2012) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-fiend
It's a Girl! (2012)
Documentary
In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called "gendercide." Girls who survive infancy are often subject to neglect, and many grow up to face extreme violence and even death at the hands of their own husbands or other family members. The war against girls is rooted in centuries-old tradition and sustained by deeply ingrained cultural dynamics which, in combination with government policies, accelerate the elimination of girls. Shot on location in India and China, It's a Girl reveals the issue. It asks why this is happening, and why so little is being done to save girls and women. The film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters' lives, and of other mothers who would kill for a son. Global experts and grassroots activists put the stories in context and advocate different paths towards change, while collectively lamenting the lack of any truly effective action against this injustice.
Director: Evan Grae Davis
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Posted on September 24, 2013 | Comments Off on Black Air The Buick Grand National Documentary (2012) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-CtrlHD
Black Air: The Buick Grand National Documentary (2012)
Biography | Documentary | History
It was a strange and curious misfit. Though born a Buick, the Grand National was clearly something else. It was too quick and too brutish to carry that stodgy name. There was something inside the car trying to get out. BLACK AIR is a feature-length documentary about Buick's premier but paradoxical 1980s performance car.
Starring: Tony Assenza, Paul Castle, Richard Clark
Director: Andrew Filippone Jr.
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Posted on September 24, 2013 | Comments Off on The March (2013) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-fiend
The March (2013)
Documentary
Documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This programme tells the story of the how the march for jobs and freedom began, speaking to the people who organised and participated in it. Using rarely seen archive footage the film reveals the background stories surrounding the build up to the march as well as the fierce opposition it faced from the JFK administration, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and widespread claims that it would incite racial violence, chaos and disturbance. The film follows the unfolding drama as the march reaches its ultimate triumphs, gaining acceptance from the state, successfully raising funds and in the end, organised and executed peacefully – and creating a landmark moment in the struggle for civil rights and racial equality in the united states.
Starring: Denzel Washington
Director: John Akomfrah
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Posted on September 24, 2013 | Comments Off on Stories We Tell (2012) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-fiend
Stories We Tell (2012)
Documentary
Sarah Polley (Away From Her, Take This Waltz) makes her maiden voyage into documentary with this exploration of a family's secrets, and the varying narratives that each member has created to explain their tangled past.
Starring: Pixie Bigelow, Deirdre Bowen, Geoffrey Bowes, John Buchan, Susy Buchan, Tom Butler
Director: Sarah Polley
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Posted on September 24, 2013 | Comments Off on Punk In Africa (2012) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-fiend
Punk in Africa (2012)
Documentary | History | Music
Three chords, three countries, one revolution…PUNK IN AFRICA is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Starring: Paulo Chibanga, Michael Fleck, Ivan Kadey, Ruben Rose, Warwick Sony, Lee Thomson
Director: Keith Jones, Deon Maas
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Posted on September 21, 2013 | Comments Off on Deceptive Practice The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2012) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-fiend
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2012)
Documentary
Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor (often a mischievous presence in the films of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson) — and a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. Deceptive Practice traces Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age 4 with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller. Featuring rare footage from his 1970s TV appearances (doing 3-card Monte with Steve Martin on The Dinah Shore Show) and told in Jay's inimitable voice, this is a remarkable journey inside the secretive world of magic and the small circle of eccentrics who are its perpetual devotees.
Starring: Dick Cavett, Ricky Jay
Director: Molly Bernstein
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