Category: Documentary
Posted on June 19, 2013 |
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Vietnam in HD (TV Series 2011)
Documentary
It's not the war you know. It's the war they fought. Two years after the release of its landmark Emmy-winning series WWII in HD, HISTORY shifts its focus to a new generation and one of the most controversial chapters in American history, the Vietnam War. Vietnam in HD will immerse viewers in the sights, the sounds and the stories of the Vietnam War as it has never before been seen. Thousands of hours of uncensored footage–much of it shot by soldiers in action–will detail every critical chapter of the conflict. The war will unfold onscreen through the gripping firsthand accounts of 13 brave men and women who were forever changed by their experience in Vietnam. Viewers will meet Karl Marlantes, a Marine whose unit saw some of the fiercest fighting of the war, and whose 2010 novel Matterhorn is considered one of the finest books written about the Vietnam War; Arthur Wiknik, a draftee who led his squad to safety during the 10-day assault on “Hamburger Hill”; Bob Clewell, a pilot in the Comancheros assault helicopter battalion who barely survived an ill-fated mission into Laos; Charles Brown, an African-American Army sergeant who led missions through the deadly jungles of Pleiku and Dak To; Elizabeth Allen, an Army nurse who insisted on frontline duty and valiantly saved lives during the Tet Offensive; Joe Galloway, a United Press International reporter who was awarded a Bronze Star with V for Valor for rescuing wounded soldiers under fire at Ia Drang; Anne Purcell, wife of the highest-ranking Army officer to be held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam; and Barry Romo, an Army infantryman who was transformed from a gung-ho patriot and war hero to staunch anti-war activist.
Starring: Dean Cain
Creator: Sammy Jackson
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Posted on June 18, 2013 |
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Burn / Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit (2012)
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A documentary about Detroit told through the eyes of firefighters charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.
Starring: Donald Austin, Brendan Doogie Milewski, Craig Dougherty, Terrell Hardaway, Dennis Hunter
Director: Tom Putnam, Brenna Sanchez
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Posted on June 13, 2013 |
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Hey, Bartender (2013)
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Two bartenders try to achieve their dreams through bartending. An injured Marine turns his goals to becoming a principal bartender at the best cocktail bar in the world. A young man leaves his white-collar job to buy the corner bar in his hometown years later he struggles to keep afloat. The bar is three deep and the bartenders are in the weeds at the greatest cocktail party since before Prohibition. Hey Bartender is the story of the rebirth of the bartender and the comeback of the cocktail. Featuring the world's most renowned bartenders and access to the most exclusive bars in New York with commentary from Graydon Carter, Danny Meyer and Amy Sacco.
Director: Douglas Tirola
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Posted on June 5, 2013 |
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Chasing Ice (2012)
Biography | Documentary
Documentary showing the impact of climate change on the world's ice caps. The film follows National Geographic photojournalist James Balog, a former skeptic about climate change, as he uses time-lapse cameras to capture a record of the world's changing ice landscapes over a period of several years. Making his expedition by helicopter, canoe and dog sled across three continents, Balog gathers his seemingly irrefutable evidence of the melting ice caps in an attempt to convince those who continue to deny the effects of climate change.
Starring: James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter
Director: Jeff Orlowski
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Posted on June 4, 2013 |
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The Frames in the Deep Shade (2013)
Documentary | Music
In The Deep Shade is a series of vignettes and interviews with the Irish band The Frames. It explores their status as musicians and artists who have been creating music together for over 20 years. Their relationships are observed as they interact onstage as musicians and off stage as a tight knit family. Their approach to playing music is discussed and inter-cut with live concert footage showing this legendary Irish band close up and personal. Beautifully filmed by photographer Conor Masterson using ultra fast prime lenses ideal for low light, the live performance and fly on the wall documentary footage captures every detail. The film is a poetic and visceral experience of a dynamic live band led by Glen Hansard.
Starring: Rob Bochnik, Joseph Doyle, Glen Hansard, Graham Hopkins, Colm MacConiomare
Director: Conor Masterson
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Posted on May 29, 2013 |
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Aliens of the Deep (2005)
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James Cameron journeys to some of the Earth's deepest, most extreme and unknown environments in search of the strange and alien creatures that live there. Joining him is a team of young NASA scientists and marine biologists who consider how these life forms represent life we may one day find in outer space not only on distant planets orbiting distant stars, but also within our own solar system. Aliens of the Deep is the result of expeditions to several hydrothermal vent sites in the Atlantic and the Pacific. These are violent volcanic regions where new planet is literally being born and where the interaction between ocean and molten rock creates plumes of super-heated, chemically-charged water that serve as oases for animals unlike anything ever discovered. Six-foot tall worms with blood-red plumes and no stomach, blind white crabs, and a biomass of shrimp capable of "seeing" heat all compete to find just the right location in the flow of the super-heated, life-giving water or to fry trying. Not dependent on sunlight (like all other life on earth), these ecosystems are as close to alien as anything ever imagined and provide one possible blueprint for the life that might exist beyond our world.
Starring: Anatoly M. Sagalevitch, Genya Chernaiev, Victor Nischeta, Pamela Conrad, Arthur Lane
Director: James Cameron, Steven Quale
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Posted on May 27, 2013 |
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9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out (2012)
Crime | Documentary | History | Mystery
World Trade Center Building 7 was the third skyscraper to collapse completely, rapidly and symmetrically on 9/11. In 2008, a high school physics teacher provided evidence to overturn the government's story on the collapse of WTC7 by demonstrating a period of free fall acceleration. International teams of independent scientists, including the U.S.G.S., have all confirmed the existence of military-grade high-temperature incendiaries in all post-9/11 WTC dust samples. From the point of view of highly – credible professionals (including National Award of Science recipient Dr. Lynn Margulis), as well as a truly compelling look at the reasons why people have difficulty with this evidence from psychologists, explaining all of the available technical evidence in startling clarity and detail.
Starring: Mark Basile, Steven Dusterwald, Jeffrey Farrer, Richard Gage, Lynn Margulis, Kamal Obeid, Frances Shure, Tom Sullivan
Director: Richard Gage
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Posted on May 20, 2013 |
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To the Arctic (2012)
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A journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.
Narrator: Meryl Streep
Director: Greg MacGillivray
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Posted on May 3, 2013 |
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Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild (TV Series 2012)
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Over three very personal films, Sir David Attenborough looks back at the unparalleled changes in natural history that he has witnessed during his 60-year career.
Starring: David Attenborough
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Posted on April 28, 2013 |
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Wonders of Life (TV mini-series 2013- )
Documentary
Wonders of Life is a five-part television documentary series presented by physicist Professor Brian Cox. It is the BBC science department's follow up to Wonders of the Universe and Wonders of the Solar System. The series was produced by the BBC and Chinese state television network CCTV-9 and aired from 27 January 2013 at 9 PM on BBC Two.
Starring: Brian Cox
Producer: Andrew Cohen
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Posted on April 25, 2013 |
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The Seafarers (1953)
Documentary | Short
Stanley Kubrick's first feature made in color. Lost for over 40 years! The documentary extols the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.
Starring: Don Hollenbeck
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Posted on April 24, 2013 |
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Flying Padre / Flying Padre: An RKO-Pathe Screenliner (1951)
Documentary | Short
Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock with the aid of a mono-plane. The priestly pilot is seen dashing from one province to the next at the helm of his trusty Piper Club administering guidance (his plane, the Flying Padre) to unruly children, sermonizing at funerals and flying a sickly child and its mother to a hospital.
Starring: Bob Hite, Fred Stadmueller
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Posted on April 24, 2013 |
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Day of the Fight / This Is America: Day of the Fight (1951)
Documentary | Short | Sport
Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The Fight" tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier, particularly the day of his bout with black middleweight Bobby James. This 16-minute short opens with a short (about 4 minutes) study of boxing's history, narrated by veteran newscaster Douglas Edwards in a no-nonsense, noir tone of voice. After this, we follow Walter (and his twin brother Vincent) through his day as he prepares for his 10:00 P.M. bout. After eating breakfast, going to early mass and eating lunch, he starts arranging his things for the fight at 4:00 P.M. By 8:00, he is waiting in his dressing room, where he undergoes a mental transformation, turning into the fighting machine the crowd clamors for. At 10:00, he faces James, and soon, he comes out victorious in a short match which was filmed live on April 17th, 1950.
Starring: Douglas Edwards
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Posted on April 17, 2013 |
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The Revelation of the Pyramids / La révélation des pyramides (2010)
Documentary
An apocryphal view on the pyramids, starting in awe at the amazing achievement of the Pharanoic architecture and sculpture, most specially at Gizeh, given Cheops's pyramid's size, weight, incredibly precise carving, four pairs of slightly shifted half sides, stunningly precisely measured shapes and symmetry. Then it questions and challenges conventional Egyptology beliefs, which it calls unproven or even impossible to verify, such as the absence of machines, a wharf duration of only 20 years or accidental equinox-orientation. Next it elaborates the theory that other major pyramid technology sites in Precolombian America, Easter Island and China can't coincidentally lie on two lines intersecting at Gizeh, even if not contemporaneous and without known contacts in their ages, and have several improbable things in common, like some of their cultures. Elaborate mathematical theories and measurements indicate the Egyptians must have known some astronomy, pi and the golden number, maybe even…
Starring: Jacques Grimault
Director: Patrice Pooyard
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Posted on April 3, 2013 |
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Fake Orgasm (2010)
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An examination of why people feign sexual pleasure.
Starring: Lazlo Pearlman, Veronika Arauzo, Lydia Lunch, Jango Edwards, Beatriz Preciado, Judith Butler, Nina Braunsteiner Nina Braunsteiner , Maria Llopis, Thomas W. Laqueur
Director: Jo Sol
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Posted on March 31, 2013 |
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The Brussels Business / The Brussels Business: Who Runs the European Union? (2012)
Documentary | History
THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing networks of power and their close ties to the political elites.
Starring: Catherine Ashton, Leon Brittan, Maria Green Cowles, Etienne Davignon, Olivier Hoedeman
Director: Matthieu Lietaert, Friedrich Moser
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Posted on March 29, 2013 |
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The Last Waltz (1978)
Documentary | Music
It started as a concert. It became a celebration. Join an unparalleled lineup of rock superstars as they celebrate The Band's historic 1976 farewell performance. Directed by Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Goodfellas), The Last Waltz is not only "the most beautiful rock film evermade" (New York Times) it's "one of the most important cultural events of the last two decades" (Rolling Stone)!
For more about The Last Waltz and The Last Waltz Blu-ray release, see The Last Waltz Blu-ray Review
Starring: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Posted on March 28, 2013 |
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Sans soleil / Sunless (1983)
Documentary
"He wrote me…." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
Starring: Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Riyoko Ikeda, Charlotte Kerr, Kim Novak, Alexandra Stewart, James Stewart
Director: Chris Marker
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Posted on March 18, 2013 |
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Greece: Secrets of the Past (2006)
Documentary | Short
Directed by Greg MacGillivray and from the Academy Award-nominated producers of Everest, comes a dynamic tale of science, archeological adventure and discovery. Greece: Secrets of the Past takes you to the dawn of democracy and the birthplace of Western Civilization on a quest to uncover the buried secrets of one of the world's most enlightened societies. With stunning aerial photography that captures the breathtaking, azure vistas of the Greek Isles, the film is at once a modern detective story and a sweeping archeological journey back in time.
Starring: Christos Doumas
Narrator: Nia Vardalos
Director: Greg MacGillivray
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Posted on March 18, 2013 |
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More Than Me (2010)
Comedy | Documentary | Drama
Actor/comedian Jim Breuer, best known from Saturday Night Live and the film Half Baked, set out in 2008 on his first stand-up tour in six years, taking his 84 year-old father along for the ride of his life. While struggling with the chores of caregiving and coming to terms with his father's mortality, Jim is determined to strengthen their relationship while on the road. Funny and raw, More Than Me is an intimate story of growing up and growing old.
Starring: Jim Breuer
Director: William Philbin
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