Fake Orgasm (2010)
Documentary
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
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
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
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
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
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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Africa (TV Series 2013- )
Documentary
Eye to eye with the unknown – the world's wildest continent. David Attenborough takes a breathtaking journey through the vast and diverse continent of Africa as it has never seen before
Starring: Forest Whitaker, David Attenborough, Simon Blakeney
Creator: Mike Gunton
The Green Planet / Das grüne Wunder – Unser Wald (2012)
Documentary
Take a spectacular journey to one of Earth’s most beautiful and diverse natural habitats: The Forest.
Starring: Benno Fürmann
Director: Jan Haft
The Sheik and I (2012)
Comedy | Documentary
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (I AM A SEX ADDICT) goes overboard. Told that he can do whatever he wants except make fun of the Sheik, who rules the country and finances the Biennial, Zahedi decides to do just that. He turns his camera on the Biennial itself and gleefully presses every culturally sensitive button he can find. But his court jester antics fails to amuse. Zahedi's film is banned for blasphemy and he is threatened with a fatwa.
Starring: Caveh Zahedi
Director: Caveh Zahedi
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Bully / The Bully Project (2011)
Documentary
A documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America.
Starring: Alex, Ja'Maya, Kelby, David Long, Tina Long, Kirk Smalley
Director: Lee Hirsch
Great Barrier Reef (TV Series 2012)
Documentary
Stretching a full 2000 kilometres in length and made up of 3000 individual reef systems and hundreds of islands, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is breathtakingly beautiful. Selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981, it is one of the wonders of the natural world. These programmes offer a definitive guide to the secrets of the reef – how it was created, how it works, the intricate relationships between its inhabitants and how climate change and other factors might shape its future. Using the latest specialist filming and visual techniques, the series captures the magic of the reef as it has never been seen before.
Starring: Monty Halls, Karl Stefanovic
Director: James Brickell
Side by Side (2012)
Documentary
Documentary directed by Chris Kenneally and presented by Keanu Reeves which explores the ongoing debate between traditional celluloid and digital film. In conversation with a number of world renowned directors and industry experts including David Lynch, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and Anthony Dod Mantle, the documentary tells the story of filmmaking and gives those on both sides of the debate the chance to argue their points and preferences as digital film begins to assert itself as a more cost-effective and accessible means of production.
Starring: David Fincher, Lars von Trier, Christopher Nolan, David Lynch, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Boyle, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh
Narrator: Keanu Reeves
Director: Christopher Kenneally
South Pacific (TV Series 2009)
Documentary
South Pacific is a British documentary nature series co-produced by BBC Natural History Unity and Discovery Channel. The six part series shows the history of South Pacific region islands including various Nova Zelândia. It was entirely filmed on high definition.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Rowe, Richard Wollocombe
Creator: Fiona Pitcher
Space Dive: The Red Bull Stratos Story (2012)
Documentary
A documentary of one man's quest to freefall back to earth from the edge of space, to become the first man to fall faster than the speed of sound.
Starring: Shaun Dooley, Liev Schreiber, Felix Baumgartner
Director: Colin Barr
$ellebrity / Sellebrity (2012)
Documentary
Celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur gives an all access pass to life behind the velvet rope and in front of the camera.
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marc Anthony, Rosanna Arquette, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Fuller, Salma Hayek, Elton John, Kid Rock
Director: Kevin Mazur
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Hottest Place on Earth (TV Series 2009)
Documentary
A team of experts and explorers venture into the Danakil desert in Northern Ethiopia to investigate the incredible geology of the area, and to find out how the people and their animals survive in the hottest place on earth.
Starring: Kate Humble, Steve Leonard
Director: Rupert Smith
Untamed Americas (TV Series 2012)
Documentary
Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin, this four-hour high-definition miniseries event explores the Americas like we've never seen them before, giving us an intimate look at some of the greatest wildlife spectacles and against-the-odds fights for survival ever captured on camera.
Narrator: Josh Brolin
Creator: Andy Mitchell
The Other Dream Team (2012)
Documentary
The incredible story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania's independence movement, and – with help from the Grateful Dead – triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.
Starring: Sarunas Marciulionis, Arvydas Sabonis, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Greg Speirs, Bill Walton, Jim Lampley, Mickey Hart
Director: Marius A. Markevicius
The Imposter (2012)
Biography | Documentary
A gripping thriller straight out of real life, THE IMPOSTER is an original film experience that walks the razor’s edge between true-crime documentary and stylish noir mystery. The twisting, turning tale begins with an unsettling disappearance – that of Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year-old Texas boy who vanishes without a trace. Three and a half years later, staggering news arrives: the boy has been found, thousands of miles from home in Spain, saying he survived a mind-boggling ordeal of kidnap and torture by shadowy captors. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas…
Starring: Adam O'Brian, Frédéric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Anna Ruben, Beverly Dollarhide
Director: Bart Layton
Asian Corridor in Heaven / Chamagodo (TV Series 2007)
Documentary
Part of the Insight Asia series, Asian Corridor In Heaven is a six-episode HD documentary series co-produced by KBS and NHK about the world's oldest trade route, the "Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road". Pre-dating the Silk Road by 200 years, the Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road crossed from the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of Southwest China over mountainous terrain into Tibet, Nepal, and India. The Caravan Road was not only an important route for the trade of tea and horses, but also a corridor connecting Chinese and Tibetan language, people, religion, and cultures. The documentary "Chamagodo" — or "The Asian Corridor in Heaven" — takes viewers on a tour of a five-thousand-kilometer route from China's southwestern Yunnan Province to Tibet, Nepal and India. The HD documentary introduces the culture, history and civilization of the area. Chamagodo is known as the oldest trading route in the world that predates the Silk Road by 200 years.
