Category: Documentary
Posted on September 9, 2011 |
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Waste Land (2010)
Documentary
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
Starring: Vik Muniz
Director: Lucy Walker, Joao Jardim, Karen Harley
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Posted on September 9, 2011 |
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea (TV mini-series 2009)
Biography | Documentary | History
The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska – The National Parks: America's Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.
Starring: Peter Coyote, Philip Bosco, Murphy Guyer, Kevin Conway, Tom Hanks
Creator: Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan
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Posted on September 7, 2011 |
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Galápagos (TV Series 2006)
Documentary | Nature
Galapagos is a three-part BBC nature documentary series exploring the natural history of the Galápagos Islands and their important role in the formation of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. It was first transmitted in the UK on BBC Two in September 2006. The series was filmed in high definition, produced by Mike Gunton and Patrick Morris of the BBC Natural History Unit and narrated by actress Tilda Swinton. The series was proposed to the BBC by the principle cinematographers Paul D. Stewart and Richard Wollocombe.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Richard Wollocombe
Creator: Gail Willumsen
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Posted on August 31, 2011 |
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Planet Earth (TV Series 2006)
Documentary | Nature
A hundred years ago, there were one and a half billion people on Earth. Now, over six billion crowd our fragile planet. But even so, there are still places barely touched by humanity. This series will take you to the last wildernesses and show you the planet and its wildlife as you have never seen them before.
Starring: David Attenborough, Sigourney Weaver
Creator: David Attenborough
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Posted on August 30, 2011 |
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Océans / Oceans (2010)
Documentary | Drama | Nature
An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Jacques Perrin, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Rie Miyazawa, Matthias Brandt, Aldo, Lancelot Perrin, Manolo Garcia
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
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Tags: Aldo, Jacques Cluzaud, Jacques Perrin, Lancelot Perrin, Manolo Garcia, Matthias Brandt, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Pierce Brosnan, Rie Miyazawa
Posted on August 23, 2011 |
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Speed of Life (TV mini-series 2010)
Documentary | Nature
The Speed of Life Discovery Channel show is a brand new series, specializing in high speed photography to capture the amazing, blazing fast intricacies of daily life for animals and insects on the planet. Most especially, Speed of Life focuses on predators and prey, showing remarkable detail and breathtaking footage that you wouldn't believe. Each episode of the new Discovery Channel Speed of Life show focuses on a different region, and all of the various animals and interconnected ecosystems that call that region home.
Starring: Devon Massyn, Myke Clarkson, James Milner
Creator: Philip Lott
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Posted on August 12, 2011 |
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Man on Wire (2007)
Biography | Crime | Documentary
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. Aided by a team of friends and accomplices, Petit was faced with numerous extraordinary challenges: he had to find a way to bypass the WTC's security; smuggle the heavy steel cable and rigging equipment into the towers; pass the wire between the two rooftops; anchor the wire and tension it to withstand the winds and the swaying of the buildings. The rigging was done by night in complete secrecy. At 7:15 AM, Philippe took his first step on the high wire 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan.
Starring: Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau
Director: James Marsh
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Posted on August 7, 2011 |
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Restrepo (2010)
Documentary | War
Award-winning journalists Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger chronicle the deployment of a platoon of American soldiers at one of the most dangerous outposts in Afghanistan, capturing the day-to-day reality of modern warfare as never seen before. From June 2007 to July 2008, Hetherington and Junger embedded with the soldiers of Second Platoon, Battle Company in the remote Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan, as they fought to build and maintain a remote 15-man outpost named "Restrepo" after a platoon medic who was killed in action. The filmmakers avoid all outside commentary and political context in order to present us war as it is actually lived by soldiers, through their own eyes and in their own words – the backbreaking labor, the deadly firefights, the boredom, the camaraderie.
Starring: Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell, Kevin Rice, Misha C. Pemble-Belkin, Juan Restrepo
Director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junge
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Tags: Dan Kearney, Juan Restrepo, Kevin Rice, Lamonta Caldwell, Misha C. Pemble-Belkin, Sebastian Junge, Tim Hetherington
