Misha and the Wolves

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 3 Sept 2021 · English

A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 10 Sept 2020 · English

This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.

The Age of Stupid

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 21 Sept 2009 · English

Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Alone in the Wilderness

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 8 Oct 2004 · English

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake Clark National Park. Using color footage he shot himself, Proenneke traces how he came to this remote area, selected a homestead site and built his log cabin completely by himself. The documentary covers his first year in-country, showing his day-to-day activities and the passing of the seasons as he sought to scratch out a living alone in the wilderness.

Red Army

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 23 Jan 2015 · English

A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of the team's Captain Slava Fetisov, following his shift from hockey star and celebrated national hero to political enemy.

Best of Enemies

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 31 Jul 2015 · English

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"

In the Shadow of the Moon

Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 19 Jan 2007 · English

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 25 Oct 2019 · English

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

Muscle Shoals

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 16 Aug 2013 · English

In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, locals came together and spawned some of the greatest music of all time: “Mustang Sally,” “I Never Loved a Man,” “Wild Horses,” and many more. During the most incendiary periods of racial hostility, white folks and black folks came together to create music that would last for generations and gave birth to the incomparable “Muscle Shoals sound.”

Apollo: Missions to the Moon

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 7 Jul 2019 · English

National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, photos and audio.

Zeitgeist: The Movie

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 1 Jun 2007 · English

A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Federal Reserve bank.

Capitalism: A Love Story

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 6 Sept 2009 · English

Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).