Documentary movies

Tyson (2008)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Documentary
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Actors: Mike Tyson
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A documentary about the one of the most frightening human beings ever to step into the boxing ring…

Battle of Long Tan (2006)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: Australia
Actors: Sam Worthington
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In the gathering dusk of 18 August 1966, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are separated and surrounded, fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. And, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, with their ammunition running out and another Vietnamese battalion massing for the final assault, the digger’s situation seemed hopeless. Long Tan is the true story of ordinary boys who became extraordinary men.

Roger & Me (1989)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: James Blanchard | James Bond | Pat Boone | Bob Eubanks | Ben Hamper | Timothy Jackson | Tom Kay | Ted Koppel | Correy Lennox | Brian MacDonald | Dan Rather | Ronald Reagan | Fred Ross | Richard Earl Sawdon
Directors: Michael Moore
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: Austria | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Slavoj Zizek
Directors: Sophie Fiennes
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THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humour. THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA cuts its cloth from the very world of the movies it discusses; by shooting at original locations and from replica sets it creates the uncanny illusion that Zizek is speaking from ‘within’ the films themselves. Together the three parts construct a compelling dialectic of ideas. Described by The Times in London as ‘the woman helming this Freudian inquest,’ director Sophie Fiennes’ collaboration with Slavoj Zizek illustrates the immediacy with which film and television can communicate complex ideas. Says Zizek: ‘My big obsession is to make things clear. I can really explain a line of thought if I can somehow illustrate it in a scene from a film. THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA is really about what psychoanalysis can tell us about cinema.’

The Chances of the World Changing (2006)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
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Directors: Eric Daniel Metzgar
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An artist abandons his life’s work to build an ark filled with hundreds of endangered animals. A story about time, death, art, love, and turtles.

Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Documentary | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrew Robinson | Grace Kirby | Ashley Laurence | Doug Bradley | Nicholas Vince | Simon Bamford | Amanda Wyss | Jsu Garcia | Robert Englund | Heather Langenkamp | Andrew Divoff | Brian Klugman | Marilyn Burns | Edwin Neal | Gunnar Hansen
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Boogeymen brings together 17 great horror-flick baddies of the last 40 years, ranging from Norman Bates to Leatherface to Freddy Krueger to Chuckie. Accompanying the clips of their dastardly deeds are optional FlixFacts trivia bits and an optional commentary soundtrack from Robert Englund.

Arctic Tale (2007)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Documentary
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Directors: Sarah Robertson
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This documentary chronicles the lives of two youngsters in one of the coldest places on Earth. Watch as Seela the walrus and Nanu the polar bear grow from newborns to teenagers and what it takes to survive in an environment that’s rapidly shrinking thanks to climate change.

Sicko (2007)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
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Directors: Michael Moore
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A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.

The Road to Guantanamo (2006)

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Documentary | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Riz Ahmed | Farhad Harun | Waqar Siddiqui | Afran Usman | Shahid Iqbal | Sher Khan | Jason Salkey | Jacob Gaffney | Mark Holden | Duane Henry | William Meredith | Payman Bina | Adam James | Ian Hughes | James Buller
Directors: Mat Whitecross
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In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.

Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Documentary | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Forrest J Ackerman | Gilbert Adler | Stephan Bender | Marlon Brando | Dean Cain | Mike Carlin | Gerard Christopher | Jackie Cooper | Dan Didio | Richard Donner | Michael Dougherty | Stephen Fishler | Alfred Gough | Gary H. Grossman | Mark Hamill
Directors: Kevin Burns
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In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character and his subsequent evolution over the decades through various media. With various interviews of noted creative luminaries, the film shows how the character has adapted to the times and bounced back from times when he felt irrelevant to always regain his prominence as one of the great heroes of popular culture.