movieAs long as Abraham Sutskever lived he wouldnt let a film about his life be made Today eight years after his passing Black Honey tells the incredible story of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern times Sutskever led the Paper Brigade underground movement...
moviePapyrology expert Margaret Mountford goes in search of the truth behind the legend of Sappho the most controversial writer of the ancient world and the first authentic womans voice in Western history The mysterious discovery of a lost papyrus containing...
movieThe human genome contains the secret of human life recording our evolution and holding the key to our future In this oneoff documentary Robert Winston shows how the genome demonstrates how to build and run a person thereby offering us the potential to...
movieLook at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas This release compiles 54 memorable films which offer a fascinating...
movieA story about the relationships between the disabled man Xiangshu and a deafmute girl on the run from the police who takes refuge on his land
movieThe filmmaker attempts to learn about his father who was killed in 1973 in Pinochets Chile
movieA portrait of Samuel R Delany an awardwinning AfricanAmerican gay author whose credits include everything from science fiction to several issues of the Wonder Woman comic book Using a range of experimental techniques and borrowed footage from Delanys...
movieLife with the Dicebag is an indepth documentary about roleplaying games and the people who play them Filmmaker Mason Booker travels across the country and into Gen Cons final year in Milwaukee to find out who the people are behind the games and what about...
movieThey are the "Silver Belles," five women aged 84 to 96. They first met in the 1930's as chorus dancers at the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater where they worked 15 hour days, rehearsing a new show every week.
movieWild Life was JapaneseAmerican singersongwriter Utada Hikarus final concert tour before her scheduled hiatus from 2011 Utada performed only two dates at the Yokohama Arena Japan on December 8 and 9 2010
movieThe shakuhachi is a famous Japanese lbamboo-flute. It was originally introduced from China into Japan in the 7th century and underwent a resurgence in the early Edo period. The film records the life of the shakuhachi performers, controllers, and learners...
movieMeet Jndia Erbacher Just a normal girl who likes partying holidaying and driving drag cars at 550KMPH Watch Jndia racing dragsters across Europe striving to break America in her quest to become the fastest woman on Earth
movieBritish mod rocker Steve Marriott had great stage presence a unique voice and plenty of angst all on display in this docuconcert featuring clips from Marriotts days in bands the Small Faces and Humble Pie Though Marriott remained a lesserknown musician...
movieA documentary about the history and production of the mockumentary television series TRAILER PARK BOYS directed and presented by Annemarie Cassidy wife of TRAILER PARK BOYS director Mike Clattenburg
movieThe unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli who made Italian Bmovies of all genres wrote hit rock songs and penned the screenplay for Sergio Corbuccis Western Django adored by Quentin Tarantino are intertwined in a portrait of...
movieSlim Aarons spent his life documenting jetsetters movie stars and beautiful people doing beautiful things during the 50s 60s and 70s In The High Life the story behind some of his most fabulous photographs are revealed among white sand beaches longing...
movieWWE superstar Mick Foley (aka Mankind, aka Dude Love, aka Cactus Jack) looks back at his spectacular career as one of the best-loved and biggest risk-taking wrestlers of his generation...
movieWhen authorities jail his son for rejecting religious bias a poor fathers struggle to bail him out highlights rural Indias enduring casteism
movieAfter a nearfatal accident filmmaker Guido van der Werve muses about the highs and lows of his own life as he endures a long process of recovery Instead of a linear narrative Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements it departs from the classical...
movieLuke ‘Ming’ Flanagan is an Irish politician and social campaigner. He began his political career running unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the Galway West constituency in 1997, and went on to contest the Connaught Ulster constituency in...
movieA Parked Life is an intimate portrait of Petar Bonchev one of the hundreds of thousands of Eastern European truck drivers who work in the west
movieDr Adams cultivates pighuman hybrids for organ transplants One of the products Eve was created to substitute for his lost love His bodiless AI entity Sahra foils his plan in this nostalgic nod to B movie creature features
movieA brief look at the history of Homicide Life on the Street one of the best shows on television and its ratings history as well as some of the people on the show as well as behind the camera The primary focus of this PBS documentary is the Subway episode...
moviePortrait of commentator Murray Walker which accompanies him as he travels to Australia for the opening F1 of the 2011 season Contributors include Lewis Hamilton and Nigel Mansell
movieFollow former prisoners through the challenges of their first year on parole With unique access the film goes inside the effort to change the way parole works in Connecticut and reduce the number of people returning to prison
movieCláudia Ribeiro spent seven months since the time of plantation till the crops capturing the work in the fields of the sisters Ana e Glória in Passinhos de Cima between the rivers Douro and Tâmega It is an isolated place where the baker the fish...
moviePatientdoctor relationships are never easy but when the patient cannot talk or make decisions it becomes particularly complicated This is the everyday reality for the protagonists of this film Ariella a veterinarian and Shmulik the chief caretaker of...
movieWhen the doctor tells him that his mother in her nineties does not have long left Sylvain Biegeleisen visits her everyday Against all the odds the venerable lady decides to hang around for a while The director chronicles this uncertain and mysterious...
movieA woman tries to pick up the pieces of a broken past and struggles with an unstable present in the big city of Los Angeles where serious relationships are hard to find
movieReleased as a memorial for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich who passed away on 27 April 2007 this DVD contains one bonafide cello concerto the Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor and two tone poems with prominent cello parts Ernest Blochs...
movieAuthor Helen Macdonald follows Britains greatest river over four seasons encountering salmon beavers and the microscopic creatures helping to answer sciences biggest questions
movieHe found fame in his teens with images of his native New York then lost it again
movieThe story of a Finnish independent punk rock record label
movieKate Humble and Helen Czerski reveal the inner workings of the sun and investigate why scientists think changes in the suns behaviour may have powerful effects on our climate
movieA rare behind the scenes look at one of the worlds best loved fast food chains from the dough factory to the pizza wizard
movieThe bleakness of young individuals life during transitional 1990s Croatia
movieProvocative documentary following the doctors who can now interrupt and even reverse the process of death Filmed over six months in the countrys leading brain injury unit Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge it follows the journey of a man who by only moving...
movieFollows a Mississippi familys attempts to deal with an increasingly violent and erratic child
movieNicolas Muller is one of the most revered and iconic snowboarders of all time Including his childhood the film offers an opportunity to get to know the king of style like never before Almost entirely in his own words Nicolas takes you through the important...
movieA 90-year-old man struggles to care for his mentally handicapped son.
movieA true morbidly funny and heartwarming fantastical journey of the homeless dog Mima from Skid Row in Los Angeles setting out to find a new home Great Dog Voices by Disneys own Kimberly Brooks Ten Things I Hate ABout You Andrew Keegan Noah Nelson and Deena...
movieCartoonist and The Simpsons creator Matt Groening talks about his life from his childhood up to the present 2000 He discusses how the 1960s TV families he hated as a child because they were so nice influenced his cartoons and bestknown creation
movieA chronicle of the final three years of Marty Reismans life A table tennis champion turned hustler Pursuing notoriety and motivated by his love of fame and ping pong he has to face his biggest fear mortality
movieJohn Eliot Gardiner goes in search of Bach the man and the musician The famous portrait of Bach portrays a grumpy 62yearold man in a wig and formal coat yet his greatest works were composed 20 years earlier in an almost unrivalled blaze of creativity...
movieA variety of foreigners share their experiences of living in Japan
movieBBC documentary on the Small Faces Ronnie Lane which has since had its own standalone DVD release
movieThe mother of a child suffering from cancer struggles to maintain a normal life for her family Stine is thirtyseven years old and the single mother of three girls Her daughter Cecilie now aged eleven has had cancer since she was two Cecilie has spent...
movieDionicia lives in a small room in the back of a Bay Area racetrack tending to horses and raising her family in the squalor of her surroundings As an undocumented worker Dionicia takes pride in the fact that her kids can dream of a better life due to the...
movieFor 2000 miles the mighty Zambezi flows from the Zambian highlands trough Angola Botwsana and Zimbabwe to Mocambique to end in the Indian Ocean Its immense water volume has a massive impact on wildlife in its huge flood areas and trough erosion reshapes...
movieVincent P Falk is Fashion Man Clad in brightly colored suits Vincent twirls on Chicagos many bridges performing fashion shows for passing tour boats As he spins his way through the city tourists and locals alike are left to wonder just who is this strange...
