Filmmaker, author, and political activist Michael Moore trains his satirical eye on America's obsession with guns and violence in his third feature-length documentary, which gets its title from a pair of loosely related incidents. On April 20, 1999, shortly before they began their infamous killing spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, ...
Alex Gibney, who wrote and produced Eugene Jarecki's The Trials of Henry Kissinger, examines the rise and fall of an infamous corporate juggernaut in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which he wrote and directed. The film, based on the book by Fortune Magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, opens with a reenactment of the suicide ...
In the early '80s, a new business emerged in Miami, FL, that changed the face of the city forever. That business was cocaine smuggling; as America developed a growing appetite for the drug, Colombian suppliers found that Miami was a good place to bring it into the United States, and a new breed of outlaws were more than happy to face the risks of ...
Another view of the "who killed JFK" story. This time, it is suggested that autopsy evidence was altered in an attempt at a government cover-up. ~ All Movie Guide
Not many filmmakers can claim to have freed a convicted murderer from jail, but Errol Morris accomplished that feat with his stunning documentary about Randall Dale Adams. Morris, whose brilliant previous features Vernon, Florida and Gates of Heaven had focused on less substantial subjects, learned of Adams' plight when the director was in Texas ...
A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter adopted a fascinating docudrama approach for a weekly reality series centered around real-life bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman. Headquartered in the Hawaiian Islands, the series followed Dog and his family (or, as they were known professionally, the staff of Da Kine Bail Bonds) as they relentlessly tracked down ...
This live-action video features "Officer" Dave Hood, the co-creator and host of the popular There Goes A series for children. This episode gives viewers a look inside and outside of a police car. The action also includes a look at police helicopters, boats, K9 units, and mounted policemen. There is exciting footage taken on the highway, on the ...
Independent filmmakers Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler direct the political documentary Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election. Narrated by Peter Coyote, this 50-minute film examines the controversial occurrences in Florida during the 2000 presidential election leading up to the eventual administration of George W. Bush. The filmmakers ...
Dog the Bounty Hunter: The Arrest documents the events surrounding the arrest and incarceration of the bounty hunter Duane Chapman, known to most of the world as "Dog." After capturing a serial rapist on the run, Dog has an altercation with law enforcement that leads to him spending some time behind bars. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
With a short 57-minute running time calculated for TV timeslots, this documentary was partially financed by Cinemax and UK's Channel 4. Staged simulations are smoothly integrated with legit footage to jigsaw together a portrait of Michael Alig, serving time for manslaughter when this film was made. Waving goodbye to South Bend, Indiana, Alig ...
Part of the Eyes on the Prize documentary series, which chronicles the American civil rights struggle, Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings (1954-1956) describes the turbulent period of 1954-1956 and the growing strength of the civil rights movement. Thanks to the formation of certain organizations and the activism of local leaders and ordinary Americans ...
Was Lee Harvey Oswald the only man who shot President John F. Kennedy? In this documentary, James E. Files, inmate at Illinois' Joliet State Penitentiary, says, "I hit him from the front....I was one of two men." This program follows the five-year investigation by the late Joe West, during which time the private eye delved into the CIA's possible ...
Discover the truth behind the cocaine craze that swept the nation in the 1980s as legendary CIA agent and notorious drug smuggler Barry Seal is profiled in a documentary exploring just how some of the biggest scandals and assassinations of the 1960s and '70s could have been perpetrated by the same people who started a drug epidemic of epic ...
This documentary about life among the 5,000 inmates of America's largest maximum security prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary, was the co-winner (with Frat House) of the Documentary Grand Jury award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Filmmakers Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus worked closely with their guide, prisoner-turned-author Wilbert Rideau, ...
This video takes another look at the murders of three young boys in Robin Hood Falls, AR. Their deaths were the subject of a 1996 film entitled Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. Many questions have been raised about the evidence against three young men who were convicted of the crime. Joe Berlinger, who co-produced the first ...
With modern methods and precise science, Nova gets scientific to catch a killer. Nova: Murder Mystery of the Century takes the viewer behind the scenes of the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard. Accused of killing his wife Marilyn in 1954, Sheppard was tried not once, but twice. He was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Ten ...
The first feature-length effort by documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, Brother's Keeper unfolds a strange-but-true story about a most unorthodox family. 59-year-old Delbert Ward lives with his brothers Bill, Roscoe, and Lyman on a dairy farm near the upstate New York village of Munnville. Barely able to function on an adult ...
Filmmakers Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wager draw on over 430 hours of original audiotapes to present an unparalleled look at the investigation, trial procedures, and verdict of one of the most important court cases in German history. Over the course of twenty grueling months, the German court would hear the testimonies of 360 witnesses from nineteen ...
Take a comprehensive look at the Watergate scandal and explore the controversial career of the only United States president ever to resign from office as former President Richard M. Nixon sits down with probing journalist David Frost for an illuminating series of live, unscripted interviews. His fall from power was nothing short of spectacular, ...
Award winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy explores the human and political consequences of one of the most bitter scandals of the war in Iraq in this feature. In the 1960's, a prison was built in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city west of Baghdad, and during the regime of Saddam Hussein it became a center of torture and abuse where political ...
Like most prisons, the Luther Luckett Correction Complex in LaGrange, KY, strives to offer inmates a chance to better themselves and explore options to a life of crime, but something they feature that most prisons don't is a theater program. Each year, the inmates stage a play for the benefit of their fellow prisoners, and in 2004 they decided to ...
The childhood limerick comes to startling life in this revealing documentary that takes a closer look at the case that sent a small Massachusetts town into shock before making the history books as one of the most chilling unsolved crimes ever committed. It was no secret that thirty-two-year-old Lizzie Borden despised her step-mother and resented ...
A documentary portrait of San Francisco's first openly gay politician, city supervisor Harvey Milk, The Times of Harvey Milk might not have been made but for the tragic circumstances of Milk's death. On November 27, 1978, Dan White, a former city supervisor who was desperate to regain his post, entered City Hall with a gun and murdered both San ...
Arnold and Elaine Friedman were a seemingly typical couple living in Great Neck, NY, in the 1980s. Arnold was an outgoing and well-liked schoolteacher with an interest in electronics who also ran a private computer school out of their home. Elaine, a reserved but caring woman, helped look after the couple's three sons, Jesse, Seth, and David. All ...
Learn the truth behind the dirty little secret that has plagued the hip-hop community for years in a startling documentary focusing on retired New York City Police detective Derrick Parker and the officially sanctioned police unit assigned the task of keeping tabs on the biggest chart-toppers in music. Compelled to create a NYPD rap unit following ...
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