Frank Capra: Mr. America
Tells the story of how Frank Capra, a young and penniless immigrant, rose through the ranks of early Hollywood to become one of the Great American storytellers.
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Genre: Documentary
Director: Matthew Wells
Actors: Alexander Payne, Frank Capra, Jeanine Basinger, Joseph McBride, Tom Rothman
Country: United Kingdom
Richard Pryor: Icon
Richard Pryor’s impact on the craft of comedy and today’s top comics is legendary and unrivaled. This program surveys the profound and enduring influence of one of the greatest American…
Century 21 Slough
On the eve of the demolition of the site of Gerry Anderson’s AP Films and Century 21 studios in Slough, original crew wander around and reminisce their time there. Includes…
Name Me Lawand
Void of any language, communication or true sense of self, Lawand struggles to piece together his surroundings in his new home in Derby, England, after a traumatic and turbulent year…
Snowsurf
Join award winning Australian photographer Shane Peel as he journeys to the mountains, beaches and silver birch forests of Japan’s northern most island, Hokkaido to follow a unique pod of…
Alien Contactee: A Conversation with Dr.Louis Turi
Contactees are people who have experienced contact with extraterrestrials. Dr. Louis Turi had four such encounters. This documentary exams his encounters, his relationship with Astrology, and how he has accurately…
Raw Iron: The Making of ‘Pumping Iron’
A documentary on the making of “Pumping Iron” to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Aired on Cinemax.
Martha: A Picture Story
In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later, Cooper has…
Eyes on the Skies
This movie explores the saga of the telescope over 400 years – the historical development, the scientific importance, the technological breakthroughs, and also the people behind this ground-breaking invention, their…
Ants on a Shrimp
One of the world’s best restaurants, the Copenhagen-based NOMA and its renowned chef-owner René Redzepi relocate the restaurant and its entire staff to Tokyo.
Greedy Lying Bastards
What happens when an industry has too much power? “Greedy Lying Bastards” presents a searing indictment of the influence, deceit and corruption that defines the fossil fuel industry.
Ferrari 312B
In a race against time and all odds, the revolutionary F1 racing car Ferrari 312B will get back on the Monaco circuit, 46 years later, under the wing of it’s…
Deaf President Now!
Discover the story of the greatest civil rights movement most people have never heard about. During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must…
