Long before O’Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort’s cigarette smoke always “in your…

A one-hour TV movie on BBC TWO about Frank Gardner’s story about being an investigative journalist who, while reporting, was captured by al-Qaida gunmen, shot six times and left for…

Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time – and right up until his death in 1973 he was the most prolific of artists. Many films have…

The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountaineer.

Old Days is a documentary about Park Chan-wook’s original masterpiece, Oldboy. It was created for Plain Archive’s Blu-ray release and first screened at the Jeonju International Film Festival.

A portrait of Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” whose unwanted pregnancy led to the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide, Roe v. Wade. The documentary unravels the mysteries closely guarded…

Film director, Andrei, and his girlfriend, Paula, face the news of becoming parents. While the future mother is struggling with no worthy role models, the soon-to-be father must reconcile with…

Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous debate taking place over tuition hikes, budget cuts,…

Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick US architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing. An extraordinary tale of triumph…

An intimate look at the life, career and process of one of the most accomplished songwriters of all time, Diane Warren.

Director Christina Voros and producer James Franco pull back the curtain on the fetish empire of Kink.com, the Internet’s largest producer of BDSM content. In a particularly obscure corner of…

Rescued and restored 16mm gems from a neglected genre: the classroom drug scare film. From doped-up drag-racers to spiders on speed, the best of the bunch are collected and presented.