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Genre "Biography" Movies (showing 1 to 50 from 68 total)
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In this documentary from filmmaker Alexandra Lipsitz, the cameras roll to capture the fierce competitive spirit that defined the first annual U.S. Air Guitar Championship. Staged in Finland and featuring some of the fastest-fingered shredders on the planet, the U.S. Air Guitar Championship would bring a hobby once contained to the bedroom directly into the spotlight for all to enjoy. Featured jam ...
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American Hardcore (2005)
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Biography.
Director:
Paul Rachman.
Actors:
Bad Brains,
Black Flag,
The Circle Jerks,
D.O.A.,
Nancy Barile,
Mike Watt,
Jerry's Kids,
David Markey,
M.D.C.,
Jordan Schwartz,
Minor Threat,
Howard Saunders,
Poison Idea,
7 Seconds,
Perry Webb,
Ian MacKaye,
SS Decontrol,
Bobby Steele,
TSOL,
Greg Hetson,
Zero Boys,
Richard "Crispy" Cranmer,
Ken Inouye,
Jesse Malin,
Henry Rollins,
Jeff Atta,
Mike Patton,
Chris Foley,
Dave "Springa" Springs,
Dicky Barrett,
Dave Dictor,
Christopher Doherty,
Brett Gurewitz,
Gregg Ginn,
Moby,
Sean Taggert,
Jack Grisham,
Paul Mahern,
Dan Kubinski,
Kimm Gardner,
Paul "H.R." Hudson,
Brian Baker,
Chuck Treece,
Gary "Dr. Know" Miller,
Flea,
Steve Soto,
Frank Agnew,
Casey Royer,
Curtis Casella,
Tony Cadena,
Harley Flanagan,
Darryl Jenifer,
Jerry Williams,
Dave Brockie,
Alec MacKaye,
Dante Ferrando,
Dez Cadena,
Phil Anselmo,
Hank Williams III,
Duff McKagan,
Kira Roessler,
George Anthony,
Jack Rabid,
Rev. Hank Pierce,
Dave Smalley,
Kevin Seconds,
Al Barile,
Jamie Serappa,
Christine McCarthy,
Alec Peters,
Jon Anastas,
Jimmy Gestapo,
Vinnie Stigma,
Alvin Robertson,
John Joseph,
Todd Youth,
Matthew Barney,
Tommy Stinson,
Reed Mullin,
Steve DePace,
Mark Arm,
Bruce Loose,
Ted Falconi,
Mike Dean,
Steve "Mugger" Corbin,
Greta Brinkman,
Brandon Cruz,
Alex Gonzales,
Edward Colver,
Sean Stern,
Mark Stern,
Sal Canzonieri,
The Adolescents,
Agnostic Front,
Articles of Faith,
Bad Religion,
Battalions of Saints,
Big Boys,
Vic Bondi,
Joe Carducci,
Channel 3,
Corrosion of Conformity,
Anthony Countey,
Cro-Mags,
D.I.Y. Video Corporation,
D R I,
The Dicks,
Die Kreuzen,
Bill Dysart,
Christine Elise,
Faith No More,
Fartz,
Jack Flanagan,
Flipper,
Bob Freeze,
Gang Green,
GWAR,
Heart Attack,
Iron Cross,
Joey "Shithead" Keithley,
Lucky Lehrer,
Marginal Man,
Louiche Mayorga,
Sid McCray,
McRad,
Middle Class,
Millions of Dead Cops,
Minutemen,
The Mob,
Keith Morris,
Mr. Epp,
Murphy's Law,
Necros,
Negative Approach,
Negative FX,
Nig-Heist,
Really Red,
The Replacements,
S.O.A.,
Zander Schloss,
Scream Club,
Angie Serappa,
Winston Smith,
Suicidal Tendencies,
Teen Idles,
Gary Tovar,
Undead,
Unseen Force,
Vatican Commandos,
Void,
Wasted Youth,
White Cross,
Jean-Claude Wino,
YDI,
Youth Brigade.
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The lost subculture of America's rebellious, Reagan-era hardcore set is explored in filmmaker Paul Rachman's cinematic adaptation of Steven Blush's book. Disillusioned by politics, angered by greedy record labels, and bound together by a powerful antiestablishment sentiment, bands such as Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, and Bad Brains paved the way for such later bands as Nirvana and Pear ...
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Former vice president Al Gore shares his concerns on the pressing issue of global warming in this documentary. A long-time environmental activist, Gore first became aware of evidence on global warming in the 1970s, and since leaving public office he has become a passionate advocate for large- and small-scale changes in our laws and lifestyles that could help alleviate this crisis. An Inconvenient ...
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Youth Brigade was a California punk band whose leader, Shawn Stern, was also founder of Better Youth Organization, which promoted low-cost, non-profit punk rock shows on the West Coast and tried to encourage positive community activism within the punk rock scene. In hopes of spreading the word about both Youth Brigade and BYO, Stern organized an ambitious United States tour in the summer of 1982, ...
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The title of Beth Murphy's heart-rending activist documentary Beyond the 11th (also known as Beyond Belief) refers to 9/11, and her two chief subjects are Patti Quigley and Susan Retik, a pair of American women who lost their husbands in the September 2001 World Trade Center attacks, while each was pregnant with a daughter. Though unspeakably moved by the outpouring of support they received, Susan ...
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When their son Francois was brutally murdered by skinheads on September 13, 2002, Jean-Paul and Marie-Cecile vowed to do everything within their power to bring the killers to justice, and try to understand just what motivated them to carry out such a reprehensible act of violence. As preparations for the murder trial began, emerging details told the story of a hateful gang that went to the park in ...
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Few Americans get a better look at their country than the long-haul truck driver, and in this documentary filmmakers Doug Pray and Brad Blondheim travel 21,000 miles through 45 states in order to gain a better understanding of the working-class heroes who keep our nation moving day after day. From the 3:00 a.m. deliver to New York City's Hunt's Point Market to the scenic roadside vistas, this look ...
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Nick Broomfield, director of Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam and Kurt and Courtney, unleashes another provocation with Biggie and Tupac. Considering Broomfield's track record, that the film is dangerous, sensational, and occasionally very funny is no surprise. What is somewhat shocking, in a very rewarding and commendable way, is how moving Biggie and Tupac is. Using archival footage of the two rap ...
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International film star Russell Crowe narrates writer/director Sunny Abberton's documentary examination of the infamous Sydney surfer gang that made headlines in the mid-'90s for a string of violent turf wars, drunken rumbles, and confrontations with the local authorities. A poor suburb of Sydney, Maroubra would become a key component in Sydney beach culture in the few years before the millennial ...
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Burden of Dreams (1982)
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Film,
Biography.
Director:
Les Blank.
Actors:
Werner Herzog,
Klaus Kinski,
Claudia Cardinale,
David Perez Espinosa,
Miguel Angel Fuentes,
Paul Hittscher,
Mick Jagger,
Jose Lewgoy,
Thomas Mauch,
Jason Robards, Jr.,
Walter Saxer.
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Documentarian Les Blank, who filmed Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, trained his cameras on Herzog again, as the eccentric German filmmaker made his epic, Fitzcarraldo, in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. Herzog's production is in trouble right from the start. He begins filming with Jason Robards playing the title role, and Mick Jagger playing Fitzcarraldo's sidekick, Wilbur. With 40 percent of the film ...
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Four mere mortals adapt the personas of their favorite superhero characters, and filmmaker Matt Ogens chronicles the lives and ambitions of this curious quartet in a documentary that explores the allure of fame on the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard. Being a superhero isn't as easy as it appears in the flickering light of a darkened theater, but sometimes on the Walk of Fame it feels that anythin ...
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Filmmaker Dan Klores recounts the true story of one of the most bizarre romances of the 20th century in this documentary. In 1957, Linda Riss was a receptionist in her early twenties who bore a striking resemblance to Elizabeth Taylor, while attorney Burt Pugach was married and in his mid-thirties. That didn't stop Pugach from falling in love with Riss on first sight when he saw her walking past h ...
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Kris Carr is a filmmaker who was known to her friends for her daring, adventurous and upbeat personality. In February 2003, Carr began feeling ill, and thinking she may have injured herself during yoga class, she went to see a doctor. On Valentine's Day, she got the unexpected word that she was suffering from a rare and virulent form of liver cancer, for which there were few treatments and no know ...
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Witness the stories of four US army defectors who abandoned their homeland to seek out a new life in communist North Korea in this fascinating documentary from filmmaker Daniel Gordon. It was August of 1962 that Private First Class James Joseph Dresnok crossed the heavily fortified border from South Korea into the North. Now, more than forty-years later, the last living US Army defector known to r ...
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Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Genre:
Sports & Recreation,
Biography.
Director:
Stacy Peralta.
Actors:
Sean Penn,
Jay Adams,
Tony Alva,
Jeff Ament,
Bob Biniak,
Paul Constantineau,
Skip Engblom,
Glen E. Friedman,
Jeff Ho,
Shogu Kubo,
Jim Muir,
Peggy Oki,
Nathan Pratt,
Wentzle Ruml,
Alan Sarlo,
C.R. Stecyk,
Zephyr Skateboard Team,
Tony Hawk,
Stacy Peralta,
Henry Rollins.
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In the mid-'70s, skateboarding was widely seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, except for a handful of committed fans in California. But that began to change with the emerge of the Z-Boys, a team of teenaged skateboarders who emerged from a decaying urban community in Santa Monica, CA. Hard-core surfers who sought to translate the hot-dogging stunts of world-class wave riders onto ...
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This biographical documentary by William Gazecki plunges into the mind and thought processes of industrial engineer and architectural designer Jacque Fresco, a man known for promulgating futuristic building designs and societal utopias based exclusively on environmental concerns and education. The program visualizes many of Fresco's concepts, courtesy of onscreen illustrations by Star Trek animato ...
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The tiny nation of Tuva, located between Siberia and Mongolia, is home to an unusual musical tradition known as throat singing, in which vocalists produce resonant tones from deep in their throats. The masters of this form are able to sing three or four notes at a time, in effect allowing them to harmonize with themselves. Paul Pena is an American blues singer and guitarist who has worked with the ...
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During the embattled final months of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's second term as president of Haiti, Aristide's allies recruited street gangs from the nation's poorest cities to act as strong-arm men, helping to shut down resistance to Aristide and quiet those who opposed him. Called chimères (or "ghosts"), these gang-bangers became a powerful part of Aristide's forces until the president wa ...
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Writer/actor Spalding Gray is best known for his lengthy and insightful and sharply humorous onstage monologues, two of which, Swimming to Cambodia and Monster in a Box, have been filmed and released theatrically. Gray's Anatomy is also a filmed performance of a monologue he performed in 1993. Whereas the other two films had a focus on satire and humor, this one is a little more serious. Unlike th ...
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Grizzly Man (2005)
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History,
Nature,
Biography.
Director:
Werner Herzog.
Actors:
Timothy Treadwell,
Amie Huguenard,
Warren Queeney,
Willy Fulton,
Sam Egli,
Marnie Gaede,
Marc Gaede,
Larry Van Daele,
Franc Falico,
Jewel Palovak,
Val Dexter,
Carol Dexter,
Kathleen Parker,
Werner Herzog.
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Filmmaker Werner Herzog adds another real-life character to his growing pantheon of people who walk a fine line between visionary genius and madness in this documentary. Timothy Treadwell was a self-styled authority on bears who, starting in 1990, would spend as much time as possible each year in Alaska, camping out near a grizzly bear habitat. While Treadwell claimed to love the bears and felt as ...
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Hollywood Ghosts and Gravesites documents some of the legendary spectral figures that haunt Tinseltown and visits the final resting places of some of the brightest stars that ever shown in the cinema firmament including Marilyn Monroe and Rudolph Valentino.
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Hoop Dreams (1994)
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Culture & Society ,
Sports & Recreation,
Biography.
Director:
Steve James.
Actors:
William Gates,
Arthur Agee,
Emma Gates,
Sheila Agee,
Earl Smith,
Gene Pingatore,
Isiah Thomas,
Dick Vitale,
Kevin O'Neill,
Bobby Knight,
Spike Lee.
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This documentary about the aspirations of high-school basketball players from inner city Chicago won awards from the Sundance film festival, the New York Film Critics Circle, and the Academy Award (Oscar) for best editing. Two young men are followed during their entire high-school career, beginning with their participation in playground games and ending with their being recruited by colleges. The ...
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In Search Of Historic Jesus (1979)
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History,
Spirituality & Philosophy,
Biography.
Director:
Phillip Noyce,
Henning Schellerup.
Actors:
John Rubinstein,
John Anderson,
Nehemiah Persoff,
Brad Crandall,
Andrew Bloch,
Morgan Brittany,
Walter Brooke,
Annette Charles,
Royal Dano,
Anthony de Longis,
Lawrence Dobkin,
Jeffry Druce,
Richard Alfieri,
Richard Carlyle,
John Hansen,
John Hoyt,
James Ingersoll,
Stanley Kamel,
David Opatoshu,
Al Ruscio.
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In the Pit (2005)
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Culture & Society ,
Biography.
Director:
Juan Carlos Rulfo.
Actors:
Shorty Rogers & His Band,
El Grande,
Juan Diaz "El Guapo" Calvario,
Jose Galcada,
Vincencio Martinez,
Chompiros,
Natividad Sanchez Montes,
Tomas Jose Leon,
Salvador Castelo,
Nabar,
Pedro Sanchez Bernal,
Jose Guadelupe Calzada,
Augustin Zarate Centeno,
Isabel Dolores Hernandez,
Isahin Octaviano Simon.
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The hardships of a Mexico City construction crew struggling to complete a second deck atop the massive Periférico Freeway are explored in director Juan Carlos Rulfo's studied look at the modern work ethic. As countless drivers zoom past the enormous worksite day after day, the anonymous workers toil away in a relentless drive to finish construction on the massive freeway addition by the scheduled ...
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In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)
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History,
Biography.
Director:
David Sington.
Actors:
Gene Cernan,
Charlie Duke,
Harrison Schmitt,
Dave Scott,
John Young,
Buzz Aldrin,
Alan Bean,
Mike Collins,
Capt. James Lovell,
Edgar Mitchell.
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Filmmaker David Sington merges the magnificence of science with the compelling drama of the human quest for advancement with this compelling and visually stunning meditation on the historic Apollo space program. In the four remarkable years between 1968 and 1972, American history took a defining turn as nine NASA spacecraft made the trip to the moon, and twelve bold explorers became the first men ...
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Redline Entertainment presents Loose Change, a look at a group of surfers in and out of the water. Directed by Taylor Steele, the program takes viewers to several exotic locations including Sumatra, France, Mexico, South Africa, Bali, and Australia. Some of the surfers featured in this release include Benji Weatherly, Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, and Shane Dorian.
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Explore the live of the woman whose name has become synonymous with the French monarchy as filmmakers explore just how one wanton sovereign set into motion the wheels of the French Revolution. From her early childhood in the powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire to her grim final hours in a French prison cell, this two-hour portrait of Marie Antoinette paints a vivid portrait of a historical figure tha ...
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Performance artist Laurie Anderson narrates this documentary filmed to explore the life and career of Marshall McLuhan while exploring just how the famed educator, philosopher, and scholar's innovate 20th Century ideas hold up in the years after the millennial turnover.
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Better known as Wheelchair Rugby, Murderball is a game created by quadriplegic athletes that is every bit as aggressive as the name would lead one to expect; played with bone-breaking intensity, a typical game of Wheelchair Rugby involves plenty of trash-talking, a few head-on collisions, and the occasional player being thrown from his modified wheelchair. The game has become an official event at ...
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Susan Tom of Fairfield, CA, is not a typical single mother — Tom is the head of a family of 11 adopted children, all of whom are physically challenged or living with long-term illnesses. Tom and her special family are the subject of My Flesh and Blood, a documentary which examines the dynamic of this household, as well as the often demanding physical and emotional needs of the 11 kids an ...
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My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
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Culture & Society ,
Biography.
Director:
Amir Bar-Lev.
Actors:
Amir Bar-Lev,
Anthony Brunelli,
Elizabeth Cohen,
Jonathan Crosby,
Ron Curtis, Jr.,
Michael Kimmelman,
Laura Olmstead,
Celeste Russi,
Tara Sands,
Stuart Simpson,
Jackie Wescott,
Mark Olmstead,
Zane Olmstead,
Marla Olmstead.
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Most four-year-olds make paintings that hang on the refrigerator in their parents' kitchen, but by that age Marla Olmstead already had her first gallery show in Binghamton, New York. Born in 2000, Marla first picked up a paint brush when she was a year old, following the example of her father, an amateur painter, and soon the tyke was creating large canvases with unexpected skill and enthusiasm. H ...
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Nanking (2007)
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History,
Biography.
Director:
Bill Guttentag,
Dan Sturman.
Actors:
Hugo Armstrong,
Rosalind Chao,
Stephen Dorff,
John Getz,
Mariel Hemingway,
Michelle Krusiec,
Chris Mulkey,
Jürgen Prochnow,
Sonny Saito,
Graham Sibley,
Robert Wu,
Mark Valley,
Woody Harrelson,
Cao Zhi Kun,
Chang Zhi Qiang,
Ding Yong Qing,
Jiang Gen Fu,
Ding Guo Yong,
Li Gao Shan,
Li Su Fen,
Luo Zhong Yang,
Ni Cui Ping,
Xia Shu Qin,
Wang Wen Yu,
Wu Zheng Xi,
Zhang Xiu Hong,
Zhou Ji Mu.
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Filmmaker Bill Guttentag takes a closer look at the atrocities committed by the Japanese after Nanking fell to the Imperial Japanese Army in 1937 with this documentary that was inspired by Iris Chang's novel The Rape of Nanking. Compiled from over 700 hours of footage including news-reel footage, interviews with survivors and soldiers, and staged readings, Nanking was financed in large by milliona ...
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Author William Gibson created a revolution in popular culture with his books Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, and Mona Lisa Overdrive, in which he explored how the rise of digital technology in a socially and politically unstable time impacted people's lives (and vice versa); among other things, Gibson coined the phrase "cyberspace," and his work has had a seismic effect in science fiction c ...
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Touched by the plight of an aspiring Iraqi filmmaker whose dreams of working in Hollywood seemed to fall with Baghdad, American filmmaker Liev Schreiber invites the ambitious wannabe director to intern on Everything Is Illuminated, to unexpected results. In 2004, just one year after the United States launched a devastating attack on Baghdad, MTV ran a story about a 25-year-old Iraqi film student n ...
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Documentary filmmaker Rachel Boynton follows the machinations of the political consulting firm Greenberg Carville Shrum as they work on an election campaign in South America that goes terribly awry. The film's title, Our Brand Is Crisis, comes from the consultants' efforts to sell the voters of Bolivia on the idea that the country faced an imminent economic and political crisis, and needed to turn ...
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B.Z. Goldberg, an American filmmaker who was raised in Jerusalem and is fluent in both Hebrew and Arabic, returned to the Middle East to help make this documentary, which chronicles his encounters with seven children between the ages of 11 and 13, some Israeli and some Palestinian, who discuss their political views, their thoughts about the ongoing violence in their homelands and the possibility o ...
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