Movies: Documentary

For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. Precursor of Cinema Novo, Nelson was, more than a director, he was an ideologue, a thinker of his country....

High in the mountains of Taiwan, is the remote village of Smangus. Inhabited by a unique group of indigenous people called the Tayal, Smangus is the only place in Taiwan that now practices common ownership of land and property. This is a place where ...

From the 1950s to the 1980s, Catholic priests committed numerous sexual abuses on young boys in several French-speaking villages in New Brunswick. Brought to light when the victims were in their fifties, these scandals sparked shock and indignation i...

An Interview with The Quay Brothers & Alan Passes April 2006 at Atelier Konick, London...

Bizet's masterwork, Carmen, directed for stage by the Spanish actress Núria Espert. Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1989....

Buckle up, this ride's just getting started...

An overview of the making of, and a look at the continuing popularity of, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining....

A small group of men turn on what appears to be a generator. As the rotary spins, the men make adjustments to the machine and check its operations....

Take a seat with the director and cast of Squid Game. Discover key moments, hear untold stories and see what this entire journey meant to them....

A film on the "SAPPHIRE", the oldest identified wreck in Canadian waters. Parks Canada's underwater archaeology team is responsible for the excavation of the three-hundred-year-old frigate....

Five story strands -- some real, some fictionalized -- comprise this officially sanctioned film of Real Madrid, the second richest soccer club in the world....

Alan Berliner uses the internet to track down 12 men who share his surname, and invites them over for dinner in New York....

A Nigerian man is shown the famous sights of London by a friend....

Allows casting directors Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson to describe the casting process and how each role was filled in the film The Sure Thing....

The definitive look at Betty White's life and career. As the only authorized documentary on Betty ever made, this film is packed with hilarious clips from her long career. Plus comments from friends and co-stars....

Fifty years after the collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge that took with it the lives of 35 workers, their families and the survivors share their stories of the tragedy....

A turbine is shown operating....

Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the 1960s, with their dreams and expectations, their hardships, and interrupted projects....

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda....

Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'....