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Annabelle Butterfly Dance

1894

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

1894
5.4
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest a butterfly. As she dances, she uses her long, flowing skirts to create visual patterns.
Report

1967

Report

1967
6.2
Bruce Conner’s most celebrated film for a reason: it takes historical moments that were replayed over and over on television—chilling repetition of Kennedy assassination coverage—and repurposes them into a meditation on how the media tries to exert authority and apply a sense of order to the anarchic. And though it may sound perverse to say so, the film is also—not incidentally—a thrill to watch. -- The A.V. Club
The Great White Silence

1924

The Great White Silence

1924
7.8
Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica as part of Captain Scott's ill-fated South pole expedition and shot the footage that makes up this extraordinary documentary.
Hiroshima

2005

Hiroshima

2005
7.1
The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie

2003

Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie

2003
5.7
The comedic stylings of four sort-of famous funnymen are brought to the big screen courtesy of this 2002 documentary.
42 Up

1999

42 Up

1999
7.6
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Bukowski: Born Into This

2003

Bukowski: Born Into This

2003
6.8
Director John Dullaghan’s biographical documentary about infamous poet Charles Bukowski, Bukowski: Born Into This, is as much a touching portrait of the author as it is an exposé of his sordid lifestyle. Interspersed between ample vintage footage of Bukowski’s poetry readings are interviews with the poet’s fans including such legendary figures such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Fante (wife of John), Bono, and Harry Dean Stanton. Filmed in grainy black and white by Bukowski’s friend, Taylor Hackford, due to lack of funding, the old films edited into this movie paint Bukowski’s life of boozing and brawling romantically, securing Bukowski’s legendary status.
Room 666

1982

Room 666

1982
6.4
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"
Meetin' WA

1986

Meetin' WA

1986
6.2
Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares with cinema as a medium and form of expression.
Live Aid

1985

Live Aid

1985
7.9
Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United States. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: watched live by an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations. "It's twelve noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for Live Aid...!"
Vernon, Florida

1981

Vernon, Florida

1981
6.7
Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

2021

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

2021
7.5
In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs Björn Andrésen’s life.
Il Capitalista

2025

Il Capitalista

2025
In Memoriam: Dieuwertje Blok

2025

In Memoriam: Dieuwertje Blok

2025
A portrait of beloved presenter Dieuwertje Blok compiled before her death.
Inheritance: Murder In The Family - The Thomas Kwan Affair

2025

Inheritance: Murder In The Family - The Thomas Kwan Affair

2025
An unravelling of the extreme lengths that Dr Thomas Kwan went to obliterate anyone who may prevent him from what he thought was rightfully his - his mother's inheritance.
Time Moves Slow

2025

Time Moves Slow

2025
It Dawned on Me

2025

It Dawned on Me

2025
Depicting the sun rising on a midwestern winter landscape filmed over 1 hour and 10 minutes, this film explores the relationship between natural light and the illusion of passing time through superimpositions and high framerates.
Picha: Against All Odds

2025

Picha: Against All Odds

2025
Picha's irreverent style has left a mark on 70s and 80s animation cinema. But where is he now? And how should we best approach his work as an iconoclastic cartoonist, animated film and tv series director and painter who once embodied a certain idea of outrageousness and subversion?
Exquisite Corpse

2025

Exquisite Corpse

2025
Documentary about the eccentric figure of Mario Bazterrica Oliver. Following his recent death, various interviewees analyse, remember and portray, from multiple points of view, the importance and meaning of his person and his actions, which made him an important and not very popular person in Mallorca.
Notturno

2020

Notturno

2020
6.7
A portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.