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The Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code: The Story of Alan Turing

2014

The Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code: The Story of Alan Turing

2014
6.9
During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted communications code. Without a doubt, the key player in this game was Alan Turing, an interdisciplinary scientist and a long-forgotten hero.
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008
8.5
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.
Our Curse

2013

Our Curse

2013
5.8
The film is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with a very rare and incurable disease of their newborn child – the Ondine’s Curse (also known as CCHS, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome). People affected with this disease stop breathing during sleep and require a lifetime mechanical ventilation on a ventilator. The film shows the process of taming fear associated with the disease.
Shake Hands with Danger

1980

Shake Hands with Danger

1980
4.8
This short cautionary training film examines dangers associated with earthmoving equipment operation, showing many simulated accidents on construction sites.
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects

2008

Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects

2008
8.4
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is Yasuyuki Inoue along with various crew members who crafted meticulously detailed miniatures and risked life and limb as suit actors. All done to bring to life some of film's most iconic monsters through a distinct Japanese artform.
Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

2013

Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

2013
6.5
"Plastic Paradise" is an independent documentary film that chronicles Angela Sun's personal journey of discovery to one of the most remote places on Earth, Midway Atoll, to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the way she encounters scientists, celebrities, legislators and activists who shed light on what our society's vast consumption of disposable plastic is doing to our oceans -- and what it may be doing to our health.
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009
7.5
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance

1968

God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance

1968
5.5
Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.
Special Flight

2011

Special Flight

2011
6.1
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.
Silenced

2014

Silenced

2014
7.8
Three National Security whistleblowers fight to reveal the darkest corners of America's war on terror, challenging a government that is increasingly determined to maintain secrecy.
In the Name of God

1992

In the Name of God

1992
8.6
The film explores the campaign waged by the Hindu right-wing organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad to build a Ram temple at the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, as well as the communal violence that it triggered. A couple of months after Ram ke Naam was released, VHP activists demolished the Babri Masjid in 1992, provoking further violence.
Killing Oswald

2013

Killing Oswald

2013
6.5
From the director of RFK Must Die, Killing Oswald explores the mystery of how and why John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were assassinated in 1963, tracing Oswald's strange transformation from US Marine radar operator in Japan, monitoring U2 spy planes over Russia; to 20-year-old Marxist defector, decamping to Moscow threatening to share military secrets with the KGB; to pro-Castro activist in New Orleans and self-proclaimed patsy in Dallas.
Actress

2014

Actress

2014
6.4
Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBO’s The Wire when she gave up her career to start a family. When she decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she’s carefully created crumbles around her.
Aerial

1974

Aerial

1974
6.2
"Touches on elemental images; air, water, (and snow), earth and fire (and smoke) all come into it." - MT
Song 5

1964

Song 5

1964
4.2
SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).
DamNation

2014

DamNation

2014
6.7
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers.
Everyday Rebellion

2013

Everyday Rebellion

2013
7.2
A documentary & cross-media project about the creativity of non-violent resistance and modern forms of civil disobedience.
Mile... Mile & A Half

2013

Mile... Mile & A Half

2013
7.8
In an epic snow year, five friends leave their daily lives behind to hike California's historic John Muir Trail, a 211-mile stretch from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney (the highest peak in the contiguous U.S.). Their goal - complete the journey in 25 days while capturing the amazing sights & sounds they encounter along the way. Inspired by their bond, humor, artistry & dedication, the group continues to grow: to include other artists, musicians & adventure seekers. Before they all reach the summit, hikers and viewers alike affirm the old adage - it's about the journey, not the destination. Mile... Mile & A Half is the feature-length documentary of that journey...
Hidden Universe

2013

Hidden Universe

2013
6.8
An extraordinary journey deep into space offering fresh insight into the origins and evolution of the universe.
Living in a Reversed World

1958

Living in a Reversed World

1958
6
Fascinating -- and unintentionally funny -- experiments at Austria's famed Institute for Experimental Psychology involve a subject who for several weeks wears special glasses that reverse right and left and up and down. Unexpectedly, these macabre and somehow surrealist experiments reveal that our perception of these aspects of vision is not of an optical nature and cannot be relied on, while the unfortunate, Kafkaesque subject stubbornly struggles through a morass of continuous failures.