Documentary Movies

This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with m...

In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life. On the eve of James Meredith becoming the first...

In this new program, James Mangold (Cop Land, 3:10 to Yuma) discusses the enormous impact Milos Forman had on his maturation as a filmmaker.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert reflects on the social, economic and personal forces that led to her career as a pioneering documentarian.

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edga...

Surfers Henry Ford, Freddy Pfhaler, Kemp Aaberg, Del Cannon, and Dick Thomas decide to leave California so they can embark on a dream trip to Hawaii....

"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray Studios New York, which was the dominant animation s...

The murder of photographer José Luis Cabezas in the summer of 1997 deeply shakes Argentina, and ends up revealing a mafia scheme in which the politica...

A documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, artist, and set designer, Beaton was best known for...

At age 29, documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm discovered that she was conceived via sperm donor. Using her skills as an investigator she decides to dig e...

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth duri...

Three paranormal investigators enter what is said to be the most haunted location in the Midwest. Over the last 100 years, the property has housed tho...

"Everybody should have a home. If you punish a nation, this is so abstract, it's very mean to use your power to put another country in your control......

First Descent is a 2005 documentary film about snowboarding and its beginning in the 1980s. The snowboarders featured in this movie (Shawn Farmer, Nic...

In 2001 Woodshed Films released their third Moonshine Experiment surf movie entitled “Shelter.” With a similar style and feel to the first two Moonshi...

Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable p...

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich meets with Americans from all walks of life as he chronicles a seismic shift in the nation's economy.

A documentary series about the life of wild animals.

A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.

The majestic Neil Diamond live! Prepare to melt.