Archive for the 'Documentary movies' Category
Roger & Me
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| Taglines: | 1: The story of a rebel and his mike. |
| Plot Summary: | A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith. |
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Chances of the World Changing, The
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| Plot Summary: | An artist abandons his life’s work to build an ark filled with hundreds of endangered animals. A story about time, death, art, love, and turtles. |
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Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation
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| Taglines: | 1: Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, Chucky, Leatherface, Pinhead and more!!! 2: The Killer Compilation 3: The scariest boogeymen ever to appear on film! Together for the first time! In the ultimate horror experience! 4: The Ultimate Horror Experience with the most terrifying scenes in the history of horror, trivia, games and more. |
| Plot Summary: | Boogeymen brings together 17 great horror-flick baddies of the last 40 years, ranging from Norman Bates to Leatherface to Freddy Krueger to Chuckie. Accompanying the clips of their dastardly deeds are optional FlixFacts trivia bits and an optional commentary soundtrack from Robert Englund. |
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Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, The
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| Plot Summary: | THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humour. THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA cuts its cloth from the very world of the movies it discusses; by shooting at original locations and from replica sets it creates the uncanny illusion that Zizek is speaking from ‘within’ the films themselves. Together the three parts construct a compelling dialectic of ideas. Described by The Times in London as ‘the woman helming this Freudian inquest,’ director Sophie Fiennes’ collaboration with Slavoj Zizek illustrates the immediacy with which film and television can communicate complex ideas. Says Zizek: ‘My big obsession is to make things clear. I can really explain a line of thought if I can somehow illustrate it in a scene from a film. THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA is really about what psychoanalysis can tell us about cinema.’ |
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Making Waves
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| Taglines: | 1: If the public took back the airwaves, what would they sound like? |
| Plot Summary: | What do a public access TV personality, an electronics engineer, a Vietnam vet, a libertarian congressional candidate and a retired millionaire have in common? They’re all operating unlicensed, ‘pirate’ radio stations in Tucson, Arizona. Making Waves follows their uphill struggle to be heard on our publicly-owned but corporate-controlled airwaves. Armed with low-cost micro-radio equipment, the First Amendment, even a how-to video by a Michigan pastor, the Tucson pirates use unlicensed radio as a form of civil disobedience. For their stations, this means everything from providing the real alternative to alternative music to educating the public about its Constitutional rights. Making Waves reveals the pirates’ personal and political passions that compel them to defy the U.S. Government,’ |
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Jackass Number Two
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| Taglines: | 1: Guess who just made number two? 2: The Number One Movie in America is Number Two! 3: When is the last time a movie made you beg for mercy? |
| Plot Summary: | Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before. |
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Planets, The
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| Plot Summary: | Interesting narrative, excellent computer generated images (for its time), extensive interviews with numerous scientists (mostly Americans and Russians-thank goodness this documentary isn’t biased towards any country) and a memorable soundtrack combined to make compelling viewing for anyone interested in astronomy. |
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Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman
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| Plot Summary: | In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character and his subsequent evolution over the decades through various media. With various interviews of noted creative luminaries, the film shows how the character has adapted to the times and bounced back from times when he felt irrelevant to always regain his prominence as one of the great heroes of popular culture. |
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Arctic Tale
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| Plot Summary: | This documentary chronicles the lives of two youngsters in one of the coldest places on Earth. Watch as Seela the walrus and Nanu the polar bear grow from newborns to teenagers and what it takes to survive in an environment that’s rapidly shrinking thanks to climate change. |
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Road to Guantanamo, The
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| Plot Summary: | In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice. |
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