Pumping Iron depicts two major competitions: Mr. Universe, which is for amateur participants, and Mr. Olympia, which is for professionals. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream.
Director James Cameron travels with the crew of a Russian research vessel as they explore the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a submerged chain of mountains that band the Earth and are home to some of the planet’s most unique life forms.
Liz Roman Gallese ’69, Jane Startz ’69 and filmmaker Peter Barton discuss the making of their film ‘Women of 69, Unboxed.’ It is at once a profile of the modern women’s movement and a pungent portrait of boomers whose lives were forever changed by the 60’s.
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) runs for mayor of New York in 2013, but a new sex scandal ruins his attempt at a political comeback, derailing his once-promising career.
Harmontown is a documentary that follows Dan Harmon as he takes his popular podcast of the same name on a calamitous cross-country tour after he was fired from Community in 2012.
A pastor sparks a controversy in his North Dakota town by allowing down-and-out workers who are desperately seeking jobs at nearby oil fields a place to sleep at the church.
The Walking Dead is a worldwide phenomenon that has become one of the most popular television shows of all time. In this movie, documentarians Cris Macht and Ian Vacek explore and examine why humanity is obsessed with the ‘zombie apocalypse’.
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman examines the multiethnic neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens, N.Y, one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken.
The film delves into what led Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter, to foresee the financial crisis, as well as his grim worldview, which envisions more economic disasters.
Filmmaker Nicolas Steiner documents the exploits of three homeless people in Las Vegas, a couple scraping by in a Las Vegas drainage tunnel and a young woman determined to be among the first crew to colonize Mars.
As the creative force behind Electric Light Orchestra and a singularly accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer, Jeff Lynne is one of rock’s most iconic, yet mysterious, figures, a true man of music for whom the recording studio is his greatest instrument.
The film is a documentary about Jeff Healeys club and his career and the A-List musicians who played with him over the years. Jeff was an unusually talented musician who, despite being blind, never let his physical challenges stand in his way.
In this documentary, filmmaker Werner Herzog and a small crew are given a rare chance to film inside France’s Chauvet Cave, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
Filmed over two-and-a-half years in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, the nature documentary centers on two cat families and how they teach their cubs the ways of the wild.
What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth? You get 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries. The documentary serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the twenty-fourth of July, […]