Home Town (2018)

Documental que descubre la fascinante y terrible historia del cantautor norteamericano Daniel Johnston. Un genio, compositor, cantante y artista maníaco depresivo a quien las drogas y la enfermedad mental llevan a imaginarios encuentros con el Diablo. Desde muy pequeño Daniel mostró rasgos de su genialidad y creatividad artística a través de sus cómics y grabaciones en Super 8. El documental, sigue al personaje y muestra también cómo se transforma en objeto de culto apoyándose en las grabaciones del propio Daniel Johnston.

Explore the birth, growth and eventual tipping point of punk rock during the 90s. Narrated by skateboarder Tony Hawk, the film features interviews and footage of various bands and figures in the punk scene.

Documental que recoge el proceso de producción de "Superman Lives", la película de Superman que iba a dirigir Tim Burton tras el éxito de su díptico de Batman, y que iba a protagonizar Nicolas Cage. El film fue cancelado antes de comenzar a rodarse, y en el film se explican las razones.

Documental de cuatro horas de duración, en el que Martin Scorsese repasa la historia del cine clásico norteamericano, desde sus inicios hasta los años 70, que es precisamente la época en la que él comenzó a trabajar en el mundo del cine.

A finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en enero de 1945, los hombres del sexto batallón de Rangers, a las órdenes del teniente coronel Henry Mucci, llevaron a cabo una peligrosa misión en Filipinas: recorrer 30 millas a través de un territorio dominado por los japoneses para intentar rescatar a 500 prisioneros de guerra. Inspirada en hechos reales.

Noruega, 1942, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Después de ser separada de su familia, Esther, una joven judía de Trondheim, llega a una granja aislada donde debe asumir una nueva identidad para sobrevivir a la persecución nazi.

Tejiendo entrevistas de expertos en políticas y hechos sorprendentes con las vidas y carreras de cuatro profesores, American Teacher cuenta la historia colectiva de y sobre los más cercanos a los problemas de nuestro sistema educativo - los 3,2 millones de maestros que pasan todos los días en las aulas de todo el país.

American: The Bill Hicks Story is a biographical documentary film on the life of comedian Bill Hicks. The film was produced by Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas, and features archival footage and interviews with family and friends, including Kevin Booth. The filmmakers used a cut-and-paste animation technique to add movement to a large collection of still pictures used to document events in Hicks' life. The film made its North American premiere at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. The film was nominated for a 2010 Grierson British Documentary Award for the "Most Entertaining Documentary" category. It was also nominated for Best Graphics and Animation category in the 2011 Cinema Eye Awards. Awards won include The Dallas Film Festivals Texas Filmmaker Award, at Little Rock The Oxford American's Best Southern Film Award, and Best Documentary at the Downtown LA Film Festival. On Rotten Tomatoes, 81% of the first 47 reviews counted were rated positive.

Documental que repasa la estrecha relación entre la mafia y la gran pantalla.

Una mirada a la segunda serie de pruebas nucleares confidenciales de la India en Pokhran, dirigida por el Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, durante el período en el cargo del Primer Ministro Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Documental que narra la historia de Bruce Lee y sus esfuerzos sin éxito para comenzar una carrera de interpretación en los EEUU, su regreso a Hong Kong donde se convirtió en una estrella internacional, y su muerte a los 32 años

Marilyn Monroe's final project, "Something's Got to Give", has become one of the most talked about unfinished films in history. The story of the film and Marilyn's last days were seemingly lost… until now. Through interviews, never-before-seen footage and an edited reconstruction of "Something's Got to Give", Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days provides a definitive and fascinating look at the last act in the life of the world's most famous and tragic superstar.

The main character is crazy about about depicting various anomalies in art. Accidentally he finds a cinematography archive which makes him advance a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal. Yufit proceeds with the plot by describing a scientist struggling against the epidemic wave of anomalies in the physical and mental world thematically started in his other films. This time the struggle takes place on the background of paleoanthropology, psychoanalysis and modern art. As materials of the Museum of Anthropology and other archives are included in the film, it oversteps the boundary between a feature film and documentary.

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

Peter Gabriel is among the rockstars performing the music of Lennon and McCartney against a montage of World War II newsreel footage.

Un soundtrack compuesto por temas que a modo de banda sonora ilustra el paso de los últimos 50 años, el cambio de modas, estilos y épocas, en lo musical y como expresión y reflejo de los cambios sociales que marcaron España. Programa elaborado con material de archivo de TVE.

A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions, but does not seek any concrete answers.

Created from backstage material filmed during Queen’s 1977 USA News of the World tour, this documentary was included in a special box set of Queen's landmark 1977 album News of the World, marking the 40th anniversary of the original release.

Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals the lead-up to the offensive, its impact on the war and the brinksmanship that resulted from the battle for Moscow. Rare footage from both German and Russian archives and detailed maps illustrate the conflict, while award-winning historian and author John Erickson provides insight into the pivotal maneuvers on the eastern front.

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Con la actuación estelar del actor y teniente Clark Gable, el film nos ofrece una visión privilegiada del día a día en la vida de los pilotos de bombarderos B-17 estadounidenses en sus bases de Inglaterra, su preparación y entrenamiento; así como los peligros a los que deben hacer frente en las continuas misiones de bombardeo sobre la Europa ocupada.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

Una niña tiene que decidir con quién casarse: un pobre campesino o un rico propietario de un club nocturno.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

En 1975, Nicolas Philibert, un joven ayudante de dirección, participó en la película de René Allio "Yo, Pierre Riviére, habiendo matado a mi madre, mi hermana y mi hermano...", inspirada en un crimen que tuvo lugar en Normandía hace 140 años. Esta película debía su singularidad al hecho de que los miembros del equipo artístico eran los propios granjeros de la región. Treinta años después de rodar aquella película, Nicolas Philibert decide reencontrarse con los actores. Algunos ya no viven y otros han emigrado, pero en un absoluto proceso de investigación, Philibert intenta recuperarlos para que nos hablen sobre su vida y nos cuenten cómo les ha afectado su participación en aquella película.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

El joven y carismático Werner Gladow aprovecha su precaria situación tras la II Guerra Mundial para formar una banda criminal, y tratar de hacerse con el control del Berlin subterráneo.

Un cirujano que ha perdido a su novia en el quirófano enloquece y decide asesinar a todos los estudiantes de medicina que pretenden especializarse en cirugía. No contento con ello, amputará igualmente las manos de sus víctimas, para que así no puedan dañar a su amada, a quien, en su delirio, cree con vida.