Nick Fraser

Las entrevistas recién descubiertas con amigos de Truman Capote realizadas por el cofundador de Paris Review, George Plimpton, revitalizan este fascinante documental sobre el autor (y la alta sociedad) detrás de Breakfast at Tiffany's y In Cold Blood, al tiempo que sitúan a Capote en el canon literario estadounidense del siglo XX.

Este documental acompaña a la estrella del pop japonés Rio y a sus fans, en su mayoría de mediana edad, dispuestos a pagar lo que sea si se trata de su cantante favorita.

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. He felt at first hand the corruption of power. After the Iraq war Carne became disillusioned, quit his job and started searching for answers.

The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF is an epic investigation into the new regime of illiberal democracy. From the young students of Hong Kong, to a rapper in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and the viral comedians of Bollywood, we discover how people from every corner of the globe are fighting the same struggle. They are fighting against elected leaders who trample on human rights, minorities, and their political opponents.

Hong Kong, 1978. La actriz surcoreana Choi Eun-hee es secuestrada por agentes norcoreanos siguiendo órdenes del dictador Kim Jong-il. Su exmarido, el director de cine Shin Sang-ok, emprende su búsqueda, pero poco después también él es secuestrado. En 1983, después de vivir años de tribulaciones, Kim Jong-il los pone al frente de la industria cinematográfica norcoreana con la esperanza de obtener reconocimiento internacional.

Can you imagine what it means to grow up as the child of a mass murderer? Hans Frank and Otto von Wächter were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII. Nazi Governors and consultants to Hitler himself, the two are collectively responsible for thousands of deaths. But what stood out to Philippe Sands were the impressions they left on their sons. While researching the Nuremberg trials, the human rights lawyer came across two men who re-focused his studies: Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter. The men hold polar opposite views on the men who raised them.

In this funny and moving documentary, acclaimed film-maker Daisy Asquith tells the very personal story of her mother's conception after a dance in the 1940s on the remote west coast of Ireland. By exploring the repercussions of this act, Daisy and her mother embark on a fascinating and emotional adventure in social and sexual morality. Her grandmother, compelled to run away to have her baby in secret, handed the child over to 'the nuns'. Daisy's mum was eventually adopted by English Catholics from Stoke-on-Trent. Her grandmother returned to Ireland and told no-one. The father remained a mystery for another 60 years, until Daisy and her mum decided it was time to find out who he was. Their attempts to find the truth make raw the fear and shame that Catholicism has wrought on the Irish psyche for centuries. It leads Daisy and her mum to connect with a brand new family living an extraordinarily different life.

Documental sobre la vida y obra del cómico y actor Richard Pryor.

Documentary about Chinese higher education: the pressure to get into state-sponsored schools, and the marketing of private colleges that may not provide the education they promise.

This first story in a six part series covers almost twenty years of history. It is a story of escalating violence and repression, one nation on a collision course with the rest of the world. When the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, South Africa marches in the opposite direction and begins to implement a series of laws segregating its people by race in every aspect of life, prompting the non-white majority led by the ANC to protest. The non-violent movement picks up supporters all over the world, starting first with a network of Gandhites in Britain, Sweden, and the United States. But Apartheid hardens in the face of this resistance. By the fateful year of 1964, Nelson Mandela is jailed for life, and the entire leadership is forced underground, imprisoned or killed. The movement is effectively shut down in South Africa as hundreds escape into exile.

What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe - and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.

Documental que muestra la influencia de los Beatles en la Unión Soviética

Filmmaker Kimberly Reed returns home for her high school reunion, ready to reintroduce herself to the small town as a transgender woman and hoping for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother Marc. Things are complicated by the shocking revelation that Marc may be the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, forcing Kim and her family to explore questions of sexual orientation, identity, severe trauma and love.

Documental sobre la hazaña del funambulista francés Philippe Petit que, el 7 de agosto de 1974, logró de manera ilegal caminar sobre un alambre tendido entre las torres gemelas del World Trade Center de Nueva York. Culminada la proeza, fue arrestado por la policía, pero la exhibición fue considerada por algunos "el crimen artístico del siglo".

Gibney, de la mano de un narrador de excepción, el actor Johnny Depp, nos invita a un extraordinario viaje a la extraña y salvaje vida del Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, creador del periodismo Gonzo y autor de la célebre “Miedo y Asco en Las Vegas”. Un documental brutalmente entretenido que retrata los momentos más decisivos en la vida de Thompson, desde su rebelde juventud, sus primeros trabajos como periodista, la turbulenta relación que le unió a los Ángeles del Infierno, su infructuosa candidatura a Sheriff de Aspen o su notoria implicación en la campaña presidencial de 1972. Todo ello narrado por las personas más importantes en la vida de ese rebelde con causa que fue Hunter Stockton Thompson.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after the bomb brought the war to an end, in spite of his renown and his enormous achievement, America turned on him - humiliated and cast him aside. The question the film asks is, "Why?"

Corría el año 1977, durante uno de los veranos más agitados y decadentes que haya vivido Nueva York. Fue entonces cuando, en medio de apagones, desórdenes callejeros, los asesinatos en serie del ‘Hijo de Sam’ y el auge de la legendaria discoteca Estudio 54, se produjo un prodigio de inspiración absolutamente inesperado: el ascenso del Cosmos de Nueva York, el primer gran equipo norteamericano de fútbol, y de su superestrella Pelé. Adorado de la noche a la mañana por una ciudad obsesionada con la fama y el éxito, el Cosmos encendió la llama del primer amor pasional de Norteamérica con el deporte más popular del planeta. Arrastrado, sin embargo, por el torrente imparable de la fama, el glamour y el desenfreno, el Cosmos encontró su destrucción.

Held up in a heavily fortified Baghdad hotel, Iraq's most famous pianist Samir Peter tries to survive the "peace" of post-war Iraq as he waits for his visa that will grant him a new life in America.

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

What happens when a group of hairdressers from America travel to Kabul with the intention of telling Afghan women how to do hair and makeup? This engaging, optimistic documentary tracks a unique development project: a shiny new beauty school, funded in part by beauty-industry mainstays, which sets out to teach the latest cutting, coloring, and perming techniques to practicing and aspiring Afghan hairdressers and beauticians. The American teachers, all volunteers, include three Afghan-Americans returning home for the first time in over twenty years. The Beauty Academy of Kabul offers a rare glimpse into Afghan women’s lives, and documents the poignant and often humorous process through which women with very different experiences of life come to learn about one another.

David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy, whose early life was spent in the shadow of his elder brother John. After JFK's assassination, he discovered his own identity in the forefront of American politics before his career was also tragically curtailed by an assassin's bullet.

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.

A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.

Writer Nick Fraser travels the continent in search of a better understanding of the European Union. On the way he visits the European Parliament in Strasbourg, talks to Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, and follows MEPs to Romanian orphanages

El 8 de abril de 1994 un electricista encontró el cadáver del músico Kurt Cobain. Junto a él había una pistola, una jeringa y un gran charco de sangre. Desde ese momento comenzó la polémica: ¿Suicidio o asesinato? Inmediatamente las informaciones sobre la muerte del ídolo grunge comenzaron a circular por la incipiente Internet, hasta que acabaron en el libro "¿Quién mató a Kurt Cobain?" escrito por los canadienses Max Wallance y Ian Halperin, y en la película "Kurt & Courtney", dirigida por Nick Broomfield. Motivado por todas las dudas que había detrás de la muerte del cantante Kurt Cobain, Broomfield comenzó en 1997 a recopilar material para realizar su película. Contactó para ello con familiares y amigos del guitarrista de Nirvana. El film desarrolla, desde distintos puntos de vista, la vida del líder de Nirvana, la tumultuosa relación que mantuvo con su esposa Courtney Love y su polémica muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)