The most glamorous movie star of her day was also a pioneering scientist who never received credit for her history-changing invention until the end of her long, complicated life.
George Butler’s documentary on bodybuilding culture of the 1970s did more to popularize the sport in the culture at large than anything before or since.
17 years after his award-winning documentary epic on the American Civil War, Burns took on “the good war” with his trademark approach: history from the perspective of the everyday humans who fought, died, and endured.
This wordless film is like a tone poem that contemplates the odyssey of the soul through the cycles of existence, a mix of natural, spiritual, magical, and metaphysical brought together through cinema.
Emmanuel Laurent’s unconventional documentary is centered on the friendship between Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, which in many ways became the foundation of the Nouvelle Vague.
This 1995 documentary, cowritten and codirected and hosted by Martin Scorsese, is one of the most passionate and informative explorations of classic American cinema.
“Do you have to be miserable to be funny?” That’s the question that comedian and actor Kevin Pollak poses to his fellow performers in this documentary.
