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When the Bough Breaks: A Documentary About Postpartum Depression
8.5
2017

When the Bough Breaks: A Documentary About Postpartum Depression

When The Bough Breaks is a feature length documentary about postpartum depression and perinatal mood disorders. When act...

Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash
4.3
2020

Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

The movie centers on drummer Artimus Pyle's experience as a band member in Lynyrd Skynyrd and the tragically fateful day...

Separated
5.0
2024

Separated

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family s...

The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini
7.1
2013

The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini

The outcome of the 1982 WBC Lightweight title bout between Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and Duk Koo Kim is examined.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
2023

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie

Writing, pre-production and the challenges of crafting a sequel to a game-changing film, as told by the filmmakers who w...

Stabbed in the Face: The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Violent Band
2025

Stabbed in the Face: The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Violent Band

An alternative documentary following the trail of blood and carnage of Philadelphia’s own Deathmatch Rock n’ Roll pionee...

Princess Diana: The Quiet Revolution
2017

Princess Diana: The Quiet Revolution

No one in history has ever been so universally adored as Diana, Princess of Wales. In her short life she captivated the ...

You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack
7.1
2024

You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack

Through key testimonies, this documentary looks at a gang rape that took place during the 2016 San Fermín festival and s...

Russ Meyer - Le Saint Des Seins
8.5
2015

Russ Meyer - Le Saint Des Seins

Sons of Perdition
6.8
2010

Sons of Perdition

An inside look at polygamist teens who have become religious refugees in mainstream America.

Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees
7.6
2017

Stayin' Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees

A star-studded tribute concert celebrating the iconic pop trio's impressive career.

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
8.5
1988

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
7.3
2003

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast ...

Un milanese a Milano - Walter Valdi
2025

Un milanese a Milano - Walter Valdi

Steely Dan: Two Against Nature
6.5
2000

Steely Dan: Two Against Nature

Steely Dan has not had a new studio album in twenty years--"Two Against Nature" was worth the wait! This concert, record...

Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008

Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

LSD Guru Tim Leary teaches us all to die by dying himself in what he calls his "custom death". This documentary deals wi...

Risky Business: A Look Inside America's Adult Film Industry
2013

Risky Business: A Look Inside America's Adult Film Industry

Risky Business: A Look Inside America's Adult Film Industry examines the social, psychological, and economic impacts of ...

You Can't Fool a Camera
5.7
1941

You Can't Fool a Camera

This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when...

Bergman: A Year in a Life
7.4
2018

Bergman: A Year in a Life

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of ...

Napoleon: Destiny and Death
7.2
2021

Napoleon: Destiny and Death

May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. T...