Documentary / Biography - DVD

The story of a 6th generation Texan, Gaston Davis, who comes from a ranching background as he explores ranches from Montana to Argentina, and everywhere in between. Gaston works alongside American Cowboys from North to Central to South America. The focus of this documentary...

Haunted by the effects of PTSD induced by fighting a war, the physical injuries that led to copious amounts of opiates, the emotional strain of his squad leader committing suicide, losing his best friend from overdosing on heroin, all combined with his drug addiction...

The attack on Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December 1941 changed the world forever. The United States entered WW2. More than 110,000 citizens of Japanese origin were rounded up and dispatched to camps until the end of the war. Hollywood was quick to...

Benedict Arnold is not the villain of American history most people were taught to believe. New facts and never before presented material illuminate his heroic contributions to the American Revolution and explain his later change of allegiance.

The dashing, dazzling and debonair Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who "swash buckled in Zorro, dueled exuberantly in Robin Hood and soared magnificently in The Thief of Bagdad". He was the "First King of Hollywood". His life story unfolds with American history and...

January 18, 2019: it was the smirk heard round the world. Surrounded by cheering classmates on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., 17-year old Nick Sandmann, a student at northern Kentucky's private, affluent Covington Catholic High School, instantly and unwittingly became...

Throughout time, witches have represented many things for women -- maturity, sexuality, rebirth, revenge and feminism. Witches are characters who often live in a society that oppresses or fears them for their power -- they represent how women have struggled to find their place...

The USA has a severe problem: a lack of open sexuality and eroticism in Film and TV. After the Hays Code had faded away, Hollywood exploited the newly found freedom in films like Basic Instinct and Body Heat to name but a few. But...

<p>Roadmap Genesis is a film documentary that makes the case that the Book of Genesis is a roadmap containing guideposts on how to live a productive, fruitful, and fulfilling life that will help our society lift itself out of its current decline and return...

<p>"Roadmap Jerusalem" is a documentary that tracks the connection of Jerusalem to the Jewish people by exploring the biblical, archaeological and political history of the city. Over the course of filming, Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz comes to the realization that only under the control of...

<p>A retrospective look at the Classic 1974 film "Where the Red Fern Grows," with interviews, insights and never-before-seen images and newly transferred HD footage. The producer, Lyman Dayton, leads us on a personal, incident by incident tour of the creation of the original film...

When people think of Israel, it is often in terms of war or ancient religion. But there is much more to it then missiles and prayers. This documentary examines a side of Israel that is too often overlooked: its thriving gay community.

An intimate and unflinching look over 12 months at the hardscrabble lives of hustlers in downtown Montreal.

A look behind the scenes of the Czech gay porn boom. Porn producer Dan Komar, and his ex-lover/star Aaron Hawke, shown what life is like on both sides of the camera.

On May 30, 2017 an image of Griffin holding a mask that resembled the severed head of President Trump was released -- the image went global and everything she had worked for in her life, vanished overnight. The film chronicles the unprecedented and historic...

Celebrated actor and comedian Jay Baruchel has an obsession with a sport and a team far from home, in another continent: he is a massive fan of Glasgow's Celtic Football Club. And like millions of fans around the world, Jay defies crazy distances and...

What happens when a six-year-old boy in Kenya is abandoned by his family and left to raise himself on the streets? Mully is no ordinary rags-to-riches tale. It's the true story of Charles Mully, whose unlikely stratospheric rise to wealth and power leaves him...

A Plastic Ocean is a new feature-length adventure documentary that brings to light the consequences of our global disposable lifestyle. We thought we could use plastic once and throw it away with negligible impact to humans and animals. That turns out to be untrue....

I see multiple colonial governors," says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. "We are held captive by the donor community." The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty...

A documentary about adults who share their most embarrassing childhood diaries, letters, poems and art... with total strangers. Transporting viewers back to a time of awkward firsts, the film captures the raw energy of live Mortified stage shows and examines what their popularity reveals...

Man has found a new best friend in this heartwarming collective portrait of nine unique men whose lives have been proudly and forever changed by their love for cats.

Unveil the mysterious world of the Men in Black in this gripping documentary. Delve into the shadowy organization's origins, covert operations, and encounters with extraterrestrial phenomena. Witness the enigmatic agents, their elusive history, and the enduring legends that surround them. Discover the truth behind...

This lively debut doc is a love letter to Melbourne's once vibrant network of video shops and the artists that used them.

<p>Donald Trump, Howard Schmuck, Gui Fuck, Jeanine Cobbledick, and 3 generations of Donald Ducks are just a few of the subjects of The Strange Name Movie, a documentary about people living with unbelievable names.</p>

Aishe, Khawla and Rehab are on a mission - they repair leakages, clean water tanks and show housewives how to handle water properly. Aishe, after losing her husband, was trained by her best friend and self-assigned first female plumber of Jordan Khawla Al-Sheikh, in...

A Karachi garment factory fire kills 260 workers, amongst them Saeeda's only son. Her transformation from domestic mother to labour rights activist brings her to the centre of a re-emerging Pakistani labour movement and a chance for systemic change.

Three expats learning to drive realize that the great challenge is not the strange traffic rules (in their new countries(, but rather their ingrained behavioral patterns. They all need a driving license somewhat urgently. While taking lessons and trying to pass their tests, they...

Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran's underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in Tehran they try their luck selling their...

In Havana, transsexuals Odette, Juani and Malu wait for genital surgery - performed by European top surgeons and organized by the president's daughter, Mariela Castro. Castro is leading a sexual revolution combined with classic state socialism. New possibilities face old problems: will Cuban trans...

The Badjao are sea nomads living near Borneo. For centuries, they lived on the sea and from the sea. But the fishing industry and diving resorts make it difficult for them to survive. With his uncle Alexan, young Sari goes on his first fishing...

Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.

Petri is a product of the marketing industry, an ideal consumer with an apartment filled with all kinds of stuff. Dumped by his girlfriend, burdened by a huge mortgage, scarred by a maxed out credit card, and haunted by the stuff that failed to...

Tapdig has a dream of bringing a European cow into his picturesque village in Azerbaijan to improve the conditions of his poor family. He decides to call the cow Madona.His passion unsettles the traditional community, the Old Men see a threat in having a...

With an AI, you have to keep your sentences short and to the point. This piece of advice is given to Chuck as he's picking up his robot partner Harmony fresh from the factory. In Tokyo, Grandma Sakurai is given the cute robot Pepper,...

Clothing has forever distinguished and cemented bonds of cultural identity, but along the Peruvian Andes a network of encoded messages is woven into every hat. This is a story of how wool and straw become forms of communication and resistance- where one's hat can...

Follow six adventurers as they retrace the route taken by a GPS-collared Oregon wolf, Wolf OR-7. The first known wolf in California in nearly 90 years, and he is still out there.

The cost of free water follows the journey of a drop of water through the whole Montreal water system. Overconsumption, waste, inadequate filtration process.

A documentary film that follows a group of snowboarders and surfers as they drift from their respective sports into the world of activism. Together they journey across the west coast of British Columbia, weaving a story of learning, inspiration and resistance as they encounter...

Paco and his forest rangers know their protected areas cannot be defended or saved from the multiple human activities threatening it from all sides. Yet, every day despite the infinite limitations these men and women fight on, struggling against impossible odds to do their...

Eduardo Cofino has been an entrepeneur, politician, ex-con, basketball player, triathlonist and family man throughout his incident prone life. On his 60th birthday he decides to stage an extravagant stand up musical show dressed as a woman to tell his life story. This is...

San Miguel Ixtahuacan, a mountainous village in the heart of the Guatemalan Highlands has been desolated for over 450 years. Ever since the distant land's mineralized soil has barely provided enough for subsistence agriculture. The harsh geography around having them cut off from the...

The long-standing friendship between Javier Lobon, a CSIC researcher, and the great curaca Uitoto Ama Hitoma, has made it possible to hold a conference on the dialogue between science and indigenous culture. Through spectacular images of the most extensive jungle on the planet, representatives...

Sorolla's generation represented the pinnacle of centuries of artistic development. Among all of his contemporaries, Sorolla was probably the most gifted, which explains his fabulous success. However, artistic trends changed at breakneck speed and the art world soon forgot about him. Nevertheless, the general...

The Sacramento is a river with two personalities, one that retains a sense of wildness, home to endangered salmon, to otter, eagle and osprey. One that is a massive plumbing system; it's waters captured and transferred hundreds of miles for agriculture and drinking. Traveling...

Cabo de Gata, located In the southeast of Spain, is the coastline that best preserves the essence of the Mediterranean. That is why in the last 40 years it has become the home of artists of many disparate nationalitles. Here, seven of them, from...

Through the riveting stories of five American communities, 'Right to Harm' exposes the devastating public health impact that factory farming has on many of our country's most disadvantaged citizens. Known formally as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations - or CAFOs - these facilities produce millions...

Not Without Us follows seven grassroots activists from around the world to the 21st U.N. Climate Talks in Paris. With climate change already affecting their lives, they reveal what's at stake if a strong agreement to limit carbon emissions is not reached. Yet, the...

An independent documentary that blends the rush of snowboarding and surfing with powerful story telling of the threats fossil fuel expansion is already having in northern communities. The adventure leads the crew to communities on the front lines of resource extraction, from the Alberta...

During 2015 Everett Custom Homes purchased a property in Portland's Eastmoreland Neighborhood. On the lot stood three giant sequoias, which the developer planned to cut down. "Giants" details the efforts and challenges neighbors of Eastmoreland confronted in their attempts to save these unique trees....

After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20.000 worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet.