Documentary / Biography

<p>Twenty years after his groundbreaking Emmy -nominated film Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street, which chronicled three years in the lives of five young heroin addicts in San Francisco's Tenderloin, Academy Award -winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki turns his focus to America's...

<p>This biopic chronicles the professional life of popular playwright Moss Hart who wrote such classics as The Man Who Came to Dinner. The story begins as Hart is a struggling writer and ends with his great success as a writer of stage comedies.</p>

<p>"An adventure that makes the blood race romance, mystery -- and peril!" So promised the North American Newspaper Alliance in 1928 when they sponsored an Amazon expedition to determine the fate of a famous explorer who hadn't been seen in three years. Led by...

<p>After surviving a flood as an infant, the buoyant Molly Brown sets out to find her way in life. She assures a saloon owner she can sing and play piano and before long becomes the bride of up-and-comer Johnny Brown. After throwing a disastrous...

<p>From executive producers/writers/directors Jay and Mark Duplass comes a new season of Togetherness, the comedy that follows the highs and lows of four adults trying to balance their relationships and individual dreams. After nearly reaching their breaking points last season, Brett and Michelle (Mark...

<p>San Francisco has long enjoyed its reputation as the counter-culture capital of America, drawing bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists into its streets. With the onset of the digital Gold Rush, however, young members of the tech elite are flocking to the West Coast to...

<p>Discover Michael Collins' inspirational journey from respected statesman to political martyr. One hundred years ago, the heroic leader of the Irish Republican Army fought a violent civil rights battle for Ireland's independence from Britain with a combination of espionage and urban guerrilla warfare. Neil...

Project Greenlight Executive produced by Oscar and Golden Globe - winners Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Project Greenlight spans the entire filmmaking process, taking a revealing, uncensored look at the challenges facing a first-time director. Equipped with a Hollywood-vetted script and surrounded by a...

<p>Every spring in America more than 8,000 people are shot and killed. Directed and produced by the Emmy -winning filmmaking team of Shari Cookson and Nick Doob, Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014 tells some of these stories. Made entirely from existing, found...

<p>Toe Tag Parole: To Live and Die on Yard A explores one prison's handling of the nation's extreme sentencing policy: life without the possibility of parole. Faced with the largest population of men serving life sentences, the California Department of Corrections developed an experimental,...

<p>Author, playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer takes center stage in this candid portrait that examines the monumental effect of one of the most important -- and controversial -- figures in contemporary gay America, a political firebrand who gave voice to the outrage and...

<p>This feature documentary visits Montgomery County, Georgia, one year after the town merged its racially divided proms, and during an historic election campaign that many hoped would lead to its first African-American sheriff. Photographer Gillian Laub, whose photographs of earlier segregated proms brought the...

<p>In 2012, Gilberto Valle, a 28-year-old NYC police officer, was labeled "The Cannibal Cop" in the tabloid media after he was charged with conspiracy to kidnap, cook and eat a number of female victims, whose information he had gathered through NYPD databases. At trial,...

<p>That Kelly lad sure can dance. Fred Kelly. In his only credited film role, he and legendary brother Gene happily hoof an "l Love to Go Swimmin' with Wimmen" specialty romp in this colorful musical biopic about Sigmund Romberg, the ex-piano man who went...

<p>Meet Hilary Knight in this up-close-and-personal portrait of the illustrator and artist whose whimsical life is rivaled only by Eloise the iconic book character he brought to life. Executive produced by Girls creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, this documentary short finds Knight looking...

<p>Kay Francis portrays a woman who dedicates her life to humanity in this stirring true story of Victorian England's greatest heroine. Trained in Europe as a professional nurse, Florence Nightingale (Francis) finds no hospital in London will hire her. Defying the tradition that wartime...

<p>Behind the fanciful title of The Robin Hood of El Dorado, director William A. Wellman serves up a rousing and surprisingly thoughtful Hollywood Western hybrid unique in its time. Part biography, it's based on the real-life story of Mexican farmer Joaquin Murrieta, driven to...

<p>Directed by Emmy -nominated filmmaker Dan Reed (HBO's Terror in Mumbai and Terror in Moscow), this 60-minute documentary is a searing account of the events of September 21, 2013, when members of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab stormed the Westgate Mall in Kenya, ultimately...

<p>From 1971-73, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. When the existence of the tapes was exposed during the Watergate scandal, Nixon refused to allow their release, explaining they contained "blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects" that could...

<p>Through behind-the-scenes footage and interviews conducted by award-winning actor Steve Buscemi -- a former firefighter with Engine Company 55 in downtown Manhattan -- this film touches on the personal journeys of several current and former firefighters while revisiting some of the FDNY's milestones, including...

<p>Could a simple country nurse possibly have found a treatment for polio when educated doctors have failed? This is the remarkable true story of Elizabeth Kenny (Rosalind Russell), a nurse far out in the Australian bush, who follows her instincts to treat small children...

<p>Never one to stay typecast, Rosalind Russell followed three years of prime comedy roles (The Women, His Girl Friday, My sister Eileen and more) into the wild blue yonder of Flight for Freedom, an ambitious drama reverberating with world war II-era heroism and inspired...

<p>Emmy nominated and HBO comedic veteran Bill Maher marks his tenth solo performance with this one-hour stand-up special at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. One of the most politically astute comedians in America today, Maher's unflinching honesty and commitment to never pulling a...

<p>What's wrong with the younger generation? Concerned when his son indulges in something forbidden by his faith, Methodist parson William Spence decides to witness the evildoing first hand: he goes to a movie. Fredric March portrays Spence, a man of the cloth who knows...

<p>Michael Collins, the man and the movie, stands tall. The man is a hero whose fighting tactics became a model for other 20th-century struggles, a statesman who negotiated Ireland's break with England, a political martyr slain for the great cause he lived and breathed....

<p>The revealing HBO Documentary Film, The Case Against 8, takes an in-depth look at the movement to overturn Prop 8 and at the historic federal lawsuit filed to challenge its constitutionality. The film chronicles a five-year struggle for marriage equality that changed history and...

<p>Raymond Massey ignites the screen as famed abolitionist John Brown in this action-packed historical drama costarring Debra Paget and Jeffrey Hunter. "Kansas shall be free!" So proclaims John Brown (Massey), whose fiery fanaticism in cites his six sons and followers to murder pro-slavers so...

<p>Errol Flynn ("The Adventures of Robin Hood," "Captain Blood") stars in this fun-filled biography of 19th-century boxing champion Jim Corbett. Co-starring Ward Bond ("My Darling Clementine," "It's a Wonderful Life").</p>

<p>More than 1.5 million children in America are grieving the premature loss of a parent. The Emmy -nominated documentary One Last Hug follows three heartbreaking but ultimately empowering days at Camp Erin, a bereavement camp that offers children who lost loved ones the support...

<p>NEWLY REMASTERED VERSION He was a riverboat pilot, reporter, penniless prospector, Civil War dropout, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, world traveler, pomposity burster and raconteur. It turns out the man who created adventures for Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and a Connecticut Yankee led a...

<p>Legendary actor James Cagney stars in the role for which he won an Academy Award--the life of singer, dancer and songwriter George M. Cohan, a true Yankee Doodle Dandy. This non-stop musical tour de force sings, dances and celebrates the life and career of...

<p>Filmed in Chattanooga, TN, Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times of Katrina Gilbert is a personal journey that follows a year in the life of Katrina Gilbert, a 30-year-old woman earning just above the minimum wage as a certified nursing assistant. Katrina never...

<p>Literal and creationist interpretation of the Bible is the fastest-growing branch of Christianity in the U.S. and around the world, with 46% of Americans believing the Genesis account of creation is the literal truth. Directed by award-winning British documentarian Antony Thomas (HBO's For Neda),...

<p>There is an entire generation of American Muslim children who do not know a world before September 11, 2001. These children have never experienced a country which is largely unaware of, or neutral about, Islam. Instead, their faith is scrutinized and patriotism questioned, even...

<p>Distinguished poet, translator, critic, and teacher Edwin Honig received worldwide praise, as well as honorary knighthoods from Spain and Portugal. First Cousin Once Removed is acclaimed filmmaker Alan Berliner's deeply personal portrait of Honig -- his friend, cousin and mentor - and Honig's journey...

<p>"Everybody has problems. Nobody goes through life unscathed, and I think if you write about those things, you're going to touch people," says Stephen Sondheim at the start of Six by Sondheim, an intimate look into his long and prolific career creating ground-breaking work...

<p>Classics fans who have a mixture of curiosity, an interest in Parne11’s luminous leads and talented supporting players and an appreciative eye for MGM’s second- to-none production of costume dramas may be eager to reassess this often- dismissed film. Clark Gable and Myrna Loy,...

<p>Today, more military members are lost to suicide than on the battlefield. After serving their country overseas, many veterans in their darkest moments turn to the unique services of the Veterans Crisis Line to help with traumas like post-traumatic stress, depression, homelessness and drug...

<p>In her first-ever HBO solo special, Sarah Silverman takes the stage for an evening of adults-only stand-up comedy. Taped live in front of an intimate audience of 39 fans at Largo, a music and comedy club in Los Angeles, Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles...

<p>Don't call her Miss...call her Doctor. The early career of New York's first female hospital intern is the compelling subject of this biopic from the screenwriters of Johnny Belinda based on Emily Dunning Barringer's memoir. june Allyson plays Emily, who struggles to gain access...

<p>An official selection in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Life According to Sam explores the remarkable world of Sam Berns and the relentless pursuit of a treatment and cure by his parents (both doctors) to save their son from...

<p>He penned the lines. Walter Donaldson, George Gershwin and others provided the music. Yet there was a more vital partner in lyricist Gus Kahn's life: Grace LeBoy Kahn, who put the love into his love songs. Doris Day and Danny Thomas are the Kahns...

<p>Using exclusive interviews and spanning half a decade, The Cheshire Murders reveals the shocking police failures and untold personal dramas behind the notorious rape-arson-homicide case that shook Cheshire, Connecticut in the summer of 2007. In this quiet, bedroom suburb, Jennifer Petit and her two...

<p>"When poets love heaven and earth, fall back to watch!" exclaimed ads for this prestigious film. The hyperbole was prophetic. So many moviegoers watched The Barretts of Wimpole Street that is became one of 1934's top box-office hits. Based on Rudolf Besier's play, the...

<p>In this unique and highly intimate documentary, ten American couples -- captured in the comfort of their own beds -- openly discuss romance, sex, trust and love, revealing what makes their relationships tick. From two young New Yorkers who have split up 26 times,...

<p>Before Marv Albert, Bob Costas and Mike Breen, there was Marty Glickman. This documentary chronicles the life and career of Glickman, a Jewish-American athlete-turned-broadcaster who pioneered many of the techniques, phrases and programming innovations that are commonplace in sports reporting today. A multi-sport athlete...

<p>For children with a learning or physical disability, the focus is often on what's wrong. Miss You Can Do It celebrates what's right. This uplifting HBO Documentary Film chronicles the efforts of Abbey Curran, a former Miss Iowa USA and the first woman with...

<p>HBO addresses the issue of childhood obesity in the three-part series The Weight of the Nation for Kids, HBO's companion to its 2012 four-part, multi-platform documentary series, The Weight of the Nation. Developed in partnership with some of the world's foremost health-research organizations, The...

<p>Elephants are among the Earth's most majestic and intelligent creatures -- but for hundreds of years, they have suffered under the hands of humans. We have poached them for their tusks, chained them up in captivity, and destroyed their natural habitats. Narrated and executive...

<p>K STREET is an experimental fusion of reality and fiction--an entertaining, fly-on-the-wall look at government, filmed in and around the corridors of power in Washington. The series ventures inside the world of powerful political consultants--a world that few people ever experience first-hand. Produced on...