Documentary

Hawking gives us the ultimate guide to the universe, a ripping yarn based on real science, spanning the whole of space and time — from the ...

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry ...

Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.

The film’s title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously ...

A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview ...

The simple actions of a young boy on the beach provide visual metaphors for the normally unseen world. The camera adds a profound dimension to ...

The official sequel to the original shockumentary, presenting new and bizarre behavior from around the world, including cruelty, graphic gore, ...

A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.

Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if ...

Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer’s history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic ...

Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian.

Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short ...

This final True-Life Adventure would also appear to be one of the best, as we go into the South American jungle to observe the jaguar. Jungle Cat ...

Documentary about the potentially dangerous and unpredictable drug LSD. Various experts discuss how LSD is made and the hazards involved in using ...

A 10-minute portrait of modernist poet and de Andrade’s godfather, Manuel Bandeira, is clear in its affection for it subject, though like many ...

Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from ...

Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.

“Mein Kampf” presents the raising and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life Hitler, which is ...

Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across ...

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; ...

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to ...

Lowell Thomas travels across Europe and the Middle East on his way to attend the coronation of King Mahendra in Nepal.

A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in ...

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing ...

Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience ...

Using a specially designed transparent ‘canvas’ to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with ...

With a combination of documentary footage and animation, the science and history of rockets, and the effects of space travel on man are illustrated.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler’s concentration camps.