
20 Jun 2006

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".

Self

NY Police Commissioner Rheinlander Waldo (archive footage)

P. C. O'Donnell (archive footage)

Evelyn Nesbit (archive footage)

Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

Willy Conklin (archive footage)

Tateh (archive footage)

Mother (archive footage)

20 Jun 2006

From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.

06 Dec 2006

Special feature documentary following the cast and crew through the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

01 Nov 2021

A canceled Thanksgiving parade and no options professionally or personally, Kimberly DiPersia and Alex R. Wagner decide it would be a perfect opportunity to travel to Florida.
04 Oct 2014
Three stand-up comedians seek fame and fortune in the hottest comedy scene in the world: San Francisco in the 1980s.

09 Mar 2007

The film follows the story of a San Francisco Pentecostal minister Richard Gazowsky on his quest to shoot a groundbreaking fantasy film called Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph (described by him as "Star Wars meets The Ten Commandments"). The film follows him and members of his church as they go through pre-production and fly to Alberobello, Italy, for initial shooting that turns out to be marred with difficulties.

22 Oct 2020

American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), one of the greatest in history, but also one of the most reserved, gave few interviews throughout his long career, and none of them were filmed. A first-person journey through his life and work, based on a recorded conversation with French film critic Michel Climent.

10 Aug 2025

Explores the life of local Martha's Vineyard legend, Craig Kingsbury, and his impact on the production of Steven Spielberg’s classic movie

01 Jan 1968

A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.

01 Jan 1965

Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual pieces. Performed by the artist herself, Ono sits motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing in a denouement of the reciprocity between victim and assailant.

01 Jun 1966

Orson Welles presents a proposed film project to prospective investors in Spain. Speaking to an audience of wealthy arts patrons, Welles outlines his vision for an improvised, documentary-style fiction set in the world of bullfighting, centered on a solitary, existential matador who stands apart from his peers. As he expounds on cinema, performance, and the ritualized spectacle of death, the film captures a project that would ultimately remain unrealized.

01 Dec 2003

An overview of the history of Great Britain's Amicus Films, which was a rival of Hammer Studios in the horror field. Included are interviews with company co-founder Max Rosenberg, cameraman Freddie Francis and director Roy Ward Baker, and clips from various Amicus productions.
01 Jan 2003
An interview with director Paul Annett, focusing on his cult film The Beast Must Die.

17 Oct 2009

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

07 Feb 1972

A humorous short documentary which features interviews with three zealous New York City roach-haters who demonstrate their own extermination techniques and recount - in hilarious detail - their own personal experiences with cockroaches. Includes an original musical composition lamenting the presence of this pesty insect in urban life

06 Jun 2024

A documentary following the unsolved murder of Venus Xtravaganza, star of the legendary film "Paris Is Burning," as Venus' two families — biological and ballroom — come together to seek answers and celebrate her legacy.

03 Apr 2020

after mourning the passing of his late wife, Bill finds the courage to travel to New York City and reconnect with his favorite mistress.

01 Jan 1997

A documentary about the making of Jane Campion's 'The Portrait of a Lady'.

13 May 2005

Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, sometimes humorous perspectives, these kids are transformed, from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to "ladies and gentlemen," on their way to try to compete in the final citywide competition.

20 Apr 2010

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring interviews with cast and crew from the twelve films spanning 3 decades.

26 Jan 1999

A look back at the making of the film "The Big Chill" (1983) with cast and crew.