Thought-Provoking Documentaries

Thought-Provoking Documentaries

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Thought-Provoking Documentaries
  • Radio Unnameable

    Movie

    Directed by Jessica Wolfson, Paul Lovelace • Documentary • 2012 • US • English
    Featuring Bob Fass, Judy Collins, Robert Downey Sr.

    For nearly 50 years, legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves with his free-form program Radio Unnameable, a cultural hub for music, polit...

  • Walking on Water

    Movie

    Directed by Andrey M Paounov • Documentary • 2019 • US, Italy • English
    Featuring Christo, Vladimir Yavachev, Wolfgang Volz

    Ten years after the passing of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize “The Floating Piers”, a project they conceived together many years before. D...

  • Born to Be

    Movie

    Directed by Tania Cypriano • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
    Featuring Jess Ting

    With extraordinary access, “Born to Be” offers an intimate look at the pioneering work of Dr. Jess Ting (he/him) at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. There, for the first ...

  • Filmmakers for the Prosecution

    Movie

    Directed by Jean-Christophe Klotz • Documentary • 2022 • US, France • English, French with English subtitles
    Featuring KC Schulberg, Benn Schulberg

    "Filmmakers for the Prosecution" retraces the hunt by brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg for film evidence that would be used to convict the Nazi...

  • Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

    Movie

    Directed by Stuart Schulberg • Documentary • 1948 • US • English, German with English subtitles
    Featuring Liev Schreiber

    One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, “Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today” shows how international prosecutors built their case against top Nazi war criminals using...

  • The Village Detective: a song cycle

    Movie

    Directed by Bill Morrison • Documentary • 2021 • US • English, Russian with English subtitles
    Featuring Mihail Žarov

    Four reels of water-damaged 35mm film recovered by an Icelandic fishing boat serve as inspiration for Bill Morrison’s latest meditation on cinema’s past—this time centered on p...