Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Nicky Illis
Starring: Fiona Bruce, Bendor Grosvenor, Philip Mould
Available Quality: DivX
Fake or Fortune? is a 2011 BBC television series which examines the provenance of notable artworks. It is presented by journalist Fiona Bruce and art dealer and art historian Philip Mould.
Genres: History, Documentary, Biography
Year: 2010
Country: USA, Japan
Director: M. David Melvin
Starring: William Hurt, Dominic Kinnaird, Lockhart Ogilvie
Available Quality: DivX
A special about the origins of the English folk hero.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Lorraine Pascale
Starring: Lorraine Pascale
Available Quality: DivX
Home Cooking Made Easy is presented by Lorraine Pascale. The series sees Lorraine sharing her home cooking recipes as she uses her know-how to inspire everyone to home cook the food they love.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Richard Curson Smith
Starring: Karen Anderson, Josh Bennett, Craig Garner, Max Laird, Ryan Webb
Available Quality: DivX
Seven Dwarves is a seven-part documentary reality television series commissioned by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. The show follows seven dwarf actors as they prepare for and take part in the pantomine Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.The series began broadcasting on 16 August 2011 in the 9pm primetime slot. The first episode attracted more than 2.5 million viewers. The subsequent episodes were equally popular, with the second episode being watched by 2.77 million people.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Kerry Brierley
Starring: The Naked Cowboy
Available Quality: DivX
A look at the life of 16-year-old Jasmine Burkitt at just 3ft 8in tall she is one of the shortest teenagers in the UK. She goes to New York to meet people with similar conditions, goes to a pop concert and meets her estranged father.
Genres: History, Documentary
Year: 1988
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Ron Mann
Starring: Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Bill Griffith, Robert Crumb, Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe
Available Quality: DivX
In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of W...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2010
Country: USA, Australia
Director: Unknown
Starring: Joe Cross, Phil Riverstone
Available Quality: DivX
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn't end well- with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn't far behind. FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe's personal mission to regain his health. With doctors and conventional medicines unable to help long-term, Joe turns to the only option left, the body's ability to heal itself. He trades in the junk food and hits the road with juicer...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Lee Fulkerson
Starring: Matthew Lederman, John McDougall, Joey Aucoin, Neal Barnard, Gene Baur, San'Dera Brantley-Nation, Junshi Chen
Available Quality: DivX
What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug and major medical operations have become routine. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country's three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to "battle" these very conditions. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases. Could it be there's a single solution to all of these problems? A solution so comprehensive, but so utterly straig...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Ram Dass, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Garcia, Jack Kerouac, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir
Available Quality: DivX
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Rand Courtney
Starring: Rand Courtney
Available Quality: DivX
What happens when a sex-crazed, beautiful couple takes to the road looking for new experience? You get The Ferris Wheel. Jeremy and Kate Ferris open their lives to the joys and weirdness of their open marriage. An experience that isn't like any other. Jeremy is a millionaire who hasn't worked in years, never wants to settle down, and whose sexual desires know no limits. Kate is barely out of college, a swimsuit model, and sexually adventurous. Together they take viewers around the world. From New York to Bangkok, Jeremy and Kate take us on adventures in each city that are beyond unique. Jump on the Ferris Wheel with Jeremy and Kate late night...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Philip Smith
Starring: Dan Cruickshank
Available Quality: DivX
If asked to name the largest and grandest country houses in Britain, many would list obvious candidates; Chatsworth, Belvoir, Castle Howard, Petworth, but few would name Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, the house featured in the next episode of Dan Cruickshanks The Country House Revealed. One of the largest private homes in Europe, this leviathan slowly slipping into obscurity since family feuds and a vindictive Socialist minister caused the house to decline from being the greatest to being neglected. Now, after ten years of hard work by the current owner, the house makes its first steps back towards the public stage but is the pri...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: USA, UK
Director: Thomas Jacobi
Starring: Thomas Jacobi
Available Quality: DivX
This is a phenomenal documentary of the tragic events on 9/11. My sincere thanks to the producers for documenting the day as it unfolded through the eyes of our nations leaders. May those who perished rest in peace. We will never forget!
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Janice Sutherland
Starring: Gwilym Lee, Baraheen Ashrafi, Anna Clare Burnett, Deena Burnett, Halley Burnett, Madison Burnett, Tom Burnett
Available Quality: DivX
Ten years on, Children Of 9/11 gives a voice, for the first time, to the young people directly affected by 9/11: more than 3,000 children lost a parent on that fateful day and some were not yet born - they were still in the womb when the towers collapsed. Their lives are linked by a terrible accident of fate that has made their childhoods part of the most significant and terrifying event of modern times. Over the course of a year, Children of 9/11 has followed eleven children from six families across America. We'll hear from some who are only just beginning to comprehend what they lost on that day, whilst others, remarkably, are now able to f...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Dav Kaufman
Starring: Marc Bailey, Brian Barczyk, Chad Brown, Russ Case, Garrick Demeyer, Jennifer Hensley, Dav Kaufman
Available Quality: DivX
It is estimated that there are 13 million pet reptiles in the United States alone. That means that approximately 4% of households in the country houses a least one reptile, some have even more. In fact, there are even a few who have achieved quite a wealth with their reptile breeding programs. These people are known as "Herpers" stemming from the word Herpetology; the study of reptiles and amphibians. Still, the fact remains that there are two kinds of people in the world; those who are reptile fanatics, and those who have no idea that there are people in the world who are, in fact, reptile fanatics. Herpers is a feature-length documentary fo...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2008
Country: USA, France
Director: Anne Aghion
Starring: Allan Ashworth, Andrew Podoll, Adam R. Lewis, Kelly Gorz, Jena Ferrarese, Phil Jacobsen, Andrew Asher
Available Quality: DivX
Unique in the genre of exploration and adventure films, ICE PEOPLE takes you on one of the earth's most seductive journeys-Antarctica. Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion spent four months "on the ice" with modern-day polar explorers, to find out what drives dedicated researchers to leave the world behind in pursuit of science, and to capture the true experience of living and working in this extreme environment. And, as it turns out, the film also witnesses one of the most significant discoveries about climate change in recent Antarctic science. Intense public focus on climate change has turned the shores of Antarctica into a new t...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: Australia
Director: Angelo Cardamone
Starring: Angelo Cardamone, Josephine Cardamone, David Cardamone, Stefan Cardamone, Adrian Cardamone
Available Quality: DivX
The Family is a major new eight-part observational documentary series that will lift the lid on family dynamics to build a revealing and intimate portrait of family life in Australia today.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Thom Beers, Gerald R. Williams
Starring: Thom Beers, Gerald R. Williams, Wayne Rycraft, Justin Darr, Mike LaMonica, Joshua Casteel, Cheston McElhaney
Available Quality: DivX
Black Gold is a documentary-style reality television series that chronicles three oil drilling rigs in Andrews County, Texas, 30 miles northwest of Odessa. It is produced by Thom Beers, creator of Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers. The Black Gold theme song is sung by country music star Trace Adkins. The title "Black Gold" comes from a slang term for oil.
Genres: History, Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: Unknown
Director: Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Patricia Clarkson
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Giamatti, Campbell Scott, Frances Sternhagen, Tom Hanks, Kevin Conway, Blythe Danner
Available Quality: DivX
"Prohibition" was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans, to protect individuals, families, and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. But the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitution paradoxically caused millions of Americans to rethink their definition of morality.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Ian Leese, Paul Tilzey
Starring: Andrew Graham-Dixon
Available Quality: DivX
Andrew Graham-Dixon begins his history of American art with portraits of Puritan settlers and the dark truth behind Benjamin West's most famous painting.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Davina McCall, Nicky Campbell
Starring: Davina McCall, Nicky Campbell
Available Quality: DivX
Presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, the series offers a last chance for people who are desperate to find long lost relatives. The series helps a handful of people, some of whom have been searching in vain for many years, find the family members they are desperately seeking. It explores the background and context of each family's estrangement and tracks the detective work and often complex and emotional process of finding each lost relative before they are reunited. With the help and support of Davina and Nicky, each relative is guided and supported through the process of tracing the member of their family they have been desperately...