Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: UK
Director: Jeff Wilkinson
Starring: Dan Snow, Gelu Florea, Sally Grainger
Available Quality: Hi Def
Iain Hollingshead reviews Rome's Lost Empire, BBC One's one-off documentary in which Dan Snow uses satellite technology to identify the lost cities, amphitheatres and forts of ancient Rome.
Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 2012
Country: Australia
Director: Ian Darling
Starring: Paul Kelly, Michael Barclay, Kasey Chambers
Available Quality: Hi Def
An intimate portrait of Paul Kelly, Australia's foremost singer-songwriter. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has documented the history of our country, described its landscapes and cities, and captured the lives and loves of its citizens. Kelly has written over 350 songs, penned lyrics for many other singers, co-authored songs and written for film. But like all great artists Paul Kelly is both candid and reserved. He has lived in the public eye but has remained an enigma.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: UK
Director: Kim Duke
Starring: Zoë Wanamaker
Available Quality: Hi Def
With pensions barely covering the cost of living these days, are pensioners being driven to crime to pay the bills? Evidence is mounting that many who have spent their lives on the straight and narrow are lucratively crossing to the wrong side of the law in their mature years. While some have made their career change intentionally, for others its been more of an accidental affair. Adele sort of fell into being a madam when people got the wrong end of the stick about her massage business and she couldnt bring herself to set them straight. Meanwhile, 62-year-old Trevor Cairns, was jailed for a year for possession of ?13,000 worth of cannabi...
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Year: 2010
Country: Germany, France
Director: Patricio Guzmán
Starring: Víctor González, Gaspar Calas, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel, Vicky Saaveda, Violeta Berrios
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: UK
Director: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Starring: Michael Parkinson, Harold Evans, Don McCullin
Available Quality: Hi Def
It is perhaps a flaw in Jacqui Morris's excellent documentary portrait of war photographer Don McCullin that it implies he effectively retired in the early 1980s, having been alienated by the Sunday Times's new owner Rupert Murdoch and incoming editor Andrew Neil. In fact, McCullin (now 77 years old) was taking pictures of the war in Aleppo this month, for the Times. The 60s to the 80s were the high-water mark of McCullin's career: he found brilliant and searing images in pre-wall Berlin, Cyprus, the Congo, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon. His then editor, Harold Evans, is interviewed here extensively and says he is a "genius". It is h...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2013
Country: USA
Director: Alison Ellwood
Starring: Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit
Available Quality: Hi Def
The life and times of the super successful American soft-rock band, Eagles.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Steven Hoggard
Starring: Steven Hoggard
Available Quality: Hi Def
The final result that the lampshade that was the object of the entire show, and was dragged halfway around the world and back, and studied by multiple laboratories, wasn't even made from human skin. So the title of the show, which dragged me into watching it, was pure fantasy and the show was was a waste of my time.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Arlene Marechal
Starring: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Wes Craven
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
In the autobiographical I AM NANCY, the focus is squarely on Heather Langenkamp and her unique experience playing Wes Craven's legendary teen heroine Nancy Thompson. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Heather asks the burning question: "Why Freddymania, and not Nancymania?" After personally experiencing the Freddy Krueger marketing craze, the rise of horror convention fandom and the phenomenon of eight Nightmare On Elm Street films, Heather reflects on the relevance of heroes in this modern age of monster lovers. Prepare to put yourself in Nancy's shoes and think about Elm Street in a whole new way.
Genres: Adventure, History, Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: USA, Egypt
Director: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Starring: Mohamed Abdel Koddous, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Hosni Mubarak
Available Quality: Hi Def
Shot in the center of Egypt's Tahrir Square from the beginning of the battles to the climax of the celebration, 'In Tahrir Square - 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution' helps audiences experience first-hand the people-powered revolt that brought down a dictator and changed Egypt forever.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2013
Country: Germany
Director: Benjamin Eicher, Timo Joh. Mayer
Starring: Unknown
Available Quality: Hi Def
Amazing Oceans 3D is a fantastic journey through the magic of the deep blue sea. Let yourself be amazed by little schools of fish that swim right into your living room and experience dolphins and whale sharks that visit you on your sofa. Shot in stereoscopic 3D, Amazing Oceans 3D is a breathtakingly beautiful 3D experience for the whole family. Fun for the young and the young at heart! Not 3D ! 2D
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2010
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Jeff Prosserman
Starring: Bernie Madoff, Frank Casey, Gaytri Kachroo
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
The film includes interviews with Markopolos and fellow investigators Frank Casey, Neil Chelo, Michael Ocrant, and Gaytri Kachroo over how they pursued and exposed Bernie Madoff and his elaborate ponzi scheme for bilking investors out of $50 billion.
Genres: Documentary, Short
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Randy Couture, Leo Braudy, Chris Carle
Available Quality: Hi Def
Big guns, bigger heroes of the 1980?s and the rise of the action film.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Netherlands, Denmark
Director: Simon Klose
Starring: Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Unknown
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
Sexy Baby is the first documentary film to put faces to a seismic cultural shift: the cyber age is creating a new sexual landscape...
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: USA, New Zealand
Director: Amy Berg
Starring: Michael Carson, Jason Baldwin, Michael Baden, Holly Ballard, Jamie Clark Ballard, Jennifer Bearden, Patrick Benca
Available Quality: DivX
West of Memphis is an examination of a failure of justice in Arkansas. The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense, allows the film to show the investigation, research and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the American South.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands, Denmark
Director: Lauren Greenfield
Starring: Virginia Nebab, David Siegel, Jackie Siegel
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles. During the next two years, their empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis.
Genres: History, Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: C.J. Hunt
Starring: C.J. Hunt, Susan Loraine Anderson, Loren Cordain, Michael R. Eades, Benjamin Lamm, Lane Sebring, Gary Taubes
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
"The Perfect Human Diet" is an unprecedented global exploration to find a solution to our epidemic of overweight obesity and diet-related disease - the #1 killer in America. The film bypasses current dietary group-think by exploring modern dietary science, previous historical findings, ancestral native diets and the emerging field of human dietary evolution; revealing for the first time, the authentic human diet. Film audiences finally have the opportunity to see what our species really needs for optimal health and are introduced to a practical template based on these breakthrough scientific facts.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Steve Gagné
Starring: Albert Einstein, Deepak Chopra, John Callahan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lane Andrews, Dwynne Arnesson, John Bedini
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
An unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's really going on in our world by following the money upstream - uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future.
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Kelly Duane, Katie Galloway
Starring: Scott Crow, Brandon Darby, Matthew Vadum
Available Quality: DivX
A pair of childhood friends from Texas who set out to prove themselves.
Genres: Sport, Documentary, Biography
Year: 2012
Country: Germany
Director: Sebastian Dehnhardt
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Larry Merchant, Don King, Lennox Lewis, Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, Lamon Brewster
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
KLITSCHKO tells the captivating story of the boxing worlds mostfamous brothers: Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko...