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    • Memorial Day Documentaries - Documentaries for Memorial Day Viewing Created: Thursday, May 24, 2012 Updated: Thursday, May 24, 2012
      A list of documentaries for Memorial Day viewing.
    • Documentaries Opening in May, 2012 Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2012
      An annotated list of documentaries opening in theaters during May, 2012.
    • Indie Game: The Movie - Movie Review - 2011 Created: Sunday, May 20, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2012
      Filmmakers Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky provide a look into the hearts, minds and thought processes of four digital game creators who give their job their all.
    • Summer Must See Documentaries - List of Documemtaries Suited for Summer Viewing Created: Sunday, June 28, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2012
      Recommended for summer viewing, these documentaries will entertain you with cinematic adventures around the globe while informing you about troubling global realities and suggesting things you can ...
    • Patience (After Sebald) - Movie Review - 2012 Created: Sunday, May 13, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Review of 'Patience (after Sebald), a documentary by filmmaker Grant Gee.
    • First Position - Movie Review - 2012 Created: Sunday, May 13, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      A Review of the documentary, 'First Position,' in which Bess Kargman follows talented young ballet dancers as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix.
    • Documentaries for New Year's Resolutions for 2012 - A List of Documentaries to Inspire New Years Resolutions for 2012 Created: Monday, December 26, 2011 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      A list of documentary films to inspire New Year's resolutions for 2012
    • Crude - Movie Review - 2009 Created: Saturday, September 05, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Filmmaker Joe Berlinger exposes the Texaco/Chevron toxic waste contamination of thousands of square miles of the Ecuadorian Amazon and rain forest, and chronicles the efforts of local tribes and in...
    • The Business of Being Born - Movie Review - 2008 Created: Monday, January 07, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      In The Business of Being Born, director Abby Epstein and producer Ricki Lake focus our attention on the issue of childbearing practices in the United States in much the same way Michael Moore highl...
    • Darfur Now - Movie Review - 2007 Created: Friday, November 16, 2007 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      In Darfut Now, documentary filmmaker Ted Braun focuses on the genocide taking place in the westernmost region of Sudan, and it’s a situation that desperately needs exposure that will cause th...
    • For The Bible Tells Me So - Movie Review - 2007 Created: Saturday, October 06, 2007 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      A thoughtful and provocative documentary film that contends that Scripture and homosexuality are not mutually exclusive.
    • Forbidden Lies - Movie Review - 2009 Created: Friday, April 03, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Forbidden Lies is nonfiction thriller about Norma Khouri, a Jordanian women who wrote a best-selling nonfiction book about the 'honor killing' of a women in Amman. The story she told turned about t...
    • Eleven Minutes - Movie Review - 2009 Created: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Eleven Minutes covers the real life fashion runway debut of Jay McCarroll, the designer who won the first season of Project Runway, the fashion biz reality TV show.
    • End Of America - Movie Review of - 2008 Created: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      The End Of America presents the ten step blueprint that Hitler and other dictators used to subvert democratic process and put an end to personal freedoms. It compares, step by step, events leading ...
    • Flow - For Love of Water - Movie Review - 2008 Created: Friday, August 22, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Flow: For Love of Water (2008) describes the global crisis we face as Earth's fresh water supply constantly diminishes due to pollution, privatization and corporate greed, and wastefulness. Experts...
    • The 11th Hour - Movie Review of The 11th Hour - 2007 Created: Sunday, December 09, 2007 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      The 11th Hour, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, is a global warning that global warming will soon make our planet uninhabitable for human beings.
    • The Devil Came On Horseback - Movie Review - 2006 Created: Sunday, December 09, 2007 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      The Devil Came On Horseback is a documentary film about Brian Steidle, an ex-Marine who has become an activist committed to stopping the genocide in Darfur.
    • Good Hair - Movie Review - 2009 Created: Thursday, September 03, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Filmmaker Jeff Stilson follows comedian Chris Rock on his hilarious, yet disturbing and sometimes alarming investigation of the social implications and economic impact of African-American women's p...
    • Gotta Dance - Movie Review - 2008 Created: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      The NJ Nets auditions dancers aged 60 and older, and hires twelve of them to become the team's senior citizen hip hop squad to perform for basketball fans at home games.
    • I.O.U.S.A. Movie Review - Movie Review - 2008 Created: Friday, August 29, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      In I.O.U.S.A., filmmaker Patrick Creadon describes the depth of America’s national debt and analyses its origins, tracing it back to 1835, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the last an...
    • Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - 2008 - Movie Review Created: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Alex Gibney's documentary about the drug-influenced career of iconic countercultural journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is a fascinating account of the 1960s and 70s.
    • Gunnin' For That #1 Spot - Movie Review - 2008 Created: Saturday, July 05, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Gunnin' For That #1 Spot is Adam Yauch's documentary film about the first-ever Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic basketball game held on September 1, 2006 on Harlem's famous Rucker Park court, wi...
    • Girls Rock - Movie Review - 2007 Created: Friday, March 07, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Girls Rock follows four girls through one remarkable week of Rock 'n' Roll camp, where they learn to play instruments, form bands and perform for hundreds of people. But the Portland, Ore.-based Ro...
    • Michael Jackson This Is It - Movie Review Created: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Michael Jackson rehearses for the This Is It tour. The performances were to be the King of Pop's come back, but the tour had to be cancelled due to Jackson's untimely death two weeks before the pre...
    • Lioness - Movie Review - 2008 Created: Thursday, October 15, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Lioness, by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers, profiles a group of courageous women soldiers who were deployed to Iraq as support personnel--mechanics, cooks, and clerks--but found themselves in actual...
    • In The Footsteps of Marco Polo - Movie Review Created: Saturday, November 08, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      In The Footsteps of Marco Polo documents the great travel adventure of Frances O'Donnell and Denis Belliveau, who left their homes in Queens, NY to trace the 25,000 mile route followed by Marco Pol...
    • Man On Wire - Movie Review - 2008 Created: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Man On Wire is a documentary film about the 'artistic crime of the century,' when tightrope walker Philippe Petit walked between the World Trace Center towers during the summer of 1974.
    • Mr. Untouchable - Movie Review - 2007 Created: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Documentary director Marc Levin's film is about Leroy
    • King Corn - Movie Review - 2007 Created: Saturday, October 13, 2007 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      King Corn, Aaron Woolf's documentary, investigates the prevalence of corn in the American diet and its effect.
    • The Cove - Movie Review of The Cove - 2009 Created: Sunday, July 26, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      Filmmaker Louis Psihoyos follows animal rights activist Richard O'Barry in this shocker of a documentary that effectively exposes the annual secret slaughter of thousands of dolphins by a greedy co...
    • The Lobotomist - Movie Review - 2008 Created: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      In The Lobotomist, filmmakers Barak Goodman and John Maggio present the life, work and times of Dr. Walter Freeman, the physician who conceived of, promoted and practiced the life-altering surgical...
    • The Garden - Movie Review of The Garden - 2008 Created: Thursday, December 04, 2008 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
      The Garden is about the South Central Farmers, a group of dirt-poor Los Angelenos who took a track of urban ruin and turned it into an Eden--only to see the flora they so lovingly planted and tende...

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