Documentaries

This is our ongoing documentary list, continually in progress and happily open to suggestions. Many of these films are available from Netflix and also in parts on youtube.com, which is turning out to be an amazing source of getting documentaries out to the public. Frontline has a similar way of watching full report episodes in parts on their website - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

Rural Route Films - www.ruralroutefilms.com/home.htm - we highly recommend seeing this festival if it is anywhere near you and finding the films they screen wherever you can.

Rooftop Films - www.rooftopfilms.com - they were in our building in Brooklyn, NY and screened on the roof and many other locations. They are a great source for all kinds of very unique films.

We hope you enjoy the list!



HAVE SEEN:

1. A Class Divided - Frontline: teacher Jane Elliot, in small town Iowa 1968, lesson on discrimination - brown eyes vs. blue eyes
   
2. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer - Nick Broomfield, an amazing after story to the real woman 'Monster' is based on
   
3. American Job - Randy Russel + Chris Smith (docu-drama... made by good friends of ours, Randy is a great writer, actor + artist)
   
4. American Movie - Sarah Price + Chris Smith (Sarah is another very talented friend we are big fans of, she has more films below and coming out)
   
5. An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore
6. The Big One - Michael Moore
7. Born Into Brothels
8. Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore
   
9. Bush's Brain - about Karl Rove
10. Butterfly - about Julia Butterfly Hill
11. Caesar's Park - by Sarah Price
12. Control Room - about Al Jazeera News - extremely unsettling and very thought provoking!
    
13. The Corporation - a must see film !
14. The Education of Shelby Knox - young christian girl in Texas, debates sex education with entire town
    
15. The End of Suburbia
16. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
17. Errol Morris' First Person: The Complete Series - features Temple Grandin
18. The Eyes of Tammy Faye - surprisingly very touching, Naomi cried...
19. Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore, we got to see this in a super diverse, packed audience in Brooklyn that was very vocal
    
20. 'Grey Gardens
21. The Ground Truth - Iraq Veterans, watched at a moveon.org screening
    
22. Grizzly Man - Herzog + the tragic footage of Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard
23. Hell House - wow. please watch this, especially if you haven't heard of Christian Haunted Houses
    
24. History of Disbelief - Jonathan Miller
    
25. Home Movie - Chris Smith
26. Horns & Halos - about the Bush biography 'Fortunate Son' - www.hornsandhalos.com
    
27. How's Your News
    
28. Kon-Tiki - 1950 raft expedition by Norwegian explorer
    
29. Kurt + Courtney - by Nick Broomfield, (who is so good), back story to sad, suspect outcome
    
30. Mad Hot Ballroom
31. The Natural History of the Chicken - PBS, charming
    
32. Occupation: Dreamland - Garret Scott, co-director who we had the joy to meet, he has since passed away. the film is excellent!
    
33. Okie Noodling - fishing with bare hands in Oklahoma, by Bradley Beesley (also see Summer Camp)
    
34. Our Daily Bread - elegantly paced, eery, clean depiction of factory farming and livestock in Europe - very important film http://www.ourdailybread.at/jart/projects/utb/website.jart?rel=en&content-id=1130864824947
35. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
36. Reel Paradise - John Pierson accidentally making fun of himself and his family for two hours? set on the island of Fiji...
    
37. Rize - dance movement with roots in clowning, break dancing and an alternative to gangs. inspiring.
38. Roger & Me - Michael Moore
    
39. Search for a Safe Cigarette: Nova
40. Searching for Angela Shelton - sexual abuse
    
41. Spellbound
42. Stevie - by director of Ho0p Dreams
    
43. Suffering and Smiling - Femi Kuti, by Dan Ollman (another friend we are a big fan of, this is his first solo documentary)
    
44. Summercamp! - by Sarah Price + Brasley Beesley
45. This is Our Slaughterhouse - Matthew Boerman, 2003 filmmakers family business, which he worked at 11 years from age 10
    
46. Truth, War & Consequences - Frontline - similar doc as 'Uncovered: The Whole Truth..' (below) but even better
    
47. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
48. The Universe Within: Nova
49. The Up Series - every 7 years, following kids through adult hood in England
    
50. The Virus of Faith - Richard Dawkins
    
51. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - sad and important to watch
52. The War Room
    
53. The Weather Underground - anger over Vietnam and racism, violent protest - Sam Green
    
54. When the Levees Broke - about the levee failure during Hurricane Katrina, by Spike Lee + Sam Pollard - very good!
    
55. The White Diamond - by Herzog
56. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
57. Word Wars - about Scrabble
58. Who Killed the Electric Car? - this will make you mad, in a good way, but mad at our government
    
59. The Yes Men - by Sarah Price, Chris Smith and Dan Ollman
    

TO SEE:

1. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony - apartheid, South Africa
2. American Dream - Hormel strike, air traffic controller's union
3. The Agronomist - Haiti human rights activist Jean Dominique
4. Biggie & Tupac
5. Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
6. Born Rich
7. The Brandon Teena Story
8. The Bridge - San Francisco
9. Brooklyn Bridge: Ken Burns' America
10. Bukowski: Born Into This
11. Burden of Dreams - doc about Herzog
12. Bus 174 - brazil hijacking
13. Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
14. Bush Family Values - we've heard to watch this first, followed by 'The Party's Over'
    
15. Children Underground
16. Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed - Shirley's run for president
17. Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: (3-Disc Series)
18. Cowboy del Amor - Cupid
19. The Creek Runs Red - hazardous environmental pollution plaguing Picher, OK, by Bradley Beesley (Okie + Summer Camp)
    
20. The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
21. Dark Days - NY underground rail tunnel people
22. Deadline - death row
23. Death in Gaza
24. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
25. The Dream of Sparrows: Iraq Eye Group: Vol. 1, 2005
26. e-Dreams - Dot com frenzy
27. Elegy: The Life and Work of Breece D'J Pancake - about the author, we'd love to see this, 2003, 10 min, Jason Freeman
    
28. Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero: Frontline
29. The Farmer's Wife: 2 discs
30. Farmingville: POV
31. Fata Morgana - Herzog, Sahara Desert
32. The Fearless Freaks - about the Flaming Lips, by Bradley Beesley
    
33. Fire Wars: Nova
34. Florilegium: The Flowering of the Pacific
35. 4 Little Girls - Spike Lee
    
36. Full Frame: Documentary Shorts: Vol. 1 - 3
37. Gates of Heaven - pets, Errol Morris
38. Ghosts of Rwanda: Frontline
39. Gitmo: The New Rules of War - Guantanamo
40. Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner... - Herzog, three docs
41. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
42. Gunner's Palace - Iraq soldier film made at same time as 'Occupation Dreamland' not sure how we haven't seen this yet..
    
43. Harlan County, U.S.A. - coal miner's strike
44. Heir to an Execution - rosenberg, communism
45. Home of the Brave - Viola Liuzzo, civil rights activist murdered
46. How to Draw a Bunny
47. Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral
48. Hurricane!: Nova
49. Incident at Oglala - FBI + Native American
50. Is Wal-Mart Good for America?: Frontline
51. Jesus Camp - featuring Ted Haggard in prime condition... we've seen clips on youtube
52. The Jesus Factor: Frontline - on George W. Bust and Christianity
    
53. Jupiter's Wife - NY homeless woman
54. Kinsey: American Experience - PBS
55. Land of Silence and Darkness - Herzog, blind, deaf woman
56. Lessons of Darkness
57. The Meaning of Food
58. The Merchants of Cool: Frontline
59. Mr. Death: Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
60. Nanook of the North
61. New York: Episodes 1 - 8
62. Newton's Dark Secrets: Nova
63. Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality
64. Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause
65. Paragraph 175 - Nazi homosexual 'eradication'
66. The Party's Over - we've heard to watch this right after watching 'Bush Family Values'
    
67. The Persuaders: Frontline - Advertising
68. Protocols of Zion - people who believe Jews responsible for Trade Center
69. The Road to Guantanamo
70. Rivers and Tides
71. Searching for Debra Winger - actresses over 40
72. The Secret Life of the Brain: Disc 1 - 3
73. The Shape of the Future - Israel, Palestine
74. Sicko - Michael Moore, release 2007, health care
75. Slacker, Slacker - Michael Moore
76. Slasher - Auto Sales
77. Sound and Fury - deaf children and cochlear implants
78. Southern Comfort - transsexual ovarian cancer
79. The Story of the Weeping Camel - Mongolian Camel Mama
80. Style Wars - PBS, NYC graffiti
81. 30 Days
82. THIN
83. Triumph of the Nerds - Silicon Valley
84. Triumph of the Will - Hitler propaganda 1934
85. The True Meaning of Pictures - Appalachia
86. Tupperware!: American Experience
87. Tying the Knot
88. Typhoid Mary
89. Unconstitutional - Patriotic Act
90. Unprecedented
91. Unzipped - Fashion
92. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
93. V-Day: Until the Violence Stops
94. Voices of Iraq
95. Waco: The Rules of Engagement
96. Wheel of Time - Herzog, buddhist pilgrimmage
97. When We Were Kings
98. Why We Fight - war doc, filmed during Iraq
99. Wisconsin Death Trip
100. With God On Our Side - relationships of Evangelicals and Republicans from 1960's Nixon and Billy Graham throught to GWB's buddies
     
101. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
102. The Work of Director Michel Gondry