Dave Tompkins :: DVD Library :: 2-Genre Table :: Biography :: Documentary


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Anne Frank Remembered (1995)

Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning...

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Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)

At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the ''demi-gods of Canadian metal...

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Bidder 70 (2012)

Tim DeChristopher is Bidder 70, a young man who derailed an illegal BLM oil and gas auction in a courageous act of civil disobedience.

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Big Boys Gone Bananas! (2011)

Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish filmmakers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the company.

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Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middleclass Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.

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Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier (1995)

Carl Theodor Dreyer is a young journalist in Copenhagen when he gets involved in the early Danish film industry...

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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

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A Constant Forge (2000)

A look at the life, times, and art of independent film pioneer John Cassavetes through interviews with his family, friends, and admirers of his work.

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Crumb (1994)

A cinematic portrait of the controversial comic book writer/artist and his traumatized family.

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Don't You Forget About Me (2009)
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General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974)

A documentary on the military dictator of Africa's Uganda.

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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

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Grizzly Man (2005)

A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.

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Hotel Terminus (1988)

A documentary of the prozess against Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and about his life after the war.

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Imposter (2012)

A documentary centered on a young Frenchman who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.

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Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (2007)

A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book ''Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.''

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King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters (2007)

Diehard video game fans compete to break World Records on classic arcade games.

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Man On Wire (2008)

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, ''the artistic crime of the century.''

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Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994)

A film about the work of the artist most famous for her monuments such as the Vietnam Memorial Wall and the Civil Rights Fountain Memorial.

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N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos (1993)

In an age when genius is a mere commodity, it is useful to look at a person who led a rich life without the traditional trappings of success. A man with no home and no job...

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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to ''voice of a generation'' to rock star.

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Of Two Minds (2012)

Of Two Minds explores the extraordinary lives, struggles and successes of three unique and compelling people living with bipolar disorder in America today. Through a combination of intimate...

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Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)

An examination of the life of actor and singer Paul Robeson, from his first major triumphs on the stage in the 1920s through his gradually increasing social activism in the 1930s and 1940s...

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Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.

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The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay councilor.

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An Unreasonable Man (2006)

A look at the career of consumer advocate Ralph Nader from wannabe presidential candidate to public pariah.

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The Up Series (1964)

A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects...

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Waltz with Bashir (2008)

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

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Winnebago Man (2009)

Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video...

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