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TIME CAPSULE MOMENTS: DocuMentaries & Stuff you Didn’t Know
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Movie: Gimme Shelter ( 1970 )
When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this film.
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Movie: The Sorrow and the Pity ( 1972 )
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse," includes an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, "The Choice," is an interview with Christian de la Mazière, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms.
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Movie: Malcolm X ( 1972 )
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
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Movie: Jimi Hendrix ( 1973 )
This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix's untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done, but some of the information in it needs revising in the light of new information uncovered over the years. The film contains concert footage spanning the Marquee in 1967 to his last UK performance at the third Isle of Wight festival in 1970; along the way we see classic performances at Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969), Fillmore East (1969/70), and Berkeley (1970). A double album was released to tie-in with the film, containing the complete performances in the film, along with interviews with people in the film (not necessarily the same interviews). The film is worth seeing for Jimi's performances, and to hear what his contemporaries have to say about him (Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger, Pete Townsend, and others).
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Movie: Beautiful People ( 1974 )
Hilarious documentary on the wildlife of the Namib Desert.
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Movie: Grey Gardens ( 1975 )
An old mother and her middle-aged daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy, live their eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton.
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Movie: Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same ( 1976 )
A documentary of a Led Zeppelin tour mixed with live concert footage, a unique fantasy, and interviews with those involved with the band.
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Movie: Pumping Iron ( 1977 )
From Gold's Gym in Venice Beach California to the showdown in Pretoria, amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests in this part-scripted, part-documentary film. Five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young deaf Lou Ferrigno, whose father is his coach; the ruthless champ psyches out the young lion. Sardinian Franco Columbu competes in the lightweight class; at home in Italy he solves a tight parking problem by lifting the car into place. Joe Weider is the marketer; Mike Katz and Ken Waller go for the title of Mr. Universe. Bodybuilding and a celebrity-to-be go mainstream.
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Movie: On Location: George Carlin at Phoenix (TV Special 1978) ( 1978 )
Performing at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978, Carlin mesmerizes his audience in the second of his 12 HBO specials. The show was originally planned as part of a concert/sketch movie, The Illustrated George Carlin, that never came to fruition.The routines include: Death, Kids & Parents, Newscast #2, Time and Al Sleet, the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman.
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Movie: The Kids Are Alright ( 1979 )
From the early black and white days to their colourful hedonistic era, you will Rock! See them at their most creative, and destructive, and experience The Who: Here!
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Movie: Making 'The Shining' (TV Short 1980) ( 1980 )
A look behind the scenes during the making of 'Stanley Kubrick (I)''s The Shining (1980).
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Movie: Richard Pryor: Live in Concert ( 1981 )
The second stand-up performance of Richard Pryor filmed.
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Movie: The Atomic Cafe ( 1982 )
Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
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Movie: The Times of Harvey Milk ( 1985 )
A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.
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Movie: Terror in the Aisles ( 1984 )
A compilation of scenes from many science fiction, crime drama and horror films of the 1930s through 1980s.
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Movie: 16 Days of Glory ( 1986 )
The definitive photographic record of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, told "from the inside" through the lives of the participants, the words of David Perry, and the singing voice of Placido Domingo. From the opening to closing ceremonies, this unique style of storytelling shows a side of the Olympic Games not seen by television audiences.
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Movie: The Thin Blue Line ( 1988 )
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
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Movie: Roger & Me ( 1989 )
Director Michael Moore pursues GM CEO Roger B. Smith to confront him about the harm he did to Flint, Michigan with his massive downsizing.
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Movie: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse ( 1991 )
Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.
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Movie: Paris Is Burning ( 1990 )
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
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Movie: Baraka ( 1993 )
A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
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Movie: Hoop Dreams ( 1994 )
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
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Movie: Crumb ( 1995 )
An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
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Movie: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills ( 1996 )
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
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Movie: When We Were Kings ( 1997 )
A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire, "The Rumble in the Jungle," between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali.
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Movie: Kurt & Courtney ( 1998 )
After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobain's aunt who provides home movies and recordings, the estranged father of Cobain's widow Courtney Love, an L.A. private investigator who worked for Love, a nanny for Kurt and Courtney's child, friends and lovers of both, and others. Although Love won't talk to him and his inquiries lose him financial backing, he comes to believe the coroner's verdict. Portraits emerge: a shy, slight Kurt, weary of touring, embarrassed by fame, hooked on heroin; an out-going Courtney, dramatic, controlling, moving from groupie to star.
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Movie: Buena Vista Social Club ( 1999 )
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
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Movie: Beyond the Mat ( 2000 )
A heartfelt documentary focusing on the day-to-day lives of professional wrestlers, some on the rise, some on the wane, and others fighting for their lives.
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Movie: American Movie ( 2000 )
Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.
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Movie: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures ( 2001 )
Narrated by Tom Cruise, "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" goes through each one of his movies and talks to various participants about their memories of working with Kubrick. For those who know very little about Kubrick, the documentary is an excellent career overview. Kubrick film clips include "Fear and Desire," "Killer's Kiss," "The Killing," "Paths of Glory," "Spartacus," "Lolita," "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Clockwork Orange," "Barry Lyndon," "The Shining," "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut." Those appearing include: Arthur C. Clarke, Keir Dullea, Shelley Duvall, James B. Harris, Richard Schickel, Michael Herr, Nicole Kidman, Anya Kubrick, Christiane Kubrick, Gert Kubrick, Katharina Kubrick, Paul Mazursky, Jack Nicholson, Malcolm McDowell, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Douglas Trumbull, Marie Windsor, Matthew Modine, Sydney Pollack and Peter Ustinov.
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Movie: Dogtown and Z-Boys ( 2002 )
Documentary about the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team.
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Movie: Touching the Void ( 2003 )
The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
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Movie: Super Size Me ( 2004 )
While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.
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Movie: March of the Penguins ( 2005 )
In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family.
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Movie: Metal: A Headbanger's Journey ( 2006 )
Sam Dunn is a 30-year old anthropologist who wrote his graduate thesis on the plight of Guatemalan refugees. Recenly he has decided to study the plight of a different culture, one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year old: the culture of heavy metal. Sam sets out on a global journey to find out why this music has been consistently stereotyped, dismissed and condemned and yet is loved so passionately by its millions of fans. Along the way, Sam explores metals' obsession with some of life's most provacative subjects - sexuality, religion, violence and death - and discovers some things about the culture that even he can't defend. Shot on location in the UK, Germany, Norway, Canada and the US, this documentary is the first of its kind. It is both a defense of a long-misunderstood art form and a window for the outsider into the spectacle that is heavy metal.
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Movie: The Bridge ( 2007 )
People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during daylight hours from two separate locations for all of 2004, recording most of the two dozen deaths in that year (and preventing several others). They also taped interviews with friends, families and witnesses, who recount in sorrowful detail stories of struggles with depression, substance abuse and mental illness. Raises questions about suicide, mental illness and civic responsibility as well as the filmmaker's relationship to his fraught and complicated material.
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Movie: Shine a Light ( 2008 )
A career-spanning documentary on The Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their "A Bigger Bang" tour.
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Movie: Tyson ( 2009 )
A mixture of original interviews, archival footage, and photographs sheds light on the life experiences of Mike Tyson.
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Movie: Waiting for 'Superman' ( 2010 )
An examination of the current state of education in America today.
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Movie: The Imposter ( 2012 )
A documentary centered on a young man in Spain 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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Movie: Blackfish ( 2013 )
Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
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Movie: Citizenfour ( 2014 )
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
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Movie: Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief ( 2015 )
A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.
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Movie: What Happened, Miss Simone? ( 2015 )
A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul."
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Movie: Icarus ( 2017 )
When Bryan sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller.
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Movie: Fyre ( 2019 )
An exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival.