Tag Archives: Documentary

Documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement. Director : Laurens Grant Cast : Alicia Garza|Brittany Packnett|Darnell Moore|DeRay Mckesson|Jesse Williams|Johnetta Elzie|Michaela Angela Davis|Patrisse Cullors Genre : Documentary Release Date : 5/26/2016 Country : United States

A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepares to release his final major film I, Daniel Blake. Director : Louise Osmond Cast : Alan Parker|Dave Johns|David Bradley|Hayley Squires|Ken Loach|Nell Dunn|Paul Laverty|Rebecca O’Brien|Tony Garnett|Tony Selby Genre : Documentary Release Date : 6/30/2016Continue reading “Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach – 2016”

Puentes de Salud is a volunteer-run clinic that provides free medical care to undocumented immigrants in south Philadelphia. Here, doctors and nurses work for free to serve people who would otherwise fall through the cracks. Clinica de Migrantes, a potent film by Maxim Pozdorovkin, follows the workers and patients of Puentes through months of routineContinue reading “Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – 2016”

Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becomingContinue reading “Fastball – 2016”

Schea Cotton is the subject of one of the biggest mysteries in basketball’s history. Described as “the Lebron before Lebron,” Inglewood-native Cotton dominated the likes of Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and was one of the most highly touted high school athletes of a pre-social media era. Yet he never made it to the NBA.Continue reading “Manchild: The Schea Cotton Story – 2016”

A family’s home movies document a desperate crime spree and the bid to outrun the consequences. Born from a colossal trove of innocuous uploads to YouTube, Fraud is an impressionistic meta-fiction thriller that reveals one family’s struggle for the American Dream and the mutability of the stories we tell online. Director : Dean Fleischer-Camp CastContinue reading “Fraud – 2016”

The celebratory explosion of basketball history makers, legend shakers and lawbreakers; juxtaposed against important events in Civil & Human Rights. The 50 years of The Rucker’s ripples reverberate throughout Basketball, Hip-Hop, Harlem, and life. Director : Robert McCullough Jr. Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 12/28/2016 Country : United States

Filmed with unprecedented access to unreleased archives and interviews with the musicians, friends and family closest to him, Burn The Place You Hide is the first time the extraordinary life of Thomas Hansen has been fully documented. Director : Richard Knights Cast : Henrik Horge Genre : Documentary Release Date : 9/22/2016 Country : UnitedContinue reading “Burn the Place You Hide – 2016”

Join Tom and Debbie Nicholson as they reminisce with joy and good humor about the parade of unlikely pets they have taken in over the years. From an obese chicken to a paraplegic possum to a fish that couldn’t swim, it seems the Nicholsons have never met an animal they couldn’t love. With a knackContinue reading “Pickle – 2016”

An exploration of a new paradigm of health, science, and medicine, based on the interconnections between us and nature. Director : Adam Pfleghaar Cast : Connor Garrett|Eshel Ben-Jacob|Geoffrey Donovan|Han-Kyu Cho|Jamie Boyd|John Calverly|Miguel Altieri|Robert Ferretti Genre : Documentary Release Date : 11/15/2016 Country : United States