Away for 3 days...

Well as the headline says I will be away for a few days. That is today, tomorrow and in Sunday. I will maybe be able to post something tomorrow but I don't make any promises. Up to now there are 222 docs here and they are all great but if you wanted to watch something special here is what I recommend:

Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Boy Interruped

The Cockettes

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures

Dig

High Score

Project Grizzly

Talhotblond:

Anvil: The Story of Anvil

Children Underground

Collectors

Tarnation

A Summer In The Cage

The Battle For Chernobyl

America's Serial Killers - Portraits In Evil

The World According To Monsanto

Kurt & Courtney

Paragraph 175

Walking To Werner

First Person

Also look at the tags in the left. There you can find all the Errol Morris,Werner Herzog and Les Blank films that are all a must watch. 

Some images are again dead so I have decided to put all of them on blog's storage.

See 'ya in couple of days.

Cheers,  HEAVY

Megiddo: The March to Armageddon (2004)

Director:
Christian J. Pinto

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810969/

Review:
Megiddo: The March to Armageddon explores Bible prophecy concerning the last day empire prophesied in the Old and New Testaments. Built upon decades of investigation and strong Biblical teachings of leading researchers, this documentary unfolds:
- The way God uses prophecy to prove His existence
- False prophecy according to the Bible
- The specific nature of God's true prophecies in the books of Daniel and Revelation
- Elements of prophecy today that set our time apart from centuries past
- The importance of Israel as "God's Timepiece"
- The recorded history of the New World Order through:

- The conception of a satanic conspiracy in Bavaria, involving secret societies
- The hidden agenda of these societies to destroy the Gospel and overthrow all established authority
- The French Revolution, Jacobin Clubs & origin of "depopulation" programs
- Jacobin movement in America during the days of the founding fathers
- Thomas Jefferson and his contempt for the Gospel of Karl Marx, Satanism & the Russian Revolution
- The 130-year old plan for "Three World Wars" and the Battle of Armageddon

- The satanic conspiracy of nations, kings and rulers "against the Lord and against His Christ" according to
Psalm 2:1-2, Revelation 17:14 and 19:19
- Quotes from powerful men of history who have spoken of the need for world government and a New World Order
- State-of-the-art 3D animation graphics that provide visual aid for:

Nebuchadnezzar's dream of an image representing four world empires
- The fourth beast of Daniel's prophecy
- The seven headed beast of Revelation 13
- Mystery Babylon the Great o Antichrist
- The False Prophet

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006)

Director:
Tom Thurman

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775438/

Review:
"Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride: Hunter S. Thompson On Film is a personal, intimate look at Thompson with a special emphasis on his Hollywood relationships. It captures the legacy and "gonzo" spirit of one of this century's most notorious figures - a man whose life and work regularly intersected with some of the biggest names in the world of film, politics, journalism and sports. The documentary features interviews with Hunter's inner circle of family and friends, but the thrust of the film is focused on the manner in which his life often overlapped with numerous Hollywood celebrities who became his close friends, such as Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas); Bill Murray (Where the Buffalo Roam); Sean Penn, John Cusack, Hunter's wife Anita, son Juan, former Senators George McGovern and Gary Hart, Tom Wolfe, William F. Buckley, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, Ralph Steadman and others.

Crude (2009)

Director:
Joe Berlinger

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326204/

Review:
CRUDE, a documentary, travels to South America, where it investigates the mammoth “Amazon Chernobyl” gas/oil fire case caused by Texaco (now Chevron) from a variety of angles, refusing to take the side of any single person or side. This film details the $27 billion case against Chevron. CRUDE takes a look at one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. This documentary reveals the real-life, high-stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

Twist of Faith (2004)

Director:
Kirby Dick

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436857/

Review:
The film focuses on Tony Comes, a firefighter from Toledo, Ohio, who was first sexually abused by a Catholic priest when he was a fourteen-year-old student at a Catholic high school. Feeling ashamed, Comes kept his secret for nearly 20 years but was forced to confront his past after discovering that the priest, Dennis Gray, was living on the same street as Comes, his wife, and their two young children. Comes decided to go public and bring a lawsuit against the priest as well as the Church officials who had neglected to take action despite years of complaints.  The filmmakers gave Comes and his wife camcorders which they used to record many of the film's scenes. The film also features interviews with several other men who had been abused by Gray, and these survivors reunite to discuss their continuing struggles.

Blood, Boobs & Beast (2007)

Director:

John Paul Kinhart

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010379/

Review:
Blood, Boobs and Beast tells the compelling story of Don Dohler, whose movies have been called everything from oddly brilliant to some of the worst films of all time. Despite his critics, Dohler has gotten all 9 of his sci-fi and horror films distributed internationally, as well as TV syndication for his first film, The Alien Factor . Dohler has also inspired artists and filmmakers such as Robert Crumb (Fritz the Cat), J.J. Abrams (Creator of TV show Lost ) and Art Speigelman ( Maus ) with his underground comix character ProJunior, and his DIY filmmaking magazine, Cinemagic. Mild-mannered and unassuming, Dohler started making wholesome sci-fi films in the Baltimore area in 1976, but recently began including nudity and gore in his movies to please distributors. At age 59 he's just finished his most gratuitous movie to date and it's selling well, yet Dohler feels "sick of the exploitative stuff" and is considering giving up the Blood, Boobs and Beast formula. However, Dohler's recent partner Joe Ripple disagrees and views these components as essential to gaining distribution. Since the pair's filmmaking philosophies have begun to differ, it's possible that their current film could be their last. Shot and edited over two and a half years, Blood, Boobs and Beast provides a fresh and humorous look at low-budget filmmaking through the unassuming eyes of Don Dohler. With revealing interviews and beautiful cinematography, Blood, Boobs and Beast is a touching portrait of Dohler's career, his family, and his struggle to just make a good movie.

Sex Slaves (2006)

Director:
Ric Esther Bienstock

Review:
In "Sex Slaves," FRONTLINE follows Viorel on an extraordinary journey deep into the world of sex trafficking to try to find his wife, Katia, who was four months' pregnant when she left home, and then free her from the violent pimp who now "owns" her. Along the way, the production team takes a rare, hidden-camera look at the various traffickers, pimps and middlemen who illegally buy and sell hundreds of thousands of women each year. Lured by traffickers who prey on their dreams of employment abroad, many of the women are then kidnapped and "exported" to Europe, the Middle East, the United States and elsewhere. During this process, they may be sold to pimps, locked in brothels, drugged, terrorized and raped repeatedly. In Eastern Europe, since the fall of communism, sex trafficking has become the fastest growing form of organized crime, with Moldova and Ukraine widely seen as major suppliers of women into the global sex trade.

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008)

Director:

Chris Waitt

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037033/

Review:
Chris Waitt the hapless 30 something director, with his ever present stubble, saggy ripped jeans and dishwater moptop, is a dead ringer for Kurt Cobain circa 1994 (I would have pegged this as “retro” affectation, if every other character on screen hadn’t made a derisive comment about the director/star’s lack of grooming acumen and style). Speaking directly to the camera from a home office resembling a teenager’s bedroom, Waitt explains that, as his girlfriend of three weeks has just dumped him, he’s decided to track down as many former flames as possible and interview each, in order to figure out what he’s been doing wrong and hopefully figure out how to find true love/avoid future dumpings. This Docu/Drama has gathered quite a following and quite frankly it's hilarious.

Inside Deep Throat (2005)

Director:
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418753/

Review:
In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel, "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved to become one of the most successful independent films of all time. It caught the public imagination which met the spirit of the times, even as the self appointed guardians of public morality struggled to suppress it, and created, for a brief moment, a possible future where sexuality in film had a bold artistic potential. This film covers the story of the making of this controversial film, its stunning success, its hysterical opposition along with its dark side of mob influence and allegations of the on set mistreatment of the film's star. In short, the combined events would redefine the popular appeal of pornography, even as more cynical developments would lead it down other paths.

Wheel of Time (2003)

Director:
Werner Herzog

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331080/

Review:
Wheel of Time is a 2003 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog about Tibetan Buddhism. The title refers to the Kalachakra sand mandala that provides a recurring image for the film.  The film documents the two Kalachakra initiations of 2002, presided over by the fourteenth Dalai Lama. The first, in Bodhgaya India, was disrupted by the Dalai Lama's illness. Later that same year, the event was held again, this time without disruption, in Graz Austria. The film's first location is the Bodhgaya, the site of the Mahabodhi Temple and the Bodhi tree. Herzog then turns to the pilgrimage at Mount Kailash. The film then focuses on the second gathering in Graz.  Herzog includes a personal interview with the Dalai Lama, as well as Tibetan former political prisoner Takna Jigme Zangpo, who served 37 years in a Chinese prison for his support of the International Tibet Independence Movement.

Children Underground (2001)

Director:
Edet Belzberg

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264476/

Review:
The film follows a group of abandoned adolescent street children who live in the Romanian subway system. The street kids are encountered daily with commuter adults passing them by in the station as they starve, swindle, and steal, all while searching desperately for a fresh can of Aurolac silver paint to get high with. One of the children director Belzberg follows is Cristina Ionescu. At first this child may seem to be a young man, but you later find out that girls have to become hard and boyish in order to survive. This is also very apparent with another child named, Violeta 'Macarena' Rosu, who is also a girl. The nickname 'Macarena' derives from the song "Macarena", her favorite. The film explores the children fighting, abusing themselves, and becoming out-of-control addicted to a spray paint called Aurolac.

Thin (2006)

Director:
Lauren Greenfield

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492496/

Review:
This documentary follows a group of girls in a private hospital in Florida for treatment for anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders. The film goes behind the scenes at a treatment centre in South Florida and follows the patients and doctors through counselling sessions, weighing, community sessions and just hanging out. The degree of access is impressive and the subjects don't seem to be affected at all by having a camera around them all the time.

Who Killed Martin Luther King? (1989)

Director:
John Edginton

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803769/

Review:
Controversial interviews with convicted assassin James Earl Ray and new evidence surrounding the death of Martin Luther King are featured in this compelling documentary examination of what is known and what remains unclear concerning the 1968 shooting that stunned a nation....It's revisited in 2008 so you'll get some updates at the end.

The Man Who Ate His Lover (2004)

Director:
Srik Narayanan

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438213/

Review:
r the ultimate video nasty. Single man meets radical male masochist on the Internet. On their first date, the masochist offers up his penis as main course in a romantic dinner for two. After some teething problems over the best way to prepare the food, the two men enjoy a meal of garnished genitals. Satiated, and feeling woozy, the masochist is led upstairs to the bathroom, where he is left to bleed to death. Hours later, our host pops in to see how his date is doing, and finishes him off with a knife to the throat. He then butchers the body and barbecues the meat.  Even as fiction, this extreme tale of human weirdness would be difficult to stomach. So how do we respond when two middle-aged computer engineers turn this incredulous plot into jaw-dropping fact? Two words: shock and awe. Just when you thought you'd heard it all, along comes a German cannibal, Armin Meiwes, and his willing victim, Bernd-Juergen Brandes, to rewrite the book of bizarre human behaviour. Rarely has a criminal investigation aroused such ghoulish curiosity or raised such difficult questions about the dark places that the human mind can go.

The Trial of Jeffrey Dahmer (1992)

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1479396/

Review:
On january 27th 1993, Jeffrey Dahmer was brought to trial in Milwaukee for the serial killing of fifteen young men. That he commited these appalling crimes was never in doubt as Dahmer pleaded guilty, but his defence was based on the grounds of insanity. If found to have been mad, he would not go to prison, but to a mental institution for the criminally insane, from which he could petition for release every six months. The trial of Jeffrey Dahmer provides a vivid and shocking account of the activities of a serial killer. The trial itself was disinguished by a masterly summary from the court appointed forensic scientist and hinges on the prosecutions attempts to prove that Dahmer knew what he was doing when he enticed, killed and dismembered his victims. Treading a fine line between fascination and disgust towards a man who could commit such attrocious crimes, this film provides genuine courtroom footage and the facts behind the case.This programme is of great interest to all concerned with the issue of insanity as a defense, determine for yourself how and why dahmer delighted in killing black youths.

Talhotblond: (2009)

Director:
Barbara Schroeder

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1370889/

Review:
This doc is SUPERB! If you miss it you will regret it for sure. The movie details an Internet love triangle which resulted in internet homicide, in a case called the “Internet Chatroom Murder”. Thomas Montgomery, a 47-year-old married man, who pled guilty to murdering his co-worker, 22-year-old Brian Barrett. The two men were involved in a love triangle with “Jessi”, a beautiful 17 year old (screen name: talhotblond) that neither one of them have never met! Real masterpiece with so much details and a truly complex story that keeps you needled down on your chair while watching!

Welcome to Nollywood (2007)

Director:
Jamie Meltzer

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034469/

Review:
After the U.S. and India, the world’s third largest producer of feature films is Nigeria. Barely a decade old and already generating over $286 million for the Nigerian economy, "Welcome to Nollywood" explores this burgeoning industry, from its unique challenges to its diverse array of films that both mirror and comment upon the social issues of the continent.
As countries across Europe and Asia continue to grapple with the influence of American movies, the Nigerian film industry has been quietly undergoing an unprecedented boom. “Nollywood,” as its come to be known, is the most popular cinema in all of West Africa, more popular even than Hollywood or Bollywood films. This dramatic growth can be attributed as much to the Afro-centric storylines and themes, as to the easy availability and affordability of new technology. All Nollywood films are shot on digital video, completed within several days, and immediately distributed to consumers. They are sold at markets and bazaars for a few dollars each. The sheer volume of production is staggering: one estimate has a film being produced for each day of the year.
 "Welcome to Nollywood" offers a fascinating look inside this newly emerging industry. The documentary follows three of the country's hottest directors as they shoot their films about love, conflict, and the supernatural – including an epic war film about Liberia and Sierra Leone – while incorporating interviews with scholars, actors, and journalists who celebrate Nollywood as a whole, its unique character and genres, as well as its impact on the culture of West Africa and Africans at home and abroad.

Haschisch (2002)

Director:
Daniel Gräbner

IMDB

Review:
A small village high up in the mountains of Ketama, North Morocco. For centuries the life of the people that live here is intricately tied in with the drug hashish. Hashish as daily labour, hashish as a bartering good, hashish system, hashish as the medium of dreams and hashish as the reason for stagnation. The film sketches a portrait of this life: a look at work and daily family life; the drug; music and landscape as a metaphysical projection surface; the question of freedom in a globalized world; and, at the core of the film, the stories of the people.

Incident at Oglala (1992)

Director:
 Michael Apted

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104504/

Review:
On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, was found guilty. This film describes the events surrounding the shootout and suggests that Peltier was unjustly convicted.

The Refugees of the Blue Planet (2006)

Director:
Hélène Choquette and Jean-Philippe Duval

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1052036/

Review:
"The Refugees Of The Blue Planet" is a very sad and truly moving documentary by Quebecois filmmakers, Hélène Choquette & Jean-Philippe Duval, about the ever growing phenomenon of environmental refugees. These are people who have been displaced as a result of the ever growing number of natural disasters (which the documentary argues are a result of global warming), or as a result of the negligence of corporations and governments who makes deals to extract hazardous resources on peoples land, utilize practices which degrade the environment, or force people off their land for the creation of monoculture farms. "They are constantly growing in number and often have no legal status, even though their right to a clean and sustainable environment has been violated." (nfb.ca) In numbers they have now surpassed the number of political and war refugees in the world (25 million:23 million). Oh and did I mention that these refugees aren't limited to third world and developing countries......it could be anyone.  We are taken to three very different parts of the world where people are suffering from three very different problems, all of which have made them environmental refugees. These stories are juxtaposed with interviews made by numerous scholars, human rights and environmental activists.

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

Director:
Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102015/

Review:
Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now' and Francis Ford Coppola's struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Elanor Coppola, wife of Francis.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)

Director:
Sacha Gervasi

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157605/

Review:
The bare outline of this doc is going to sound awfully familiar: Long-haired, middle-aged heavy-metal rockers with a penchant for talking in the most shopworn clichés face a tour booked by an incompetent manager. They play in grungy basement bars in Eastern Europe, with audiences only slightly larger than the band. Every new development on their big tour is just another humiliation. Um, This Is Spinal Tap, anyone?  Nope, this is Anvil, a real Canadian heavy-metal band that was on the brink of superstardom in the early 1980s. Though it was admired by everyone who’s anyone in metal (Lemmy, Slash and Lars Ulrich all testify in the doc), things fizzled. After some badly produced albums and shows in smaller and smaller venues, they should have given up and moved on with their lives. Nope. Guitarist Steve “Lips” Kudlow and drummer Robb Reiner (talk about serendipitous names) have persevered. They soldier on, chasing the rock & roll dream long after most sane people would have awoken.  The amazing thing about this doc is that it doesn’t stoop to mockery. Yes, there are moments when you can’t help but laugh at their bad luck and bad decisions (and their awful taste in haircuts). But Gervasi gently takes us from laughing to (we’ll admit it) crying a bit as these two guys, friends and kindred spirits since the age of 14, jam and laugh and fight and party and generally embody the spirit of rock, for better or worse.

Project Grizzly (1996)

Director:
Peter Lynch

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117395/

Review:
The film documents Hurtubise's diligent work to improve his homemade "grizzly-proof" suit of armour, his efforts to test its resilience, and his forays into the Rockies to track down the grizzlies he dreams of meeting. The film manages to capture the humor of the project as well as its sincerity.

High Score (2006)

Director:
Jeremy Mack

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808299/

Review:
Although technology continues to evolve, a group of die-hard gamers refuses to abandon the classic arcade games of yesteryear. The 80's live on for these enthusiasts, who compete against each other and history to record the world's highest scores. Portland gamer Bill Carlton is one of the most brazen, fearlessly taking on some of the toughest records on the books.  HIGH SCORE (2006) follows Bill as he attempts to take down the Atari classic Missile Command and its twenty year-old record. To get the 80 million points he'll have to play the game on one quarter for over two days straight. There is no pause button. There will be no sleep. There can only be one victor in this classic story of Man versus Missile Command.

The Shock Doctrine (2009)

Director:
Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355640/

Review:
 The Shock Doctrine is the latest documentary from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom, co-directed by Mat Whitecross. Based on Naomi Klein's bestselling book, The Shock Doctrine argues that America's 'free market' policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. Both the film and the book argue that governments all over the world exploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars to push through radical free market policies. Klein calls this 'disaster capitalism' and in her view, disaster capitalism is as effective as psychiatric shock therapy at wiping our collective memory. The film concludes that the result is often catastrophic for ordinary people and hugely beneficial to big corporations. The documentary also adds to Klein's thesis - which was written before the recent market turmoil - and includes an analysis of how the financial world got into its current troubled state.

Fuck (2005)

Director:
Steve Anderson

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486585/

Review:
 This challenging and provocative documentary takes a look on all sides of the infamous F-word. Its taboo,obscene and controversial, yet somehow seems to permeate every single aspect of our culture-from Hollywood, to the schoolyard to the Senate floor in Washington D.C. It’s the word at the very center of the debate on Free Speech - and everyone seems to have an opinion. FUCK will exam how the word is impacting our world today thru interviews, film and television clips, music, and original animation by Oscar nominee Bill Plympton. Scholars and linguists will examine the long history of fuck. Comedians, actors, and writers who have charted and popularized the upward course of fuck will be heard from, often while defending the Constitutional Right of Free Speech, all the way to the Supreme Court. FUCK will visit with those who actually fuck for a living. We’ll hear from advocates who oppose fuck and it’s infringement into our everyday lives. We’ll watch some of the most famous and infamous film and television clips that feature fuck, we’ll hear some of the most famous fucks ever uttered and we’ll feel the impact of fuck on our everyday lives.

Dig! (2004)

Director:
Ondi Timoner

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388888/

Review:
Tracks the tumultuous rise of two talented musicians, Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre; and Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols; dissecting their star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry. Both are hell-bent on staging a self-proclaimed revolution of the music industry. Through their loves and obsessions, gigs and recordings, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers--and ultimately to their chance at a piece of the profit-driven music business--how each handles his stab at success is where the relationship frays and burns.

Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000)

Director:
Vicky Funari and Julia Query

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264802/

Review:
Documentary look at the 1996-97 effort of the dancers and support staff at a San Francisco peep show, The Lusty Lady, to unionize. Angered by arbitrary and race-based wage policies, customers' surreptitious video cameras, and no paid sick days or holidays, the dancers get help from the Service Employees International local and enter protracted bargaining with the union-busting law firm that management hires. We see the women work, sort out their demands, and go through the difficulties of bargaining. The narrator is Julia Query, a dancer and stand-up comedian who is reluctant to tell her mother, a physician who works with prostitutes, that she strips.

Stevie (2002)

Director:
Steve James

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0334416/

Review:
In 1995 Director Steve James returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an 'Advocate Big Brother' to ten years earlier. He began a film, a search, to discover not only what had happened to Stevie over the past ten years but to understand the forces that had shaped his entire life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested and charged with a serious crime that tears his family apart. What was to be a modest profile turns into a intimate four and half year chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the criminal justice system and the filmmaker himself, as they all struggle with what Stevie has done and who he has become.

The Devil's Disciples (2006)

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0788058/

Review:
Short documentary on the history of 20th century satanism and the people who influenced the movement, featuring a lengthy interview with writer/satanist Gavin Baddeley.

Kosovo: Can You Imagine? (2009)

Director:
Boris Malagurski

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1382271/

Review:
Kosovo: Can You Imagine? is about the Serbs that live in Kosovo and the lack of human rights that they have today, in the 21st century. Most of the Kosovo Serbs have been ethnically cleansed by the Albanians who make up the majority of Kosovo. Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia for 76 days to halt a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatism in its province of Kosovo. In the years following the war, thousands of Serbs were expelled from their homes, kidnapped and killed. Their houses, cultural and religious sites were burned and destroyed. Kosovo for the Serbs is what Jerusalem is for the Jewish people. It is the cradle of their statehood, culture and religion. Most of the important Serbian Christian Orthodox monasteries are in Kosovo. Today, Serbs still have a deep spiritual and traditional connection to Kosovo, a land which is being cleansed of everything Serbian. Most of the Kosovo Serbs are internally displaced, some of them live in small container camps, in ghettos, all this in the heart of Europe in the 21st century. We follow the stories of several Serbs who have fell victim to a nationalist and irredentist ideology that has a goal of creating a pure Albanian state of "Kosova" ("Kosovo" in Albanian) Serbs in Kosovo have no basic human rights. You will be shocked to learn which atrocities they have to face each day.

Massacre at Virginia Tech (2008)

Director:
Jonathan Hacker

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216494/

Review:
Documentary looking at the worst school shooting in American history, when a lone gunman killed at least 32 people on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, VA, before taking his own life. Using extensive access to key witnesses, Silent Killer delves into the mystery of how Cho, a young man with no criminal history, became a mass murderer.

How to Kill a Human Being (2008)

Director:
Diene Petterle

Review:
Former Conservative MP, Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution. As the American Supreme Court examines whether the lethal injection is causing prisoners to die in unnecessary pain Michael sets out to find a solution which is fundamentally humane. To do so he examines the key methods of execution available today: he discovers why convicts can catch on fire in the electric chair, learns how easy it is to botch a hanging and inhales a noxious gas to experience first hand the terror of the gas chamber. Armed with some startling evidence Michael considers a completely new approach. Will it be the answer? There is only one way of finding out – to experience it himself.

9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers (2009)

Director:
James Kent

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1506435/

Review:
Trapped in the twin towers of the World Trade Center on 11 September, 2001 thousands of ordinary people struggled to survive and make contact with the outside world. Many knew that time was ticking away and wanted to speak to their loved ones for a final time, while others turned to friends and relatives, as well as the emergency services, to discover what was happening and find a means of escape.  Eight years on these recorded messages and memories of the private calls are a treasured legacy for the families left behind, the last known words of their loved ones. Dignified and full of love, they show humanity at its best and most courageous.  'It's me, I just wanted to let you know I love you and I'm stuck in this building in New York. A plane hit the building& there's lots of smoke and I just wanted you to know I love you...' Melissa Harrington-Hughes, 31, 101st floor, North Tower.  'I love you, you're my best friend. I don't know if I'm going to get out of it. You have to take care of everybody for me...' Jim Gartenberg, 35, 86th floor, North Tower.  'The messages are an incredibly moving testament to the memories of the people who died in the Twin Towers and reveal the dignity, courage, humanity and love shown at the worst of times. And the victims' families, who have co-operated in the making of the film and provided most of the recordings, talk heartbreakingly about speaking to their loved ones for the final time as they watched powerless as the disaster unfolded on TV.  'All the messages are, of course, a double-edged legacy - there is only a recording because someone missed a call or the caller was in dire need of help, but as a result the families have something concrete to turn to - a portal into more life-affirming memories. The messages prompt us all to ponder whether, faced with such a terrible situation, we could act with such courage and compassion.'  James Kent who directed the film, says: 'As well as voice-messages, the film features calls from victims in the towers as they pleaded for help from emergency services. For the families who feature in the film, these calls, though painful listening, have provided greater understanding of their loved ones' actions and courage on the day - as well being an essential testament to the real human cost of 9/11.'

Herb and Dorothy (2008)

Director:
Megumi Sasaki

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1227929

Review:
He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion and disciplines and defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector. 5 wins.

Living with Michael Jackson (2003)

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352524/

Review:
Living with Michael Jackson was a Granada Television documentary, in which British journalist Martin Bashir interviewed Michael Jackson over a span of 8 months, from May 2002 to January 2003. It was shown first in the UK on ITV (as a Tonight special) on 3 February 2003 and in the US three days later on ABC, with Barbara Walters presenting. The revelations of Jackson's controversial personal life in the programme was one of the many factors that led to his trial for child molestation.  Martin Bashir put the proposal to Jackson as a way to show the world the truth about him and "make nothing off limits." Jackson's decision to make the documentary was made on the suggestion by his close friend Uri Geller. It later emerged that Geller had turned down another 'bid' for the interview by journalist Louis Theroux. The interview was very unusual, as it had been extremely rare for Jackson to allow such access to his personal life, or to talk so freely about his traumatic childhood. Nevertheless, he did show some reserve when asked to discuss other personal issues, such as the plastic surgery he has had. Watch this documentary, and then you be the judge.

I am not sure if this is the doc that was on Tonight Special but it is good. Some call this "Living With Michael Jackson - The Footage You Were Never Meant To See". For what is worth it is a interesting doc.

Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

Director:

Errol Morris

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896866/

Review:
Master filmmaker Errol Morris turns his keen eye to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in this intense and provocative documentary. Using interviews with the soldiers that appeared in the now infamous torture photos, Morris strings their stories together with vivid reenactments and striking digital technology for a wrenching look at the events at the prison. With his trademark straight-into-the-lens interview style, it is chilling to see the familiar faces of Lynndie England and Sabrina Harmon as they try to articulate their experiences. The lawlessness and confusion in the prison quickly become evident, and as their stories unfold, the film slowly strips away the many puzzling questions that surround the incidents, exposing a much larger truth about corruption within the US military, corruption that appears to reach far beyond the handful of soldiers that took the fall for the scandal. Morris's reenactments are extremely vivid, and often shot in a beautifully cinematic style. While these techniques make for riveting film making, they are sometimes considered controversial by documentary purists, and some might criticize his detailed recreations of such deeply disturbing events. However, others might deem the reenactments necessary to really bringing home the reality of what happened. Regardless of his methods, Morris does a masterly job of untangling such a complex, twisted story. He shines a glaring light on one of America's most shameful moments and, more importantly, exposes how little we truly know about our military's methods.

The Road to Guantanamo (2006)

Director:
Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468094/

Review:
In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.

Party Monster (1998)

Director:
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141716/

Review:
Party Monster: The Shockumentary is a 1998 documentary film detailing the rise of the club kid phenomenon in New York City, the life of club kid and party promoter Michael Alig and Alig's murder (with Robert "Freeze" Riggs) of fellow club kid and drug dealer Angel Melendez. The film is based in part on the James St. James book on the murder, Disco Bloodbath, and combines interview footage of Alig from prison, St. James, scene watchers like Michael Musto and a number of other former club kids with archive footage from various parties and dramatic re-enactments. The book and this film also served as bases for the 2003 film, also called Party Monster.

X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story (2003)

Director:
Simon Kerslake

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0989104/

Review:
Documentary on underage teen porn star Traci Lords who almost brought down an entire industry. This is the best doc about Traci Lords that I could find. It starts with Traci's background and then passes on how she ended up in the porn industry. Later on you can see a bunch of interviews with porn directors and porn stars remembering the good old times and their relationship with Traci. I don't want to say too much because I would definitely spoil it for you. Great doc, my recommendation.

A Well Spent Life (1972)

Director:
Les Blank and Skip Gerson (co-director)

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067968/

Review:
 In the tradition of his past and future up-close celebrity documentaries, Les Blank served up 1972's A Well-Spent Life. The subject is Texas blues artist Mance Lipscomb, seen at work and in repose. A lifelong sharecropper and tenant farmer, Lipscomb was 65 when he made his first record. His versatility as a singer, composer, guitarist and violinist bordered on the uncanny, and his influence would continue to be felt even into the highly streamlined country-blues market of the 1990s. Director Blank makes excellent use of the materials at hand (there is comparatively little of Lipscomb on film), and the result is a rich, fully fleshed out life study of one of the Southwest's finest "songsters."

Screening Room: Les Blank (1973)

Director:
Robert Gardner

Review:
Beginning with The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins in 1969, Les Blank has become known for his films about indigenous southern music and various other topics. He has received numerous major awards including the British Academy Award for Burden of Dreams, about Werner Herzog and the making of Fitzcarraldo, top prizes at the Melbourne Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival for In Heaven There is No Beer?, and the Maya Deren Award for lifetime achievement as an independent filmmaker. Retrospectives of Blank's work have been held at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the National Film Theatre, London, and the Cinematheque Francaise. His filmmaking company, Flower Films, is based in El Cerrito, California  Les Blank, along with music writer Peter Guralnick, appeared on Screening Room in January 1973 to discuss his recent work and screen The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins , also footage from what later comprised Dry Wood and Hot Pepper.

Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It (2009)

Director:
Philippa Robinson

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1496013/

Review:
In 1988, teenager John Davidson featured in a BBC documentary about Tourettes. At that time, few people had even heard of Tourettes Syndrome, let alone knew anything about the neurological condition which, at its worst, causes violent body movements and outbursts of swearing. John was 16, and trying to come to terms with a frightening world where his language and behaviour was a constant form of offence to everyone around him. In 2002, he took part in a follow-up film alongside 8-year-old Greg Storey, who had recently been diagnosed with Tourettes. Now, seven years on, this film revisits both John (aged 37) and Greg (aged 15), and sees how their worlds have changed. Greg is now the same age as John was when he first took part in a documentary. How does Greg's experience of being a teenager with Tourettes compare to John's, and how does John's life continue to change?

The Coconut Revolution (2000)

Director:
Dom Rotheroe

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479000/

Review:
Bougainville, with a populations of only 160,000 has managed to close and keep closed one of the biggest mines in the world. They have held their ground for a decade with antique weapons and homemade guns. These people have taken on the biggest mining company in the world and won. This is an incredible modern-day story of a native peoples' victory over Western globalization. Sick of seeing their environment ruined and their people exploited by the Panguna Mine, the Pacific island of Bougainville rose up against the giant mining corporation, Rio Tinto Zinc. The newly formed Bougainville Revolutionary Army began fighting with bows and arrows and sticks and stones against a heavily armed adversary. In an attempt to put down the rebellion the Papua New Guinean Army swiftly established a gunboat blockade around the island. But with no shipments allowed in or out, how did new electricity networks spring up on the island? And how were the people of Bougainville able to drive around the island without any source of petrol or diesel? Watch as the world's first eco-revolution unfolds within the blockade. A David and Goliath story for the 21st century. A multi-award winning documentary.

Lobotomist (2008)

Director:
Barak Goodman and John Maggio

Review:
Seeking a faster and less invasive way to perform the procedure, Freeman invented the "ice pick" or transorbital lobotomy, which, at first, literally used an ice pick hammered through the back of the eye socket into the brain. Freeman was able to perform these very quickly, outside of an operating room, and without a surgeon. For his first transorbital lobotomies, Freeman used an actual icepick from his kitchen. Later, he utilized an instrument created specifically for the operation called a leucotome. In 1948 Freeman developed a new technique which involved wrenching the leucotome in an upstroke after the initial insertion. This procedure placed great strain on the instrument and in one case resulted in the leucotome breaking off in the patient's skull. As a result, Freeman designed a new, stronger instrument, the orbitoclast. Freeman embarked on a national campaign in his van which he called his "lobotomobile" to demonstrate the procedure to doctors working at state-run institutions; Freeman would show off by icepicking both of a patient's eyesockets at one time - one with each hand. According to some, institutional care was hampered by lack of effective treatments and extreme overcrowding, and Freeman saw the transorbital lobotomy as an expedient tool to get large populations out of treatment and back into private life. The “ice pick lobotomy” was, according to Ole Enersen, performed by Freeman “with a recklessness bordering on lunacy, touring the country like a travelling evangelist. In most cases,” Enersen continued, “this procedure was nothing more than a gross and unwarranted mutilation carried out by a self righteous zealot.”

Join Us (2007)

Director:
Ondi Timoner

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059801/

Review:
Dig! director Ondi Timoner takes the helm for this cinéma vérité-style documentary concerning the flight of four families from a tyrannical, pseudo-Christian pastor and their subsequent attempt to seek justice for the role he played in destroying their lives. After safely escaping the South Carolina compound of the religious zealot who calls himself the most perfect representation of humankind alive, the families all check into Wellspring -- a respected cult-victim treatment facility. As the deprogramming of the former cult members commences, councilors gradually discover just what it was that prompted the escapees to sacrifice their entire lives for the benefit of a church that used religion to dominate them in every possible way imaginable. But this is only the first step in their slow road to recovery, because in order to gain a true sense of closure and ensure that justice is served, these former cult members will travel back to the community they once built and confront the man who took control of their lives face to face.

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)

Director:
Alexandra Cassavetes

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405496/

Review:
The Z Channel wasn't America's first premium cable outlet specializing in feature films, and it wasn't the most commercially successful, but few, if any, had as strong an impact on the film industry or a more influential list of customers. Based in California and blanketing sections of the state dominated by the movie business, Z Channel had been operating for several years before former screenwriter Jerry Harvey took over as head of programming in 1980. Under the guidance of Harvey and his staff, the channel became a film buff's dream, screening rare classics, important foreign films, and maverick American titles that had fallen through the cracks of commercial distribution. Harvey and his staff also programmed original and uncut versions of films which had only played American theaters in altered form (including Heaven's Gate, Once Upon a Time in America, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Leopard) long before the concept of the "director's cut" had currency beyond the most hardcore of film fans. And The Z Channel aggressively championed pictures they believed were overlooked, and programmed deserving Oscar-nominated movies during the Academy's voting period, years before studios began distributing video "screeners" to potential voters. (More than one industry expert has credited Z Channel's showings of Annie Hall as a key factor in the film winning Best Picture.) But Jerry Harvey was also a deeply troubled man, and when legal and economic problems began dogging the company in the late '80s, he snapped, leading to a horrible and tragic murder and suicide. The Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession is a documentary that looks at the channel's short but remarkable history as well as Harvey's damaged personal life. It includes interviews with Robert Altman, Quentin Tarantino, James Woods, Jim Jarmusch, Alexander Payne and a number of other filmmakers and critics who attest to Z Channel's lasting impact.

When Kids Get Life (2007)

Review:
The United States is one of the only countries in the world that allows children under 18 to be sentenced to life without parole. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International report that more than 2,000 inmates are currently serving life without parole in the United States for crimes committed when they were juveniles; in the rest of the world, there are only 12 juveniles serving the same sentence, according to figures reported to the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child.  In When Kids Get Life, FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel (The O.J. Verdict, Innocence Lost) travels to Colorado to profile five individuals sentenced to life without parole as juveniles.  Colorado was an early pioneer in juvenile justice, focusing on rehabilitation rather than punishment. But in the late 1980s and 1990s, when a sharp increase in violent crimes by young offenders attracted enormous press coverage, legislators nationwide clamped down. In Colorado, the General Assembly eliminated the possibility of parole for life sentences and expanded the power of district attorneys to treat juveniles as adults.

Modify (2005)

Director:
Jason Gary and Greg Jacobson

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455980/

Review:
What is body modification? According to the definition employed by "Modify" directors Jason Gary and Greg Jacobson, it's liposuction, body-building, plastic surgery, tattooing, piercings, sexual redesignation and suspension -- the hanging of one's body on hooks. "Once you've done this," says one suspender, "the rest of your life is a piece of cake." A plastic surgeon suggests that even shaving, or combing your hair, is a manipulation of your body and therefore eligible for the category. Such a wide definition allows "Modify" to make parallels between the most benign and the most radical transformations. The film delves into the practices and philosophies of those who augment their bodies, be it for vanity or artistic vision.

Kiss My Snake (2007)

Director:
Tom Tavee

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1084018/

Review:
This is the story of a little village in Thailand with a very dangerous tradition. In this strange little village, the world's most dangerous serpent, the King Cobra, has become both a pet and a business partner of a deadly cottage industry. The entire village-from elders to children-works as one and performs relentlessly at their temple to attract tourists and herb buyers. The main attraction is the boxing matches, man versus snake, one on one! Bites are commonplace, but unbelievably the village has no anti-serum to combat the deadly toxins and the nearest hospital is over an hour away by car. Tom Tavee, the filmmaker, was able to obtain incredible access into the lives of the fighters and has succeeded in accurately and dramatically documenting this dangerous performance-sport of snake-boxing, the art of theatrically antagonizing the largest venomous snakes in the world. Some of the boxers have been bitten dozens of times, but despite losing fingers and friends, the boxers love their snakes and their perilous profession.

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