Documentary & Biopic Archive

  • Share! Tweet 2010 | Australia | Directed by Mark Hartley Logline: The story of the Filipino exploitation film industry from the 1960s through to the 1980s. Originally commissioned as a...

    Machete Maidens Unleashed!

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  • Share! Tweet 2010 | USA | Directed by Richard Press Logline: A portrait of the octogenarian professional photographer for The New York Times who has dedicated most of his life...

    Bill Cunningham New York

    Share! Tweet 2010 | USA | Directed by Richard Press Logline: A portrait of the octogenarian professional photographer for The New York Times who has dedicated most of his life...

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  • Share! Tweet Australia | 2011| Directed by Lynn-Maree Milburn & Richard Lowenstein Logline: A portrait of an Australian post-punk guitarist, singer, songwriter who influenced and inspired many musicians and colleagues...

    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

    Share! Tweet Australia | 2011| Directed by Lynn-Maree Milburn & Richard Lowenstein Logline: A portrait of an Australian post-punk guitarist, singer, songwriter who influenced and inspired many musicians and colleagues...

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  • Share! Tweet 2002 | Brazil | Directed by Jose Padilha & Philipe Lacerda Logline: A documentary about the hijack of a city bus in Rio by a young man who...

    Ônibus 174 (Bus 174)

    Share! Tweet 2002 | Brazil | Directed by Jose Padilha & Philipe Lacerda Logline: A documentary about the hijack of a city bus in Rio by a young man who...

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  • Share! Tweet 2010 | USA | Directed by Tristan Patterson Logline:  A portrait of Skreech, a young Californian semi-pro skateboarder, and the immediate people and places in his restless existence....

    Dragonslayer

    Share! Tweet 2010 | USA | Directed by Tristan Patterson Logline:  A portrait of Skreech, a young Californian semi-pro skateboarder, and the immediate people and places in his restless existence....

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  • Share! Tweet 2011 | Canada | Directed by Jay Cheel   Logline: A documentary that looks at the uneven career of Cap’n Video, who single-handedly produced his own zany stunt...

    Beauty Day

    Share! Tweet 2011 | Canada | Directed by Jay Cheel   Logline: A documentary that looks at the uneven career of Cap’n Video, who single-handedly produced his own zany stunt...

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  • Share! Tweet Australia | 2011 | Directed by Matthew Bate Logline: When two friends tape-recorded the mostly verbal fights of their noisy and eccentric neighbors, they accidentally created one of...

    Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

    Share! Tweet Australia | 2011 | Directed by Matthew Bate Logline: When two friends tape-recorded the mostly verbal fights of their noisy and eccentric neighbors, they accidentally created one of...

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  • Share! Tweet USA/Germany/UK/Netherlands/Belgium/France | 2011 | Directed by Marie Losier   Logline: A documentary portrait of the career and relationship between experimental musician and performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and his...

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    Share! Tweet USA/Germany/UK/Netherlands/Belgium/France | 2011 | Directed by Marie Losier   Logline: A documentary portrait of the career and relationship between experimental musician and performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and his...

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  • Share! Tweet US | 2010 | directed by Yony Leyser   Logline: A documentary about the career and exploits of the maverick, pioneering writer who battled drug addiction and challenged...

    William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

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  • Share! Tweet UK | 2011 | Directed by Jeanie Finlay Logline: A documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, in the North East of England,...

    Sound It Out

    Share! Tweet UK | 2011 | Directed by Jeanie Finlay Logline: A documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, in the North East of England,...

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  • Share! Tweet Japan | 2011 | Directed by David Gelb Logline: A documentary about an octogenarian sushi master, his two sons, and the tiny restaurant in which they tirelessly work....

    Juri Dreams of Sushi

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  • Share! Tweet 2010 | Australia | Directed by Amiel Courtin-Wilson Logline: A world-weary criminal is released from prison and reunites with the love of his life, but finds he cannot...

    Hail

    Share! Tweet 2010 | Australia | Directed by Amiel Courtin-Wilson Logline: A world-weary criminal is released from prison and reunites with the love of his life, but finds he cannot...

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  • Share! Tweet 2010 | USA | Directed by Michael Epstein Logline: A chronicle of John Lennon’s career in New York City during the last nine years of his life. Much...

    LennoNYC

    Share! Tweet 2010 | USA | Directed by Michael Epstein Logline: A chronicle of John Lennon’s career in New York City during the last nine years of his life. Much...

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  • Share! Tweet US | 2010 | Directed by Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger Logline: Over the course of a year a small documentary team follows an American platoon, based in...

    Restrepo

    Share! Tweet US | 2010 | Directed by Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger Logline: Over the course of a year a small documentary team follows an American platoon, based in...

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  • Share! Tweet France | 2009 | Directed by Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea Logline: A documentary about the making of the ill-fated feature Inferno by a legendary French director and...

    L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno)

    Share! Tweet France | 2009 | Directed by Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea Logline: A documentary about the making of the ill-fated feature Inferno by a legendary French director and...

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  • Share! Tweet UK | 2009 | Directed by Sonia Anderson Logline: An unathorised documentary tracing the career of Led Zeppelin from the demise of The Yardbirds to the death of...

    Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused

    Share! Tweet UK | 2009 | Directed by Sonia Anderson Logline: An unathorised documentary tracing the career of Led Zeppelin from the demise of The Yardbirds to the death of...

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  • Share! Tweet USA | 2006 | Directed by Chris Davies Logline: A two-part quasi-documentary that focuses on the music and performance of legendary British rock band Queen. A curious production;...

    Queen – Under Review (1973 – 1991)

    Share! Tweet USA | 2006 | Directed by Chris Davies Logline: A two-part quasi-documentary that focuses on the music and performance of legendary British rock band Queen. A curious production;...

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  • Share! Tweet USA | 2006/2008 | Directed by Bill Corben Loglines: The true story of the smugglers and law enforcement in Miami, Florida, which became the cocaine capital of the...

    Cocaine Cowboys/Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ with the Godmother

    Share! Tweet USA | 2006/2008 | Directed by Bill Corben Loglines: The true story of the smugglers and law enforcement in Miami, Florida, which became the cocaine capital of the...

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  • Share! Tweet USA | 2008 | Directed by Alex Gibney Logline: A savage journey into the heart of the legendary gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s passionately insane search for the...

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

    Share! Tweet USA | 2008 | Directed by Alex Gibney Logline: A savage journey into the heart of the legendary gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s passionately insane search for the...

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