Named after a Sufi word that translates roughly as breath of life or blessing, Baraka
is Ron Fricke's impressive follow-up to Godfrey Reggio's non-verbal documentary film Koyaanisqatsi. Fricke was cinematographer and collaborator on Reggio's film, and for Baraka he struck ...
Twenty years after his influential debut, Roger & Me, Michael Moore returns to his roots
by pulling back the curtain on capitalism to reveal the insidious role it has played in the destruction of the American dream for many people. ...
Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer
by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and ...
This experimental minimalist drama by Jean-Luc Godard is a totally plotless exploration of film language.
The setting is a darkened soundstage with only a single light to illuminate two actors who discuss philosophy. The philosophy reflects the director's most radical ...
Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a
teenager named Danny Fisher, who is forced to drop out of school to help support his ineffective father (Dean Jagger). Drawn to trouble like a ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi's 1963 La Rabbia (Rage) began life as an essay
film sans Guareschi's involvement. Pasolini's 50 minutes of material filter numerous social issues through a Marxist lens, including bourgeois hypocrisy, racism, and complacency - as ...
In 1973, the seminal rock band Led Zeppelin, one of the founders of the music
genre known as heavy metal, went on tour and performed in Madison Square Garden. This documentary has concert footage, including the 23-minute-long version of the ...
This French documentary chronicles a sobering and little known event that occurred during the Battle
of Okinawa, the final bloody man-to-man struggle between American and Japanese troops before the A-bombs were dropped. The event is framed by the story of ...