David Bowie: The First Five Years 2019
Coming 50 years after the release of Space Oddity, the 90-minute film explores the Bowie before Ziggy Stardust, following the period from 1966 when he changed his name from David Jones to Bowie. It includes footage from the BBC Archives including footage of a BBC audition in 1965 of David Bowie and the Lower Third, which included a performance of Chim-Chim-Cheree and Baby That’s A Promise.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Francis Whately
Actors: Carlos Alomar, David Bowie, John Cambridge, Kristina Amadeus
Country: United Kingdom
Roxanne Lowit Magic Moments 2016
Before social media, she was the queen of self-promotion and documented the glamour around her.
Stockton on My Mind 2020
The story of Mayor Michael Tubbs through his first term in office as he tirelessly advances his innovative proposals for a city at a turning point.
Race for Glory 2013
Stock car racing is one of America’s most popular sports with more than 75 million fans nationwide, and growing. For many racers, the winning values of team, family and faith…
The Curry House Kid 2019
Choreographer Akram Khan returns to the curry houses of his youth and creates a poetic dance piece that tells a story of the immigrant experience as a Bangladeshi in Britain.
Maria By Callas 2017
Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs, the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose from humble beginnings in New…
Pure: A Shades of Winter Movie 2014
PURE is the second ‘Shades of Winter’ movie of Austrian free skier and filmmaker Sandra Lahnsteiner. Sharing her platform with some of the best female athletes from all over the…
The Sultan and the Saint 2016
Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of war, distrust, and insidious propaganda in a search for…
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema 2014
A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.
Bufo Alvarius: The Underground Secret 2018
A radical testimony of the strongest known natural psychedelic, tryptamine 5-MeO-DMT produced by Bufo Alvarius, a toad of the Sonoran desert. The breathtaking audio-visual adventure is enhanced by immersive animations…
Dina 2017
Dina, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world…
Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements 1931
Without sound, in three movements. Title cards declare that what a person likes and his manner of liking them reveals character. There are long looks at forms and rhythms. The…
Village of Swimming Cows 2018
What happens when eco-minded, city-dwelling Berliners move in with Polish farmers in the country? Is there something tangible and enlightening to the substantive changes healthy living can offer, and who…