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- Starring: Dorothy Arzner, Ida Lupino
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 3/11/2025
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled
- In this quartet of remarkable efforts from French film history documentarians Clara and Julia Kuperberg, due consideration is given to the pioneering women who carved out roles and made contributions... more
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- (2021)
- Starring: Chuck D, Amma Asante
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 2/11/2025
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled
- In the late 1910s, Pullman porter-turned-successful self-published novelist Oscar Micheaux was unimpressed by the film rights offers for his works-and embarked on a 30-year career writing, directing,... more
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- (1988)
- Starring: Chet Baker & Art Pepper
- Genre: Documentary, Jazz
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 1/7/2025
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled
- Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage,... more
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- Starring: Count Basie, Cab Calloway
- Genre: Documentary, Music Video (Concert/Performance)
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 7/25/2023
- Features: Subtitled
- Soundies have been called the music videos of the 1940s, but that doesn't begin to describe their cultural importance. It's true that they feature a remarkable range of talent, from big-band... more
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- Starring: Orson Welles
- Genre: Documentary, Silent Films
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 2/21/2023
- Features: Silent Movie
- This remarkable collection offers 21 acclaimed brief experimental films created between 1922-2022 by Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Flaherty, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and many others, all complemented by... more
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- (1968)
- Starring: Andy Warhol
- Genre: Documentary, LGBTQ+
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 6/2/2020
- Features: DVD
- The forerunner to "Paris Is Burning," this documentary-narrated by organizer/MC Jack "Flawless Sabrina" Doroshow-captures the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest in all of it's cross-dressing... more
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- Genre: Documentary, Silent Films
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 11/20/2018
- Features: Silent Movie
- In the first era of wild cinema invention, women filmmakers contributed invaluable innovation to the world of movies. From Alice Guy-Blaché's formal contributions to Mabel Normand's mastery over... more
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- (1929)
- Genre: Documentary, Silent Films
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 2/16/2021
- Features: Blu-ray
- Innovative avant garde silent film by Dziga Vertov that uses the camera lens as the audience's "eye," embarking on a bizarre chronicle of a typical day in the Soviet Union and filled with trick... more
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- Starring: Joan Chen, Turhan Bey
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 6/25/2024
- Features: Subtitled
- With over 150 international film awards to his name, the full scope of Arthur Dong's storytelling mastery is brought to light in this Blu-ray collection of films that explore the Asian American... more
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- Starring: Charles Musser, Broncho Billy Anderson
- Genre: Documentary, Silent Films
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 10/3/2023
- Features: Boxed Set
- One hundred-forty seminal silent shorts produced by Thomas Edison's self-named movie studio between 1891-1918, restored and with new musical scores, are featured in this four-disc collection. Trace... more
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- (1995)
- Starring: Mary Beth Hurt, Jean Seberg
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 4/19/2022
- Features: DVD
- Mary Beth Hurt stars in this fascinating study of the young girl from Iowa who went on to become an international movie star before dying mysteriously in Paris at the age of just 40. Acclaimed by... more
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- (1992)
- Starring: Eric Farr, Rock Hudson
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 3/22/2022
- Features: DVD
- Intriguing look at the films and gay life of Rock Hudson, as narrated by Hudson "himself" from beyond the grave. By looking at clips from the actor's most popular films like "Pillow Talk" and tracing... more
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- (1982)
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 12/4/2018
- Features: DVD
- An ironic and darkly funny documentary look at the "Cold War" mentality of the '40s and '50s. U.S. government films, newsreels, contemporary songs and Hollywood clips show America's naive attitudes... more
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- (1970)
- Starring: Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 2/20/2024
- Features: Blu-ray
- Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, King: A Filmed Record. Montgomery to Memphis is a monumental documentary that follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From 1955 to 1968, in his rise from... more
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- Starring: Jonas Mekas
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 9/19/2023
- Features: Subtitled
- After defining the No Wave film movement of the New York underground of the 1970s and '80s, Beth B emerged in the 1990s as a provocative multi-disciplinary artist, creating a series of... more
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- (1997)
- Starring: Dan Butler, Don Ameche
- Genre: Documentary, LGBTQ+
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 7/19/2022
- Features: DVD
- From Mark Rappaport, creator of "Rock Hudson's Home Movies," comes this cinematic tribute on gay and lesbian imagery in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Among the subjects Rappaport... more
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- (1979)
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 5/31/2022
- Features: DVD
- "Solidarity! All for One and One for All!" Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changed the course of... more
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- (1987)
- Starring: Gordon Parks, Avery Brooks
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 7/6/2021
- Features: DVD
- For his final effort behind a movie camera, photojournalist, novelist, composer and genuine Renaissance man Gordon Parks reflected on his life and works with this remarkable documentary... more
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- (1972)
- Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland
- Genre: Documentary, Comedy Video
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 5/4/2021
- Features: DVD
- Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Paul Mooney, Peter Boyle. Follow along on Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland's controversial political road show from the early '70s, where they traveled across the US... more
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- (2020)
- Starring: Sidney Poitier, Jesse Jackson
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 2/2/2021
- Features: Blu-ray
- Best known for his genre-bending movie Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926-2014) was the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics,... more
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- (2014)
- Starring: Fritz Lang
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 1/9/2018
- Features: DVD
- Rüdiger Suchsland, Hans Henrik Wöhler, Fritz Lang. This fascinating film-history documentary explores the film of the Weimer Republic (1918–33) in Germany, identifying trends and themes in that era... more
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- (1926)
- Genre: Documentary, Silent Films
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 12/8/2015
- Features: Silent Movie
- After the triumphant success of his true-life Arctic adventure Nanook of the North (1922), director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife Frances and their children to the South Seas island of... more
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- (1924)
- Genre: Documentary, Silent Films
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 9/8/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- Andrew Irvine, George Mallory. The chronicles of two men on their journey to the summit of Mount Everest has been restored to bring you heart-stopping imagery of the stunning, yet dangerous... more