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- (1988)
- Starring: Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Film Movement
- Release Date: 3/4/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
- In this beloved 1988 PBS series, mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell joins Bill Moyers to explore what enduring myths can tell us about our lives. In each of six episodes -"The Hero's... 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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- (1984)
- Starring: Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg
- Genre: Documentary, LGBTQ+
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/22/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and the first openly gay U.S. politician elected to public office; even after his assassination, in 1978, he... more
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- (1989)
- Starring: Richard Gordon, Charles Conrad
- Genre: Documentary, Special Interest-Space
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/14/2009
- Features: Blu-ray
- Blast off with thrilling footage of America's first Apollo space missions to the moon. The astronauts themselves narrate this historic event that changed the world. Directed by Al Reinert.... more
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- (1983)
- Starring: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 12/15/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs was for decades mainly the... more
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- (1989)
- Starring: Michael Buscemi
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Saturn's Core
- Release Date: 4/29/2025
- Features: Subtitled
- Saturn's Core is proud to present the collaborative works of two monumental female artists: Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and artist Merrill Aldighieri and provocative musician and poet, No Wave icon,... more
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- (1988)
- Starring: Randall Adams, David Harris
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/24/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- Among the most important documentaries ever made, The Thin Blue Line, by Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven), erases the border between art and activism. A work of meticulous journalism and gripping... more
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- (1982)
- Starring: Sallie Martin, Willie Mae Ford Smith
- Genre: Documentary, Gospel
- Studio: Milestone Video
- Release Date: 10/26/2021
- Features: Blu-ray
- A moving mix of concert film and documentary, this singular exploration follows the rich history of gospel music in America through the testimony of two towering figures who lived it, composer Thomas... more
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- (1981)
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/4/2021
- Features: Subtitled
- Ahmed El Maânouni's musical documentary explores the sound and impact of the internationally popular Moroccan acoustic band Nass El Ghiwane, an ensemble that formed in the early 70s and remains... more
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- (1982)
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Severin
- Release Date: 11/5/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- In 1982, filmakers Sheldon Renan and Academy Award nominee Leonard Schrader (KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, MISHIMA, BLUE COLLAR) created a graphic and provocative examination of America's history with... more
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- (1988)
- Genre: Documentary, Cult
- Studio: MVD Rewind
- Release Date: 12/19/2023
- Features: With CD, Booklet, Collector's Edition
- Bizarre and even disturbing, this video drops you into the depths of the New York underground. You'll witness the twisted performance art of Ann Magnuson, Charlie Barnett, Phoebe Legere, Joseph... more
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- (1982)
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 12/4/2018
- Features: Blu-ray
- 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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- (1985)
- Starring: Mel Torme
- Genre: Documentary, Big Band
- Studio: Film Movement
- Release Date: 5/27/2025
- Features: Subtitled, Digital Theater System, Sign Language
- This gifted clarinetist was the first of his Big Band leader contemporaries to welcome African-American performers into his act. As a self-described "very difficult man," his ambivalence toward his... more
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- (1983)
- Starring: Bob Boyd, George C. Scott
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: Flicker Alley
- Release Date: 1/2/2018
- Features: Manufactured on Demand, Dolby
- The youngest president in our nations history, who brought an unprecedented excitement and power to the office, the life of Americas 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt, makes any fiction pale by... more
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- (1985)
- Genre: Documentary, Special Interest-War
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 6/25/2013
- Features: Blu-ray
- Claude Lanzmann directed this intensely moving Holocaust documentary, which draws much of its power from interviews with those who lived through the horror—death camp survivors, workers and Nazi... more
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- (1982)
- Starring: John McEnroe
- Genre: Documentary, Sports
- Studio: Metrograph Pictures
- Release Date: 5/28/2024
- Features: Subtitled
- William Klein, the legendary American photographer and filmmaker, has put together a body of work as thrillingly eclectic as any living artist. In his 1969 film Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, Klein... more
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- (1984)
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/18/2020
- Features: Blu-ray
- Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most... more
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- (1987)
- Starring: Gordon Parks, Avery Brooks
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: Kino Classics
- Release Date: 7/6/2021
- Features: Blu-ray
- 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