Casting JonBenet

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he...

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Adrián Caetano

Cast

Rodrigo de la Serna, Pablo Echarri, Nazareno Casero

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Cast

Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Monoochehr Ahankhah

The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature ...

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Paul Wilmshurst

Cast

John Hurt

An investigation into the theory that Mt. Ararat in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah's Ark.

Runtime

1h 39m

Jeremy Paxman tells the tragic story of World War One poet Wilfred Owen.

Runtime

59m