Facing Ali

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider...

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou

Cast

Jacques Perrin, Kristin Scott Thomas

American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Chris Smith

Cast

Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet.

Runtime

40m

Director

George Butler

Cast

Paul Newman, Steve Squyres, Rob Manning

In 1968, the fury and violence of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago propelled us toward a tipping point in politics. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, America suffered its bloodiest year in Vietnam and drugs seduced us. Yet idealism--and hope--flourished. Explore the significance of that turbul...

Runtime

2h

Cast

Tom Brokaw

Trace the life and career of visionary puppeteer Jim Henson through this fascinating documentary, which profiles the creative genius's early endeavors in college, his incredible contributions to "Sesame Street" and the creation of "The Muppet Show." In addition to interviews with Henson, his wife, Jane, and close collaborator Frank Oz,...

Runtime

54m

Director

Tim Conrad

Cast

Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jane Henson

Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.

Runtime

2h 30m

Director

Roland Suso Richter

Cast

Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch

At a Dresden hospital in 1945, nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light), whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in, Anna grows close to Robert despite her engagement to Dr. Alexander Wenninger (Benjamin Sadler). The gripping historical romance won a 2...

Runtime

3h

Director

Roland Suso Richter

Cast

Felicitas Woll, John Light, Benjamin Sadler

The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of th...

Runtime

1h 48m

Famous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele — the 'Death Angel of Auschwitz', who killed more than 300.000 people — emerges from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as a 87-year-old man, and must stand for his crimes in court. The young solicitor Peter Rohm is assigned to defend him, but Rohm himself — an expert on Mengele and his crimes — feels ...

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Roland Suso Richter

Cast

Götz George, Kai Wiesinger, Karoline Eichhorn

A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

Runtime

2h 11m

Director

Roland Suso Richter

Cast

Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Michael Baral