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Dec. 3, 2009 7:35 AM ET (AP)
Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Hunter S. Thompson
Synopsis: Alex Gibney (director of (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) turns his attention from corporate scandal to Gonzo journalism with this tribute to the libido-driven, Wild Turkey-swilling writer who never knew the meaning of the word "excess." Comprised largely of never-before-seen archival Read More
Crew: Executive Producer
Actors: Otto Tausig, Tovah Feldshuh, Rhea Perlman, Barbara Hershey, Elizabeth Peña
Synopsis: A charming elderly Jewish writer who lives in a state of "permanent confusion" finds his vivid imagination becoming the bane of his existence in director Jan Schütte's adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's richly textured short stories. Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) is an Read More
Actors: Ken Davis, Moazzam Begg, Willie Brand, Jack Cloonan, Damien Corsetti
Synopsis: From the producer of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Who Killed the Electric Car? comes a documentary that takes a critical look at the Bush administration's policy on torture by investigating the death of an Afghan taxi driver who, after being taken into the custody of American soldiers Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Nicky Barnes, Leon "Scrap" Batts, Thelma Grant, Joseph "Jazz" Hayden, Jackie Hayden
Synopsis: As the political revolt, consciousness expansion and calls for racial equality that dominated the late 1960's gave way to the apathy, drug abuse and materialism that would define much of the 1970's, Nicky Barnes was a man who seemed to symbolize this time all too well. Born and raised in a Read More
Actors: Barbara Bodine, Chris Allbritton, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colonel Paul Hughes, Walter Slocombe
Synopsis: On March 19, 2003, forces from the United States and a handful of allied nations invaded Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power. American military leaders expected the conflict to last no more than a few months, and President George W. Bush declared that major military operations were over less Read More
Crew: Consulting Producer
Actors: Greg "Gadget" Abbott, Dave Barthmuss, Ed Begley, Jr., Jim Boyd and His Men of the West, Alec N. Brooks
Synopsis: Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly important role that renewable energy plays in modern society. Introduced as a Read More
Actors: Herbie Hancock, Christina Aguilera, Sting, John Mayer, Raul Midón
Synopsis: Ordinary music soars to extraordinary heights as gifted keyboardist Herbie Hancock joins forces with a variety of well-known music superstars to offer a completely original listening experience. As Hancock collaborates with such artists as Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Sting, and John Mayer, the Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Peter Coyote
Synopsis: Alex Gibney, who wrote and produced Eugene Jarecki's The Trials of Henry Kissinger, examines the rise and fall of an infamous corporate juggernaut in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which he wrote and directed. The film, based on the book by Fortune Magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind Read More
Actors: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Ruth Brown, Solomon Burke, Ben Cauley, Natalie Cole
Synopsis: The United States Congress named 2003 the "Year of the Blues" as part of an initiative by several musical education groups to make more Americans aware of the history and heritage of blues music, one of America's most important homegrown art forms. To kick off this celebration of the blues, a Read More
Actors: Tommy Redmond Hicks, Nathaniel Lee, Carl Lumbly
Synopsis: Part of The Blues documentary film series on PBS, Warming by the Devil's Fire is written and directed by Charles Burnett and narrated by Carl Lumbly. This installment explores the tension between the gospel and the blues through the semi-autobiographic tale of a young boy (played by Nathaniel Lee Read More
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Keith B. Brown, Chris Thomas King, J.B. Lenoir, Skip James
Synopsis: Part of The Blues documentary series on PBS, The Soul of a Man is written and directed by Wim Wenders and narrated by Laurence Fishburne. This installment explores the work of the filmmaker's personal musical heroes: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, and J.B. Lenoir. Through reenactments and Read More
Actors: Christopher Hitchens, William Safire, Alexander Haig, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, Seymour Hersch
Synopsis: This incisive documentary offers a sobering portrait of statesman Henry Kissinger, quite possibly the most powerful and influential diplomat in U.S. government in the latter half of the 20th century. Based on the book of nearly the same name by journalist and critic Christopher Hitchens (the Read More
Actors: Tariq 'Black Thought' Trotter, Bonz Malone, Karen Goberman, David Vadim
Synopsis: Two young people from different cultures fall in love and have to face the emotional fallout of their actions in this urban drama set in Brooklyn's rough-and-tumble Crown Heights neighborhood. Sol (Tariq Trotter) is a young man of West Indian descent who is the leader of a group of Afrocentric Read More
Synopsis: Based on his book of the same name, David Halberstam's The Fifties takes an unflinching look at an often neglected decade. David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 2: Selling the American Way follows the seduction of the American public through the television screen. As if in shock, baby boomers Read More
Synopsis: Pulitzer prize-winning writer David Halberstam hosts the six-part documentary David Halberstam's The Fifties. The series disassembles the complicated decade from its paranoid beginning to its violent end. David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 1: The Fear and the Dream introduces the early years Read More
Synopsis: A decade comes clean in the third installment of Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam's series. Apron strings became shackles for millions of American women during this time. Families, when faced with the reality of having it all, wondered if they really wanted it. David Halberstam's The Read More
Synopsis: David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 6: The Rage Within and the Road to the Sixties serves as a catch-all for the Pulitzer prize-winning author's final thoughts. Beginning with the civil unrest that rose in the South, the documentary picks up a number of themes. African-Americans began to fight Read More
Synopsis: David Halberstam's The Fifties cracks open the decade and exposes it for what it was. In many ways, the time period served as a test ground for an explosive future. In David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 5: The Beat, poetry and music define a generation. A culture of cool emerged in the 1950s Read More
Synopsis: America comes face to face with its dark side in volume four of David Halberstam's The Fifties. David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 4: A Burning Desire showcases the real story behind the country's Victorian morals. Halberstam exposes citizen's real behavior when he questions sexual taboos. The Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Jay Leno, Chris Sarandon, Ernie Hudson, John Hancock
Synopsis: An arrogant Detroit cop (Jay Leno) must work with his efficient Japanese counterpart (Pat Morita) to corner an evil ganglord. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Enjoy this collection of experimental music by John Carter and Bobby Bradford. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
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