On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin...

Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes from extinction.

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea...

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the...

Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions -...

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

Near-silent and shot via a cell phone, a war veteran observes the world which has been colored by his experiences in Afghanistan.

"What if someone wrote your biography? Would there be horns and halos involved?"

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboarding and shaped the attitude and culture of modern...

A documentary about the crowd of people that commingle throughout the 3.5km of the Minhocão, an overpass in the central region of São...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.