Film Search
- Nov 8, 2010
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Ahead of Time (NR)
Robert Richman directed this documentary profile of Ruth Gruber, focusing on her international journalism in the years leading up to World War II and her globe-trotting work for the U.S. Department of the Interior. more...
- Jun 21, 2010
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American Jihadist (NR)
This documentary by Mark Claywell explores the life of a militant Islamist from Washington, D.C. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Andrei Rublev (R)
Andrei Tarkovsky's first major film (1966, though banned and unseen until 1971), cowritten by Andrei Konchalovsky, about a 15th-century icon painter. more...
- Jun 2, 2011
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (NR)
This edgy documentary manages to tell an affecting love story even as it ventures into the cultish, transgressive world of underground music. more...
- Dec 9, 2010
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Bhutto (NR)
This fast-paced and intelligent documentary opens with the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, two-time prime minister of Pakistan and the first woman leader of any Muslim state, then jumps back to the 1947 origins of the world's sixth largest nation to uncover the roots of her improbable and dramatic rise to power. more...
- Nov 19, 2009
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The Blind Side (PG-13)
Based on the nonfiction book by Michael Lewis, this potent tearjerker tells the story of Michael Oher, a gigantic black teenager from impoverished West Memphis who, accepted as a charity case by a local Christian academy and taken in by a wealthy white family, became an All America offensive tackle and was drafted in the first round by the Baltimore Ravens. more...
- Nov 10, 2011
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Bobby Fischer Against the World (NR)
Produced by HBO, this documentary follows Bobby Fischer's brilliant ascent to the World Chess Championship in 1972 and his sad descent into lunacy thereafter, which ended only with his death in 2008. more...
- Apr 27, 2004
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Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius (PG)
Written and directed by Rowdy Herrington, this richly upholstered biopic (2004) of golf legend Bobby Jones faces one of the toughest sand traps imaginable: not only does it have to make golf exciting, it has to dramatize a man's interior struggle with his own seemingly limitless potential. more...
- Apr 12, 2012
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Bound for Glory (PG)
Hal Ashby's 1976 biography of Woody Guthrie begins well, with some wonderfully aimless footage of life in the Dust Bowl, and builds detail as Guthrie migrates west to the promised land of California, only to find the conditions there no better than those he's left. more...
- Dec 30, 2010
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Casino Jack (R)
Not to be confused with Alex Gibney's recent documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, this is the dramatic take on Jack Abramoff's high-rolling career as a Washington lobbyist and his precipitous fall amid charges of fraud, conspiracy, and tax evasion. more...
