Featuring testimonies from many of the world's top experts; petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, political analysts et al, this rich documentary reaches an ominous yet logical conclusion, that the Earth's cheap oil supplies are peaking, a crisis of global proportions looms and the industrial societies have nothing sustainable to replace our immense energy requirements. "Crude Awakening" is an intelligent and genuinely absorbing film arguing the case for 'pea find out more...

Al Gore finds life after the politically crushing embarrassment that was his tenure as vice president and, frankly, it's unlikely he will experience another point as high as his achievement in this profound, engaging and, mercifully, clear documentary on the consequences of our complacent greed. That ‘An Inconvenient Truth' provides little in the way of true revelations pertaining to the earth's (humanity's) looming ecological demise, and ignores some of the more profound problems of trapped car find out more...

Fleeing to America after escaping her Nazi sympathiser husband, Hedy Lamarr then conquered Hollywood. Executive produced by Susan Sarandon, this is the ultimate portrait of Hollywood wild-child, Hedy Lamarr. Known as 'the most beautiful woman in the world', she was infamous for her marriages and affairs with everyone from Spencer Tracy to JFK. This film rediscovers her, not only as an actress, but as the brilliant mind who co-invented 1940's wireless technology. find out more...

Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman are young New York media types who document their lives as a matter of course. So when photographer Yaniv, Ariel’s brother with whom they share office space, receives an email from Abby, an 8-year-old Michigan girl, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs, their recordings suddenly get a lot more interesting.
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The film imparts a unique vision of our world - the first non-verbal, non-fiction motion picture filmed in time-lapse photography. Presented as a visual symphony in seven movements, Chronos embarks on an unprecedented cinematic journey across the worlds of natural beauty and manmade monuments, majestically exploring the essence of time as it travels. Chronos is the directorial debut of Ron Fricke, director of Baraka and cinematographer of Koyaanisqatsi find out more...

10 spacecraft and 24 men (10 appear on camera in this documentary) have orbited, looped around or landed on the moon. As American heroes and members of the super elite most of these men have since shunned public interview. "In the Shadow of the Moon" is a rare and beautiful historical document of the combined Apollo missions, told by the astronauts themselves, with mind blowing NASA footage of the spacecraft, space, the lunar landscape and the view of planet Earth from outer space. Really worth find out more...

Jack Johnson's first break into the public music arena was when his composition 'Rodeo Clowns' was chosen to be G-ILove and Special Sauce's first single off their 1999 album 'Philadelphonic'. He had long been a huge figure in the surfing world, having been born and raised in Hawaii. He fast became a renowned surfer and scored a pro contract with Quiksilver before he had left high school. His implicit creativity led him to study and graduate with a degree in film at Santa Barbara. This then led t find out more...

Werner Herzog returns with his trademark dry wit to tell us all about the wonders and pitfalls of the technological world we live in. While it entertains it fails to present an engaged, critical view - perhaps because it is all so new to Herzog. Entertaining enough, but not at all cinematic, this is your standard talking heads tv doc stuff.

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An awesomely shot, sci-fi-like tableau of the high technologies and production line techniques involved in the modern food production industry. Shot with a Nietzschean eye to the beauty of man's mastery of nature and with a dry Germanic sense of humour "Our Daily Bread" may ignore both the damage to nature and the cruelty involved in these processes, but it sure makes fabulous art and great cinema. find out more...

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