A fascinating documentary on the Hollywood revolution in the 1970s that became known as the second ‘Golden Era'. Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin and Roger Corman and others recount the remarkable change in thinking and film making brought about by a desire for realism rather than fantasy and heavily influenced by the new wave of European cinema. Directed by screenwriter Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme. find out more...

A pretty exhaustive documentary that looks back at what some have described as "the artistic crime of the century": tightrope walker Philippe Petit's death defying, utterly illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Centre's twin towers in 1974. A fascinating and gripping look at a meticulously planned and breathtaking act of defiance. find out more...

Revered Brit film director Terence Davies paints a picture of Liverpool life from his childhood days to the modern in this poetic docu-essay memoir. Heavy on poetry and classical music, heavily against the Church and the monarchy, full of newsreel and documentary footage, this is an awesome tribute to a city that he loves. find out more...

`Oil City` is the 1970s pub-rock proto-punk Dr Feelgood`s name for their home town of Canvey Island in the flat industrialised Thames estuary. Temple`s extraordinary documentary consists of a mixture of talking heads, particularly the engaging lead singer Wilko Johnson, now in his sixties, but also from those who followed in the band`s wake, The Clash, Sex Pistols etc, and live footage from Dr Feelgood`s early days, then later in London and the US, where they were present at the New York birth o find out more...

A great documentary about the legendary New York Cosmos. Financed by Warner billionaire Steve Ross a football team who played on a cabbage patch, they painted the pitch green for Pele's arrival and first game!!!, went on to sign an international class team and draw crowds of over 50,000 a game in the short lived North American Soccer League. It was a big expensive roller-coaster, girls, parties and booze, and Cosmos' eventual collapse brought down the whole league and set back US soccer about 20 find out more...

An artful documentary about the life of Daniel Johnson, singer/songwriter, artist, cartoonist and general artistic genius, but a man sadly afflicted with a severe mental illness that makes him totally self-delusional and an occasional danger to both himself and others. Daniel, raised in a Christian fundamentalist family in deepest West Virginia, amongst many of his fantasies, sees Devils everywhere, and with his overblown self-importance, not helped by his legions of admirers, vying with his low find out more...

A self-narrated and consequently potted history of the producer Robert Evans, a man who rose from nowhere and made possible some of the greatest movies of the 1970s. Not least of which being ‘The Godfather'. A prodigious mover and shaker, Evans' rarefied world went belly up when the scandals started to come thicker and faster than the successes. The kid stays in the picture is a fascinating insight into the world of the Hollywood power broker. find out more...