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Your search by 'Documentary' identified 48 films

2 Segundos de Oscuridad
USA , 6 min. Featuring the songs of Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, this is a hypnotic five-minute exploration of the urban landscape and people of Madrid.... more
All In This Tea
USA , 2007 , 70 min. Acclaimed filmmaker Les Blank accompanies single-minded tea expert David Lee Hoffman on an expedition to locate China's finest handmade teas.... more
Audience of One
USA , 2007 , 88 min. Acting on a professed vision from God, Pentecostal pastor Richard Gazowsky sets out to create a multimillion-dollar science-fiction epic based on the Biblical story of Joseph, but its production proves the ultimate test of faith for him and his crew.... more
Autism: Another Way of Communicating
USA , 2007 , 71 min. The struggle autistic children must undertake to express themselves is as painful as the one their parents must wage to understand.... more
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
USA , 2007 , 87 min. May 20, 1997: an 18-year-old high-school boy is tending his parents’ herd of goats in South Texas when a band of Marines on anti-drug patrol mistakes him for a smuggler and shoots him down.... more
The Call of the Wild
USA , 2007 , 115 min. Retracing the steps of Chris McCandless, the 24-year-old adventurer immortalized in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, documentary filmmaker Ron Lamothe begins to challenge the popular account of his death in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.... more
Chicago 10
USA , 2006 , 103 min. The whole world watched as anti-war rioting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention threw Chicago into chaos – and as the protestors turned their trial into a media circus.... more
Cinema Q: A Walk into the Sea - Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
USA , 2007 , 75 min. A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory is director Esther Robinson’s personal inquiry into the truth behind the mysterious 1966 disappearance of her uncle Danny Williams.... more
Cinema Q: Black White + Gray
USA , 2007 , 76 min. Set against the heady backdrop of the Manhattan art scene of the 1970s, Black White + Gray faithfully chronicles the symbiotic relationship between influential art collector Sam Wagstaff and the notorious Robert Mapplethorpe – Wagstaff’s lover, protégé and guide to the gay demimonde.... more
The Cool School
USA , 2007 , 86 min. In sharp contrast to the Europeanized art circles of mid–20th century New York, Los Angeles’ then-nascent art scene was to prove truly, dynamically, democratically American.... more
Deep Sea Blues
USA , 2007 , 118 min. Music documentarian extraordinaire Robert Mugge's Deep Sea Blues brings viewers along for a ride on the week-long Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise to the Caribbean to prove that the blues aren't dead – they're just on vacation.... more
Greensboro: Closer to the Truth
USA , 2007 , 83 min. Adam Zucker’s documentary chronicles the efforts of the first U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help the citizens of Greensboro, North Carolina, work toward understanding and forgiveness following the infamous Greensboro Massacre of 1979.... more
Hattenhorst
Germany , 2006 , 5 min. Using b&w images, Hattenhorst tells the true story of veteran projectionist Hans Hattenhorst, who lived and worked in the world of film without ever being touched by its magic.... more
Hell on Wheels
USA , 2007 , 90 min. Saturday, July 17 at 7pm - Part of a Double Feature with Total Badass! Digital presentation - Straight from the trenches (make that the rink), Hell on Wheels eyeballs the dizzying clash of athleticism, exhibitionism, ego, politics and business that defines today's roller derby.... more
How to Cook Your Life
Germany , 2007 , 93 min. In How to Cook Your Life, German director Doris Dörrie acquaints us with the Buddhist teachings Zen priest Edward Espe Brown – author of the famous Tassjara cookbooks – imparts from his kitchen.... more
I Just Wanted to Be Somebody
USA , 2006 , 10 min. What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman – Anita Bryant.... more
I Met the Walrus
Canada , 2007 , 6 min. In 1969, a 14-year-old armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck snuck into John Lennon's hotel room and convinced him to do an interview.... more
Iron Ladies of Liberia
USA , 2007 , 77 min. In November 2005 – following a 20-year civil war – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, an ex-finance minister known as the Iron Lady, became Liberia’s first elected female president.... more
Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills
USA , 2006 , 72 min. Even his name fits perfectly: Jack Taylor, tailor extraordinaire, has been dressing Hollywood legends in his custom-made suits for over 60 years.... more
JUMP!
USA , 2007 , 85 min. Double Dutch at the Olympics? Once relegated to the playground, jump roping is now considered a serious sport – as JUMP! nimbly attests.... more
Last Hat in Town
USA , 2007 , 75 min. This poignant and lyrical documentary chronicles the impact of the energy boom on the lives and livelihoods of rural Coloradans.... more
Lynch
USA , 2007 , 84 min. This intimate portrait of celebrated American director David Lynch examines the creative instincts that led to such film classics as Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.... more
Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita
USA , 2007 , 90 min. When his 15-year-old daughter became paralyzed in a skiing accident, neurologist and embryonic stem-cell researcher Jack Kessler immediately began investigating the possibilities of spinal-cord regeneration.... more
Marcela
Czech Republic , 2006 , 82 min. The outgrowth of a 20-year survey of married life in the Czech Republic, Helena Trestikova’s latest documentary sees one woman through the abiding search for love amid the challenges of marriage and divorce, the birth of a developmentally disabled son and the devastating death of a daughter.... more
Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood
USA , 2007 , 86 min. Baghdad-born screenwriter and inspirational film professor Mardik Martin looks back on a life as tumultuous as those of the characters he created for some of Martin Scorsese’s most stunning masterpieces, including Mean Streets and Raging Bull.... more
Milk in The Land, Ballad of an American Drink
USA , 2007 , 75 min. Milk in The Land is a true portrait of America as viewed – and skewed – through a glass of milk.... more
Miss Universe 1929
Austria , 2006 , 70 min. Péter Forgács (El Perro Negro) traces the startling ascent and subsequently poignant love life of the beautiful Lisl Goldarbeiter, a Viennese Jew who became Austria’s first (and only) Miss Universe just a few years before the grim dawn of the Holocaust.... more
Mountain Town
USA , 2006 , 72 min. Mountain Town delves into the lives of the unique personalities who together represent the surprising diversity – and even more surprising community – of Aspen, Colorado, proving there’s more to this ski resort than meets the goggled eye.... more
The Movies That Made Us
USA , 2007 , 80 min. The 30th anniversary version of The Movies That Made Us will contain clips from dozens of the films that have screened at the festival over the past 29 years.... more
Mystic Ball
2007 , 83 min. Visually stunning, Mystic Ball introduces Western audiences to the ancient, unique and mesmerizing Burmese game of chinlone.... more
Not That Kind of Christian!!
USA , 2007 , 81 min. Not That Kind of Christian!! portrays the battle gays and lesbians are waging to gain acceptance within the modern-day Episcopal Church.... more
Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa
USA , 2007 , 70 min. In 2004, disillusioned by the U.S. presidential elections and mourning the death of their father, sibling filmmakers Jeremy and Randy Stulberg decided to get away from it all, setting off on a trek into the New Mexican desert. There they stumbled upon a makeshift community that had rejected mainstre... more
Operation Filmmaker
USA , 2007 , 95 min. In this timely documentary – by turns tragic and wry – director Nina Davenport follows star-struck Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed from Baghdad to Prague, where he’s serving as an intern on the set of a Hollywood production.... more
Oswald's Ghost
USA , 2006 , 83 min. Oswald’s Ghost deconstructs the myths shrouding one of the most chilling mysteries of all time, the Kennedy assassination.... more
The Outsiders of New Orleans: The Loujon Press
USA , 2007 , 56 min. Regular festival guest Wayne Ewing returns to Denver to present his latest documentary, The Outsiders of New Orleans – an intimate, multifaceted portrait of bohemians, bon vivants and bootstrap Beat-era publishers Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb.... more
Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm
USA , 2007 , 74 min. Passion and Power tracks the controversial history of the vibrator from the Victorian era – when doctors used the device to treat so-called hysterics – to a postfeminist present that’s bearing unfortunate witness to the passage of reactionary laws banning its sale in several states.... more
Quantum Hoops
USA , 2007 , 85 min. Consistently ranked among the top five academic institutions in the world, Caltech is known for its Nobel Prize-winning faculty – and a basketball team that hasn’t won a game in over 20 years, counting some 240 consecutive losses.... more
The Red Elvis
Germany , 2007 , 90 min. The Red Elvis documents the incredible life of Dean Reed, a Colorado-born singer-actor who enjoyed superstardom in South America and the Eastern Bloc while embracing socialism – until 1986, that is, when he met an untimely, mysterious demise in an East Berlin lake.... more
Run Granny Run
USA , 2006 , 78 min. In 2000, New Hampshire–based activist Granny D walked from coast to coast to publicize the issue of campaign finance reform.... more
Soldiers of Conscience
USA , 2007 , 86 min. Soldiers of Conscience undertakes a wrenching and thought-provoking journey into the lives of war veterans as they rationalize or renounce their duties as combatants.... more
Stone Time Touch
Canada , 2007 , 70 min. Two Canadians of Armenian ancestry – one experimental filmmaker Gariné Torossian, the other actress Arsinée Khanjian – journey to their homeland to conduct a dialogue between the terrain of their imagination and that of the post-Soviet reality.... more
Surfwise
USA , 2007 , 93 min. The outlandish-but-true odyssey of 85-year-old surfing legend Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz unfolds in Surfwise.... more
Los Tabaqueros
USA , 2006 , 8 min. A passionate dedication to the art of crafting a truly fine cigar is captured in this profile of the workers in a small tobacco shop in Florida.... more
Taxi to the Dark Side
USA , 2007 , 108 min. Must END Thursday, March 6! From director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) comes a gripping investigation into the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, exposing a Bush Administration policy of detention and interrogation th... more
The Unforeseen
USA , 2007 , 94 min. April 11 - April 17 The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head to head with environmental sustainability in this urgent, beautifully crafted documentary. In the 1980s, an ambitious real estate developer came to Austin, Texas with a dream of transforming miles of... more
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show
USA , 2007 , 110 min. Crossing the country to perform 30 shows on 30 consecutive nights, a team of comedians led by emcee Vince Vaughn puts on a spirited modern-day equivalent of the Old West variety show.... more
A Walk to Beautiful
USA , 2007 , 86 min. A Walk to Beautiful constitutes a journey from the heart of Africa into the hearts of five Ethiopian women suffering from obstetric fistula – and from the ostracization it begets.... more
Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic
USA , 2007 , 92 min. Acclaimed filmmaker Jon Else’s extraordinary new documentary chronicles the making of a modern opera like no other: the strange and beautiful Doctor Atomic.... more

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