AN AMERICAN SOLDIER THE RECRUITER
The documentary follows one of the most successful
army recruiters, Sergeant First Class Clay Usie, and
four of the high-schoolers he mentors, trains, and
prepares to enter the United States Army.
AMERICAN TEEN
Director Nanette Burstein shadows four small-town
Indiana high school students through their senior
year, showing their insecurities, experimentations,
and response to social pressures.
FLOW FOR LOVE OF WATER
An inspired yet disturbing wake-up call, focusing on
pollution, human rights, politics, and corruption.
FIELDS OF FUEL
Tracks the rising domination of the petrochemical
industry — from the Rockefellers’ strategy to halt
ethanol use in Ford’s first cars to our government’s
choice to declare war after 9/11 rather than wean the
country from fossil fuel.
GONZO THE LIFE AND WORK OF
DR HUNTER S THOMPSON
Director Alex Gibney interviews a broad spectrum
of Thompson’s peers and paints a three-dimensional
portrait to reveal a larger-than-life icon.
PATTI SMITH DREAM OF LIFE
A punk pioneer and spiritual child of Rimbaud, Blake,
and Burroughs, Patti Smith’s fierce poetry and rock music
shook up New York’s 1970s underground scene, and her
work continues to be stirred organically by her rigorous
mind, beloved artistic touchstones, and world events |
ROMAN POLANSKI WANTED AND DESIRED
In this reopening of this controversial and, as it turns
out, very complex case, filmmaker Marina Zenovich
fashions a perceptive and intelligent exploration of
the infamous sex charge and casts a new light on
Polanski’s decisions as well as the U.S. legal system.
TRACES OF THE TRADE A STORY FROM
THE DEEP NORTH
The story of the director’s Katrina Browne forebears,
the De Wolfs, the largest slave-trading family in
United States history. The film makes a potent
statement about privilege and responsibility.
TROUBLE THE WATER
A powerful, partly autobiographical survival story
that reflects many of the lives of the people of New
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
AMERICAN SON
Framed by the parameters of a young man’s 96-hour
leave before being shipped off to Iraq.
MAN ON WIRE
August 7, 1974, A young Frenchman named Philippe
Petit steps out on a wire suspended 1,350 feet above
ground between the Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center.
UP THE YANGTZE
Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River will be
the largest hydroelectric power station in the world.
Progress, though, comes at a price. Director Yung
Chang shows the tenuous balance between China’s
rich cultural past and its modernized future.
UNDER THE BOMBS
In the summer of 2006, Lebanon was relentlessly
bombed for 34 days in a row. Amid the smoke and
turmoil, the beautiful, wealthy Zeina returns from
abroad and meets Tony, an oddly endearing driver who
risks the perilous drive to the heavily affected southern
region to search for her missing sister and son.
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CSNY DÉJÀ VU
A look back at the politics and anti–Vietnam War
sentiment of the late ’60s, featuring music from Neil
Young’s controversial Living with War CD.
U D
An electrifying collage of South American stadium
concerts during U2’s 2006 tour in 3D.
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN
Director Morgan Spurlock sets out to locate the Al
Qaeda leader in a manhunt that takes him to Egypt,
Morocco, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and finally
Pakistan (where most fingers point).
GREATEST SILENCE RAPE IN CONGO
Director Lisa F. Jackson shares her own tale of gangrape
in Georgetown while using her compassionate
camera to help break the silence surrounding the
sexual torture of hundreds of thousands of women in
the Congo.
DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT
ANATION’S JOURNEY
Directors Sabiha Sumar, Sachithanandam
Sathananthan request a dinner with their country’s
leader, and to their surprise, the request is granted. |
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