Movie Releases by Genre

Only the Strong Survive

Only the Strong Survive

May 9, 2003 | PG-13
Documentary filmmakers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus catch up with the great soul singers of the 1960s and early 1970s. The result is a musical celebration of soul, a glimpse into the skewed world of the music industry, and a compelling narrative of these seven talented acts. (Miramax)
Metascore:
59
User Score:
3.8
Reno: Rebel Without a Pause

Reno: Rebel Without a Pause

May 2, 2003
Performance artist Reno's rapid-fire witness of the events of September 11th -- of the day itself and of the country?s response, how they affected her personally and in the context of the world at large.
Metascore:
54
User Score:
tbd
Spellbound

Spellbound

April 30, 2003 | TV-G
This documentary presents the intense, true-life experience of the National Spelling Bee as seen through the eyes of eight driven, young spellers. (ThinkFilm)
Metascore:
80
User Score:
7.7
A Decade Under the Influence

A Decade Under the Influence

April 25, 2003 | TV-MA
For American cinema, the 1970s was an era during which a new generation of filmmakers created work for a new kind of audience. In this documentary, pioneering writers, directors and actors talk about the times, their films and their colleagues. (IFC Films)
Metascore:
67
User Score:
7.2
The Real Cancun

The Real Cancun

April 25, 2003 | R
It's fun and sexy, unscripted and uncensored. It's The Real Cancun, the world's first reality feature film. Produced by the creators of "The Real World" and "Road Rules," this film brings together 16 people for eight days in a beachfront Mexican villa for the ultimate Spring Break vacation. (New Line Cinema)
Metascore:
34
User Score:
7.6
Winged Migration

Winged Migration

April 18, 2003 | G
This documentary examines the migratory patterns of birds through forty countries and all seven continents.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
8.0
Love and Diane

Love and Diane

April 16, 2003
Love is the 18-year-old daughter of Diane, a former crack addict who since losing her six children to foster care has managed to reassemble her family, however fragile the arrangement. Filmmaker Jennifer Dworkin spent five years with these women, riding an emotional roller-coaster, as past resentments inform each one's prospects for stability and happiness. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
85
User Score:
tbd
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

April 11, 2003
A historical and a cultural icon is captured in the making in this full-blown portrait -- its footage has been mined for countless other Ali documentaries -- of the out-of-the-ring but never off-stage Ali, pre- and during world fame. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
77
User Score:
tbd
Ghosts of the Abyss

Ghosts of the Abyss

April 11, 2003 | G
In this immersive 3-D adventure presented in IMAX format, James Cameron journeys back to the site of his greatest inspiration -- the legendary wreck of the Titanic.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
6.4
DysFunktional Family

DysFunktional Family

April 4, 2003 | R
This concert film showcases Eddie Griffin's raucous and frank take on life, family and celebrity. (Miramax)
Metascore:
51
User Score:
tbd
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

April 2, 2003 | R
Actors Donald Sutherland, Terence Stamp, Roberto Benigni and author Italo Calvino tell fascinating, often hilarious stories about working with Federico Fellini in this irreverent portrait of the Maestro. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
67
User Score:
6.9
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie

Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie

March 28, 2003 | PG-13
This comedy concert movie features the stage performances of the four headliners in their entirety, as well as behind-the-scenes sequences.
Metascore:
70
User Score:
6.8
Stevie

Stevie

March 28, 2003 | R
This documentary speaks about the complex realities of growing up, family history, and how the system has - despite good intentions - failed to rescue certain kids. (Lions Gate Films)
Metascore:
72
User Score:
8.1
Decasia

Decasia

March 19, 2003
This experimental film depicts man's struggle to transcend his own mortality.
Metascore:
67
User Score:
tbd
Journeys with George

Journeys with George

March 14, 2003
A documentary account of George W. Bush's presidential campaign.
Metascore:
48
User Score:
tbd
Horns and Halos

Horns and Halos

February 28, 2003
This documentary captures the unlikely connection of three men -- a U.S. president, a discredited author and an underground publisher -- whose paths to power and popularity become tangled in a book.
Metascore:
69
User Score:
6.5
From the Other Side

From the Other Side

February 20, 2003
A documentary look at the perilous journey of emigrants from Mexico to the United States.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
tbd
The Ballad of Bering Strait

The Ballad of Bering Strait

February 19, 2003
A cinema-verite film following seven Russian teenagers who have come to America to become country music stars. (Emerging Pictures)
Metascore:
49
User Score:
tbd
Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony

Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony

February 19, 2003 | PG-13
Amandla! tells the story of black South African freedom music and reveals the central role it played in the long battle against apartheid. (Artisan Entertainment)
Metascore:
78
User Score:
tbd
Stone Reader

Stone Reader

February 12, 2003 | PG-13
In this documentary, a filmmaker discovers a great unknown book and set out on a quest to learn why the book and writer vanished. (JETFilms)
Metascore:
72
User Score:
7.1
Lost in La Mancha

Lost in La Mancha

January 31, 2003 | R
Lost In La Mancha may be the first 'un-making of' documentary; the story of a film that does not exist. Instead of a sanitized glimpse behind the scenes, this film offers a unique, in-depth look at the harsher realities of filmmaking. With drama that ranges from personal conflicts to epic storms, this is a record of a film disintegrating. (Quixote Films)
Metascore:
75
User Score:
7.7
Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary

Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary

January 24, 2003 | PG
In this documentary, Traudl Junge describes on camera for the first time her experience working as one of Adolf Hilter's private secretaries form 1942 until his suicide in 1945. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Metascore:
79
User Score:
7.6
In the Mirror of Maya Deren

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

January 24, 2003
With this film, Martina Kudlacek has fashioned not only fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. (Zeitgeist Films)
Metascore:
80
User Score:
tbd
Close, Closed, Closure

Close, Closed, Closure

January 15, 2003
This documentary looks at the Gaza Strip, "a prison with one million inmates," 111 square miles, surrounded by an electronic fence.
Metascore:
61
User Score:
tbd
In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq

In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq

December 27, 2002 | PG
Directed by Scott Ritter, former United Nations Chief Inspector in Iraq, this documentary depicts his untold story and how the U.N. weapons inspectors were undermined and betrayed by Iraq, the United Nations, and the U.S.
Metascore:
34
User Score:
8.1
Massoud, the Afghan

Massoud, the Afghan

December 4, 2002
This documentary features first-person interviews with Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance until his assassination in September 2001.
Metascore:
60
User Score:
tbd
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times

November 22, 2002
This documentary presents the latest in Chomsky's thinking, through a lengthy interview and a series of public talks that he gave in New York and California during the spring of 2002.
Metascore:
48
User Score:
tbd
Hell House

Hell House

November 15, 2002 | Not Rated
This documentary profiles a Pentecostal church in Texas that uses a Halloween haunted house, complete with fire and brimstone, to scare teenagers about issues such as AIDS, abortion and school shootings.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
8.0
Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

November 15, 2002 | PG
This documentary and performance film tells the Funk Brothers' saga through archival footage and still photos, narration, interviews, re-creation scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and twelve new live performances of Motown classics with the Funk Brothers backing up Chaka Khan, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Montell Jordan, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joan Osborne, and Gerald Levert. (Artisan Entertainment)
Metascore:
76
User Score:
8.0
Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet

Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet

November 8, 2002
A documentary about the Paris Opera Ballet Company which combines still photographs, footage of ballet performances of "Swan Lake" and Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" with interviews with teachers, management, students and the company's biggest stars.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
tbd
Diario di una siciliana ribelle

Diario di una siciliana ribelle

November 6, 2002
A powerful story of an ultra-violent world and the courage of one young woman against all odds. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
53
User Score:
tbd
Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit

November 6, 2002
The first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. This history of the song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
tbd
Justifiable Homicide

Justifiable Homicide

November 6, 2002
A feature documentary based on the brutal murder of two Puerto Rican young men, Antonio Rosario and Hilton Vega who were shot by two NYPD detectives in the Bronx in early 1995. (Reality Films)
Metascore:
62
User Score:
7.6
Daughter from Danang

Daughter from Danang

November 1, 2002
Through intimate and sometimes excruciating moments, Daughter from Danang profoundly shows how wide the chasms of cultural difference and how deep the wounds of war can run - even within one family. (Quad Cinema)
Metascore:
77
User Score:
6.4
Derrida

Derrida

October 23, 2002
This documentary examines one of the most visionary and influential thinkers of the 20th century, a man who single-handedly altered the way many of us look at history, language, art, and, ultimately, ourselves: the brilliant and iconoclastic French philosopher Jacques Derrida. (Zeitgeist Films)
Metascore:
73
User Score:
tbd
Naqoyqatsi

Naqoyqatsi

October 18, 2002 | PG
This film merges the power of image and music to plunge into the heart of the hyperaccelerated, globally wired 21st century. Mesmerizing images plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, stream across the screen in synch with a hypnotic score by Philip Glass, featuring the passionate cello work of Yo-Yo Ma. (Miramax Films)
Metascore:
59
User Score:
6.0
Fidel

Fidel

October 18, 2002
This documentary examines the political and social impact that Cuban leader Fidel Castro has had upon the world during the more than forty years he has been in power.
Metascore:
44
User Score:
6.9
Stealing the Fire

Stealing the Fire

October 16, 2002
This documentary tells a story of international intrigue that reveals how leading black market suppliers of nuclear weapons technology had their roots in the Third Reich.
Metascore:
64
User Score:
tbd
Comedian

Comedian

October 11, 2002 | R
Jerry Seinfeld is once again a working standup comic. Comedian is the unique and engaging look at what it took for him, and by extension every stand-up, to get there. (Miramax)
Metascore:
62
User Score:
7.4
Family Fundamentals

Family Fundamentals

October 11, 2002
This documentary takes viewers into the private, and sometimes very public lives, of three conservative Christian families with gay and lesbian children.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
tbd
Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine

October 11, 2002 | TV-MA
Famed documentarian Michael Moore returns with his first feature film in five years, as he tackles the issue of America's unique obsession with firearms.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
7.1
How to Draw a Bunny

How to Draw a Bunny

October 9, 2002
A "Rashomon"-like portrait of Ray Johnson whose life and death -- and all the art that came in between - made him "New York's most famous unknown artist" (Grace Glueck, NY Times). (Film Forum)
Metascore:
78
User Score:
tbd
Biggie and Tupac

Biggie and Tupac

September 27, 2002 | R
This documentary investigates the still unsolved murders of rap superstars Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G.) and Tupac Shakur. (Roxie Releasing)
Metascore:
63
User Score:
7.1
Shanghai Ghetto

Shanghai Ghetto

September 27, 2002
In April 2000, filmmakers Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann sneaked into China with a digital camera to shoot at the site of the Jewish Ghetto in Shanghai, unchanged since WWII, where thousands of German Jews found refuge in the 1930s. (Menemsha Films)
Metascore:
68
User Score:
tbd
The Trials of Henry Kissinger

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

September 25, 2002
Is Henry Kissinger -- Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation -- also a war criminal? Provoked by the Christopher Hitchens's book, filmmakers Jarecki and Gibney have constructed a movie which is both brilliant legal brief and chilling psychodrama. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
72
User Score:
7.3
The Pinochet Case

The Pinochet Case

September 11, 2002
This documentary follows the legal cases that ultimately led to former General Augusto Pinochet being arrested and tried for his crimes against humanity committed over the 25 years that he ruled Chile as one of the most notorious tyrants of the 20th century.
Metascore:
84
User Score:
8.1
The Execution of Wanda Jean

The Execution of Wanda Jean

September 6, 2002
An unflinching investigation of the role that poverty, mental health, race, and sexuality play within the criminal justice system. (Home Box Office)
Metascore:
73
User Score:
7.7
Burning Man: The Burning Sensation

Burning Man: The Burning Sensation

September 6, 2002
A documentary look at the annual Burning Man arts festival in Northern Nevada.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
tbd
7 Days in September

7 Days in September

September 6, 2002
Chronicles the life and events of 28 New Yorkers during the week of 9/11.
Metascore:
74
User Score:
7.4
Crop Circles: Quest for Truth

Crop Circles: Quest for Truth

August 23, 2002
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of prevailing theories about the origin and nature of crop circles and their possible implications. (OpenEdge Media)
Metascore:
41
User Score:
tbd
Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat

Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat

August 2, 2002 | R
No-holds-barred documentary-style footage -- spiced with rousing rap music, Martin Lawrence's own razor-sharp commentary and a glimpse of both his triumphs and setbacks. (Paramount)
Metascore:
40
User Score:
tbd
Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip

August 1, 2002
This documentary pushes the viewer headlong into the tumult of the Israeli-occupied Gaza, examining the lives and views of ordinary Palestinians.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
7.3
The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Kid Stays in the Picture

July 26, 2002 | R
Traces the meteoric rise, fall, and rise again of legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans. Adapted from Mr. Evans's tell-all autobiography, the movie takes the audience on an intimate journey into the mind of this Hollywood legend. (USA Films)
Metascore:
75
User Score:
8.0
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

July 26, 2002 | Unrated
Sam Jones documents a turbulent chapter in the history of alt-country turned experimental rock band Wilco. The film shows the conflict that arises when the band creates an artistic and challenging record while signed to a record company in the midst of a giant corporate takeover. (Cowboy Pictures)
Metascore:
66
User Score:
4.5
Ayurveda: Art of Being

Ayurveda: Art of Being

July 17, 2002
Pan Nalin's Documentary on Ayurveda, revealing how the revitalised holistic discipline, based on the most ancient of techniques, can be applied in this age of nuclear power, the internet and instant everything. (Kino International)
Metascore:
45
User Score:
8.0
Last Dance

Last Dance

July 12, 2002
An inside look at one of the most innovative dance companies, the Pilobolus Dance Theatre. This documentary follows the development of the dance from its conception, through the process of improvisation and composition, to the premiere and beyond. (First Run Features)
Metascore:
66
User Score:
tbd
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

July 10, 2002 | PG
Newly restored for its 30th anniversary, this glam-rock classic features David Bowie as his gender-bending alter-ego Ziggy Stardust, in his final performance, given at London's Hammersmith Odeon in 1973.
Metascore:
58
User Score:
7.5
Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders

Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders

July 10, 2002
From the dark side of San Francisco's criminal justice system emerges a riveting documentary revealing a world rarely seen -- through the eyes of the maligned and misunderstood Public Defenders. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)
Metascore:
63
User Score:
tbd
The Cockettes

The Cockettes

June 28, 2002 | R
This documentary chronicles the rise and fall of the legendary San Francisco theatrical troupe, a group of flamboyant hippies who decked themselves in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter.
Metascore:
77
User Score:
8.0
War Photographer

War Photographer

June 19, 2002
A film about the American photographer James Nachtwey -- his motivation, his fears and his daily routine as a war photographer.
Metascore:
79
User Score:
6.3
Cuba feliz

Cuba feliz

June 12, 2002
Billed as "a musical road movie," Cuba Feliz follows the wanderings of charismatic, 76-year-old Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), as he travels throughout Cuba, making music in the homes of friends, in bars and on street corners, in courtyards and stairwells. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
62
User Score:
tbd
The Back of the World

The Back of the World

May 22, 2002
A documentary comprised of three stories about forgotten people around the globe, including an impoverished Peruvian boy, a Kurdish exile living in Sweden, and a death-row inmate in Texas.
Metascore:
72
User Score:
tbd
Standing by Yourself

Standing by Yourself

May 15, 2002 | Unrated
A shattering documentary on the lives of two hostile teenagers in an upstate town who react to their dead-end environment and social ostracism with a frenzied, narcotized downward spiral. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)
Metascore:
54
User Score:
tbd
Diamonds and Rust

Diamonds and Rust

May 10, 2002
This documentary about the multiethnic crew of a South African diamond ship off the African coast presents a revealing microcosm of social disintegration.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
tbd
Ultimate X: The Movie

Ultimate X: The Movie

May 10, 2002 | PG
All the excitement and explosive drama of action sports is displayed on the exhilarating giant screen in "Ultimate X," a look into ESPN's massively popular Summer X Games. (ESPN)
Metascore:
60
User Score:
5.1
Home Movie

Home Movie

May 3, 2002 | TV-14
Chris Smith's loving look at five extraordinary homes and the charming, bizarre people who inhabit them. Smith interweaves their stories in a way that makes the audience think about the meaning of "home" and the place of the individual in society. (Cowboy Pictures)
Metascore:
67
User Score:
7.8
ABC Africa

ABC Africa

May 3, 2002 | Unrated
A documentary about the tragedy of the children whose parents have died of AIDS and are now stranded in a refugee camp in Kampala, Uganda.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
6.8
Grin Without a Cat

Grin Without a Cat

May 1, 2002
Originally released in 1978, this is Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. (First Run / Icarus Films)
Metascore:
81
User Score:
tbd
Sex with Strangers

Sex with Strangers

April 26, 2002
A documentary portrait of three couples who swing.
Metascore:
44
User Score:
4.5
Dogtown and Z-Boys

Dogtown and Z-Boys

April 26, 2002 | PG-13
This documentary tells the true story of how kids living in Santa Monica, CA in the 1970's brought their surfing styles into skateboarding and revolutionized the sport.
Metascore:
76
User Score:
8.0
Facing the Music

Facing the Music

April 24, 2002
Anne Boyd, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, teaches music at the publicly funded University of Sydney. This documentary chronicles a year in the life of an academic department that?s under the financial gun. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
77
User Score:
tbd
Space Station 3D

Space Station 3D

April 19, 2002
In this first-ever IMAX 3D space film, audiences will travel 220 miles above Earth at 17,500 mph to experience the making of the International Space Station -- the greatest engineering feat since landing a man on the Moon. (IMAX Corporation)
Metascore:
69
User Score:
8.1
Mule Skinner Blues

Mule Skinner Blues

April 12, 2002 | R
A documentary about a group of Florida trailer park residents making their own horror movie.
Metascore:
68
User Score:
tbd
The Komediant

The Komediant

April 5, 2002
A documentary on the life and career of Yiddish actor Pasach Burstein and his family.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
4.7
Jim Brown: All American

Jim Brown: All American

March 22, 2002 | Not Rated
Spike Lee directs this moving portrait of a complicated, charismatic man, one who has spent his life in the spotlight, first making football history as one of the 20th century's greatest athletes, and later as the star of numerous Hollywood features, where he pioneered a new kind of African-American hero. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
51
User Score:
5.3
Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War

Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War

March 15, 2002 | Unrated
A documentary which traces how crucial mistakes made by the West helped lead to the unnecessary breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, culminating in the devastating NATO bombing campaign in 1999. (Frontier Theatre and Film Inc.)
Metascore:
55
User Score:
6.2
Promises

Promises

March 15, 2002
A documentary exploring the Middle East conflict and prospects for peace by drawing viewers into the hearts and minds of seven Palestinian and Israeli children from Jerusalem -- those captured by the region's hatreds as well as those able to transcend them. (Promises Project)
Metascore:
80
User Score:
8.2
Revolution OS

Revolution OS

February 22, 2002
This documentary explores the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against Microsoft to create Linux and the Open Source movement.
Metascore:
46
User Score:
6.5
Scratch

Scratch

February 15, 2002 | R
A feature length film about the hip-hop DJ and today's turntablist movement. From the South Bronx in the 70's to San Francisco today, the world's best scratchers, diggers, party-rockers and producers celebrate beats, breaks, battles, and the infinite possibilities of vinyl. (Palm Pictures)
Metascore:
77
User Score:
4.9
Much Ado About Something

Much Ado About Something

February 13, 2002
This humorous documentary explores the premise that the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare were actually written by Christopher Marlowe.
Metascore:
66
User Score:
tbd
Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence

January 30, 2002
This documentary by Frederick Wiseman profiles residents of a Tampa shelter for battered women.
Metascore:
85
User Score:
tbd
Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe

Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe

January 18, 2002
Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground, Czech revolutionaries. A tribute to the band that against all odds used the power of their music to help topple their oppressive government. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)
Metascore:
54
User Score:
tbd
E-Dreams

E-Dreams

January 11, 2002
A fascinating and troubling document of the rise and fall of e-commerce, this film showcases the incredible story of Kozmo.com. (Seventh Art Releasing)
Metascore:
65
User Score:
tbd
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time

January 2, 2002 | TV-G
Thomas Riedelsheimer's documentary about Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and his work.
Metascore:
82
User Score:
7.6
In Search of Peace

In Search of Peace

December 14, 2001
Chronicles the first two decades of Israel's existence, offering new insights in the origins of the Middle East conflict. (Moriah Films)
Metascore:
31
User Score:
tbd
B-52

B-52

December 5, 2001
A detailed, historical documentary about the construction and capabilities of the United States military's B-52 bomber.
Metascore:
46
User Score:
tbd
Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin

Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin

November 23, 2001
Jung is a narrative documentary that follows the human and professional adventure of its protagonists, the Afghan people in the midst of civil war.
Metascore:
80
User Score:
tbd
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

November 20, 2001 | R
A fascinating look at America's unlikeliest sex star. (Maelstrom Entertainment)
Metascore:
54
User Score:
6.5
Bombay Eunuch

Bombay Eunuch

November 16, 2001
An intimate, moving portrait of one eunuch family's struggle to survive in today's changing India.
Metascore:
63
User Score:
tbd
I Remember Me

I Remember Me

November 9, 2001
The first full-length documentary to explore the controversial and mysterious history of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, this film speaks to the universal themes of loss, human perseverance, and our difficulties in grappling with uncertainty. (Zeitgeist Films)
Metascore:
68
User Score:
tbd
History Lessons

History Lessons

October 26, 2001
A documentary exploration of lesbian images from 1896 until 1969.
Metascore:
41
User Score:
tbd
Mysteries of Egypt

Mysteries of Egypt

October 26, 2001
This IMAX film follows a grandfather (Sharif) who takes his visiting granddaughter (Maberly) around the country to introduce her to the wonders of ancient Egypt.
Metascore:
53
User Score:
tbd
Trembling Before G-d

Trembling Before G-d

October 24, 2001
Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma -- how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. (Simcha Leib Productions)
Metascore:
66
User Score:
7.2
My Voyage to Italy

My Voyage to Italy

October 19, 2001 | PG-13
A four-hour odyssey through the history of Italian cinema and its influences on Scorsese's work.
Metascore:
90
User Score:
7.3
White Hotel

White Hotel

October 19, 2001
When two women with a video camera follow an HIV research team to Eritrea, Africa, they find a strange and magical country which transforms their documentary into an intimate investigation of their own capacities to love, suffer and forgive. (Sub Rosa Studios)
Metascore:
28
User Score:
tbd
Cool and Crazy

Cool and Crazy

October 19, 2001
A documentary about the lives and loves of the male voice choir in the small fishing village of Berlevag, Norway.
Metascore:
73
User Score:
7.7
Berlin Babylon

Berlin Babylon

October 17, 2001
A city divided for nearly half a century begins to rebuild. Shot over a 5-year period, this film records the myriad controversies at the heart of a massive building campaign by international companies anxious to make their mark in the new European capital. (Film Forum)
Metascore:
67
User Score:
tbd
Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop

Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop

October 12, 2001 | R
From the mind of Brooklyn actor, performance artist and hip-hop activist Danny Hoch, this film spins out the stories of ten lives shocked by globalization, the prison industry and life in general. (Kicked Down Productions)
Metascore:
71
User Score:
tbd
Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures

Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures

October 12, 2001 | Not Rated
The full title of this film (Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.) refers to the place, month, day, year and hour of the only successful uprising in a Nazi extermination camp.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
tbd
The Human Body

The Human Body

October 12, 2001
Co-produced by Discovery Pictures and the BBC, The Human Body incorporates groundbreaking computer graphics with stunning real-life images to create a day in the life of a human body.
Metascore:
81
User Score:
7.3
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