Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
American Journal
Overview
A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie from the 20th century”, invites us to meditate on what Des Pallières once liked to call “our old homeland”.
More films
Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock (2017)
Documentary · N/A
The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. While many may know the details, this film captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet.
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
The Salt of the Earth (2014)
Documentary · PG-13
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fa...
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Director
- Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
- Cast
- Sebastião Salgado
Star Trek: The True Story (2013)
Documentary · Fantasy · History
Documentary covering the current state of both the theoretical and practical development of the various scientific basic principles that served, as per Gene Roddenberry's dictum, as a believable basis at the time for The Original Series. Several real-world scientists are interviewed, not a few of them unabashedly admitting they went in...
- Runtime
- 44m
- Cast
- Leonard Nimoy, Rod Roddenberry, Herbert F. Solow
Woodstock (1970)
Documentary · Music · R
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of...
- Runtime
- 3h 44m
- Director
- Michael Wadleigh
- Cast
- Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
Rise of the Warrior Apes (2017)
Documentary · N/A
Filmed over 23 years, Rise of the Warrior Apes tells the epic story of an extraordinary troop of chimpanzees in Ngogo, Uganda – featuring four mighty warriors who rule through moral ambiguity, questionable politics, strategic alliances and destroyed trust.
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Cast
- David Watts, John Mitani
Comments
Talk about the film with other members