John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Barbara Kopple

Cast

Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks

In this documentary film, the final day in the short life of the guitar god Jimi Hendrix is reconstructed using theories swirling around a CIA hit list, Mafia debt, and police surveillance.

Runtime

1h 3m

Director

Mike Parkinson

Cast

Jimi Hendrix, Duncan Wells

This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Lawrence Schiller, Bruce Nyznik

Cast

Yūichirō Miura, Douglas Rain, Edmund Hillary

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and "the religion business", prior to the start of "televangelism". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan

Cast

Marjoe Gortner, Vernon Gortner, Agnes Benjamin

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madn...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Les Blank

Cast

Candace Laughlin, Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski