Movies: Alex Gibney

Gibney’s “Knife” will explore Rushdie’s recovery “in the broadest sense,” according to a press release. Through Rushdie’s wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ personal footage, which has never been seen by the public, the doctor will follow the writer during...

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An example of volumetric filmmaking (real world imagery rendered into a 3D space) in this case showcasing the testimony of an NSA whistleblower....

Twelve filmmakers, six from Turkey and six from the United States, come together to take part in this omnibus film. Some approaches literal, others more poetic, each artist reflects upon their own cultural backgrounds through a single short film....

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Movie about an election on a third-world island over which two factions wage war!...

The Ruling Classroom documents a social studies experiment played out by seventh graders in Mill Valley, California. The students reorganized their classroom as an imaginary country until the principal staged a coup and brought the classroom republic...

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New Jersey, June 18, 1994. Giants Stadium is awash with green as Irish soccer fans arrive to watch Ireland's opening World Cup match against the mighty Italy. The sense of optimism is infectious. The Celtic Tiger is in its infancy. Bill Clinton's dec...

Behind Those Eyes provides a magnifying glass into the behind-the-scenes dynamism of Brad Arnold, Matt Roberts, Todd Harrel and Chris Henderson, both on and off the tour. The movie showcases the evolution of the band, and all angles are revealed, fro...

In 2019, casting director Heidi Levitt’s husband Charlie was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. As the symptoms crept in slowly, Levitt realized she had to do something to cope—to create a dialogue and to shed the stigma. She began filmi...

3 Doors Down Away From The Sun Live Concert from Houston Texas is a Super Music Experience on DVD - it is better than being in the front row! Filmed in high-definition video and surround sound the hard-driving raw performance and on-stage energy of ...

The U.S. spends twice as much per person on healthcare as the average developed nation, one-sixth of our GDP, yet our outcomes are often worse. The problem is that much of that spending is wasteful – and provides no benefit to the patient. The reason...

A documentary film about Internet security, cybercrime, and cyber-espionage. The filmmakers are embedded with the Security Team at Facebook's Menlo Park California headquarters with unprecedented fly-on-the-wall access to intrusions, hacks, and crimi...

Color UCLA Student Film, shot on video. Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A sardonic meditation on pinball machines and arcade games, and the people who are addicted to them....

A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country ro...

Dr Edie Widder is a biologist and a deep sea explorer. She's been fascinated with bioluminescent sea creatures since she her very first dives in the ocean. Using her underwater photography, we travel through the cabinet of curiosities that floats ben...

Considers the historical, political, and cultural underpinnings of Japan's post-war economic miracle, both in the wealth it brought to the Asia Pacific and in the new model of Asian capitalism it foretold....