Culture & Society Movies of 1997
Comedic documentary filmmaker Michael Moore takes his film crew throughout the U.S. for The Big One, a behind-the-scenes video diary ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Scratch the Surface is former teen model turned documentary filmmaker Tara Fitzpatrick's examination of experiences in the fashion industry, and ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
The Gay Pride movement promotes the civil rights and tolerance of same-sex relationships. Though united in their endeavors, there are many ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Innovative documentary filmmaker Errol Morris often finds a startling surreal edge in the midst of reality, seeking unique subjects, and discovering humor and ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
This documentary profiles poet/performance artist Bob Flanagan, who was ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
This humorous and insightful documentary is composed exclusively of movie trailers promoting films which depict ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
In 1977, documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong was attacked by four youths who shouted anti-gay epithets at him as they beat him severely. This incident led Dong to a long ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Independent experimental filmmaker Su Friedrich ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Documentary filmmaker Peter Spirer interviewed over 80 significant artists in rap and hip-hop music for this documentary that explores the history of hip-hop culture, how rap evolved to become a major cultural ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
This heart-rending documentary follows the lives of three troubled boys for an entire year as they undergo the Green Chimneys program. Established in 1947, the ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
This documentary offers an inside look at Colors United, a performing-arts workshop set up as an after-school activity for at-risk teens at Jordan High School in the tough Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. As the students rehearse ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
For fifty years, Chasen's restaurant and bar was the gathering place for Hollywood's elite, U.S. presidents and royalty. Famed for its paneled ambiance, world-class chili and its legendary Hobo Steak, it was where the rich and powerful were free ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
The name Rollen Stewart may not mean much to most people, but anyone who watched professional sports on television in the 1970's and 80's would ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Ross McElwee made the much-acclaimed autobiographical documentary Sherman's March. While watching television news ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
This award-winning documentary from Mexican cinematographer Carlos Marcovich marked his debut as a director. While filming a video in Cuba starring model Fabiola Quiroz, Marcovich met and ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Actor Dan Butler hosts this documentary survey of homosexuality as depicted in movies from Hollywood's Golden Age. The film presents an endless parade of clips as it attempts to read a gay subtext into cinema characters ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
In this personal documentary, gay filmmaker Tim Kirkman breaks up with his lover in New York and returns to his home state of North Carolina where he talks to numerous ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
This documentary on the Harley-Davison subculture includes interviews with Willie Davidson, grandson of the company's founder; Harley-Davidson artist Arlen Ness; and various veteran bikers. Cameras follow a couple on their first ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Thirty years ago, science-fiction editor Art Saha coined the term "trekkies" when he saw a few fans of Star Trek's ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
For this Swiss-German documentary, filmmaker/Sinologist Ulrike Koch sneaked cameras into Tibet in order to film four men and 160 yak in a 2,000-year-old ritual -- the annual spring pilgrimage to gather raw salt at ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Author, educator, and philosopher Dr. Timothy Leary was ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Filmed in Cameroon, Hommage a Noir is a visual poem set to music which pays tribute to the people of modern Africa. Shot entirely in black and white, this stunning array of images is scored with a mixture of traditional ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
This documentary tells the story of two ordinary people that dared to take on one of the world's largest ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Reality television best describes the highlights ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
At least once in a lifetime, Muslims make a pilgrimage, or hajj, to Makkah, to fulfill one of the five pillars (or ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
In the heart of Brazil,
samba reigns supreme as not only the nation's preeminent musical genre, but one of the ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
As one long fascinated by the world of extreme bodybuilding, Japanese director Mitsuru Okabe built a career for himself helming "mondo" style documentary glimpses of weightlifters. The Battle for the Olympia 1996 witnesses ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
Imprisoned and tortured in his home country of Iran for his incendiary images, award-winning photojournalist Reza uses his camera as more ...
[ Culture & Society movie - 1997 ]
