Culture & Society Movies of 2002
Directed by actress Rosanna Arquette, this candid documentary is not only ...
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Filmmaker, author, and political activist Michael Moore trains his satirical eye on America's obsession with guns and violence in his third feature-length documentary, which gets its title from a ...
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Telecast to coincide with the six-month "anniversary" of the horrific terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center, the powerful and poignant two-hour CBS TV documentary 9/11 grew out of an ...
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Tupac Shakur was a hard edged gangster rapper, and a poet who ...
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One of the most successful animators and comic-book artists of all time, ...
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Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola, USA) directed this documentary that takes a close ...
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For years, a great deal of Southern hip-hop and dance music has been all about shakin' the booty, so it's no surprise ...
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Lucy Walker directed this documentary about a little-known facet of Amish life. Although the Amish live in traditionally conservative enclaves, shunning modern ...
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Each year, hundreds of thousands of people visit "The Wall" -- the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. ...
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Fireworks have long been one of the world's favorite ways to celebrate a special event, and this documentary takes a look at the past, ...
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No one ever said that parenthood would be easy, but this home video proves that it can be very, very ...
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In 1972, 18-year-old Mark Moskowitz read a positive review in the New York Times ...
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When director Judith Helfand (A Healthy Baby Girl) heard her parents were affixing blue vinyl siding to their house, she decided to find out how this ...
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Nick Broomfield, director of Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam and Kurt and Courtney, unleashes another provocation with Biggie and Tupac. Considering Broomfield's track record, that the film is dangerous, ...
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In the summer of 2000, brush and forest fires in America raged as never before, in a season which saw six million acres reduced to ash. When ...
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Jacques Derrida is a French author and philosopher who is ...
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While many Christian Fundamentalist sects firmly believe that homosexuality is a violation of God's law and a mortal sin, a growing number of Fundamentalist parents have had to come to terms with the fact that their children are gay ...
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A poker faced mockumentary investigating the mysterious assassination of Microsoft chairman Bill ...
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Part of the America Undercover series, this gritty documentary special from HBO examines the culture of violence in prisons, focusing on the brutal murder of inmate Lonnie Blackmon. At a Utah State Prison, ...
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Of the several TV documentaries on the World Trade Center disaster, HBO's In Memoriam: September 11, 2001 is one of the most ...
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This release compiles workplace safety films. Due to their earnestness and occasionally graphic content, these films continue to have a cult following. Included are films with the titles Shake Hands with Danger, The Trouble with ...
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This impressionistic documentary was compiled from footage shot in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on ...
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Actress, playwright, and political activist Eve Ensler was talking with a friend who was going through menopause in the 1990s when she was first struck by the way women spoke about their bodies, ...
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Rusegar-e ma (Our Times) is an Iranian docu-fiction piece focusing on the lives of several ...
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NBC News producer Alexandra Pelosi, assigned to cover George W. Bush's run for the Presidency in 2000, carried a small video camera ...
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Twenty percent of the world's population are followers of the Islamic faith, but in much of ...
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While baseball is well-known as America's pastime, the game has also been quite popular in Japan for decades, and as generations of Japanese fans have grown up watching and playing baseball, ...
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Mika Kaurismaki's documentary Moro No Brasil features performances by a variety of Brazilian musical artists, intertwined with interviews of every day Brazilians in order to ...
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Eight youngsters vie for one of the most hotly contested academic awards ...
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From the maker of Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel, Peter Spirer's documentary Modern Warriors explains the ...
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After terrorists attacked New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, America's military went into action and launched a counterattack on the men believed to be responsible -- ...
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On April 20, 1999, the attention of the American people turned to Jefferson County, Colorado as news began to emerge that two disgruntled Columbine High School students had gone on ...
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Compiled from a two-part series of specials broadcast on CNN, the documentary CNN Tribute: America Remembers - The Events of September 11 recalls ...
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The Los Angeles community of Compton has become infamous thanks to news ...
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The one-room schoolhouse, where one teacher instructs several grades at ...
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Compiled by Michel Reilhac, Polissons et Galipettes (The Good Old Naughty Days) is ...
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As professional wrestling exploded into new heights of ...
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Canadian filmmaker Daniel Bitton directs The Daddy of Rock 'n' Roll, an hour-long documentary portrait of schizophrenic street musician Wesley Willis. The film opens with an introduction to his music with superimposed ...
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Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak direct the documentary Cinemania, concerning five individual New Yorkers with self-styled movie obsessions ...
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This video documents the intense training anyone attempting to become a Navy SEAL must survive. The program showcases the bravery, determination, and discipline of these intensely ...
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This National Geographic video explores the world of diplomatic relations. This exclusive documentary goes inside the U.S. embassies in Japan, Pakistan, and Guatemala. Learn about the process of maintaining international alliances through ...
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Join documentary filmmaker Danny Schechter, music producer Nile Rodgers, Spike Lee, and over 200 others including artists, athletes, celebrities, police officers, and emergency workers as they come together for a ...
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Graffiti Rock & Other Hip Hop Delights documents the birth of hip hop and rap as seen through the eyes of Michael Holman. Holman created a pair of television shows that helped bring such early pioneers as Run-DMC, Special K, and Kool Moe ...
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Gabriel Baur directs the documentary Venus Boyz, an intimate look at drag ...
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Tislam "Tiz" Milliner leads a precarious existence in a housing project in East ...
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The King himself tells much of his life story in his own words in this unofficial documentary tracing the life of rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley. From his early appearances on The Ed Sullivan ...
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In this release that allows viewers experience a day in ...
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A brief, two-week excursion to the Gaza Strip turns into an extended study of the Palestinian Intifada and the damaging effects of the Israeli occupation in this feature-length documentary from American filmmaker James Longley. Filmed over the ...
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What is the state of the art of hip hop music in the year 2002? Where is the music headed, who are the artists making a difference, and do the boasting and regional rivalries mean anything in post-9/11 America? American Rap Stars is ...
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Controversial cable access pranksters Colin's Sleazy Friends bring their raunchy act to DVD in this release that finds out just what happens when television's most ...
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This documentary from director Steven Rosenbaum presents the experiences of a diverse group of regular Americans in the wake of the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001. Featuring footage from the area surrounding the World Trade Centers ...
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In the early '80s, Steve James was a student at Southern Illinois University who volunteered for the local Big Brother program and served as a mentor for Stephen Dale Fielding (Stevie for ...
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Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important and best-respected dissident political analyst in ...
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Su Friedrich's autobiographical documentary The Chances of Recovery documents the ...
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Pulse A Stomp Odyssey, directed by Steve McNichols and Lukle Cresswell (the pair who created the Stomp ...
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In 1999, as George W. Bush's bid for the presidency ...
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Assembled by the same team responsible for the reality series 1900 House and Frontier ...
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In June of 2000, a young homeless man, evidently high on drugs, made a failed attempt to rob a bus in a ...
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This casual, personal documentary charts one man's dedication to the New York neighborhood he grew up in, as he watches it go from a bohemian paradise in the '60s, to a haven for drug dealers in the '80s, to the gentrified, high-rent slice ...
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Disappointed and dejected by her own prom experience, documentary filmmaker Hali Lee ...
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While hip-hop is widely perceived as an African-American community, the truth is the Hispanic American ...
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Straight From the Projects is a series of video releases. Each episode in the series documents a visit from a rap act to their hometown. This edition showcases M.O.P. as they lead viewers through the mean ...
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While death is an eventuality we all must face, not everyone makes plans for their funeral arrangements before they pass on, and some people, left with no family and meager financial resources, ...
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Arnold and Elaine Friedman were a seemingly typical couple living in Great Neck, NY, in the 1980s. Arnold was an outgoing and well-liked schoolteacher with an interest in electronics who also ran ...
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Susan Tom of Fairfield, CA, is not a typical single mother -- Tom is the head of a family of 11 adopted children, all of whom are physically challenged or living with long-term illnesses. Tom and her special ...
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Get ready for an up-close look at the world's oldest profession as HBO's America Undercover series takes you behind the scenes at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch -- Nevada's foremost modern brothel. All of your fantasies can ...
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Made in the USA is a documentary about motorcycles in a ...
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The heir to the Johnson & Johnson company empire, 20-year-old N.Y.U. student Jamie Johnson makes his directorial debut with the documentary Born Rich. Armed with economic power and the celebrity access of his ...
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King of the Streets revolves around the fascinating world of urban marketing. Each night, a variety of "street teams" travel different neighborhoods in order to distribute flyers and posters, ...
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Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality - America's War on Terror? features scholar Noam Chomsky presenting his thesis before an audience at Harvard University on ...
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Like many photographers, Shelby Lee Adams has a favored subject, and in his case he prefers to turn the lens of his camera on the poor Appalachian families of Eastern Kentucky. As a fellow Kentuckian, the Appalachians are an area and a ...
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A born again, orthodox Jewish Elvis impersonator, a capricious Rabbi, and an ambitious film crew pile into a Winnebego to find out if there is any truth to the claims that the most ...
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Some rappers simply talk about the lifestyle, and other ...
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The 2002 Academy Award-winner for Best Documentary ...
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The extraordinary experiences of ordinary Afghan citizens come to the screen in filmmaker Taran Davies' intimate account of life on a never-ending battlefield. From the harrowing experiences ...
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Directed by Daniel Junge, this 90-minute documentary follows a Native American high-school basketball team's effort to win the state championship for Wyoming's Wind River Indian Reservation. Chiefs' main focus is on Beaver, a high ...
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Luis Fernandez de la Reguera directs the documentary Rockets Redglare!, a portrait of the New York personality from his early days around '50s hustlers to the East Village crowd of the '80s to his ...
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In this dramatic film, a woman with two small children and another on the way learns that her enlisted husband has been killed in the line of duty. With no choice but to forge a new family unit on her own, she struggles with the tragic ...
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As family farmers across the country slowly disappear and millions of impoverished citizens go to bed starving at the end of each day, the promise that genetic engineering of food will abolish famine grows increasingly ...
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Filmmaker Knut Erik Jensen rejoins the loveable Norwegian singers from his award-winning ...
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For years, Bishop (Noel Jones) has presided over his South Central L.A. congregation with equal parts passion and compassion, ...
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Take a closer look at the women artists who changed the face of modern music in this documentary from Academy ...
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Director David Schendel explores the legacy of classic American cars in Fidel Castro's Cuba ...
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Filmmakers Martha Burr and Chen Mei-jun join forces to explore the American immigrant experience from the unique vantage point of five émigré monks from China's legendary Shaolin Temple. From constructing new ...
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Facing Arthur documents the unusual friendship between two musicians born in different centuries. The film follows ...
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An entire century flashes before the eyes of filmmaker Alex Halpern's centenarian grandmother in a standout documentary filmed to trace the remarkable life of Brooklyn-born, Sicilian-American matriarch Mary Mirabito ...
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Mily Morse's See How They Run documents a hard-fought election between San Francisco mayor Willie Brown and a homosexual city government ...
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The high-school football documentary The Last Game depicts one season of one of the best teams in Pennsylvania, Central Bucks West. Led by star ...
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Persian-born filmmaker Aryana Farshad directs and stars in the hour-long documentary Mystic Iran: The Unseen World. At a risk to her personal safety, Farshad took a camera crew ...
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Jamie Oliver, internationally popular star of such cooking shows as The Naked Chef and ...
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This award-winning film by Rob Fruchtman documents one week at an interfaith summer camp ...
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Directed by Dietmar Post, this documentary follows New York City-based performance artist Bill Talen -- whose alter ego, "Reverend Billy," is a ...
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In a tiny village located deep in the mountains of Ketama, North Morocco, the lives of the people have been intricately tied in with the drug hashish for centuries. In addition to serving as everything ...
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Daniel Cross's hard-hitting activist documentary S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic takes a headfirst plunge into a disturbing social phenomenon: that of financially strapped and ...
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In 1956, a group of five American missionaries were sent ...
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Take a guided tour through some hardcore neighborhoods you might ...
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This humorous look at the wine and wine making of France consists of interesting people and landscapes. The program also ...
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During the 1950s, many films were created that served no purpose other than to instruct teenagers in the ways of better and healthy ...
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Travel the western states with two renegade filmmakers who have made it their goal to bring the tales of society's most fascinating fringe-dwellers to the screen in a compelling collection of films from Greta Snider and Vanessa ...
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In this harrowing look at crime in two of the world's most dangerous cities, police struggle to maintain order as society's most dangerous criminals wreak havoc in ...
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This program fosters the belief that Earth's citizens are destined to ascend into higher planetary consciousness with the help of spiritual ...
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The failures and injustices of the US government before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 are examined in this documentary ...
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Randy Merriman and Brooke McCarter's documentary Leaves of Green traces how public opinion towards ...
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The documentary Lesbians of Buenos Aires features interviews with ...
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This documentary looks at the influence various ...
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