V E O R A D E C A D E O F D O C U M E N T A R I E S www.docurama.com dgdfghdfghdfghdfghdfgh Docurama films Over a decade Of dOcUMeNTarIeS oVEr a DEcaDE of DocumENTariEs Contents It all started with the release of Docurama Films’ first feature The Arts 1 documentary on DVD (D.A. Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back). History/Politics 4 From the beginning, Docurama’s mission has been to unearth and The Black Experience 10 Crime 12 release the great classic documentaries of the last fifty years while Environmental Issues 14 spreading the word about filmmakers who are taking the form to new The Jewish Experience 18 LGBT Interest 20 heights. The past decade has been a true journey of discovery for Music 24 us as we’ve released over 300 critically acclaimed and cutting-edge The Lighter Side 28 Docs About Movies 32 films, each one allowing us to see our world in new and fresh ways. Profiles/Biographies 34 We thank the enthusiastic audiences who continue to seek out the Social Issues 38 Sports 44 very best in documentary film, as well as the filmmakers who have Awards Sets and Collections 46 entrusted their work to us. And we look forward to continuing our journey with dramatic and entertaining films. B Over a decade Of dOcumentaries ThE arTs | Docurama.com The ArTs ed hardy: tattoo the world 1 Docurama films | ThE arTs Over a decade Of dOcUMeNTarIeS “I was enchanted.” —Roger Ebert rivers and tides: Blu-ray edition Director Thomas Riedelsheimer This beautiful collector’s edition of the smash theatrical hit includes the visually intoxicating portrait of famed nature-based artist Andy Goldsworthy plus over an hour of bonus featuring short films and an interview Also Available as a Single and with the director. a Collector’s Edition 2-pack “Very funny and richly perceptive. Not to be missed.” “The best documentary of the year.” acaDEmy awarD® NomiNEE —Boston Globe —The New york Times best Documentary Feature naked states moon over Paul taylor: Director Arlene Donnelly Broadway danCemaker Following artist Spencer Directors D.A. Pennebaker, Director Matthew Diamond Chris Hegedus Tunick’s quest to photograph Filled with magnificent From pioneer vérité filmmaker nudes in public settings across archival footage and D.A. Pennebaker and featuring the the country, NAKED STATES inspired modern-day incomparable Carol Burnett, this is a visual American odyssey performances, this glorious behind-the-scenes look at the where art, politics, body behind-the-scenes look at making of the Broadway comedy image, and American culture the world-renowned dance Moon Over Buffalo is an honest come together in some very troupe takes a breathtaking account of what goes down unexpected ways. journey inside the world before the curtain goes up. and mind of preeminent choreographer Paul Taylor. “A revealing, human, and utterly “Elegant…A dazzling case of the right wonderful film.” “America’s foremost psychedelic artist.” filmmaker attached to the right subject…” —The Independent, London —High Times —Variety waiting for alex grey & wonders hoCkney are many Director Julie Checkoway the ChaPel of Director Jon Else Having devoted nearly a saCred mirrors: Art and science collide decade of full-time work to Cosm the movie Director Nick Krasnic as this film interweaves completing a portrait, Billy the making of John Pappas seeks the approval CoSM is an invitation to Adams’s opera Doctor of renowned contemporary personal reflection, growth, Atomic with the actual artist David Hockney in this and harmony, leading historical events that fascinating meditation on spiritual adventurers on underpin it: Oppenheimer’s realism and art. an enriching journey into testing of the first atomic the visionary art cosmos bomb. of world-renowned artist Alex Grey. “HHHH …the best…documentary of the year—so riveting you won’t be able to turn away for a second.” “A breakthrough.” “By turns comical and compassionate.” —New york Post —Dance on Camera Journal —Variety Cat danCers alvin ailey stagedoor Director Harris Fishman ameriCan danCe Director Alexandra Shiva This stranger-than-fiction theater: Beyond When the curtain goes up, tale of love and tragedy the stePs this lively portrait follows a follows a husband-and-wife Director Phil Bertelsen group of talented teenagers team of exotic cat A dazzling cinema vérité who head off to theater entertainers as they documentary following the camp, leave their problems bring a young man—and extraordinary dancers and behind, and let their inner an unpredictable white renowned choreographers divas shine. tiger—into their act of the Alvin Ailey Dance and their lives. Theater, who do everything it takes to keep American modern dance fresh and 2 a legacy alive. Over a decade Of dOcUMeNTarIeS ThE arTs | Docurama.com “Rigorous, hard-hitting, yet deeply “Makes poetry sexy.” “Blount is the best!” personal, and compassionate.” —The New york Times —Garrison Keillor —Los Angeles Times slamnation the main stream PiCtures from Director Paul Devlin Director Roger Weisberg a revolution The rousing precursor to Beloved humorist and Directors Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers, Russell Simmons’s highly celebrated author Roy Blount, Alfred Guzzeth acclaimed HBO series Def Jr., takes us on an offbeat In this lively discourse on the Poetry Jam, SLAMNATION journey down the Mississippi power of images, renowned captures the cutthroat River in this poignant and photographer Susan Meiselas world of spoken-word amusing travelogue along returns to the scenes of the poetry with an “energy the great river Mark Twain Nicaraguan revolution of the that pulses, snaps, and immortalized over a ’70s and ’80s—which she crackles” (Chicago Tribune). century ago. DVD 2-PK SET originally witnessed and captured with her camera. “Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure “Complex, candid and all-but-essential suNDaNcE film fEsTiVal house of story.” viewing for hearing audiences.” OFFICIAL SELECTION —Stephen King —The New york Times the true neil gaiman’s see what i’m meaning of a short saying PiCtures film aBout Director Hilari Scarl Director Jennifer Baichwal john Bolton A powerful and rare glimpse Director Neil Gaiman An audience favorite into the lives of four deaf at Sundance, THE TRUE This darkly hip and entertainers over the MEANING OF PICTURES hilarious film from cult course of one year as they is an introduction to the author-cum-filmmaker Neil endeavor to cross over into provocative and Gaiman explores the question mainstream culture. controversial work of that torments artists of every renowned photographer medium: Where do your Shelby Lee Adams. ideas come from? “The high-energy film presents an in-depth and extremely entertaining “Something of a love letter to look at the history of graffiti.” tattooing itself.” “Brilliant!” —Boston Globe —Pop Matters —Los Angeles Times BomB it ed hardy: vinCent: the life Director Jon Reiss tattoo the world and death of A wild ride into the heart of Director Emiko Omori vinCent van gogh graffiti culture, where the This revealing look at the Director Paul Cox love of art and ego clash godfather of modern tattooing, A passionate tribute to the explosively with law and Ed Hardy, details his unexpected life, mind, and art of a man order, BOMB IT is a rise to cult status and his of extraordinary talent and high-octane film exploring phenomenal influence on humanity, this visually the many manifestations of pop culture through intimate magnificent film provides “bombing,” the act of interviews with the artist a window into the hopes, committing artistic crime himself. fears, and creative choices with spray paint. of a tortured genius. for other films about the arts see: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba Bird by Bird with Annie Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 Colors Straight Up Resident Alien Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes They Came to Play Harlan Ellison: Dreams with Sharp Teeth Touch the Sound Huxley on Huxley Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh A Man Named Pearl Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place Music from the Inside Out 3 Docurama films | hisTory/poliTics Over a decade Of dOcUMeNTarIeS history/politics hell and BaCk again 4 Over a decade Of dOcUMeNTarIeS hisTory/poliTics | Docurama.com “Arguably the most important intellectual alive.” “America’s most useful citizen.” “Remarkable, very moving, very real” —The New york Times —Boston Globe —Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down noam Chomsky: noam Chomsky the war taPes reBel without on the world: Director Deborah Scranton a Pause the Chomsky Straight from the front lines Director Will Pascoe sessions in Iraq, THE WAR TAPES is In this timely, must-see film, Director Will Pascoe the first war movie filmed by Chomsky speaks out openly the soldiers themselves, Thoroughly absorbing and about 9/11, the war on who poignantly tell a story edifying, NOAM CHOMSKy terrorism, media manipulation, that never makes it to the ON THE WORLD profiles and social activism, offering evening news or the morning the luminous thinking of a critical voice that many feel paper. a man who has spent his is missing in the world today. life striving to educate, to empower, and ultimately, to liberate. “Essential viewing experience.” —Washington Post the roBert drew kennedy films ColleCtion Director Robert Drew These three seminal films (Crisis, Primary, Faces of November), from one of the fathers of the cinema vérité movement, offer the most intimate, candid portrait of JFK on film—from his years as DVD 2-PK SET a young senator to his days