Genre: Indie Documentaries
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Life in a Day (2011)
Cast: Cindy Baer, Moica, Caryn Waechter …
Directed by: Kevin MacDonald, Natalia Andreadis, Soma Helmi …
After thousands of people around the world joined together to record banal and remarkable everyday events on July 24, 2010, director Kevin MacDonald led a team of editors to condense more…
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Knuckle (2011)
Cast: James Quinn McDonagh, Michael Quinn McDonagh, Paddy Quinn McDonagh …
Directed by: Ian Palmer
Members of two Irish families continue an ages-old grudge and settle their differences with violence in this documentary. Director Ian Palmer spent years traveling with members of the Quinn…
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How to Die in Oregon (2011)
Cast: Cody Curtis, Nancy Niedzielski, Harry Bruton …
Directed by: Peter Richardson
Peter Richardson's award-winning documentary takes you into the lives of terminally ill men and women as they consider availing themselves of physician-assisted suicide, which is legal…
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Rebirth (2011)
Directed by: James Whitaker
Every year between the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and its eighth anniversary, documentarian James Whitaker interviewed nine people, each with a connection to the events. Together, their…
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Hot Coffee (2011)
Cast: John Grisham, Al Franken, Joanne Doroshow …
Directed by: Susan Saladoff
This documentary examines the so-called "hot coffee lawsuit" in which a woman sued McDonald's after she spilled her coffee and burned herself, specifically looking at the reasons why the…
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Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)
Cast: Tim Arango, Julian Assange, Gay Talese …
Directed by: Andrew Rossi
Documentarian Andrew Rossi goes inside the New York Times to examine how the venerable paper and its reporters are responding to the massive changes in how news is gathered, analyzed and dispersed.
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Crime After Crime (2011)
Cast: T'Onna Champagne, Deborah Peagler, Dee Kelly Barrett …
Directed by: Yoav Potash
Convicted of killing her brutally abusive boyfriend in 1983, Deborah Peagler languished in prison for 20 years. When California legislation allowing incarcerated domestic-violence survivors…
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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)
Directed by: Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman
Filmmakers Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman examine the case of Daniel McGowan, a member of the radical environmental group Earth Liberation Front who was arrested for committing arson against…
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The Pit (2011)
Cast: Nathan Butera, Joseph Digiso, Jon Horowitz …
Directed by: Johanna Lee
Wading directly into the frenzied chaos on the floor of the New York Board of Trade (otherwise known as "the Pit"), director Johanna Lee's compelling documentary explores the emotionally…
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Miss Representation (2011)
Cast: Cory Booker, Margaret Cho, Katie Couric …
Directed by: Jennifer Siebel Newsom
This insightful documentary from director Jennifer Siebel Newsom examines how women are portrayed by the mainstream media, and how the focus on beauty and sexuality instead of intellect and…
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Road Dogs (2011)
Cast: Traci Michaelz, Alexis Arquette, Chris Holmes …
Directed by: Shane Aquino
This adrenaline-soaked documentary rides shotgun with a trio of Sunset Strip punk metal bands as they take their rock 'n' roll school bus on a do-or-die cross-country tour that…
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Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess (2011)
Cast: Marian Anderson, Henry Rollins
Directed by: Lilly Scourtis
The hard-edged life and outrageously sexual performances of notorious punk rock singer Marian Anderson (of the Bay Area bands the Insaints, the Thrill Killers and Five Fingers) are captured…
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Becoming Santa (2011)
Cast: Jack Sanderson
Directed by: Jeff Myers
What does it take to be Santa Claus? Jack finds out, going through all the physical changes needed -- but there's an emotional transformation as well. During a season of wishes and…
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Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Cast: Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Thierry Guetta …
Directed by: Banksy
Filmmaker Thierry Guetta's project to chronicle the underground world of street art takes a fascinating twist when he meets elusive stencil artist Banksy, who turns the project around to…
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Catfish (2010)
Cast: Yaniv Schulman, Nev Schulman, Megan Faccio …
Directed by: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
When gifted 8-year-old artist Abby contacts young photographer Nev through Facebook, he's intrigued. He gradually becomes involved with her family, even falling for her older sister --…
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Blood Into Wine (2010)
Cast: Maynard James Keenan, Eric Glomski, Milla Jovovich …
Directed by: Ryan Page, Christopher Pomerenke
This perceptive documentary tells the unusual tale of Maynard James Keenan, the hard-rocking, eccentric front man of Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer who abruptly left Los Angeles in the…
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Bhutto (2010)
Cast: Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, Pervez Musharraf …
Directed by: Duane Baughman, Johnny O'Hara, Jessica Hernandez …
This documentary is an in-depth and at times incendiary look at the life and tragic death of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the outspoken voice of reason whose 2007…
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Wholphin: Issue 10 (2010)
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, Olivia Thirlby …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme, Natalie Portman, Spencer Susser …
Wholphin, the innovative DVD magazine, presents another collection of must-see shorts. Among the 11 films are director Jonathan Demme's "Joe and Linda Flooded Out of Holy Cross" and…
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Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio (2010)
Cast: Samuel Mockbee, Music Man, Peter Eisenman …
Directed by: Sam Wainwright Douglas
This documentary spotlights Samuel Mockbee, whose Rural Studio program encourages a new generation of architects to practice their trade in a socially positive way, by having students design…
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The Nature of Existence (2010)
Cast: Roger Nygard, Leonard Susskind, Rob Adonis …
Directed by: Roger Nygard
Roger Nygard travels to the sources of the world's major philosophies and talks to everyone from physicist Leonard Susskind to Ultimate Christian Wrestling founder Rob Adonis to answer…
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Wake Up (2010)
Directed by: Jonas Elrod, Chloe Crespi
As unlikely as it may seem, Jonas Elrod woke up one day with the power to see and hear angels, demons and ghosts. Filmed over the course of three years, this documentary follows Jonas and his…
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Sons of Perdition (2010)
Directed by: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Merten
Following three teenage boys who've left a polygamist sect over a 2-year period, filmmakers Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten offer up a poignant portrayal of the overwhelming challenges…
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The Occult: The Truth Behind the Word (2010)
Directed by: James Earnshaw, O.H. Krill
In this thought-provoking program, O.H. Krill, Brian Allan and James Earnshaw examine the shadowy world of the occult to ask whether it's truly a gate to Satan or merely an ancient…
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Prisoner of Her Past (2010)
Cast: Sonia Reich, Howard Reich
Directed by: Gordon Quinn
Long-suppressed memories fuel the delusions Sonia Reich experiences in the present as her son, Chicago journalist Howard Reich, travels across the United States and Europe to unravel the…
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Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
Cast: Carmen Argenziano, Allan Arkush, John Ashley …
Directed by: Mark Hartley
In the 1970s and '80s, makers of exploitation films loved to shoot in the Philippines, which offered gorgeous scenery, beautiful extras and cheap fun in the sun for the crew. This…