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Director: Larry Lansburgh    More Info


 This winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary follows a palomino horse from its days of cow punching to its glory days in the Olympics as a mount for the U.S. equestrian team.

Director: Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau    More Info
Starring: William Peacock

 This documentary follows the path of a French expedition that crossed the jungle of New Guinea. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen    More Info
Starring: Marlene Dietrich

 Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary, this film makes excellent use of newsreels to trace the path of Adolph Hitler's rise to power in the National Socialist Party. Goethe's "Reynard the Fox" is a medieval fable, and Hitler's biography is seen in the context of mythology–proving that fact is often stranger than fiction.

Director: James Algar    More Info
Starring: Rex Allen, Sons Of The Pioneers

 In this Disney nature film, a wolf cub matures and roams free in New Mexico.

Director: Harold Lloyd    More Info
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Mildred Davis

 This film represents the compilation of Harold Lloyd's silent comedies and includes "Safety Last" (1923), "Hot Water" (1924), "Girl Shy" (1924), and "The Kid Brother" (1924). Also included are scenes from Lloyd's talkies and include "Movie Crazy (1932) and "Feet First" (1930). Assembled by Lloyd himself, the scenes provide good viewing.

Director: Paul Killiam    More Info
Starring: Frank Gallop, Buster Keaton, Noah Beery Jr., Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Richard Barthelmess, William Hart

 Frank Gallop narrates this collection of chase scenes from several silent movies, including "The General," and "The Mark of Zorro." Good family action/comedy entertainment.

Director: Various Directors    More Info
Starring: Rock Hudson

 Narrated by Rock Hudson, this biography of Marilyn Monroe is interesting, but it strays from factual accuracy. Lots of movie clips.

Director: Paolo Cavara    More Info


 Amazingly, this nominal documentary–featuring bizarre rituals of human beings throughout the world–did quite well at the box office.

Director: Shirley Clark    More Info


 The great poet Robert Frost is highlighted in this good film that won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary.

Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti    More Info


 More of the bizarre goings on around the world are presented in this follow-on to the highly successful "Mondo Cane," but it is not as innovative.

Director: Emile DeAntonio    More Info


 Senator Joseph McCarthy was a powerful Communist hater, and he used his vast powers to conduct anti-Communist hearings that shook the nation. This film provides an edited version of those 1954 hearings and the subsequent events that led to his censure.

Director: Jacques-Yves Cousteau    More Info


 This Jacques Cousteau documentary features an underwater adventure that draws the viewer into the suspense of the adventure as Cousteau and his team dive down in the Red Sea off Port Sudan. They operate from an underwater house–containing five rooms–and glide through the luminous water into undersea caverns exploring marine life. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Director: Richard Kaplan    More Info
Starring: Eleanor Roosevelt, Archibald MacLeish, Eric Sevareid

 Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary, this is an excellent biography; the narration by Archibald MacLeish enhances the film.

Director: Peter Watkins    More Info


 This film, made for the B.B.C., depicts what would happen after a nuclear attack. Because it was considered too graphic for the general television audience, it was never aired, but was released for theater and video. Although a "pseudo" documentary, it won the Academy Award as Best Documentary.

Director: Bruce Brown    More Info
Starring: Mike Hynson, Robert Augut, Bruce Brown

 Surfers Mike Hynson and Robert Augut travel the world in search of the best waves.

Director: Pierre Schoendorffer    More Info


 This Academy Award-winning documentary provides vivid details of a Vietnam mission in which an American, Lieutenant Joseph Anderson, leads his platoon along the dangerous front line.

Director: D.A. Pennebaker    More Info
Starring: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bob Neuwirth, Donovan, Alan Price, Derroll Adams, Allen Ginsberg, John Mayall, Marianne Faithfull, Tito Burn

 This documentary of Bob Dylan was first presented in 1967, largely centered on a 1965 concert, and now has been restored with an upgraded soundtrack. The music is great, and insights into the folk hero abound.

Director: Walon Green    More Info
Starring: Vic Damone, Juliet Prowse, Jayne Mansfield, Constance Moore, Mickey Hargitay, Ray Milland

 This is a view of life in Las Vegas that includes casino gambling and performers on the Strip.

Director: No Director Credited    More Info


 This Academy Award winner for Best Documentary gives an engaging account of a group therapy session with eight people, who had never met before. The 16-hour session was distilled down to 47 minutes for the film.

Director: Ermanno Olmi    More Info
Starring: Rod Steiger

 This documentary on the life of Pope John XXIII is very well developed and provides insight into his personal beliefs.

Director: Gerard Patris    More Info


 This good Documentary from France tells the story of the amazing musician Arthur Rubinstein. The film won a Best Documentary Academy Award.

Director: Various Directors    More Info
Starring: Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Stan Laurel, Lucille Ball, Marie Dressler, Carole Lombard, Lionel Barrymore, Marion Davies, Spencer Tracy, Oliver Hardy

 Scenes from comedies are presented in this video made up from great moments in both silent and sound film.

Director: Albert Maysles    More Info
Starring: Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt, Jamie Baker, Raymond Martos

 This excellent documentary follows four Bible salesmen as they go door-to-door selling their books, attending sales conferences where they get "pumped up," and even testing out new areas to market their product.