Title: Waiting for Lightning Director: Jacob Rosenberg Another descendant of “Dogtown and Z-Boys,” Stacy Peralta’s influential 2001 documentary about the 1970s rise of popular skateboarding culture and the colorful characters…
Title: Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home Director: Thomas Napper Narrated by Catherine Keener, “Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home” provides a poignant, illuminating look at the titular…
Title: Who Bombed Judi Bari? Director: Mary Liz Thomson An Earth First! environmental activist who battled the logging industry’s clear-cutting of old forest redwoods in Northern California, Judi Bari was…
Title: Buffalo Girls Director: Todd Kellstein An unflinching and unadorned look at Thailand’s underground world of children’s boxers — of which there are over 30,000, including many young females —…
Title: Ben Lee: Catch My Disease Director: Amiel Courtin-Wilson Featuring: Michelle Williams, Jason Schwartzman, Zooey Deschanel, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Thurston Moore, Mike D, Ione Skye A rangy documentary look…
Title: The Central Park Five Director: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon The Central Park Five is a 118 minute documentary that examines a racially intense case, with provocative doses…
Title: Switch Director: Harry Lynch Is fracking polluting our water? How dangerous is nuclear energy? Will gasoline prices continue to rise forevermore? Can we honestly clean up coal? Or can…
Title: Man at War Director: Jacek Blawut A hopelessly myopic look at videogamers obsessed with a very specific computer flight simulator, documentary “Man at War” locks its sights on a…
Title: The House I Live In Director: Eugene Jarecki A searing, stirring and deeply humanistic documentary look at the collateral damage and some of the perhaps unintended consequences of the…
