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- DirectorEstela RennerStarsLaura SchichvargerDiscoveries in neuroscience can help us understand childhood development. When a person is born, it is more than just a genetic load. We are formed by our relationship with everything around us combined with our genetics, The Beginning of Life investigates what separates us and what is essential to all of us, how we can create a better world by investing in the first years of our lives.
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsBrad PittJamal CavilMaisha DiattaThis documentary examines the origins of the universe, including the beginning of life on Earth.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time in the Universe...
- StarsWill SmithChris HadfieldJerry LinengerThe extraordinary story of Earth and why it is special and uniquely brimming with life among a largely unknown but harsh cosmic arena; astronauts tell the story of Earth through a unique perspective.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 2: Our Planet Earth
- DirectorGregory ColbertStarsPatrick DisantoLaurence FishburneJeanne MoreauExploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 3: Animals and Us
- DirectorClaude NuridsanyMarie PérennouStarsSotigui KouyatéA storyteller relates the creation of the world. A tall tale like all yarns. But this tall tale is a true tale - it is our very own story. The birth of the universe, the formation of the Earth, the appearance of life, the emergence from the waters, the colonisation of earthly paradise...a tremendous, event-filled saga unfolds before our very eyes. This "flamboyant" Genesis, both modern and timeless, is "enacted" by the direct descendants of those who were part of it - the animals.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 4: The Genesis of Mankind
- StarsDavid AttenboroughSir David Attenborough reviews the history of mankind's relationship with the natural world in the lands around the Mediterranean.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 5: Man and the Natural World
- DirectorFederico HellerNigel W. TierneyStarsDave BurdBackstreet BoysJustin BieberLil Dicky leads an all-star cast with top-artists in his new music video, "Earth" which really supports nature.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 6: Environmental Issues and Climate Change
- DirectorKelly NyksJared P. ScottStarsLester BrownMike BruneMajora CarterBill McKibben in a David-vs-Goliath battle fights the fossil fuel industry to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 7: Energy Demands and the Black Gold
- DirectorAnthony ArnoveChris MooreHoward ZinnStarsMatt DamonViggo MortensenMarisa TomeiA look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 8: Taking a Stand, Fighting Hate, and Advocating Peace
- DirectorEmmanuel ItierStarsSharon StoneMaria Conchita AlonsoJoanna AngelA documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 9: Women's Struggles
- DirectorSantiago ÁlvarezStarsLena HorneA documentary short about racism in the United States.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 10: Racism, Crime, Law Enforcement, Incarceration, and Justice
- DirectorGregg GodfreyStarsTravis PastranaKenny WindhamNate AdamsDrugs have caused 50% of America's prison inmates and 20 million drug addicts, the highest addiction rate in the world...IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 11: The Global Drug Problem
- DirectorLee StanleyStarsEdward James OlmosLee StanleyShane StanleyLost in a wave of heartache and blame three boys and three father who were long ago separated by the courts, and unable to hear each other's lonely cries for help, are reunited on board Lee's sailboat where, despite the close quarters they have the room to change their minds and their livesIMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 12: Youth and Family Issues
- DirectorDavis GuggenheimStarsCharles AdamsJonathan AlterRobert BalfanzAn examination of the current state of education in America today.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 13: Education
- DirectorLionel RogosinStarsMolly ParkinGOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was Lionel Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. He interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane chatter. GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was released in 1964, at the height of the Vietnam War, and became one of the great anti-war films of the era.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 14: Genocide
- DirectorKevin AltieriTodd McFarlaneStarsJeff AmentStone GossardJack IronsAn animated music video for Pearl Jam's song "Do the Evolution".IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 15: War and Revolution
- DirectorMolly HermannStarsJames BaileyBill BoslegoClent BowersThe Star-Spangled Banner is known by all, treasured for its powerful melody and stirring lyrics. And yet, only about 40% of U.S. citizens know all the words. And even fewer know their meaning. Join us as we travel back to 1814, when Washington D.C. was under British attack during the "Second War of Independence," and the very bricks and mortar of American democracy were reduced to smoking rubble. We examine the battle that inspired witness Francis Scott Key to immortalize its final moments, then reveal how his poem transformed into an anthem.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 16: The American Presidents and the History of the United States
- DirectorJames HanlonGédéon NaudetJules NaudetStarsTony BenatatosYusuf Baran BilgicJamal BraithwaiteA real life documentary following the events of September 11 from an insider's view, through the lens of James Hanlon and two French filmmakers who were in Manhattan that one day.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 17: Terrorism, Extremism, and the War on Terror
- StarsAdam CurtisRobert ReichAnn BernaysA documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 18: Democracy, Propaganda, and the Media
- DirectorWilliam T. StillStarsWilliam T. StillThe Money Masters is a 1996 documentary film that discusses the concepts of money, debt, taxes, and describes their development from biblical times onward.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 19: Money and Economics
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsFranklin Chang-DiazGuillermo Gómez-PeñaLenwood JohnsonAfter acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980's. In an attempt to be comprehensive, the film includes interviews with migrant workers and illegal entrants along the Mexican border, conversations with an enterprising Indian motel owner, coverage of industrious African and Asian families in the cities, an extensive interview with the first Costa Rican astronaut, visits with Cuban exiles in Miami, several conversations with West Indian poet Derek Walcott, an extended portrait of the deposed Nicaraguan General Samoza (the surviving brother of Anastasio Somoza Debayle) and his extended family. The film finishes with a brief visit to the Russian Jewish community in Brooklyn, NY to tie in with the centenary of the Statue of Liberty.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 20: Migrants, Refugees & Immigration
- DirectorThomas NapperStarsKevin CohenManuel CompitoDanny HarrisNarrated by Catherine Keener, Lost Angeles takes an uncompromising yet life-affirming look at the lives of eight remarkable individuals, people who have found a way to make a life for themselves within the community of homelessness..IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 21: Homelessness, Poverty, and Humanitarianism
- StarsElton JohnDanny GloverCovers the key aspects of the world AIDS epidemic through powerful documentary stories about five victims and their communities, on five continents.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 22: HIV & AIDS
- DirectorA.W. GryphonStarsA.W. GryphonJeannie ShenRex HoffmanThis is the film I wanted to see when I was diagnosed with cancer. -Allison W. GryphonIMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 23: Cancer, Healthcare, Disability, and Mental Illness
- DirectorJanet TobiasStarsLarry BrilliantJohn ConnorDecontee DavisUnseen Enemy is a feature-length documentary about the threat of epidemics in the 21st century and what we can do to fight them.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 24: Pandemics and Epidemics
- StarsMorgan FreemanRobert ThurmanAmir HussainMorgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act of creation and other big questions that mankind has continuously asked.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 25: God, Religion, and Spirituality
- StarsNigel SpiveyVilayanur RamachandranStefano MariottiniDocumentary series looking at the influence of art on the current day situation of our society.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 26: The Arts of Life | Part 1: Painting and Sculpting
- DirectorSteve JamesStarsRoger EbertChaz EbertGene SiskelThe life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 26: The Arts of Life | Part 2: Filmmaking and Photography
- DirectorMark MoormannStarsRay CharlesJohn ColtraneAretha FranklinA documentary about Tom Dowd, who was an innovative recording engineer and producer of noted albums with John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Otis Redding, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers and many others.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 26: The Arts of Life | Part 3: Music
- DirectorWim WendersStarsPina BauschRegina AdventoMalou AiraudoA tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 26: The Arts of Life | Part 4: Dance
- DirectorGary TarnStarsThandiwe NewtonA documentary essay illustrating Gibran's themes of love, life and loss.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 27: Life, Love and Reflection
- DirectorDusan HanákPictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martinek, the films power lies in its unusual portraits of people whose raw visual beauty radiates from their very souls. Some, like the village cosmos aficionado or the disabled old man who climbs stairs on his knees, are hard to forget.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 28: Aging
- DirectorAllan KingStarsPhyllis BobbittJoyce BoneNorman CollinsDirector Allan King documents the final months of five terminally ill cancer patients at the Toronto Grace Health Centre.IMDb Link | Complete List: Chapter 29: Confronting Death and Dealing With Loss
- DirectorDon JohnsonStarsBilly CarsonIrma GloriaDandrea Harris
- StarsMamoru MiyanoAsami ImaiKana HanazawaAfter discovering time travel, a university student and his colleagues must use their knowledge of it to stop an evil organization and their diabolical plans.
- DirectorSaeed Akhtar MirzaStarsBhisham SahniDina PathakMohan GokhaleAn old couple, Mohan Joshi (Bhisham Sahni) and his wife (Dina Pathak), sues their landlord (Amjad Khan) for not maintaining their 'collapsing' apartment building. For this, they hire two cunning lawyers (Naseeruddin Shah and Satish Shah), while Rohini Hattangadi is the opposition lawyer. The court case drags on for years and the lawyers milk the old couple dry, while they become rich. Back home in the society, the old couple is ridiculed for fighting the landlord, but they fight on nevertheless. In the end, when the judge comes to check the condition of the chawl, the landlord's men prop up the place, thus convincing the judge that all is well. Finally, Joshi gathers all his strength and pulls down the temporary supports put up by the men causing the building to collapse on himself.
- DirectorSaeed Akhtar MirzaStarsPawan MalhotraMakrand DeshpandeAshutosh GowarikerAn unemployed Muslim youth aspires to become a big-shot criminal but mends his ways with the help of his educated brother-in-law.
- DirectorSaeed Akhtar MirzaStarsNaseeruddin ShahShabana AzmiSmita PatilA man from Mumbai (then Bombay) is angry about various issues in different circumstances.
- DirectorVidhu Vinod ChopraStarsNaseeruddin ShahRadha SalujaNaresh SuriMalika Modi lives a very wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad in India where they own vast acres of land and businesses. When Mr. Modi suddenly passes away, he leaves all the business's interests with his younger brother conditionally until Malika turns 25. Shortly before she turned 25, Malika is told by a young man, Uday Jagirdar, that she is about to get killed, and the person to kill her is none other than Uday himself. Malika disbelieves him and runs for her life. She finds out that Uday is not chasing her but another man, Anil Suri, an employee of her uncle's. Malika knows now that she has no choice but to seek help from Uday, her very own paid assailant. What Malika does not know is that Uday is not who he claims to be, but is actually a deranged former mental patient who is accused of murder.
- DirectorSai ParanjpyeStarsNaseeruddin ShahFarooq ShaikhDeepti NavalSecretly in love with his neighbor, a mild-mannered clerk is heartbroken when his much bolder, more charming friend wins her heart instead.
- DirectorVidhu Vinod ChopraStarsShabana AzmiAmol PalekarNaseeruddin ShahWhen a starlet is murdered on a film location, a detective arrives to investigate the cast and crew.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsDeepak QazirAmitabh SrivastavaPankaj KapurOne dissenting juror in a murder trial tries to influence the verdict with his personal prejudices and biases
- DirectorSaeed Akhtar MirzaStarsDilip DhawanAnjali PaigankarShreeram LagooArvind Desai is the only son of a rich businessman who deals in luxury handicraft products. His feelings for his father are mixed. While he hates his dominating nature, he admires his power and lack of scruples.
- DirectorKawal SharmaStarsNaseeruddin ShahPoonam DhillonMandakiniA slum dweller discovers that his grandfather has left a property of 330 billion rupees for him, but he can own it only if he is able to spend 30 billions in 30 days.
- DirectorGuru DuttStarsWaheeda RehmanGuru DuttKumari NaazSuresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his career.
- DirectorIrfan KamalStarsMaster ShamsMaster SalmanMaster JafferA homeless petty thief attempts to find the biological mother of an abandoned baby.
- DirectorSubhash KapoorStarsRajat KapoorNeha DhupiaSanjay MishraOm Shastri, a recession victim comes to India to sell his ancestors property to clear is debt. On reaching he comes to know that selling the property will make his family homeless in India. Later he is kidnapped by goons thinking a rich NRI.
- DirectorSanjay M. KhanduriStarsAbhay DeolNeha DhupiaAmit MistryA comic thriller about two people who miss the last local train at 1:40 am and how missing of their train changes their course of life forever.
- DirectorVidhu Vinod ChopraStarsNaseeruddin ShahRadha SalujaNaresh SuriMalika Modi lives a very wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad in India where they own vast acres of land and businesses. When Mr. Modi suddenly passes away, he leaves all the business's interests with his younger brother conditionally until Malika turns 25. Shortly before she turned 25, Malika is told by a young man, Uday Jagirdar, that she is about to get killed, and the person to kill her is none other than Uday himself. Malika disbelieves him and runs for her life. She finds out that Uday is not chasing her but another man, Anil Suri, an employee of her uncle's. Malika knows now that she has no choice but to seek help from Uday, her very own paid assailant. What Malika does not know is that Uday is not who he claims to be, but is actually a deranged former mental patient who is accused of murder.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsRajesh KhannaZaheeraRaj KapoorRanjit was a badminton player and his family once lived a good life.Ranjit now cant feed his family as he has turned handicapped and feels of attempting suicide. One morning Ranjit tires to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train from a bridge.Next he is seen walking without a stick and meets a man called captain who tells him that he has died and is now a ghost and ask's him why did he commit suicide.
- DirectorSudhir MishraStarsIrrfan KhanChitrangda SinghArunoday SinghGangsters kidnap the prospective son-in-law of a politician in order to secure the release of an imprisoned gang-member.
- DirectorGovind NihalaniStarsOm PuriNaseeruddin ShahSmita PatilA public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.
- DirectorPrateek VatsStarsShardul BharadwajMahender NathNutan SinhaA young migrant battles hordes of monkeys in the heart of New Delhi as a contractual monkey repeller.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsSmita PatilAnant NagNaseeruddin ShahA girl learns music from her courtesan grandmother and breaks into the burgeoning show business industry of 1930s Bombay, which eventually leads to decades of superstardom as well as romantic entanglements.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsShabana AzmiSmita PatilNaseeruddin ShahForbidden love, fraying loyalties and flagrant hypocrisy emerge when sanctimonious politicians drive a madam's brothel from the heart of Hyderabad.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsPankaj KapurSupriya PathakRoopa GangulyKamla Ki Maut is a 1989 Hindi drama film directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film set in Mumbai, deals with issue of love, pre-marital sex and relationships in modern India.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsShashi KapoorRekhaRaj BabbarThis movie tells story of fierce and total competition of two related business families in the days of license raaj India. The overall plot is based on Mahabharat. This movie shows that how the pursuit of self serving ideals even legitimizes killing of family members.
- DirectorIsmail MerchantStarsShashi KapoorShabana AzmiOm PuriA poet of Urdu fame is struggling with his legacy while an aspiring poet and historian comes to document him like never before and in return becomes custodian of the great poets last verses.
- DirectorM.S. SathyuStarsBalraj SahniA.K. HangalGeeta KakIn post-partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsShabana AzmiPankaj KapurIrrfan KhanAfter years of painstaking research at the cost of his domestic pleasure, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for leprosy. The news is flashed over television and overnight, an insignificant junior doctor receives international recognition. Professional jealousy and abuse of power threaten Dr. Roy, even as the Secretary of Health reprimands him for breaking the news to the press. He is asked to report to the Director of Health. Professional colleagues Dr. Arijit Sen and Dr. Ramananda invite him to a lecture but it is merely a pretence to humiliate him. Dr. Roy suffers a mild heart attack but he refuses to go to the hospital. His wife and few others like Dr. Kundu stand by Dr. Roy, but the harassment continues; a letter from an American foundation is suppressed and Dr. Roy transferred to a remote village. The last straw is two American doctors receiving credit for discovering the same vaccine. Dr. Roy is shattered.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiShreeram LagooAparna SenA retired professor suddenly goes missing. Time passes by, life goes on, but his children and wife keep on looking back, trying to find their way through emotional torrents of the past and the present.