Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and raises questions about homosexuality, proof of Christ's existence, Jewish Sabbath laws, violent Muslim extremists.

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

2009 film by Michael Jackson, Kenny Ortega

这样的笔触，奠定了本片的基调。以这样的不动声色的展开，将观众带到20世纪70年代末的往日气氛之中。历史的轮转体现在70年代的北京民居当中，匮乏时代的生活，触目可见的地震棚(北京人为解决住房拥挤而使用的临时居所)，自然史、民生史和反映时代变迁的社会事件有机结合起来，展开时代的画面，唤起观众的回忆。 本片规避了以中央性新闻、大事记代替城市个性化叙事。更规避宏大和过于豪放的风格，表现的，是具有独特气质的北京，以及北京人(包括原住民和各种类型的新北京人)的生活历程，和岁月的体悟。一个地点、一个舞台、一段时光、一群人、一个故事，一个一个年轮的画像细细展开，一个家庭的历年叙事的娓娓道来，如戏文般以16集的规模描画出一座城市和她的子民30年来走过的历程。 《北京记忆》是全景性反映北京改革开放全过程的大型纪录片。然而由于本片采用了独特的视角——选定记忆与城纪错落有致的表现平台，既有宏大的背景，又充满个案的生命体征。大时代与小屋檐的画面编织，反映出了人们对改革给生活带来变化的真切感受，体现了编导主创人员的追求。 《北京记忆》整合30年年轮中的公共记忆和各阶层人士的亲历往事，描述和纪念这一段历史，表现改革开放30周年之宏大历史背景的同时，更应注重讲述北京人特有的记忆，在往事回溯中北京独具的城市气质和变革历史。显现本片的资源优势和文献价值。 这一个30年，在整个华夏文明的历史上，都是极为独特而关键的断代，它以觉醒、开放、变革为特征，确定了未来中国的历史走向。北京的延展，特别是其国际化色彩的浓郁，是改革开放中国形象的标范，本片多处采用国外影像报道，传达出北京魅力在世界范围内的辐射。 本片用个体化、微观化的手段，在大历史的架构下，呈现出更多、更丰富、更接近事实本身价值含量的意义。如胡同生活模式在大时代冲击下的转型，如从传统的居委会管理模式到社区自制显示的公民意识和自主意识的成熟。如商品大潮时代知识分子的命运转型(不仅仅是中关村奇迹带来的成功示范)，如消失的柜台 折射出的城市商业精神的变化。 集体记忆由无数个人记忆堆积而成，公共性正蕴藏于私密性之中，它们是一条河流的两岸，而不是两端。我们可以随意架设桥梁。本片将是把历史还原到日常生活语境中去的开放性文本：以人性化、故事化、情感化的价值取向，呈现出宏大历史的民间面和生活面——人本的关怀、人文的气息。这部系列片选取的还是旅游、饮食、购物、时装、住房、出行、电视、通讯、健身、婚恋等10个视角，通过个人对不同时期的一些代表性事件的回忆，从衣食住行扩展开来，展示了中国社会从计划经济到市场经济的转变，揭示了半个世纪以来人们物质生活和精神生活所发生的巨大变迁。 《北京记忆》第1集－京华春早 《北京记忆》第2集－金梭和银梭 《北京记忆》第3集－夕照街 《北京记忆》第4集－日日夜夜 《北京记忆》第5集－绽放 《北京记忆》第6集－生活是多么广阔 《北京记忆》第7集－向远方 《北京记忆》第8集－我爱我家 《北京记忆》第9集－北京人 《北京记忆》第10集－车轮上的梦想 《北京记忆》第11集－千里之外 《北京记忆》第12集－消失的柜台 《北京记忆》第13集－东区西区 《北京记忆》第14集－在路上 《北京记忆》第15集－大都会

2009 film by Louie Psihoyos

A non-narrated documentary following the lovesome lives of four infants from birth to their first birthday. The babies featured are two from rural areas: Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia, and Bayar from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia, as well as two from urban areas: Mari from Tokyo, Japan, and Hattie from San Francisco, USA.

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

I ask no favors for my sex… All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks. —Sarah Moore Grimké, activist for women’s suffrage, 1837 As the United States Supreme Court leans increasingly to the right, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vigorous dissenting opinions and ferocious 20-push-up workouts have earned this tiny, soft-spoken, intellectual giant the status of rock star and the title “Notorious RBG.” What many don’t know is Ginsburg’s strategic, trailblazing role in defining gender-discrimination law. Intent on systematically releasing women from second-class status, she argued six pivotal gender-bias cases in the 1970s before an all-male Supreme Court blind to sexism. Now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

2019 documentary film by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

跟随这部系列纪录片认识那些奋战在抗击流感第一线的英雄们，了解他们为阻止下一场全球疫情的爆发所做出的努力。

THE RESCUE chronicles the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach, trapped deep inside a flooded cave. Academy Award®-winning directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin reveal the perilous world of cave diving, the bravery of the rescuers, and the dedication of an entire community that made great sacrifices to save these young boys. An outing to explore a nearby system of caves after soccer practice transformed into a two-week saga of survival and a story that would capture the world’s attention. With exclusive access and never-before-seen footage from the rescue, the film tells the story of the imagination, determination and unprecedented teamwork displayed during this heroic edge-of-your-seat mission with life-or-death stakes.

The American Ruling Class, the worlds first dramatic-documentary-musical, explores our countrys most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic. This feature-length satire stars Lewis Lapham, the renowned essayist and author, and a heavy-weight ensemble cast that includes former cabinet secretaries, corporate mandarins, media magnates, and at least one journalist working as a waitress. The film follows Lapham and two recent Yale graduates as they make the rounds of Pentagon briefings, the World Economic Forum, philanthropic foundations, law firms, corporations banks, and New York society dinners as they attempt to answer the question, Who rules America? The narrative portion of the film, interwoven throughout, tells the story of two representative graduates, one rich and one poor as they seek direction in their lives. Does America have a ruling class? If so, of what is it made, and how does it co-exist with our democracy? How does one join it: should one even want to? The real life luminaries become characters in a story about power and its responsibilities, and by the films end, the young men must decide: do they wish to rule the worldor save it? Appearing in the film are a range of leaders from across the political spectrum, among them: Robert B. Altman, James A. Baker III, Bill Bradley, Harold Brown, Hodding Carter III, William T. Coleman, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Barbara Ehrenreich, Martin Garbus, Vartan Gregorian, Mike Medavoy, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Samuel Peabody, Peter G. Peterson, Pete Seeger, Lawrence H. Summers, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., William Howard Taft IV and Kurt Vonnegut. As we watch these two real-life graduates wend their way through what is only a slight fictionalizing of their actual lives and choices, as we meet former Secretaries of State and Defense, directors of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, the publisher of The New York Times, and a host of others, we must ask (along with Mr. Lapham): "To what end, the genius of the Wall Street banks and the force of the Pentagon's colossal weapons? Where does America discover the wisdom to play with its wonderful toys?" The possible answers move beyond the hollow category of party affiliation and into the heart of American Oligarchy itself.

Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the meaning of personal freedom – and its limits.