2020 documentary film directed by Barry Avrich

2019 Macedonian documentary film

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.

Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.

Discover the stories behind the making of one of modern cinema’s true masterpieces, as all the key players involved in the production of the classic 1991 horror thriller The Silence of the Lambs come together to share their memories and experiences of the film. This feature-length DVD gives you access to the people who made the film the success it was, from casting (actors who came close to playing the iconic Dr Hannibal Lecter included Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Robert DeNiro and Sean Connery), to the hardships of shooting in sub-zero temperatures, using live moths, and filming the infamous ‘night vision’ final showdown. • This revealing DVD features interviews with all the major talent involved in the film, from screen stars Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster to screenwriter Ted Tally and director Jonathan Demme. • The Silence of the Lambs is a true modern classic, and one of only three films to have won the ‘Big Five’ Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Actress, Actor and Screenplay.

The history of Sound City and their huge recording device; exploring how digital change has allowed 'people that have no place' in music to become stars. It follows former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighter David Grohl as he attempts to resurrect the studio back to former glories.

October 24, 1944, the world's greatest battle at sea begins in the Philippines. Japan's navy gambles on a decisive victory against the United States to turn the tide of World War II. Instead Musashi, its top secret super battleship, ends up at the bottom of the ocean. How did this unsinkable giant go down so fast? Was it overwhelming American air power? Or a fatal design flaw? Now American deep sea explorers and Japanese military experts are determined to solve this 70-year old mystery. But first they must find the missing Musashi.

1989年，美国作家比尔·波特来到西安，深入终南山寻访隐士。当时，终南七十二峪，藏着中国仅存的200多位隐士。2001年，《空谷幽兰》中文版出版，在中国向往和潜心住山修行的僧侣道友中产生了深远的影响。25年后，比尔·波特重访终南山。 影片攝制组在3年内14次深入终南山寻访。全片仅使用数码单反相机的视频记录功能进行拍摄。坚持定焦镜头，坚持固定机位，拒绝推、拉、摇、移，拒绝人工照明。没有音乐，没有特技。叙事平淡，回避戏剧性。真实还原隐士的简单生活，朴素地表现其淡定的内心和静寂的气氛。

2020 film directed by Caroline Suh

A behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world.

Professor Richard Fortey delves into the fascinating and normally-hidden kingdom of fungi. From their spectacular birth, through their secretive underground life to their final explosive death, Richard reveals a remarkable world that few of us understand or even realise exists - yet all life on Earth depends on it. In a specially-built mushroom lab, with the help of mycologist Dr Patrick Hickey and some state-of-the-art technology, Richard brings to life the secret world of mushrooms as never seen before and reveals the spectacular abilities of fungi to break down waste and sustain new plant life, keeping our planet alive. Beyond the lab, Richard travels across Britain and beyond to show us the biggest, fastest and most deadly organisms on the planet - all of them fungi. He reveals their almost magical powers that have world-changing potential - opening up new frontiers in science, medicine and technology.

One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew's University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. In the first programme, Knowledge, he explores the way medieval man understood the world - as a place of mystery, even enchantment. The world was a book written by God. But as the Middle Ages grew to a close, it became a place to be mastered, even exploited. In Sex, he unearths remarkable evidence of the complex passions of medieval men and women. The Church preached hatred of the flesh, promoted the cult of virginity and condemned woman as the sinful heir to Eve. Yet this was the era that gave birth to the idea of romantic, or 'courtly' love. In Belief, the supernatural comes under the spotlight. The medieval dead shared the world with the living: the cult of the saints, encounters with the dead, and visions of the next world were all seen as proof of a two-way traffic between this world and the next. In the final programme, Power, Professor Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system. Inequality was a part of the natural order: the life of serfs was little better than those of animals, while the knight's code of chivalry was based more on caste solidarity than morality. The class you were born into determined who you were.

The up and down history of the toy merchandising of the evergreen science fiction franchise.

让我们走入史上最具标志意义、价值数十亿美元的玩具品牌背后，听缔造者介绍这些玩具沉浮兴衰的历程。

2019 documentary film by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories but the man himself.

Examining the rocky planets at the centre of the Solar System, Professor Cox examines new evidence about the violent creation of Mercury and the hostile atmosphere of Venus, contrasting them with the life-giving planet Earth and the barren Mars.

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.