Festival Year: 2000


Frozen Heart
Stig Andersen, Kenny Sanders

From the snowy Norwegian land comes this intriguing portrait of the explorer Roald Admunsen, the first man to sail the Northwest Passage, the first man…

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George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire
Paul Stekler, Daniel McCabe

The ultimate political animal, George Wallace would’ve sold his soul in order to get elected Governor of Alabama, and, according to this enthralling film, he…

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The Gospel According to Mr. Allen
Edward Rosenstein

Absorbing and gritty, this documentary has plot, suspense and characters more compelling than any fiction film. Granted total access to a Harlem self-help drug abuse…

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High School
Frederick Wiseman

The school system exists not only to pass on “facts” but ideally to transmit social values from one generation to another. The film documents how…

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Highway
Sergey Dvortsevoy

A family of circus performers travels across the barren landscape of Central Russia, stopping to perform their extremely seat-of-the-pants act. Then they climb back into…

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I’m a Pro Wrestler
Banks Tarver

Big, greasy bodies bouncing off of one another on curiously springy mats constitutes most of what the uninitiated know about professional wrestling and the World…

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Images of a Dictatorship
Patricio Henriquez

This vivid portrayal of Chile from the 1973 military coup shows terror, demonstrations, repression by the military and police, marches, a state of siege, and…

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In the Street
Helen Levitt

In the Street was shot mostly on East 103rd Street in New York City’s East Harlem during the 1940’s by the renowned still photographer Helen…

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In-the-Works

The DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival and DocuClub are proud to inaugurate In-the-Works at the 2000 festival. We are offering an unusual opportunity for professionals and…

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Jazz: Risk
Ken Burns

After the second World War, America achieves a level of growth and prosperity unimaginable just a few years earlier. As the Cold War intensifies, jazz…

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Jeremy

Music video by Pearl Jam.

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John Huston — War Stories
Midge Mackenzie

“Making a documentary,” John Huston says, “wasn’t really any different than making any other film except that the material reveals itself, tells its own story.”…

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Juvies
Liz Garbus

From the filmmaker of The Farm, Juvies is a compassionate and harrowing examination of the journeys of three young men through Maryland’s Juvenile Justice System:…

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Kids
Larry Clark

Powerful and passionate, colorful and compelling, Larry Clark’s Kids is 24 frenetic hours in the lives of a group of contemporary teenagers who, like all…

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Kumar Talkies
Pankaj Rishi Kumar

In the streets and countryside of India, a Bombay film director returns to his father’s old cinema to discover what cinema means to people in…

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The Last Guy to Let You Down
Rolf Gibbs

Rolf Gibbs looks beyond the black suit of a mortician to discover what sort of soul resides underneath—and the results may not be expected. Whether…

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The Laughing Club of India
Mira Nair

This film is an inspirational, good-natured look at the genesis, ideology and success of the Bombay-based Laughing Clubs, founded by Dr. Maidan Kataria. The phenomenon…

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Little Fugitive
Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

Little Fugitive is an utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. When a seven-year-old boy (Richie Andrusco) is tricked into…

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