Festival Year: 2000
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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›“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.”…
MORE ›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:…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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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