Documentaries : Classic

Before there was sunscreen, high-tech wet suits, and corporate-sponsored surfing competitions, there was Bruce Brown, the original beach bum and the director of the greatest surf movie ever made, The Endless Summer. This 1966 documentary spurred a generation of surfers to devote their lives to surfi...

Cats The Musical: Major video release of the most famous stage musical of all time based on fourteen poems from "Old Possums Book of Practical Cats" by T.S. Eliot. Shot on Super-16 film over the course of a month at Londons famed Adelphi Theater the show was completely re-lit from scratch and was re...

Every summer, thousands of people descend upon a place tucked in the cornfields of the Midwest to witness the Ultimate Beauty Pageant. A probing and satirical, behind-the-scenes look at this bizarre event, the contestants who enter, the spectators who attend, the entrepreneur behind it, and the town...

After a quick tour of San Francisco, Russ takes us on a nonstop tour of breasts in motion. Prominent strippers strut their stuff as they discuss their careers, bra sizes, and preferences in men....

Frederick Wiseman made his documentary debut with this controversial 84-minute survey of conditions that existed during the mid-'60s at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Made in 1967, the film was subjected to a worldwide ban until 1992 because the Massachuset...

Gorgeous swimwear models chronicle the evolution of the bathing suit to swimsuit from Garden of Eden to present day, ... a metaphor for the struggle for womens' equality. Created by Neal Marshad, an Emmy award winning director, producer, and cinematographer who produced films for NBC Saturday Night ...

A husband laughs at women's magazines that offer tips to help 'old maids' preserve their looks, but when he nods off, he realizes in his dream that his own wife has been availing herself of these artificial beauty aids and is in fact far older than she appears. He demands that she remove them all, t...

This collection of supposedly authentic footage of murder and mayhem has the appeal of a traffic accident .depicting shark attacks, (real) animal slaughter, executions et. al. While the various sequences are stitched together as loosely as Frankenstein's monster, the real incentive for viewing comes...

A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross, a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while dying. There are faked scenes of people getting killed intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an Arab country) and the electric chai...

This instructional film teaches parents how to talk to their children about sex. While this film s producers should be applauded for their sensible approach in teaching parents how to talk to kids about sex, the awkward reading of cue cards and embarrassing situations will p...