Documentaries : Biography

Andy's Funhouse: Andy's Funhouse," his little-seen television special, occupied the last chunk of the retrospective....

The story of G.I. Gurdjieff and his travels to achieve enlightenment and inner growth. Beginning with his childhood, the movie follows his journeys through Central Asia as he discovers new levels of spirituality through music, dance and near-encounters with death....

This film, based on the play of the same name, portrays the harsh lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the co-op movement on the Prairies....

The Real Andy Kaufman: This documentary is good on a base level. On one hand - Kaufman does his usual routines weve seen in numerous videos (mighty mouse - wrestling women - etc.) and on the other hand this doc features a GREAT interview with the REAL Andy where hes just being himself - not putting ...

This wonderful film focuses on an older woman waiting on a park bench on a cold winter day for a lover who returns every year. Directed by Francoise Sagan, author of Bonjour Tristesse....

This documentary follows Jimmy Quinlan, one of some 5000 men and women who have abandoned their jobs and families to live in the streets and alleys in Montreal. This film, a powerful portrayal of life on skid row, tells of Jimmy's "agonies," especially his attempt to get off the bottle. It's somethi...

This is a fantastic and very rare documentary film by Martin Scorsese, and one of the greatest interviews ever recorded. The subject is his friend Steven Prince, best known for his role as "Easy Andy", the traveling gun salesman in "Taxi Driver". Prince is a manic raconteur, tell...

15 Minutes with Bon Scott...

The SCF (Sectional Center Facility) machine allows specially trained postal clerks to visually can one letter per second, then strike three keys to encode the last three digits of a zip code. It's mindless work, and it's just one of the facets of postal distribution shown in this decades-old film. H...

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and i...