Are Before Stonewall and Bowling for Columbine both documentaries?
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Before Stonewall Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community is a 1984 American documentary film about the LGBT community prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots. It was narrated by author Rita Mae Brown, directed by Greta Schiller, co-directed by Robert Rosenberg, and co-produced by John Scagliotti and Rosenberg, and Schiller. It premiered at the 1984 Toronto Festival of Festivals and was released in the United States on June 27, 1985. In 1999, producer Scagliotti directed a companion piece, "After Stonewall". To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film has been selected to be shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016.
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Bowling for Columbine Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 American documentary film written, produced, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore. The film explores what Moore suggests are the primary causes for the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999, and other acts of violence with guns. Moore focuses on the background and environment in which the massacre took place and some common public opinions and assumptions about related issues. The film also looks into the nature of violence in the United States.
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Shaft (2000 film) Shaft is a 2000 American action thriller film directed by John Singleton and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa L. Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Dan Hedaya, Busta Rhymes, Toni Collette and Richard Roundtree. This film is not a remake of the 1971 film of the same name, but rather a sequel, therefore making it a fourth installment. Jackson's John Shaft character is the nephew of the original John Shaft. The film received generally positive reviews and opened at the number one position at the box office when it debuted June 16, 2000.
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God Went Surfing with the Devil God Went Surfing with the Devil is a 2010 surfing documentary directed by Alexander Klein that follows the story of a group of activists who are trying to get a shipment of 23 surfboards into the Gaza strip. The group is met with several problems, including the border of Gaza being sealed by Israel. The DVD was released in the US on May 24, 2011 and shortly thereafter was distributed on Netflix.
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Before It Had a Name Before It Had a Name is a 2005 film directed by Giada Colagrande and co-written by her and husband Willem Dafoe. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was retitled as "The Black Widow" when it was released on DVD. It marked the first time Dafoe had developed a project to the point of being shot as well as the first time Colagrande had written in English.
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Stones in Exile Stones in Exile is a 2010 documentary film about the recording of the 1972 The Rolling Stones album "Exile on Main St." Directed by Stephen Kijak, it premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. It had its worldwide premiere on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". Fallon announced on his show that he would mark the re-release of the album with a week's worth of musicians performing songs from the album. The final night of the week, he held the premiere.
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Before We Ruled the Earth Before We Ruled the Earth is a two-part documentary television miniseries that premiered on February 9, 2003 on the Discovery Channel. The program featured early human history and the challenges human beings faced thousands of years ago. It also features animals examples such as: Woolly mammoth, "Megantereon", American buffalo, cave bear, and Irish elk ("Megaloceros giganteus"). The first episode was called "Hunt or Be Hunted" and the second called "Mastering the Beasts."
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Video Rewind Video Rewind by The Rolling Stones is a compilation of video clips recorded between 1972–1984. Instead of just presenting unrelated clips and videos just strung together, it uses a framing 'story', featuring Bill Wyman and Mick Jagger, directed by Julien Temple and includes some video directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. It was first released in 1984 on the VHS, Laserdisc, and CED Videodisc format by Vestron home video.
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Mankillers Mankillers, also known as 12 Wild Women, is a 1987 film written and directed by David A. Prior.
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Drew Stone Drew Stone is an American film director, producer, film editor and musician. His works include music videos, commercials, documentary films and television.
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Gettysburg (2011 film) Gettysburg is a 2011 American Civil War television documentary film directed by Adrian Moat that was first aired on May 30, 2011 (Memorial Day) on History. This two-hour documentary film, narrated by actor Sam Rockwell, commenced a week of programming by the History channel honoring and commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War. "Gettysburg" showcases the horror of the pivotal 1863 Battle of Gettysburg by following the stories of eight men as they put their lives on the line to fight for what they believed in.
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James Dean: The First American Teenager James Dean: The First American Teenager was a 1976 American documentary film about actor James Dean featuring interviews with many of Dean's friends and co-stars.
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9-11: American Reflections 9-11: American Reflections is a 2001 documentary film. Captures the attitudes of the American public in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. It is directed by Shireen Kadivar and edited by Boris Elkis. The runtime is 50 minutes.
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Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival The Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival (also called DocuFest Atlanta, Atlanta DocuFest, and DocuFest) is a film festival that screens documentary films in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Paul Mariano's "Also Ran" was named Best Political Documentary at the 2006 festival. Don Wilson's "Mississippi Son: A Filmmaker's Journey Home" was named Best Dramatic Documentary at the 2007 festival. In 2009, Roger Nygard's "The Nature of Existence" was screened at the festival, as was Mike Ramsdell's "The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope", which won the Audience Choice Award that year. LGBT documentary film "It Doesn’t Define Us" was screened at the 2010 festival. "The Cartel", a documentary about state schools in New Jersey, won the festival's Audience Choice Award that year. At the 2012 festival, Christine Anthony's and Owen Masterson's "Grow!" won the Audience Choice Award. "Decadence: Decline of the Western World" was named that year's Best Foreign Documentary.
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Mike Wilson (filmmaker) Mike Wilson (born February 18, 1976) is a conservative American documentary filmmaker, known for the successful 2004 documentary "Michael Moore Hates America".
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Almost Famous Almost Famous is a 2000 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, and starring Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson and Patrick Fugit. It tells the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for "Rolling Stone" magazine in the early 1970s while covering the fictitious rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published. The film is semi-autobiographical, as Crowe himself was a teenage writer for "Rolling Stone".
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Gary Hawkins Gary Hawkins is an independent filmmaker born and raised in Thomasville, North Carolina. Hawkins has written and directed six films, including "The Rough South of Harry Crews", which won an Emmy and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Gold Award in 1992, and "The Rough South of Larry Brown", which was picked by The Oxford American as one of Thirteen Essential Southern Documentaries and was reviewed by Variety as a “beautifully conceived documentary film.” Hawkins’s fiction screenplay "DownTime" was selected by The Sundance Institute for the Writer’s Lab in the winter of 2000.
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Columbine High School massacre The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County in the American state of Colorado. In addition to the shootings, the complex and highly planned attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks converted to bombs placed in the cafeteria, 99 explosive devices, and carbombs. The perpetrators, senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. They injured 21 additional people, and three more were injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair subsequently committed suicide.
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Matthew Heineman Matthew Heineman is an American filmmaker. He is best known for both directing and producing the documentary films "City of Ghosts" (2017), "Cartel Land" (2015), and "" (2012). He has been nominated for various awards, including an Academy and several Emmy awards.
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Bill W. (film) Bill W. is an 2012 American biographical film directed by Dan Carracino and Kevin Hanlon, about William Griffith Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the first feature length documentary on Wilson.
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50 Documentaries to See Before You Die 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die is a 2011 five-episode television series presented by Morgan Spurlock on the Current TV television network featuring what editors regard as the fifty of the most influential and/or important documentary films from the past 25 years.
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Robert Stone (director) Robert Stone is a British-American documentary filmmaker. His work has been screened at dozens of film festivals and televised around the world, notably seven of his films have appeared on PBS's "American Experience" series and four of his films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (including Closing Night Film in 2009).