• Title: American Movie
• Year: 1999
• Duration: 1h 47m
• Rating: 7,9
• Genres: Comedy, Documentary

Summary American Movie (1999)

Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.

On the northwest side of Milwaukee, Mark Borchardt dreams the American dream: for him, it's making movies. Using relatives, local theater talent, slacker friends, his Mastercard, and $3,000 from his Uncle Bill, Mark strives over three years to finish "Coven," a short horror film. His own personal demons (alcohol, gambling, a dysfunctional family) plague him, but he desperately wants to overcome self-doubt and avoid failure. In moments of reflection, Mark sees his story as quintessentially American, and its the nature and nuance of his dream that this film explores.

Synopsis American Movie (1999)

• Title: Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
• Year: 2020
• Duration: 2h 10m
• Rating: 6,8
• Genres: Documentary

Summary Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today. It culminates in a discussion of "what are nude scenes like in the age of the #METOO movement" as well as a look at CGI nudity that seems a large part of motion pictures' future. The documentary will compare the use of nudity to further storylines vs. simple exploitation and discuss how nudity is used in movies today with the explosion of must-see television and its influence on the film medium.

Synopsis Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)

• Title: Idaho, the Movie
• Year: 2012
• Duration: unknown
• Rating: 7,5
• Genres: Documentary

Summary Idaho, the Movie (2012)

Idaho, the Movie is a one-hour television documentary featuring the well known and the hidden treasures of Idaho. An elemental theme carries viewers on a tour of the state's mountains, rivers, deserts, landscapes, lakes and more. Think of it as Idaho's own "Planet Earth" style program. From the Sawtooths to the Tetons, from the big lakes of North Idaho to the deserts of the South-West, from unique landscapes like Craters of the Moon and Thousand Springs to Mesa and Shoshone Falls, to the rivers large and small - Idaho the Movie shares them all.

Synopsis Idaho, the Movie (2012)

• Title: Chelovek s kino-apparatom
• Year: 1929
• Duration: 1h 8m
• Rating: 8,4
• Genres: Documentary, Music

Summary Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929)

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editing of the film is documented. We often see the cameraman who is purportedly making the film, but we rarely, if ever, see any of the footage he seems to be in the act of shooting!

Experimenting with a wide array of diverse cinematic techniques, the indefatigable director, Dziga Vertov, incorporates jump cuts; odd angles; split screens; double exposures; extreme close-ups, and a rapid-fire montage to document the interaction of the ordinary Soviet citizen with the hectic rhythm of life. Throughout the course of a single day--from dusk till dawn, and always accompanied by the rhythmic hum of the machinery--Vertov offers a grand tour of Moscow, Odessa, and Kiev at breakneck speed, describing what the main character, the unknown masses, see.

Synopsis Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929)

• Title: My Scientology Movie
• Year: 2015
• Duration: 1h 39m
• Rating: 6,7
• Genres: Documentary

Summary My Scientology Movie (2015)

Louis Theroux documents his investigation into what goes on behind the scenes of the infamous Church of Scientology.

Synopsis My Scientology Movie (2015)