First Contact: An Alien Encounter
Drama-documentary telling the gripping story of an encounter with an alien object travelling through the solar system.
Storm Surfers 3D
This pulse-racing real-life adventure follows two of Australia’s greatest surf legends on their quest to hunt down and ride the Pacific’s biggest and most dangerous waves. With 3D cameras installed…
The Amber Light
The story of whisky has been told many times. But this film takes a different view, showing how it has been shaped by geology and climate, by tales told on…
Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
Over the Limit
Margarita Mamun, an elite Russian rhythmic gymnast, is struggling to become an Olympic champion. It is the most important year of her career and her last chance to achieve the…
Facing the Fat
Obesity has become one of the most overwhelming diseases in our modern society, even now considered to be of epidemic proportions. This documentary film dives into this sensitive, but socially…
Don’t Be Nice
A team of young black Slam Poets stake their reputations on the risk of telling hard truths as they compete for the National Championship during the racially-charged summer of 2016.
George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
Legendary comic Carlin comes back to the Beacon theater to angrily rant about airport security, germs, cigars, angels, children and parents, men, names, religion, god, advertising, Bill Jeff and minorities.
We Blew It
How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960’s and 1970’s? What do the people who lived in that…
Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years
The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company’s finest films.
Nosema
Nosema is a story of death in the guise of rebirth, of a couple before their disappearance last summer. Hürmüz and Şimuni Diril had to rebuild their homes for the…
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo is a 2008 PBS documentary film detailing Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell’s 1993 retracing of Marco Polo’s journey from Venice to Anatolia, Persia, India…
Our Genes Under Influence
Biology is undergoing a revolution that is radically changing our conception of evolution. Our genes don’t control everything: they can be influenced by fascinating mechanisms recently brought to light by…