VIDEO Crispin Glover: "What it is and how it is done"
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Here's a bit from Glover's traveling slideshow and film tour. The quality isn't great, but you're unlikely to see it anywhere else; Glover keeps up the vaudeville tradition by doing his best to make s...
VIDEO Marx Reloaded
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"Marx Reloaded" is a documentary that uses the eminent German philosopher's ideas to try to make sense of the current global financial crisis. It also features everyone's (or at least my) favorite con...
VIDEO Wim Wenders' "Room 666" - Fassbinder + Herzog‬‏ section
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During Cannes 1982, Wim Wenders left a camera in a hotel room and invited directors to go in there alone and answer some questions about film. This includes the German greats, RW Fassbinder and Werner...
VIDEO ROXY MUSIC / BRYAN FERRY Documentary
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Cool documentary on pioneering experimental pop rock band Roxy Music, includes rare footage and talks about how cool they are.
VIDEO The Greateful Dead Heals Patients
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Dr. Oliver sacks is a famed neurologist and innovator of music therapy who doesn't listen to rock 'n' roll, and he is persuaded to attend a Grateful Dead concert. It must of been the band's hippie sou...
VIDEO Sly Stone: Funk Legend
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This is a preview for a documentary about the psychedelic funk master who loved good drugs and good music.
VIDEO ‪Lon Chaney: 1,000 Faces (9/9)‬‏
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"The Man of 1,000 Faces", Lon Chaney. A great in-depth documentary about the fascinating and inspirting actor. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Final part of a feature length documentary.
VIDEO Lon Chaney: 1,000 Faces (6/9)‬‏
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"The Man of 1,000 Faces", Lon Chaney. A great in-depth documentary about the fascinating and inspirting actor. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Part six of a feature length documentary.
VIDEO Lon Chaney: 1,000 Faces (3/9)‬‏
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"The Man of 1,000 Faces", Lon Chaney. A great in-depth documentary about the fascinating and inspirting actor. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Part three of a feature length documentary.
VIDEO Stetson Kennedy and Ramblin' Jack Reunion
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Kennedy, the great activist and "Klan buster," meets his old friend, Ramblin' Jack, and asks him to play "Hard Travelin'" (the Woody Guthrie song), so he can "rest in peace." Kennedy died on August 27...
VIDEO New York Cosmos: a Glimpse at their History
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The Cosmos were a superstar soccer team formed in 1975 that garnered a lot of attention in the U.S., as well as the rest of the world. They've recently re-formed, with the legendary Pele as club presi...
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train‬‏
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A short little biopic about one of the most famous folk singer/songwriters of all time. A great little interview as well.
VIDEO Sun Ra - A Joyful Noise
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Sun Ra is one crazy mofo, and this hour long documentary is anything but "normal." He was an eccentric jazz musician who earnestly believed that he traveled to Saturn, and perhaps his "trip to Saturn"...
VIDEO Interview with Alan Parsons
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This is an in-depth, half hour interview with famed audio-engineer Alan Parsons who discusses his start on Abbey Road Studios to his work on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."
VIDEO ‪Lon Chaney: 1,000 Faces (8/9)‬‏
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"The Man of 1,000 Faces", Lon Chaney. A great in-depth documentary about the fascinating and inspirting actor. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Part eight of a feature length documentary.
VIDEO ‪Lon Chaney: 1,000 Faces (5/9)‬‏
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"The Man of 1,000 Faces", Lon Chaney. A great in-depth documentary about the fascinating and inspirting actor. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Part five of a feature length documentary.
VIDEO Lon Chaney: 1,000 Faces (2/9)‬‏
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"The Man of 1,000 Faces", Lon Chaney. A great in-depth documentary about the fascinating and inspirting actor. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Part two of a feature length documentary.
VIDEO Jim Hightower on the Mondragon Cooperative
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Here's an informative video in which Hightower draws the lineage from the 19the century Populist movement in the U.S. to the Spanish Mondragon Cooperative and similar coops existing in the U.S. now.
VIDEO ‪Brian Eno - Imaginary Landscapes
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An excerpt from a documentary on Brian Eno, pretty much the forward thinker of art and music of the past 30 years or so...
VIDEO John Cassavetes 1969
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This is a portion of a look into the life and work of John Cassavetes in 1969. The father of the independent film! This clip really shows how he worked, his philosophy and the trials and tribulation...
VIDEO Patti Smith
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This is a sort of "video journal" of Patti Smith that was shot over 11 years. We see the "godmother of punk"stripped down and bare without fancy editing, which creates an entirely intimate portrait of...
VIDEO Thelonious Monk Documentary
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There wouldn't be bebop without Thelonious Monk. This hour and a half documentary shows you rare footage of intimate interviews and behind the stage antics of one of Jazz's most esteemed musicians.
VIDEO Lon Chaney: 1,000 Faces (7/9)‬‏
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"The Man of 1,000 Faces", Lon Chaney. A great in-depth documentary about the fascinating and inspirting actor. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Part seven of a feature length documentary.
VIDEO ‪Lon Chaney: 1,000 Faces (4/9)‬‏
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"The Man of 1,000 Faces", Lon Chaney. A great in-depth documentary about the fascinating and inspirting actor. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Part four of a feature length documentary.
VIDEO ‪Lon Chaney: 1,000 Faces (1/9)‬‏
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"The Man of 1,000 Faces", Lon Chaney. A great in-depth documentary about the fascinating and inspirting actor. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. Part one of a feature length documentary.
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