J.G.Ballard – Shanghai Jim
Running time: 34 mins.
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Fermat’s Last Theorem
If I were to pick my favorite documentary of all time – it would be this. Mathematics, the most rational of all subjects may seem to be an unemotional topic. For this very reason, seeing the tears in Wiles’ eyes when he recounts the inspirations that enabled him to finally solve a centuries old enigma make this a dramatic piece of the most subtle kind. Simultaneously gentle and powerful.
Running time: 43 mins.
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Monsters of the Atomic age
Documentary exploring nuclear fears in the 50s and how they manifested themselves in the sci-fi movies of the time.
Running time: 34 mins.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Holocaust Documentary
A film the British Government deemed too traumatic for release after World War II – Frontline pieced it together and aired it in its unedited form.
Running time: 53 mins
How to Go Out of Your Mind – the LSD Crisis.
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With footage of Leary’s initial followers.
Running time: 54 mins.
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The French Foreign Legion
You cannot join with a French passport and you relinquish your passport when you join. A long way from Beau Geste this documentary praises the contribution of the bizarre, official French mercenary force in the other war with Iraq.
Running time: 50 mins.
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Mr Death The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr.
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Errol Morris’ complex anti holocaust revisionist film that sometimes gets accused of being the opposite.
Running time: 1 hour 31 mins.
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Soviet Animated Propaganda
Running time: 27 mins.