“The Jesus Movement” began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, spreading primarily through North America and Europe before dying out by the early 1980s. It was the major Christian element within…
Martin Scorsese: ‘Italianamerican’
In 1974, master filmmaker Martin Scorsese released a documentary about his Italian-American family. The opening scenes include his father on the couch talking about delivering vests for his cousin, while his mother makes pasta sauce in the kitchen.
Lucian Freud: Painted Life
A BBC documentary about the revered painter Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, who invented psychoanalysis. Lucian Freud was born in Germany but raised in Britain. He loved horses and other animals, but is best known for his depictions of…
‘Good Ol’ Charles Shulz’: Documentary about the Creator of ‘Peanuts’ Comic Strip
A PBS American Masters documentary about Charles M. Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000), an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium and is still…
The Real Walter White
When AMC’s Breaking Bad premiered in 2008, one of Alabama’s most successful meth cooks was already knee-deep in building a massive meth empire. His name? Walter White. In this documentary, Walter tells us the secret behind his product. How he…