Research in Progress (December 24, 2021)
Documentaries That Matter (A to Z):
4 Little Girls, 1997, Spike Lee
7up, 28up, 35up, 42up, Michael Apted
26 Bathrooms, 1985, Peter Greenaway
32 Films About Glenn Gould
112 and South Central Through the Eyes of Children
A
Aileen Wuronos: Selling of a Serial Killer, 1994
America and Lewis Hine, 1985, Nina Rosenblum, Sund compete
American Dream, 1990. B. Kopple
American Pimp, 1998
Anne Frank Remembered, 1996 (Oscar)
Antonin Artaud
Architecture of Doom
Arena of Murder, The, 1996, Gitai (Israel, politics)
Arguing the World, 1997, Joseph Dorman
Art for Teachers of Children, 1995, Jennifer Montgomery
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, 1997
B
Ballot Measure 9, 1995, Heather MacDonald
Baseball
Becoming Jaques Cousteau
Berkeley in the Sixties
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, 1927
Best Boy, 1980
Beyond Barbed Wire, 1997, Steve Rosen
Big One, The, 1998, Michael Moore
Black Is…. Black Isn’t, Marlon Riggs
Blood in the Face, 1991
Boatman, 1994, Sundance
Bosna, 1994, Cannes Fest
Boxer Rebellion, 1994, Sundance
Brief History of Time, A, 1991, E. Morris
Broken Rainbow, 1985, Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd; narrated by Martin Sheen
Brother Minister, 1995,
Brother’s Keeper, 1992
Buena Vista Social Club, 1999, Wim Wenders
Burden of Dreams
C
Cancer in Two Voices, 1994
Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business, 1995, Helena Solberg
Celluloid Closet, The, 1995,
Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family, 1993
Chlorae and Albie, 1976, Joyce Chopra
Chuppa, 1994
Civil War, The
Clowns, The, 1971, Fellini
Color Straight Up, 1997
Coming Out Under Fire, 1994
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, 1989
Compassion in Exile, Sund
Complaints of Dutiful Daughters, 1995, Sund
Cousin Bobby, 1992, Demme
Cover-Up: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair
Cruise, The, 1998, Bennett Miller
Crumb, 1995, Zwigoff, Sundance
Cuba Va: Challenge
Curse of Fred Astaire, The 1982, Sundance
D
Dancemaker, 1998
Daughter Rite
A Day in October, 1992, Kenneth Madsen
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, 1988, Bill Coutrie
Decline of Western Civilization, The, I, II, III, Penelope Spheeris
Devil Never Sleeps, The, 1995, Sundance
Dialogues with Mad Women, 1994, Sund
Diaries, 1980, Ed Pincus
Ditvoorst Domains, The, 1993, Thom Hoffman
Down and Out in America, 1986
Dozens, The, 1982, Sund compete
Dreamland, 1982, Sund compete
Duke Ellington, 1992
E
Earth and the American Dream
Ecological Design
Eternity
F
Famine 33
Farm, The: Angola USA, 1998, Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau
Fast Trip, Long Drip, 1994
Fetishes, 1997, Nick Nroomfield
Fire Eyes, 1994
Fire This Time, The, 1994
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, 1997
Freedom on My Mind, 1994, Sundance
From Hollywood to Hanoi, 1993
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China, 1980 (Oscar)
G
Gap Toothed Women, 1987, Les Blank
Gay USA, 1977 (gay)
Gay Directors, Gay Films? By Emanuel Levy (Columbia University Press)
General Idi Amin Dada: Self Portrait, 1974, Barbet Schroeder
Genocide, 1981
George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey, 1985
Gerda
Get Rollin’s, 1982
Gimme Shelter, 1971
Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound, 1983, Steve Alpert
Girls at 12, 1975, Joyce Chopra
Good Fight, The, 1984
Good Woman of Bangkok, The, 1992
H
Harlan County, USA, 1977
Harlem Diaries: Nine Voices of Resilience, 1995
Hearts and Minds, 1974, Peter Davis
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, 1991, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
Heart of the Matter, 1994, Nick Broomfield
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madness, 1996
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’, 1983
Hide and Seek, 1997
High Fidelity. 1988, Allan Miller
High School, 1969, Frederick Wiseman
Hoop Dreams, 1994
Hospital, 1996, Wiseman
Hotel Terminus: Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, 1988
Hour and Times, The, 1994
Huey Long, Sundance
I
I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times, 1995
Improper Conduct, 1984, Almendros, G. Jimenez-Leal
Incident at Oglala, 1991
In Heaven There Is No Beer, 1985, Les Blank
In the Shadow of the Stars, 1991,
Intimate Strangers, 1991, Alan Berliner
It’s All True, 1994
J
John Henry Clarke, 1996
Joyce at 34, 1972
Jupiter’s Wife, 1995
K
Kaddish, 1985, Steve Brand, Sundance (prize)
Keeping Love Alive, 1988, Stephen Garrett, David Robinson
Kurt and Courtney, 1998
L
Last Days, The
Law and Order, Weisman
League of Thier Own, 1988
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, 1998
Letter to the Next Generation
Let’s Get Lost
Licensed to Kill, 1997
Life and Times of Allen Ginsburg, The, 1993, Jerry Aronson
Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, 1980, Connie Field
Life of Oskar Schindler, 1983
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones, 1990, Ellen Weissbrod, Courtney Sale Ross
Littany for Survival
Living the Last Days
Living With
Lodz Ghetto
Long Way Home, The, 1997
Looking for Richard, 1996, Al Pacino
Love in a Taxi, 1982, Sundance compete
Love Stories: Women, Men, and Romance, 1987, Richard Broadman
M
Mama Awethu, 1994, Sund compete
Manufacturing Consent, 1993
Man with the Moving Camera, The, 1929, Dziga Vertov
Marcello Mastroianni, 1997
Marlene, 1986
Martha and Ethel, 1994, Sund compete
Microcosms, 1997
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Las Madras)
A Movie
Moving the Mountains, 1995, Michael Apted
Mystique, 1982, Sund, compete
N
Nanook of the North, 1922, Flaherty
Nico-Icon
Night and Fog, 1955, Alain Resnais
Night Mail, 1936
Nitrate Kisses, Barbara Hammer (lesbian)
Not a Love Story, Bonne Klein
O
Oedipus Rex, 1993, Julie Taymor
Olympia, Parts I and II, 1938, Lenni Riefenstahl
Outrageous Taxi Stories, Joe Berliner and Bruce Smofsky
P
Panama Deception, The, 1992
Paris Is Burning, 1991, Jenni Livingstone (gay)
Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time, 1993, Susan Steinberg, Susan Lacy
Paydirt, 1982. Sund compete
People Versus Paul Crump, The, 1962, William Friedkin
Perfect Candidate, A, 1996
Pin Gods
Portrait of an American Zealot, 1982
Portrait of Jason, 1967, Shirley Clarke
Privilege, 1990
Pumpin Iron, 1976, George Butler, Robert Fiore
Punk, 1975
R
Road Scholar,
Restless Years, The, 1992
Roger and Me, 1989
S
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 1992
Secret Honor, 1985, Altman
Seeing Red, 1985, Julia Reichert and J. Klein (communism)
Seventeen, 1985, Joel De Mott, Jeff Kreines
Sherman’s March, 1986
Shoa, 1985, Claude Lantzman
Silverlake: View from Here, 1993, Sundance (AIDS)
Stop Making Sense, 1984, Demme (music)
Street Music, 1982, Sund compete
Streetwise, 1985, Martin Bell, Sund compete
T
Theremin, 1994, Sun compete
Thin Blue Line, The, 1989,
Times of Harvey Milk, The, Robert Epstein
Time Indefinite, Ross McEliver
Through the Wire, 1990, Nina Rosenblum
U
Union City, 1982, Sundance compete
Unzipped (fashion)
V
Vernon Florida, 1981
Visions of Light: Art of Cinematography, 1993 (Hollywood))
Vivement Truffaut (Stolen Kisses), 1985
Voyageur Odyssey: 1977-1989, 1990
W
War Room, The, 1994 (politics, Clinton)
Who Killed Vincent Chin? 1988, C. Choy and Rene Tajima
Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, The
