The Real Bronson


Dubbed ‘the most violent prisoner in Britain’, Charles Bronson was arrested for robbery in 1974 and has spent just four months and nine days out of jail since. The Real Bronson explores the life, psyche and crimes of the man who has become infamous for his behaviour in jail, fighting fellow convicts, guards and prison teachers - actions he claims he is not ashamed of. We talk to the actors who played Bronson in the reconstruction, whose personal relationships with “Charlie” gave us a fascinating insight into the man behind the headlines - a man they consider to be a friend.

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Russell Means: Welcome To The Reservation


The United States is one big reservation, and we are all in it. So says Russell Means, legendary actor, political activist and leader for the American Indian Movement. Means led the 1972 seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., and in 1973 led a standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, a response to the massacre of at least 150 Lakotah men, women, and children by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry at a camp near Wounded Knee Creek. American Indian Russell Means gives an eye-opening 90 minute interview in which he explains how Native Americans and Americans in general are all imprisoned within one huge reservation. Means is a leader for the Republic of Lakotah, a movement that has declared its independence from the United States and refused to recognize the authority of presidents or governments, withdrawing from treaties it made with the federal government and defining its borders which cover thousands of square miles in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana. Means explains how American Indians have been enslaved within de facto prisoner of war camps as a result of the federal government’s restriction of their food supply and the application of colonial tactics, a process that has now also been inflicted on the United States as a whole which has turned into, “one huge Indian reservation,” according to Means. Means warns that Americans have lost the ability of critical though, and with each successive generation become more irresponsible and as a consequence less free, disregarding a near-perfect document, the Constitution, which was derived from Indian law. Means chronicles the loss of freedom from the 1840’s onwards, which marked the birth of the corporation, to Lincoln’s declaration of martial law, to the latter part of the 19th century and into the 20th when Congress “started giving banks the right to rule,” and private banking interests began printing the money.

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Inside The Actors Studio - The Cast and Creator of Mad Men

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The Legacy of William Cooper - The Hour of Our Time

The definitive documentary on the life and death of Milton William Cooper. Surrounding us in our day to day lives are mysteries, that to spend our days pondering would paralyze us from leading productive lives. So we turn away from these thoughts in order to see out as trouble free an existence as we can. Then there are those who have made it their business to explore and expose these mysteries : to remind us of what we already know on some deep subconscious level, that things are rarely what they seem on the surface. Bill Cooper was such a man.

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Tom Waits: Under Review




The most enlightening, revealing and downright entertaining Tom Waits documentary yet to emerge. Features include: Tom Waits performances re-assessed by a panel of esteemed experts, rare interviews, and seldom seen footage and unusual photographs from the period. Also review, comment and criticism from many different experts and acquaintances.

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Tales of the Rat Fink


From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes TALES OF THE RAT FINK, Ron Mann’s wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-20th century culture with his customized cars, “monster” T-shirts and America’s alternative rodent, Rat Fink.

Ed Roth was a giant as an artist as well as a behemoth as a man. He and his fellow Kar Kustomizers worked in the only uniquely American art medium, the automobile. He never thought of his creations simply as shells of molded sheet metal or fiberglass. He always wanted you to see the engine, too, because the Only American Art Form is not an object. It’s a kineticism. Its materials are speed, momentum, excitement, and freedom, which is to say, the American Zeitgeist, except that we don’t say Zeitgeist. We say, the spirit of the American age.

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DOIN’ IT BAJA PART 1


Doin’ It Baja chronicles the 2200 mile motorcycle trip taken by Arto Saari, Heath Kirchart, Keegan Sauder, and Patrick O’Dell from San Diego to the tip of Baja California, Mexico. They were joined by friends Harvey Foster, Kynan Tait, and Hime Hu, and lead by the indomitable Bill Bryant.

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Stanley Kubricks boxes (2008)


A few years after his death, the widow of Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) asks Jon Ronson to look through the contents of about 1,000 boxes of meticulously sorted materials Kubrick left. Ronson finds that most contain materials reflecting work Kubrick did after the release of “Barry Lindon ” in 1975, when Kubrick’s film output slowed down. Ronson finds audition tapes for “Full Metal Jacket,” photographs to find the right hat for “Clockwork Orange” or the right doorway for “Eyes Wide Shut” — thousands of details that went into Kubrick’s meticulous approach. Ransom believes that the boxes show “the rhythm of genius.” Interviews with family, staff, and friends are included.

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Johnny Cash: The Last Great American


BBC Documentary profiling the life of legendary country music star Johnny Cash, who died in 2003 shortly after completing the retrospective Unearthed, a five-CD set of the acoustic performances with which he resurrected his career in the last decade of his life, and after losing his wife, June Carter Cash. This first major retrospective of Cash’s life, times and music features contributions from his daughter Rosanne Cash and son John Carter Cash, his longtime manager Lou Robin and fellow musicians including Little Richard, Cowboy Jack Clement, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Elvis Costello. Cash was the son of a poor sharecropper from Kingsland, Arkansas, who sang folk, spiritual and country songs to himself while picking cotton in the fields. In the 50s he signed to Sam Phillips’ Sun Records, scored his first hits and was part of the ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. In the 60s, he created his famous ‘Man in Black’ persona, and became a huge country star with hits like Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line and A Boy Named Sue, while torn between drug dependency, hellraising and a powerful spirituality. Cash had long since established himself as a man of the people with his prison concerts beginning with an incendiary performance at San Quentin in 1958. He ended the decade by finally marrying June Carter - a member of hugely influential US country dynasty the Carter Family - launching his own national TV series from Nashville, befriending the Native American movement and opposing the war in Vietnam while playing concerts for the soldiers in the field. After tough times in the 80s, Cash reignited his career with a new young audience in the 90s when he recorded with rap-rock producer Rick Rubin.

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Tattoo Age - FREDDY CORBIN


episode 1

In the first installment of the Freddy Corbin series, we get familiar with Freddy’s tattoos and see his two Oakland tattoo parlors, Temple and Tattoo 13. Freddy’s style is explained by his right hand man and fellow tattooer, Jason Mcafee. We also get a chance to speak with another Oakland legend, pro skater and chopper guy, Max Schaaf, about understanding Mr. Corbin’s coolness.

episode 2

Freddy Corbin has a long history in tattooing. Having worked with people like Dan Higgs and Ed Hardy when he was younger, Freddy has done some important work throughout his career. This episode has great archival footage from some early ’90s tattoo documentaries, courtesy of Michael O. Stearns.

episode 3

In what may be the most personal of all the Tattoo Age episodes, Freddy talks about his family, the birth of his son, and what it took to get him off drugs.

episode 4

Freddy opens up about an epic trip to India to tattoo the people of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges River.



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Vice Guide To The Balkans


While most of us were still hung up on grunge, the republics of the former Yugoslavia spent the early 90s hung up on seceding into their own countries and mass-murdering people over infinitesimal ethnic differences. And the mid 90s. And the late 90s. To commemorate 12 years without a major attempted genocide, we decided to rent a Yugo and take a road trip through the Balkans to see what’s going on and try to wrap our thinkers around what was up with all that ethnic cleansin’.

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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues - The Road to Memphis




Director Richard Pearce traces the musical odessy of blues legend BB King in a film that pays tribute to the city that gave birth to a new style of blues. Pearce’s homage to Memphis features original performances by BB King, Bobby Rush, Rosco Gordon and Ike Turner, as well as historical footage of Howlin’ Wolf and Rufus Thomas.

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Very Young Girls (2007)


Very Young Girls, whose title reflects the fact that in the United States the average age of entry into prostitution is just thirteen. The film takes us into the work of a former sexually exploited youth-turned-activist named Rachel Lloyd, who started the New York City organization GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services) to help victimized young women escape their pimps and find another way of life. We meet teen aged girls at different stages of this transition. Some have been so psychologically manipulated by their pimps that they feel compelled to return. Others have successfully broken with their pasts. As we come to know these girls better, they emerge as well-rounded individuals full of unexpected laughter and insight. One chilling element the film uncovers is a videotape - confiscated by police - of two pimps recording their activities with the intent of making a reality television show…

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John Lee Hooker - That’s My Story


“The world’s greatest blues singer”? That’s arguable, but there’s no doubt that the late John Lee Hooker (1917-2001) was in a class by himself, a genuine original whose music—raw, primitively simple, scary even, powered by his deep moan of a voice—was the very embodiment of the Delta blues style. Big names like Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, and many more line up to pay tribute to the man in this absorbing 90-minute documentary; there are also plenty of interviews with family, friends, business associates, and the grizzled, laconic bluesman himself, along with some decent performance footage (as is usual in such projects, we get no complete songs). But this 2000 film’s best moments come courtesy of writer-director Joerg Bundschuh’s beautifully photographed contemporary footage, with no accompaniment except the hypnotic groove and profound soul of John Lee Hooker’s music. A teenage runaway who never went to school, John Lee Hooker had trouble spelling his name, even into his eighties. But, despite these humble beginnings, John Lee Hooker is today considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century—the God

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