Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

Being in the World

Music & Dance · Documentary

Being in the World takes us on a journey around the world to meet philosophers influenced by the thought of Martin Heidegger, as well as experts in the fields of sports, music, craft, and cooking, in a celebration of human beings, and our ability to find meaning in life through the mastery of physic…

Cut-Up: The Films of Grant Munro

Short Films · Animation · Documentary

CUT-UP: THE FILMS OF GRANT MUNRO features a cavalcade of animated classics, live-action films and unreleased archives from the director known for his talent and all-out goofiness for over fifty years.

Daytime Revolution

Music · Documentary · Music Documentaries

Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five …

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

Comedy · Documentary

Science saved brainiac comedian Emily Levine and Emily uses science – and jokes! – to save the world.

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Film Documentaries · Documentary

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, this film captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish li…

Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action

Buddhism · Documentary · Spirituality

Capturing the excitement of Spiritual Activism that is catalyzing the planet, FIERCE LIGHT illuminates the connection between spirituality and social change. Luminaries such as Alice Walker, John Lewis and Noah Levine share how their faith is a catalyst for political action.

Filmworker

Cannes Film Festival · Film Documentaries · Documentary

After starring as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, Leon Vitali gave up his acting career to toil in obscurity as Stanley Kubrick’s devoted aide-de-camp. This candid, often funny, and sometimes shocking documentary offers a singular perspective on a creative genius.

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Art Documentaries · Film Documentaries · Documentary

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several…

The Giant Woman and the Lightning Man

History · Documentary · Art

Philip Haas’s eye-popping film covering Australian Aboriginal artwork takes viewers through the stunning, painstaking step-by-step processes of preparing paintings by desert tribesmen.

Great Directors

Art Documentaries · Documentary

Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary GREAT DIRECTORS. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Say…

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (Kino Cult #50)

Film Documentaries · Cult · Documentary

This unique documentary recounts the history of the shock-value driver's education films that haunted American teens. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, these grisly movies used unflinching color footage of fatal accidents to scare young drivers.

Let There Be Light

War · Documentary

Labeled too disturbing and controversial for its time, John Huston's legendary film about the effects of war and post-traumatic stress returns with fully restored sound and visual quality.

The Magic Box: The Films of Shirley Clarke

Drama · Experimental · Documentary

This three-disc set collects the vast array of Shirley Clarke's astonishing short, dance, and avant-garde films along with her Oscar®-winning documentary Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

Documentary

In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old. Reflecting on her life in her primary language of American Sign Language, Marlee explores the complexities of what it means to be a trailblazer.

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

Animation · Biography · Documentary

John Canemaker’s Academy Award®-winning animated documentary enlists actors Eli Wallach (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and John Turturro (Barton Fink) to explore a difficult father/son relationship.

The Olive Thomas Collection

Comedy · Biography · Documentary

Beautiful, talented and charismatic, Olive Thomas reigned as a Hollywood star briefly but magically… and her untimely death was mourned worldwide. Also features her charming comedy, The Flapper

On Broadway

Performing Arts · Performance · Documentary

For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! It takes us behind the scenes of Broadway’s most groundbreaking shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton, and is packed with interviews and performances by legendary stars like Helen Mirren, Chr…

On Meditation

Meditation · Culture · Biography

ON MEDITATION explores the deeply personal practice of meditation through an exploration of extraordinary people and their practices including David Lynch, Giancarlo Esposito, Russell Simmons, Congressman Tim Ryan, Peter Matthiessen, Mark Epstein and others.

Playing Frisbee in North Korea

Documentary

Calling North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, fat can get you killed in North Korea. Any other complaints about daily life there gets North Koreans incarcerated in brutal work camps. What harm could come from playing Frisbee? A look at the daily life and humanity of the North Korean people.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Documentary · Music Documentaries · RT Certified Fresh

The incredible story of how jazz music and soft power were used on both fronts of America's ideological battles during the Cold War - including in the Congo. An epic, original and supremely stylish trip through the 20th century from an original angle.

Strand: Under The Dark Cloth (plus Manhatta)

Art Documentaries · Photography · Fine Art

Beautifully crafted, thoroughly researched and illustrated with some of the photographer's most famous images, this documentary sheds light on noteworthy photographer Paul Strand.

The Troubles We've Seen

History · War · Documentary

One of the most important films of director Marcel Ophüls' career, THE TROUBLES WE'VE SEEN explores the ethical challenges of war commentary, interlacing footage of 1993 Sarajevo with caustic references to Hollywood depictions of war.

Winter Soldier

History · War · Documentary

Winter Soldier is a documentary chronicle of an extraordinary investigation conducted by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in 1971, when vets from all branches of the US military came from across the country to speak out about the atrocities they had committed and witnessed while stationed in …

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Documentary · Art

This tender portrait of industrial music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge and their partner, erstwhile dominatrix Lady Jaye, was filmed over the course of seven years and completed following Lady Jaye’s sudden death in 2007.