• September 25, 2012
• At Home, Documentary

Clocking it at around an hour, the 3-D documentary is, nonetheless, impressive and surprisingly moving. The film follows actor Bill Paxton (who was in Cameron’s Titanic) as he, Cameron...

• September 23, 2012
• At Home, Documentary, Television

In this BBC series, we meet such critters as Spinosaurus, the largest dinosaur predator ever to have walked the Earth. With his spiny back and strong jaws, Spinosaurus was...

• September 23, 2012
• At Home, Documentary

American Olympic legend Jesse Owens’ rise as a young track star began in Cleveland, where his natural talents were noticed in junior high school by a white coach who...

• December 10, 2010
• At Home, Documentary

If you’ve ever seen the classic Disney films The Three Caballeros or Saludos Amigos, you undoubtedly recognize them as a marked departure from typical Disney fare.  Out of context,...

• December 2, 2010
• At Home, Documentary, Music

Filmed in March 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, the concert is hosted by David Hyde Pierce with Sondheim’s longtime collaborator Paul Gemignani...

• May 1, 2010
• At Home, Documentary

OK, I love Werner Herzog. He can literally do anything, from dramatic narrative films like Rescue Dawn with Christian Slater, to documentaries that range from quirky (Encounters at the...

• October 24, 2009
• At Home, Documentary

I’m sure we all have an idea of what it would mean to be a rock star – to work in our chosen field, make lots of money, become...

• April 29, 2009
• At Home, Documentary

America’s Hangar serves as an introduction—really a very surface introduction—to the most popular branch of the United States’ most popular museum: Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum. Clocking in...

• March 28, 2009
• At Home, Documentary

Timothy Treadwell loved bears. He loved them so much that every summer he went to live with them in the Alaskan wilderness. He spent months on end just hanging...

• March 15, 2009
• At Home, Documentary

Documentary filmmaker Nanette Burstein followed a handful of high-school seniors for their last year of school in small-town Warsaw, Indiana. With gossip, crushes, rejection, peer pressure, and bad skin,...

• March 14, 2009
• At Home, Documentary

Despite the fact that I wanted to throw my shoe at the TV the first time I tried to watch Titanic: Born In Belfast, it’s not such a bad...

• March 5, 2009
• At Home, Documentary

I enjoy a good documentary as much as the next girl, but somehow I just wasn’t feeling Air Guitar Nation. I blame myself. It’s a noisy, cheerful look into...