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Hubble
Hubble (2010)
, 43minutes
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio

Mai 2009 : La navette Atlantis, avec à son bord sept astronautes part pour une mission de réparation et de mise à niveau du télescope spatial Hubble. D'une durée de 13 jours, cette mission permet l'installation d'une caméra à grand champ (WFC-3) et d'un spectrographe des origines cosmiques (COS) ; la réparation des instruments ACS et de l'instrument STIS ; ainsi que le remplacement des batteries, gyroscopes et de l'instrument FGS. À bord de l'appareil, une caméra IMAX 3D a permis à l'équipe de filmer la mission.
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag, 49minutes
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Stratton, Charles Edwin Powell

Un film spectaculaire sur les prouesses d'un pilote de chasse américain lors des exercices extrêmes de simulation de combat aérien. Des images inédites de manoeuvres d'entraînement en formation avec le sauvetage virtuel d'un pilote.
Ghosts of the Abyss, 1h1
Directed by James Cameron
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Bill Paxton, James Cameron

Après le tournage du film Titanic qui l'avait poussé à faire plusieurs plongées sur le site de l'épave du paquebot reposant à près de 4 000 mètres de profondeur dans l'océan Atlantique, James Cameron revient sur les lieux du drame accompagné d'une équipe scientifique et de l'acteur Bill Paxton. À l'aide des submersibles Mir et de robots guidés à distance, l'équipe parvient à filmer des lieux inédits du navire, notamment certains de ses intérieurs comme sa salle de réception des premières classes.
Senna
Senna (2010)
, 1h46
Directed by Asif Kapadia
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Documentary films about sports, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about technology, Road movies
Actors Arnaldo Jabor

À partir d'images d'archives remastérisées, le film raconte le parcours d'Ayrton Senna, du karting à la Formule 1. Les intervenants ne sont qu'entendus en voix off, laissant toute la place à l'image au pilote brésilien. En F1, on suit les débuts du pilote au volant de la Toleman en 1984, jusqu'à son accident mortel du mois de mai 1994 et aux hommages nationaux qui lui seront rendus au Brésil par ses pairs et le pays tout entier.
Roger & Me
Roger & Me (1989)
, 1h31
Directed by Michael Moore
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Historical
Themes Politique, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about technology, Documentaire sur le monde du travail, Political films, Road movies
Actors Michael Moore, Ronald Reagan, Guy Williams, Pat Boone

Michael Moore begins by introducing himself and his family through 8 mm archival home movies; he describes himself as the Irish American Catholic middle-class son of a General Motors employee assembling AC spark plugs. Moore chronicles how GM had previously defined his childhood in Flint, Michigan, and how the company was the primary economic and social hub of the town. He points out that Flint is the place where the Flint Sit-Down Strike occurred, resulting in the birth of the United Auto Workers. He reveals that his heroes were the Flint natives who had escaped the oppressive life in GM's factories, including "Flint's most famous native son," game show host Bob Eubanks.
Koyaanisqatsi, 1h27
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about technology

The first image in the film is of the Great Gallery pictograph in Horseshoe Canyon (Utah), in Canyonlands National Park. The section shown depicts several tall, shadowed figures standing near a taller figure adorned with a crown. The next image is a close-up of a Saturn V rocket during its launch. The film fades into a shot of a desolate desert landscape. From there, it progresses to footage of various natural phenomena such as waves and clouds.
Catfish
Catfish (2010)
, 1h27
Directed by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about computing, Documentary films about technology
Actors Nev Schulman, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost

Young photographer Yaniv "Nev" Schulman lives with his brother Ariel in New York City. Abby Pierce, an 8-year-old child prodigy artist in rural Ishpeming, Michigan, sends Nev a painting of one of his photos. They become Facebook friends, which broadens to include Abby's family: including her mother, Angela (Wesselman); Angela's husband Vince (she uses a photo of Stephen Fogarty); and Abby's attractive older half-sister Megan, who lives in Gladstone, Michigan.
Who Killed the Electric Car?, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about technology, Road movies
Actors Tom Hanks, Martin Sheen, Mel Gibson, Ed Begley Jr., Phyllis Diller

Au début des années 2000, plusieurs modèles de voitures électriques étaient en circulation en Californie, dont l'EV1, produite par General Motors et mise en location à long terme, puis retirée du marché en 2006. Ce documentaire retrace la mort prématurée de ce véhicule et enquête sur l'importance des lobbies du pétrole dans l'état de Californie.
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, 1h19
Directed by Seth Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Sports films, Documentary films about technology, Films about video games

In Ottumwa, Iowa Walter Day founded Twin Galaxies, an organization formed to keep track of high scores achieved on arcade games. Billy Mitchell, having achieved the highest ever recorded scores on Donkey Kong and Centipede in the 1980s, remains a video game legend in 2005. Twin Galaxies has now become a global organization. Mitchell is portrayed as unabashedly cocky and fond of self-promotion, proclaiming himself the "Sauce King" of Florida for his successful line of homemade hot sauces. Next to his family, Mitchell considers his arcade scores to be his greatest life achievements.
Victory Through Air Power, 1h5
Directed by Hal Roach, H. C. Potter, Charles Monroe Schulz, Clyde Geronimi, Fred Moore, Franklin Thomas, James Algar, Perce Pearce, Jack Kinney
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary, Animation
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Children's films
Actors Art Baker

Le fait débute par un rappel historique. Il évoque les controverses liées au Général William Mitchell, pionnier de l'aviation militaire entre 1919 et 1936, année de sa mort. Il militait pour le développement d'une aviation ayant des bombardiers, mais sa hiérarchie croyait en la supériorité de la marine de guerre. En 1925, il fut même rétrogradé comme colonel.
Up the Yangtze, 1h33
Directed by Yung Chang
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about technology, Political films
Actors Yung Chang

The setting of the film is a riverboat cruise ship floating up the Yangtze river. Two young people are the focus of the film as they work aboard the ship. One is a sixteen-year-old girl from a particularly poor family living on the banks of the Yangtze near Fengdu, named "Cindy" Yu Shui. She is followed as she leaves her family to work on one of the cruise ships serving wealthy western tourists at the same time as her family is being forced from their home due to the flooding that accompanied the building of the dam. The film shows her acclimatization to the consumer economy of tourism as well as modern technology of the cruise ships, juxtaposed with her family and other older citizens who are displaced from a rural lifestyle to cities where they must pay for the vegetables they used to grow on their own.
For All Mankind, 1h20
Directed by Al Reinert
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Adventure, Historical
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Films about the Apollo program, Sur la Lune, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about technology

La Terre vue depuis l'espace à travers des images de la NASA tournées lors des missions Apollo.
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, 2h10
Directed by Alex Gibney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about computing, Politique, Documentaire sur les médias, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about technology, Political films
Actors Alex Gibney, Michael Moore

The 1989 WANK worm attack on NASA computers, originally thought to threaten the Galileo spacecraft, is depicted as the work of Australian hackers, including Assange. The founding of Wikileaks in 2006 is followed by coverage of several key events: its 2009–2010 leaks about the Icelandic financial collapse, Swiss banking tax evasion, Kenyan government corruption, toxic-waste dumping, Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning's communications with Adrian Lamo, uploads to Wikileaks of the Iraq and Afghanistan war documents, diplomatic cables, and video, exposure to the FBI by Lamo, and the accusations of sexual assault made against Assange. Interview subjects include Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Heather Brooke, James Ball, Donald Bostom, Nick Davies, Mark Davis, Jason Edwards, Timothy Douglas Webster, Michael Hayden, Adrian Lamo, J. William Leonard, Gavin MacFadyen, Smári McCarthy, Iain Overton, Kevin Poulsen and Vaughan Smith.