Richard Pryor: The Funniest Man Dead Or Alive is a 2005 television documentary film aired by the television network BET on the life and influence of Richard Pryor. The thirty-minute special featured commentary from a wide range of actors, comedians, musicians, politicians, and Pryor's own family members. It aired just nine days after his death.
Dans ce film en noir et blanc, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre illustre sa première grossesse et la naissance difficile de son premier enfant. Elle y détaille les conditions dans lesquelles sa fille est née, notamment soins qu'elle et sa fille ont reçu à l'hôpital, l'attitude du personnel et les suites du dépôt de sa plainte contre l'hôpital où elle a accouché.
, 1h59 Directed byShari Robertson, Michael Camerini OriginUSA GenresDocumentary ThemesFilms about immigration, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité Rating73% On average, only one in two hundred asylum applicants is ever admitted as a refugee to the U.S. A refugee is defined as someone afraid to return home for fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion. Any foreign citizen who is able to find a path into the U.S. is eligible to apply for refugee protection in the form of political asylum. At the time of filming, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) handled all requests for asylum.
, 1h22 OriginUSA GenresDocumentary ThemesFilms about children, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities Rating74% Using donated digital tapes and a camera purchased with money earned from an eBay sale, indie filmmaker Duane Graves chronicles a year in the life of his charismatic childhood chum, Rene Moreno, who was born with Down Syndrome. After graduating from a high school for special students in San Antonio, TX, Moreno sets out to make his way in the adult world, optimistically battling the prejudices his condition engenders.
Directed byJacques Godbout OriginCanada GenresDocumentary ThemesPolitique, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Documentary films about Quebec politics ActorsJacques Godbout Rating67% It analyzes the place of Quebec Premier Adélard Godbout in history. Godbout is not well-considered by Quebec historians and citizens. Adérald Godbout was the Second World War–era Quebec head of government, and the great-uncle of the director. Godbout advances some theories to explain why his great-uncle was forgotten in the collective memory of the Quebecers. One theory is that Adélard Godbout was more favourable than other political leaders to conscription. Quebec nationalists, at the time, opposed conscription, which they saw as a British imperialist manoeuvre of English Canada to defend the Empire.
Stranger with a Camera explores the conditions that fueled the murder of Canadian filmmaker Hugh O’Connor as well as the implications his death has for filmmakers.