Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin rocketed to fame from the slums of Victorian London and spent decades as one of Hollywood’s most famous and beloved stars until his scandalous fall from grace. His stage persona and incendiary media portrayal defined how he was perceived, but his private life has always been shrouded in mystery – until now. Never-before-heard recordings, intimate home movies and newly restored classic films reveal a side to Chaplin that the world never got to see.
With a work ethic like no other and a filmography boosting over 150 films, it’s hard to doubt Samuel L. Jackson’s status as one of the most prominent figures in cinematic history.
Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce explores how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a king while his country lost her democracy and became an empire.
Features rare archival material from the personal collections of Powell, Pressburger and Scorsese.
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash‘s first wife and the mother of his four daughters.
Cast members from all “Harry Potter” films reunite in a retrospective special to celebrate the anniversary of the first film, including interviews and cast conversations.
The Ghan is an innovative three-hour documentary that takes the viewer on an immersive, visually stunning journey on Australia’s most iconic passenger train. In Australia’s first ‘Slow TV’ documentary, The Ghan doesn’t just travel through the heart of Australia, from Adelaide to Darwin, it explores the part the Ghan played in the foundation of modern multicultural Australia.
Tristan Taormino offers couples a crash course in pleasure in her latest Vivid-Ed movie The Expert Guide to Positions. The DVD demonstrates 18 different sexual positions ranging from slow and sensual to fast and frenzied. The video addresses such topics as clitoral and G-spot stimulation anal pleasure for men and women and the need to delay or intensify orgasms. Director Taormino introduces the video and provides voice-over narration for the scenes with the sex-ed instruction. Experimenting with different positions is fun for both new partners and couples who?’ve been together for a while. If you are just beginning a sexual relationship, trying out different positions is a great way to learn about each other?’s bodies and what each of you likes. For long-term partners, exploring new positions can break up your routine and add to your sexual repertoire.
The story of one of New York’s darkest secrets: An island where one million American souls are buried. Those who fell through the cracks of the American dream buried by prisoners from Rikers Island.
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero’s fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all.
