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80 Blocks from Tiffany's (1979)
Documentary • Gary Weis
Depicts the daily life of gangs within the context of the South Bronx. Deals primarily with two African American and Puerto Rican gangs known as the "Savage Skulls" and the "Savage Nomads".
#1970s #gang leader #gang member #bronx #new york city #street life #ghetto #block party #prostitution #prostitute
Divorce Iranian Style (1998)
Documentary • Ziba Mir-Hosseini
A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran's tribunals.
#divorce #f rated #courtroom #iranian #1990s #female director #women make films #iran
Ultramegalopolis (1995)
Documentary • Larry Wessel
A two and a half hour Hell-Ride through the vast continuously urban sprawl known as Los Angeles. Explore the War-Zone from within it's riot-torn, graffiti-covered walls. Listen in horror to the terrifying true stories of Charles Manson's cell mate. Visit the McMartin Preschool, subject of the lon...
#reference to charles manson #graffiti art #los angeles #california #street art #graffiti #social documentary #1990s
Stripped (2001)
Documentary • Jill Morley
Nonfiction filmmaker Jill Morley documents her exploration of the exotic dancer (stripper) experience. Through tactfully selected and edited sequences, you get an insider's view into the job itself, how clubs chauffeur dancers, protect them, what's required of them, how much money they can make, ...
#female nudity #single mother #strip club #self esteem #degradation #empowerment #dancing #stripping #interview #stripper
Straight for the Money: Interviews with Queer Sex Workers (1994)
Documentary • Hima B
A Documentary offering a unique perspective on sex work from the lesbian point of view. Through interviews, erotica, and archival footage the videomaker explores the lives of lesbian strippers, prostitutes and exotic dancers, including author and activist Annie Sprinkle. The women share their per...
#lgbtq+ #lesbianism #lesbians #prostitutes #stripper #stripping #strip club
Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story (2004)
Documentary • Jeffrey Chapman
On Easter Eve, 1991, 75-year-old Florence Holway was brutally attacked, beaten and raped in her small rural New England home. Barely surviving the attack, she vowed that she would do everything in her power to see that her 25 year old attacker, John LaForest, who had a past criminal record no les...
#new england #criminal #violence #victim's rights #small town #senior citizen #rape #interview #2000s
Out of State (2017)
Documentary • Ciara Lacy
OUT OF STATE is the story of outcasts, of native Hawaiian prisoners shipped 3,000 miles across the ocean to a for-profit prison in the desert of Arizona. In this unlikely setting, these men discover their fierce indigenous dances, inspiring two students to fight to turn their lives around upon re...
#prison #hawaii #dance #arizona #desert #culture #native hawaiian #women make films #female director
A Dog's Life (1962)
Mondo • Gualtiero Jacopetti
A "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence.
#actual animal killed #controversial #roasted dog #eating insect #exploitation #cult film #male nudity #female nudity #nudity #reference to rudolph valentino
Manson (1973)
Documentary • Robert Hendrickson
Documentary on Charles Manson and his family. Has a number of insightful interviews with many family members most notably Squeaky and Sandy (Blue and Red). There is also a history of Manson from his birth to the family formation to the Tate/La Bianca murders. Plenty of footage of the family playi...
#interview #manson family #cult leader #racism #hippies #independent film #apocalypse #character name in title #commune #multiple murders
Kamikaze Hearts (1986)
Drama • Juliet Bashore
Tough and cynical veteran Mitch and her more naive, yet eager partner Tigr are a couple of porn actresses involved in an intense lesbian relationship. Their already strained relationship reaches the breaking point as substance abuse and the pressure of working in the sex industry begins to take a...
#sex #lesbian #docudrama #san francisco #porn industry #drug addiction #independent film #lesbian relationship #couple #f rated
Junk Films (2008)
Shockumentary • Kiyotaka Tsurisaki
A collection of short documentaries pondering about the meaning of life and death by the use of shocking images.
#real deaths #orozco productions #2000s
Cruel and Unusual (2006)
Documentary • Janet Baus
Five transgender women share their prison experiences. Interviews with attorneys, doctors, and other experts are also included.
#gender reassignment surgery #transgender woman #prison #inmates #transgender #doctor #attorney #hormones #repeat offender #reunion
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