Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia
With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a…
The Reagans
A four-part documentary series that explores the many surprisingly unexamined aspects of the Reagan White House, and how Nancy Reagan’s paper-doll image was at odds with the power she ultimately…
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
The history of the East Lake Meadows public housing project in Atlanta and the people who lived there from 1970 to its demolition in 2000, with special emphasis on the…
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the…
The Arrow of Time
President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
Documentary looking at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This ‘Amazon of illegal drugs’ was the brainchild of a mysterious,…
The Billboard Boys
A documentary that tells the true story of three men who lived on a billboard for nearly nine months to win a modular home.
41
An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.
An Inconvenient Truth
A documentary on Al Gore’s campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
43/84 1984
Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture, but the viewfinder did not match the lens entirely…
The Last Outpost
B-29 Flight Engineer
This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a flight engineer on the B-29 bomber. Lieutenant Anderson is normally the co-pilot of this B-29, but…
Beyond the Line of Duty
Narrated by Ronald Reagan, this Warner Brothers short in support of the war effort focuses on the exploits of Army Air Corps Captain Hewett T. Wheless and his exploits just…