Documentary Movies 2011 List

With Lise Lense-Møller • Michael Madsen • Jesper Bergmann

Every day, nuclear power plants place large amounts of high-level radioactive waste in interim storage that is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and societal changes. In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository is hewn out of solid rock. It is a huge system of underground tunnels that must last 100,000 years.

With Jon M. Chu • Jane Lipsitz • Justin Bieber • Scooter Braun • Usher • L.A. Reid • Dan Cutforth

Justin Bieber will play himself in his life story. The pic will be sprinkled with performances from his current concert tour.

With Peter Byck

An optimistic, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national and energy security and promotes health and a clean environment.

With Craig Teper

The documentary traces the life of a self-made man whose passion and perseverance took him from a Jewish orphanage in London to the absolute pinnacle of hairdressing.

With Mercedes Álvarez • Arturo Redin

Mercedes Alvarez was three years old when her parents left La Aldea, a village in the barren Northern Spanish Soria region. She was the last child born in La Aldea. Now, only fourteen people live there. Soon this village, like so many other rural communities all over the world, will be deserted. Alvarez returns for the first time to her ancestral home and makes a film about memory and the terrifying passing of time.

With Jeremy Irons • Dereck Joubert

Dereck and Beverly Joubert examine the dramatic decline in the number of lions in Africa and the moral duty to protect them.

With Tom Shadyac

A first person documentary of Tom Shadyac (helmer of bigscreen comedies including "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Bruce Almighty") on his unusual journey of self-discovery. Film includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Desmond Tutu, among others.

With Martin Scorsese • Graydon Carter • Fran Lebowitz

Features Fran Lebowitz expressing insights on social issues in an onstage discussion with longtime friend Toni Morrison, and on the streets of New York.

With Jon M. Chu • Jane Lipsitz • Justin Bieber • Scooter Braun • Usher • L.A. Reid • Dan Cutforth

Justin Bieber will play himself in his life story. The pic will be sprinkled with performances from his current concert tour.