Documentary Movies 2017 List

With Bill Ross IV • Turner Ross

In the summer of 2015, legendary musician David Byrne staged an event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to celebrate the art of Color Guard: synchronized dance routines involving flags, rifles, and sabers.

With Tom Cruise • Paz De La Huerta • John Dower • Rob Alter • Louis Theroux

Inspired by the Church’s use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organization, Louis Theroux uses actors to replay some incidents people claim they experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about Louis Theroux. Suffused with a good dose of humor and moments worthy of a Hollywood script, My Scientology Movie is stranger than fiction.

With Stage Door Johnnies • Zora Von Pavonine • Babs Jamboree • Jon Manning • Angelique DeVil • Sandria Dore’ • Isaiah Esquire • Violet Ohmigod • Russell Bruner • Ivizia Dakini

A documentary feature about the passion and personalities at the heart of today’s new wave of burlesque. On stage and in candid conversation, twelve of today’s hottest performers reveal the naked truth about an exotic world where artifice is a route to authenticity and pretending to be someone else is the ultimate journey to become yourself. These burlesquers put it all on the line in performances that are sexy, funny, elegant and outrageous – and they bare more than just their bodies as they discuss their artistic vision, their financial struggles, the misconceptions that infuriate them and the community that sustains them.

With Margy Kinmonth

A documentary that encapsulates a momentous period in the history of Russia and the Russian Avant-Garde.

With Charlie Siskel

A documentary about The Anarchist Cookbook creator William Powell.