TIME ZERO: the last year of polaroid film. A documentary about the polaroid by Grant Hamilton.

Super Rich: The Greed Game

As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill.

Horizon: Space Tourists

Over 40 years ago man first went into space. Ever since ordinary people have dreamt of getting there themselves. But after several false starts, a group of space obsessed entrepreneurs believe the first commercial flights into the final frontier are only a few years away.

The Last Truck : Closing of a GM Plant

When GM announced the closing of the Moraine, Ohio assembly plant in June of 2008, Dayton area filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar set to work on a documentary about the impact of GM’s decision and the effect on the factory workers and the local community. The resulting film The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant — which aired on HBO earlier in the month — is a moving look at a group of hard working Americans. The Last Truck focuses on the people that worked at Moraine Assembly and does a good job of getting beyond blue collar Midwestern stereotypes. As the Dayton Daily News points out, the Dayton area has a automotive manufacturing history that dates back to World War I when native Charles Kettering invented the electrical ignition.

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In the uplifting and multi-award-winning documentary, filmmaker Angela Shelton drives around the United States surveying other Angela Sheltons. She discovers that 24 out of the 40 Angela Sheltons she speaks to are survivors of rape, childhood sexual abuse, and/or domestic violence (the number jumped to 28 out of 40 when 4 more Angelas broke their silence after the movie was completed).

Angela Shelton’s survey of women becomes a journey of self-discovery during which she decides to finally confront her own past and her abusive father on Father’s Day. The Angela Shelton’s complete the journey by teaching the filmmaker about healing, faith, and the power of the human spirit, no matter what your name is.

View the trailer for Searching for Angela Shelton or the full video above.

Just To Let You Know is a short documentary which takes an honest look at the life of a 26 year old chap with Down syndrome. Hayden Stephen is a charismatic, charming man with a fantastic sense of humour. This documentary offers a glimpse into his desires and goals, and leaves the viewer with a warm heart and a sometimes conflicted mind.

American Movie is a 1999 documentary about one man, Mark Borchardt, who attempts to make his low-budget short horror film Coven, against seemingly impossible odds. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, American Movie is an inspiration, comical, and uplifting tale of an average Joe from Minnesota who followed his dreams right to the indie red carpet. Experience the full journey on Youtube.

Modest Mouse “Untitled”

Shot in 1997 by indie filmmaker Rick Madsen, this 36 min documentary filmed during the recording of the Modest Mouse album “The Lonesome Crowded West” will never be released commercially. Artists interviewed for the film include Elliott Smith, Spencer Moody from The Murder City Devils, Doug Martsch of Built To Spill, Sam Coombs of Quasi and Calvin Johnson.

Code Rush, produced in 2000 and broadcast on PBS, is an inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era. The film follows a group of Netscape/Mozilla engineers as they pursue at that time a revolutionary venture to save their company - giving away the software recipe for Netscape’s browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside software developers. The copyright to the film is now available under Creative common licence vers. 3 for interested viewers to download and use. In the future the original footage from which this film was made will be accessible under the same terms.