241. David Lynch - The Art Life
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Actors: David Lynch
Plot: One of the most notable and unique visionaries in film, David Lynch takes us on a journey of his formative years that shaped him - his idyllic small-town upbringing to the dark streets of Philadelphia. Infused with the early work of Lynch - art, music and film, The Art of Life delves in to the mind of this enigmatic man and gives us a better understanding of the man and the artist.
242. Tea with the Dames
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roger Michell
Actors: Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Michael Williams
Plot: Four powerhouse actresses, and certified Dames as honored by the Queen: join Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Eileen Atkins as they sit down for tea and discuss their lives and careers.
243. Down from the Mountain
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Actors: Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Nathan Best, John Hartford, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley
244. Strictly Background
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jason Connell
Actors: Terry Bolo, Geoffrey Gould, Cecilia Hartfeld, Louis McCarten, Marvin Rouillard, Mark Nobel
Plot: Strictly Background takes a celebratory look at those who make their living as background actors.
245. Human Flow
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ai Weiwei
Actors: Peter Bouckaert, Wella Kouyou, Samah Nabeel, Muhammed Hassan, Israa Abboud, Boris Cheshirkov
Plot: Director and artist Ai Weiwei presents a story that has affected 65 million people around the world: whether through famine, climate change or war, the human race has never experienced this much displacement since WWII. Following families across the globe over the course of a year, from Afghanistan to Greece, Iraq to Mexico - 23 countries in all, Ai Weiwei explores the affect this has on people and families in a refugee crisis that has exploded and the very real impact it has worldwide.
246. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Jessica Joy Wise
Actors: Alice Cooper, Ronnie James Dio, Geddy Lee, Lemmy, Tom Morello, Rob Zombie
247. Project Nim
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Marsh
Actors: Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard
Plot: In the 1970s a couple take a chimp from birth and attempt to raise it as a human child - Nim is an experiment to see if the human experience can trump animal nature, and the result is both wondrous and unsettling.
248. One Day in September
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Actors: Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey, Gerald Seymour, Axel Springer, Gad Zahari
249. Murderball
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Actors: Joe Bishop, Mark Zupan, Kevin Orr, Andy Cohn, Bob Lujano, Scott Hogsett
Plot: Documentary that follows a group of paraplegics participating in full-contact rugby in wheelchairs reminiscent of gladiatorial combat - and how they deal with personal life, competition and challenges they face.
250. The Queen of Versailles
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Lauren Greenfield
Actors: David Siegel, Jackie Siegel
Plot: A look into the lives of billionaire couple David and Jackie Siegel who find their development of a 90,000 square-foot mansion based on Versailles, and their way of life itself, threatened by the onset of the 2008 financial crisis.
