Films
A Scanner Darkly
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
An Inconvenient Truth
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on a lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
Hoot
A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.
Pulse
Japanese university students investigate a series of suicides linked to an Internet webcam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to uncover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant-vegetable growing contest.
Serenity
The crew of the ship Serenity tries to evade an assassin sent to recapture one of their number who is telepathic.
Grizzly Man
A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Darwin's Nightmare
Darwin's Nightmare explores the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.
Primer
Four friends and fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
Kinsey
A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
The Blue Butterfly
An entomologist travels with a woman and her terminally ill son to the jungles of Central America to find a butterfly.
Mean Creek
When a teen is bullied, his brother and friends lure the bully into the woods to seek vengeance.
Shaun of the Dead
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
The Day After Tomorrow
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the crosshairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
Big Fish
A son tries to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths he told about his life.
Madness and Genius
Despite his near-photographic memory, Jordan is failing college, so he decides to steal the ideas of his professor, a brilliant thinker turned recluse with a dark past.
Winged Migration
A documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of several years on all seven continents.
Whale Rider
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Seabiscuit
The true story of an undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
28 Days Later
Animal rights activists free a group of infected chimpanzees to horrifying results in this speculative sci-fi horror effort from director Danny Boyle.