Nominees for Audience Choice Award 2008
The nominees for the "Audience Choice Award" are...
Deep Water
$17.95 | 92 minutes
DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race, and the psychological toll it took on its competitors. Sponsored by the Sunday Times of London, the much-ballyhooed event attracted a field of nine, including amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, who set out to circumnavigate the globe in late 1968…
In the Shadow of the Moon
$12.95 | 100 minutes
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON explores the period from 1968 to 1972, in which nine American spacecrafts voyaged to the moon, and nine men walked upon its surface. Through interviews with the surviving astronauts and digitally re-mastered footage from NASA archives, much of it never before seen, the documentary captures the excitement and…
Into Great Silence
$23.95 | 0 minutes
"Only in complete silence, one starts to hear. Only when language resigns, one starts to see." Full Synopsis: One of the most mesmerizing and poetic chronicles of spirituality ever created, INTO GREAT SILENCE dissolves the border between screen and audience with a total immersion into the hush of monastic life. Nestled deep…
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
$16.95 | 123 minutes
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed peoples lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In The Future Is Unwritten, from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as…
The King of Kong
$22.95 | 79 minutes
There's more drama in this small documentary than in most serious Oscar contenders. A marriage is on the line, integrity is tested, and friendships falter--all in the name of a video game called DONKEY KONG. THE KING OF KONG may inspire both tears and frustrated sighs, but it's most remarkable for its humor. In the same vein as WORDPLAY…
Manufactured Landscapes
$20.95 | 90 minutes
Manufactured Landscapes is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Full Synopsis: Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of manufactured landscapes -- quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams -- Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's…
No End in Sight
$18.95 | 102 minutes
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraqi descent into guerrilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall…
Sicko
$13.95 | 0 minutes
America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's health-care crisis. After providing some historical…
