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Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune was an incredibly ambitious project, one that, had he gotten his way, would have included music by Pink Floyd, designs by Moebius and HR Giger, and Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, and Gloria Swanson in the cast. Although the movie never came to fruition, this first clip of the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune offers some idea of what the director had in mind. More »
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Watch Richard Garriott — better known in the gaming world as the Godfather to the gaming world, "Lord British" and the son of astronaut Owen K. Garriott — achieve his space dreams in this documentary about one (very rich) man's journey into the big black. More »
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Watch the infamously tight-lipped (at least about his own films) Chris Nolan gleefully discuss who he identified with the most from Star Wars. Of course Nolan makes geeking out peculiarly elegant. This clip is an outtake from These Amazing Shadows, a documentary about the National Film Registry. More »
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Much as we love Batman, we certainly don't think it's a wise idea to go out into the streets looking for crime to fight. People have guns. They will shoot you in the face. So naturally HBO's latest documentary Superheroes (about real life superhero crime fighters) makes us incredibly uncomfortable. Watch the first trailer. More »
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We've got an exclusive clip from the documentary The Captains, which follows William Shatner as he interviews every single captain from the Star Trek universe. Here is a sneak peak at his one on one with Captain Sisko! More »
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We've seen the urban spelunkers at Silent UK plumb the depths of London's abandoned mail train. Now they've created Crack the Surface, the first in a series of short films detailing their explorations of London's underground, an experience one spelunker compares to a real-life roleplaying game. More »
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Is the night sky an endangered species? Check out the trailer for The City Dark, which explores the philosophical and practical implications of losing the night sky. More »
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Check out this trailer for the documentary The Captains in which William Shatner interviews all the fine actors who sat in the Star Trek captain's chair, from Patrick Stewart to Chris Pine. Hell, even Scott Bakula gets a mercy interview. More »
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What does it mean if a character's last name is Snow? What's a Kingslayer? What's beyond the great wall? The cast crew and author George R.R. Martin explain everything you need to know about HBO's Game of Thrones. Beware spoilers... More »
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Ever wanted to drive a death-proof tank into the middle of a tornado and film the whole thing from behind a layer of safety glass? That's just what happens in forthcoming IMAX extravaganza Tornado Alley, filmed mostly in Kansas during storm season. Now you can see it in eye-peeling IMAX in New York's American Museum of Natural History, for free, this Wednesday. More »
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The Warriors of Qiugang, a film up for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), follows the residents of the 1900-person village of Quigang as they fight back against regional polluting factories. Watch it in full online. More »
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In 1979, ABC News aired Mission Mind Control, a documentary about the US government's research into the mind control applications of hallucinogens. The documentary is fascinating (albeit depressing), and the 1970s production values give the video a retro flair. [Archive.org] More »
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Daily Grail has a documentary on UFOs made in the 1970s: There's much footage from old movies, featuring ominous orchestral music. However, the documentary also covers the origin of the term 'flying saucer.' And there's a clip of Steven Spielberg discussing whether he'd take a ride on a spaceship, since 1977, the year the documentary was made, was the same year that Spielberg brought us Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Check it out here. More »
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How does a young man deal with his father's titanic legacy — one that defined a genre and affected a country? Gene Roddenberry's son looks for answers in a new documentary. More »
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Rumor has it Morgan Spurlock and geek overlord Joss Whedon may teaming up for a project documenting fan culture at San Diego Comic Con. And they're looking for three subjects to follow around. Any takers? More »
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The documentary The People Vs. George Lucas takes the most revered and most reviled director to geek court. Neil Gaiman, Gary Kurtz and droves of Star Wars fans and experts weigh in on film. Lucas: great man or giant monster? More »
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This week an intriguing new film, Utopia in Four Movements, screened at Sundance. It explores the way people in the past imagined the future. We can't wait for it to bust out of the festival circuit. More »
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From hosting Scientific American Frontiers to writing a play based on Einstein's letters, Alan Alda is a true geek. We caught up with him to find out about his exploration of the human brain for PBS, called The Human Spark. More »
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Coming in two weeks, the documentary Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown explores what inspired H.P. Lovecraft to invent the tentacular Cthulhu mythos - and why his work continues to inspire horror and science fiction creators today. More »
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In 1994, the BBC aired a documentary titled The Human Animal, which examines human beings in the way a nature documentary would look at any animal, using zoological language and techniques to study and describe human anatomy and behavior. More »
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Buffy's feisty Emma Caulfield nervously waits for her implanted true love chip to start up in TiMER, while one man predicts the fusion between man and machine, in this years Tribeca Film Festival. More »
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Emily, the tween director, has crafted an entire zombie feature film, with a documentary crew in tow. Check out the trailer for this adorable tween zombie-making documentary, and feel like a total slacker. More »
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If you need a hoot, check out 2012: Science or Superstition, all about the ancient Mayan prophesy that the world ends in 2012. Which apparently has much to do with VCR clocks. More »
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Hugh Everett is the father of the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, the first physicist to propose that we exist in a potentially infinite series of parallel dimensions. He's also the father of Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett, who was just 18 when his father died. Tonight, PBS airs “Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives,” Mark Everett's documentary on his father's life and work. More »
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In 1987, Alan Moore participated in a Central TV documentary, "England Their England: Monsters, Maniacs, and Moore." Though not the only documentary about the comic book author, it is the only one to feature Moore onstage fielding accusatory questions from his own toughest critic: himself. The short film focuses mostly on Moore's larger influences and his desire to create challenging and thought-provoking works, but also features readings from his books and addresses the man's irrational hatred of ducks. More »
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We're freaking doomed, according to a new documentary coming in September from ABC News. 2100 will look at the next century, which could be "the last century of our civilization," thanks to global warming, food and fuel shortages, population explosion and general apocalyptic mania. But ABC's super-depressing documentary also has a fun side — you get to create your own dystopian home movies, which may be featured as part of the show. The sample they showed on Good Morning America today looks incredibly Cloverfield-esque, which is a Good Thing. I'm almost ready for New York to vanish under the ocean if it means more teenagers will make their own dystopian home movies. [ABC News] More »
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You've probably heard the ethereal theremin, often called the first electronic instrument, in countless scifi movies and the Beach Boys song "Good Vibrations." A simple device which produces sound when your hands come into contact with an electro-magnetic field, it was invented by an engineer named Leon Theremin in the early 1920s. An amazing documentary from the early 1990s called Theremin explores the life of this bizarre inventor, who also created the first perimeter alarms, passive listening devices, and color television. You can see him performing here in the early 1930s. He stunned the New York art world with his interracial marriage to the American Negro Ballet's prima ballerina Lavinia Williams, and then disappeared mysteriously in the late 1930s. More »
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We watched the documentary Dreams With Sharp Teeth about Harlan Ellison at the South by Southwest Film Festival last night, and some of it was impressive, like watching the sharp-penned writer work in a bookstore window in 1994, spending five hours typing a short story so people could see that it's an actual job. However, the film disappointed by refusing to delve into any of the controversy surrounding Ellison at all, turning it into a big fluff piece that basically fails to explain his cranky, world-hating genius. More »
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Back in 1983 we're sure George Lucas got plenty of snail mail from angry fans telling him how much they hated the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi, and asking him why he killed off Boba Fett in such a lame fashion. Now, 25 years later, he'll be getting another slew of berating fans, this time in the form of a documentary. The People Vs. George Lucas wants you to film interviews with yourself, or others, and send them in. They'll be compiled alongside interviews with "celebrities" where they hope it will end up in theaters. So if you've been posting on message boards for years, seething at Lucas, the prequels, and the special editions, this is your chance to let him have it. [Obsessed With Film] More »
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The documentary In The Shadow Of The Moon comes out on DVD in a month, and is well worth picking up. Today we take moon landings for granted, but it's been 35 years since Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon (note for you trivia nuts), and we haven't come close to going back. In the intervening years, we've forgotten just what it took for our country to land people safely on the moon, and bring them back home. More »
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You may have read Alan Moore's work in Watchmen, Swamp Thing, V For Vendetta, or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but do you know much about the guy behind some of the greatest comics of the turn of the millennium? AlterTube has posted a 2003 documentary about him, which you can watch after the jump. If you haven't seen or heard Moore before, you might be in for a bit of a shock. Or, he might be exactly what you were expecting. More »
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The Harlan Ellison documentary Dreams With Sharp Teeth will be part of the SXSW Film Festival in March later this year, and as you can tell from this trailer, it features Harlan Ellison at his most colorful. The documentary began filming in 1981, also features Battlestar Galactica head honcho Ronald D. Moore, author Neil Gaiman, and Robin Williams along with plenty of choice quotes and vintage photos of Ellison himself. More »
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