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Arts Engine’s 2008 Holiday Shortlist

The Shortlist series is your opportunity to learn about films that inspire intellectual, artistic and activist leaders. This month, all of us here at Arts Engine share our favorite documentary films with you!
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Life. Support. Music.
On August 4th, 2004, Jason Crigler, one of New York City’s most sought-after guitarists, suffered a brain hemorrhage during a concert in ...
Posted on December 17

Surfwise: The Amazing True Odyssey of the Paskowitz Family
Doug Pray's documentary delves into the often inspiring, sometimes shocking life of 85-year-old Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, a renowned surfer, surf camp owner, ...
Posted on December 16

Bigger Stronger Faster*
In sports, winning is everything, and the pressure to succeed can drive some athletes to start taking banned substances. Filmmaker Chris Bell ...
Posted on December 16

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong. Steve ...
Posted on December 16

Helvetica
We use it every day on our computers, we see it on street signs -- and we take it for granted. Now, ...
Posted on December 16

Planet B-Boy
A powerful documentary about the vibrant global resurgence of break-dancing, Planet B-Boy goes inside the underground hip- hop dance scenes around the ...
Posted on December 16

What Would Jesus Buy?
What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission ...
Posted on December 16

Century of Self
New light is shed on Sigmund Freud's theories of how the human mind works in this four-part documentary that examines the connections ...
Posted on December 16

Heavy Petting
Famous baby boomers who lived through the Sexual Revolution recall their sexual awakening during the squeaky-clean 1950s. The hilarious recollections -- courtesy ...
Posted on December 16

Human Remains
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of this century’s most ...
Posted on December 16

Street Fight
Street Fight chronicles the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School grad, and ...
Posted on December 16

The God Who Wasn't There
Bowling for Columbine did it to the gun culture. Super Size Me did it to fast food. Now The God Who Wasn't There does ...
Posted on December 16

Prison Terminal
Prison Terminal is a feature length documentary following the final months in the life of a prisoner, from his initial terminal diagnosis ...
Posted on December 11

The Road to Redemption
Like so many in Liberia's long and gruesome civil war, the true number will never be known, but it's estimated that 30-40% ...
Posted on December 4

Laman Az (Voice of the Mountains)
Laman Az profiles the inspirational lives of two Chechen civilians, as well as, two Russian soldiers who fought in Chechnya during the ...
Posted on December 3