I Am Bruce Lee

There is no argument that Bruce Lee was responsible for the golden age of Martial Arts films. Indeed it is still the Bruce Lee classics that hold their popularity while the Genre has gone from big theatre releases to an underground following. In this documentary we find out what made Bruce Lee so special hearing from those who knew and worked with the legend and some of his biggest famous fans. We also get treated to some never before seen footage of Lee at work and play.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2012 Duration: 1 Hour 18 Minutes.

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Overnight: Troy Duffy And The Boondock Saints

It's a story you couldn't make up 25 year old Troy Duffy had wrote a film script on a cheap computer in the back of a bar  and somehow managed to pitch it to Harvey Weinstein the head of Miramax. The script for Duffy's film impressed Weinstein who bought it for $300,000 agreeing to let Duffy make the film with a budget of $15 Million. Duffy's band which included his brother would also provide the score for the film, there was even an agreement for the bar Duffy worked in to be bought for him. In the documentary the footage for which Duffy had some friends film to document his rise to stardom we see events play out. As ego's grow it's often cringe worthy but with Duffy's dreams crumbling around him it's this ego that often make it hard for the viewer to sympathize.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2003 Duration: 1 Hour 21 Minutes.

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The Secret Life of Brian

Monty Python's Life of Brian was released in 1979 and was immediately condemned by religious and other conservative groups. However the film was the Python's most successful and remains a cult classic that can be found at the top of many best comedy film lists. In the documentary we learn about the idea for the film how it was made and we hear from the Python's and some of those that worked to get the The Life Of Brian banned.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2007 Duration: 54 Minutes.

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Story Of Ripley's Believe It Or Not

Leroy Robert Ripley (1890-1949) was the man behind the hugely popular Ripley's Believe It or Not!. Originally a newspaper column for the New York Globe Ripley then brought his odd stories and drawings to a series of book's but it was when after a stint on radio the Ripley's Believe It or Not! TV show began in 1930 he became a national celebrity. In the documentary we find out how the young Ripley when writing a sport cartoon series stumbled into writing the Believe It Or Not columns and never looked back.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2015 Duration: 54 Minutes.

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Servants: The Real Downton Abbey

This 2012 BBC documentary series titled "Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs" looks at the million servants still working in stately homes across the United Kingdom at the beginning of the last century. With the huge popularity of the TV show Downton Abbey many have asked if the life of Servants is properly portrayed in the show. Downton by no means suggests servant life was easy but those old enough to remember and evidence available shows a harder life and darker side to treatment of Servants. We know Downton Abby is set in the years from 1912, in the first episode news of the Titanic sinking reaches the house and it's there the documentary starts as well.

The show has three episodes all in the playlist below, presented by Dr. Pamela Cox they are No Going Back, Class War and Knowing Your Place.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2012.

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Martin Scorsese: Personal Journey Through American Movies

Martin Scorsese is one of the most respected and influential film directors of all time with titles such as Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and The Departed to his name. When the British Film Institute decided to document some of the key film makers from around the world on their area of expertise and their countries contribution to film Scorsese was a natural choice to cover American film.

With the rather wordy title "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies" the documentary is broken into chapters that combine to make the complete film lasting over three hours. Clips from numerous movies both blockbusters and little known or forgotten features are used along with lots of anecdotes from his years in the movie business.

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The Da Vinci Code: The True Story

The Da Vinci Code was a great book and the film wasn't bad either, both made an absolute fortune for the author Dan Brown. Brown claims in the book that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were actually married and had Children thus there is a surviving blood line. A great story but the fact Brown in the book states the story is based on facts caused heated debate.In the book and film The Last Supper By Leonardo DaVinci is used to show Mary Magdalene sitting next to Jesus and untold gospels state they were indeed married. In this documentary The History Channel set out to find how much is fact, can claims made by Dan Brown be proven or was he seeing what he wanted to in order to build a story.

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Goin' Down to South Park

Goin' Down to South Park defiantly falls into the Mockumentary genre with the creators of the show playing fictionalized versions of themselves. Made in 1999 only two years after the South Park TV show debuted on Comedy Central it is a funny sarcastic film in the style you would expect from the creators of South Park. With that said the documentary does tell the history of the show and some facts if you can sort them from the fiction.

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The People Versus George Lucas

The People Versus George Lucas is a "hilarious, heartfelt documentary" that looks at the original legacy of Star Wars (and to a lesser extent Indiana Jones) and why he returned to these projects with for many people disastrous results. The original Star Wars trilogy had; for a movie an unmatched cultural effect on fans in the late 70's and early 80's. I guess you could compare it with the recent Harry Potter craze but much more extreme. It was a social phenomenon and in 1983 after the release of Return of the Jedi it was agreed Lucas had created a trilogy that had changed cinema and would take it's rightful place in popular culture.

So why then after 20 years did he return to Star Wars and after 9 years return to Indiana Jones ? Fans claim it was for greed or revamped notoriety but whatever the reasons they panned the movies. Because when a franchise is so successful and has such an effect on fans they in some ways claim a sort of ownership. The People Versus George Lucas is lighthearted but the people featured do seem to be genuinely upset he did not "Leave well enough alone".

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Major Fraud : Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Scandal

In 2001 Charles Ingram won the jackpot of £1 Million ($1.51 Million) on the British version of the smash hit TV game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. But something was not right, the producers, floor staff and even other contestants waiting for their chance in the Fastest Finger First seats could feel it. But what was it; if Ingram was cheating then how Celador the producers went to great lengths to ensure contestants could not cheat there was after all Millions at stake.What followed was an investigation that involved Ingram and a man that was sitting in one of those Fastest Finger First seat called Tecwen Whittock.

This documentary covers how Celador believed Whittock was working with Ingram.They said Ingram and Wittock had contrived a scheme whereby Ingram would say out loud all the answers to each question and Whittock would cough when the right answer was said.It may seem bizarre but payment of the Million Pounds was suspended and the case dragged through the courts .Unlike a previous game show scandal documentary we posted Big Bucks : The Press Your Luck Scandal this had no blurred lines if guilty it was blatant cheating.

The show was never aired but in the documentary we get to see the show and hear the alleged coughs at just the right times.Staff, contestants and presenter Chris Tarrant (who admits he had no idea anything untoward was happening) give their views on what could have been the perfect crime had greed not taken over.

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Big Bucks : The Press Your Luck Scandal

Press your luck was a popular daytime game show on CBS is the early eighty's running from 1983 to 1986.The show had two stage types, trivia to earn spins on a prize board then the prize board round itself. So a simple enough format and some generous prizes with contestants on occasion walking away with over $20,000. To get a good win you needed luck, no matter how good at trivia you may be.Money was won on lost on the prize board and that was random, or so they thought.

Michael Larson appeared on the show in 1984 and won an amazing $110,237 (Equivalent to a quarter million dollars today). That was three times more than ever won before on Press Your Luck, in fact it was the most money ever won on any TV game show. In the documentary presented by Peter Tomarken who was the actual presenter of Press Your Luck when Michael won looks back at the episode. Was Michael so lucky he avoided the dreaded "Whammy" which takes all your winnings on the prize board for over 30 spins in a row or did he know something nobody else did ?

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