Documentaries

If you are a celebrity, should you go public that you have Alzheimer's or quietly retire from the spotlight and cope with the coming darkness and silence? Glen Campbell in keeping with his maverick and legendary career took on another momentous career bending move. He was the first celebrity to publicly reveal the Alzheimer's diagnosis. What he and his family decided to do next is nothing short of extraordinary. Their decision and their actions in the subsequent months to maintain their joy and richness of life is captured in James Keach's amazing and award winning documentary of Glen Campbell's. You will walk away uplifted from this authentic portrait of a family bonded together through a time of crisis. As for Glenn Campbell, the truism may remain that that one's waning years may actually hold more power and wonder than one's youth.

We hope that this could inspire many Iranians who are suffering tyranny and be a glimpse of hope to them.

Tony Palmer's 1973 TV biography of Hugh Hefner is an entertaining snapshot into where Hef was at in the early '70s.

Increasingly studies confirm that nurturing love, forgiveness, humor, gratitude and other spiritual qualities promote health.

In 'Seymour, An Introduction' Ethan Hawke shows his chops as a first time documentary filmmaker using a surprising subject in a unique and intuitive process. The film is excellent for what and how it reveals a real and human portrait of friend and mentor of Hawke, former concert pianist, teacher, and composer, the incomparable Seymour Bernstein.

Biker, Vietnam vet, Christian, father, friend, neighbor. Ron "Stray Dog" Hall is all of these and much more in Debra Granik's riveting "slice-of-life" documentary about a working class American.

Joshua Openheimer's "The Look of Silence" explores the nearly forgotten Indonesian genocide.

'I Am Eleven' is an uplifting film that reminds us of our own inner goodness and innocence in a time when such reminders are often few and far between. Bailey has shone her spotlight on children's viewpoints around the world who share the same age, 11 years old. She affirms what we need to recognize in times of peace and conflict, that despite cultural differences, we all hope for love, peace and harmony.

Elvis Presley was still in top form in 1970, and the new two-disc Blu-ray Digi-Book 'Elvis: That’s the Way It Is' captures it all.

An attack on Vietnam veterans – I suddenly felt like I was back at UCLA in 1971.