Controversy Movies

In 1989, two controversial artworks turned a small federal arts agency into ground zero of America's culture war. Thirty years later, the fight is...

Other Voices is a 1970 documentary film directed by David H. Sawyer. The film follows Dr. Albert Honig, one of the most controversial Doctors of his...

The story of Wings of Steel is part legend and part myth. The first ascent team spent 39 days climbing the controversial route. The result - death...

A sarcastic, improvisational film, with anarchic origins, strongly cinephile flavor, and largely autobiographical in nature and content. A film...

Three young people—Haris, a gay painter; Vishnu, a rural kabaddi player and their friend Sia, an activist who refuses to conform to dominant...

A documentary about the making the infamous art-house film 'Vase De Noces' ('Wedding Trough').

The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid,...

Oobah Butler has three months to make a million. Do the get-rich-quick schemes work? A rollercoaster of wins and setbacks follows as Oobah's...

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a...

The controversial Enhanced Games challenge the foundations of modern sport by allowing athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs in pursuit of...

The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA suffered their first ever loss in Games competition, was one of the most controversial...

Meet Shavon O'Brien: Her family doesn't understand her, her church ignores her, even Jesus forgets about her. With only the spirit of Sinead...

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and...

A documentary dissecting the life of times of Perell "Dreamybull XXX" Brown, a struggling saxophonist and entrepreneur who wound up creating...

Documentary about the eccentric figure of Mario Bazterrica Oliver. Following his recent death, various interviewees analyse, remember and portray,...

Sahar a 17 year old student is determined to skip high school during the recess to attend the football stadium to watch the football match between...

The people of Antiquity had little problem with nudity and would not find graphic depictions of sexual acts as morally suspect or obscene. But...

Comedian Adam Rowe sets out to explore the question: what is the role of comedy in today’s increasingly divided, febrile and hostile world? In...

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in...