Gore Vidal
notum enim: Writing
dies natalis: 1925-10-03
Locus Natus: West Point, New York, USA
Et ut: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Edgar Box, Cameron Kay, Katherine Everard, 고어 비달, Гор Видал
Gattaca
In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. Young Vincent Freeman is born with a...
release : 1997.09.07popularis : 25.915
Bob Roberts
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by...
release : 1992.09.04popularis : 8.022
Thinking XXX
For a book project, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders took photographs of 30 stars of adult movies, each pair of photographs in the same pose,...
release : 2004.10.27popularis : 27.199
Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11
ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11 has one central thesis: that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 cannot be true. This...
release : 2008.06.15popularis : 4.15
Federico Fellini - Through the Eyes of Others
Documentary about Federico Fellini
release : 2003.01.01popularis : 0.516
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.
release : 2006.09.15popularis : 5.452
Suddenly, Last Summer
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went...
release : 1959.12.22popularis : 22.515
Shadow Conspiracy
Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street....
release : 1997.01.25popularis : 11.054
Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No
In 1982, Gore Vidal, one of America's greatest writers, challenged the American political establishment, and Jerry Brown, in his campaign for the...
release : 1984.02.01popularis : 1.14
Obscene
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch"...
release : 2008.09.26popularis : 1.982
Norman Mailer: The American
A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes...
release : 2012.05.18popularis : 1.031
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
The story of how the classic epic "Ben-Hur" was made.
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 1.364
Global Haywire
Documentary about the state of the modern world.
release : 2006.08.06popularis : 0.731
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
The American composer and author Paul Bowles was a man with a great deal of charisma and influence. When he moved to Tangier, Morocco, in 1949, half...
release : 2013.04.04popularis : 2.036
Igby Goes Down
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a...
release : 2002.09.13popularis : 11.018
Standing Army
Standing Army, directed by Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi, is an award-winning documentary film about the global network of U.S. military bases, the...
release : 2010.01.10popularis : 1.397
Revisiting Brideshead
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".
release : 2005.10.15popularis : 0.596
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 1.989
The Celluloid Closet
What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie...
release : 1996.01.30popularis : 7.772
Best of Enemies
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and...
release : 2015.07.31popularis : 8.412
Public Speaking
A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous...
release : 2010.11.22popularis : 3.931
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and...
release : 2005.06.15popularis : 5.527
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Anchored by intimate, one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining...
release : 2013.08.04popularis : 2.821
Ritual in Transfigured Time
A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend; one of filmmaker Maya Deren’s most...
release : 1946.10.22popularis : 3.356
With Honors
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who...
release : 1994.04.29popularis : 12.618
Ten Year Old Boy Pilot
Ten year old boy pilot called Gore Vidal. A young boy learns how to fly new kind of aeroplane with simple controls. M/S of boy, Gene, standing in...
release : 1936.01.06popularis : 0.42
Why We Fight
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and...
release : 2005.01.20popularis : 8.404
Shrink
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense...
release : 2009.07.24popularis : 10.411
Roma
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
release : 1972.03.16popularis : 10.105
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...
release : 1994.12.19popularis : 1.875
Inside Deep Throat
In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would...
release : 2005.02.11popularis : 12.348
In Search of Oz
BBC 2 produced this documentary on the Oz books of L. Frank Baum and the films and fantasies that they inspired, particularly the first book `The...
release : 1994.06.16popularis : 0.588
The Education of Gore Vidal
A contrarian and wickedly funny man, this PBS American Masters special explores Gore Vidal's extraordinary life and work, joining him at his...
release : 2003.06.30popularis : 1.963
The Cockettes
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
release : 2002.01.16popularis : 9.081
Salinger
An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the...
release : 2013.09.06popularis : 11.842
The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's
Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming...
release : 1993.01.01popularis : 2.072
The Best Man
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the...
release : 1964.04.05popularis : 10.555
Valentino's Ghost
The documentary exposes the ways in which America's foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives the U.S. media's portrayals of Arabs and Muslims....
release : 2013.05.17popularis : 0.994
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Examines the diversity of human sexual and gender variance around the globe, with commentary by scientific experts and first-hand accounts of people...
release : 2005.04.30popularis : 1.364
High Tech Lincoln
Take an unforgettable look at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, which includes a special effects theater,...
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 2.124
Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid
Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.
release : 1989.05.10popularis : 3.759
Rescued from the Closet
A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film...
release : 2001.05.29popularis : 3.527
The Homosexuals
On March 7, 1967, 40 million Americans tuned in to watch CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, network television’s first documentary on homosexuality....
release : 1967.03.07popularis : 0.988