Movies Afire

All Genres:
Documentary

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: USA:90 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline:

Cast: Jerryd Bayless … Himself
Michael Beasley … Himself
Tyreke Evans … Himself
Robert Garcia … Unofficial MC / Narrator (as Bobbito Garcia)
Donte Greene … Himself
Brandon Jennings … Himself
Jason Kidd … Himself
Kevin Love … Himself
Kyle Singler … Himself
Lance Stephenson … Himself

Plot: Eight of the U.S.’s top high school basketball players compete in the first “Elite 24” tournament at Rucker Park.

All Genres:
Documentary

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 93 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: How did a handful of corporations steal our water?

Cast: Maude Barlow … Herself
Shelly Brime … Herself
Anthony Burgmans … Himself
Dr. Kent Butler … Himself
Michel Camdessus … Himself
Charles-Louis de Maud'huy … Himself
Ashwin Desai … Himself
Siddharaj Dhadda … Himself
Shripad Dharmadhikary … Himself
Ashok Gadgil … Himself
Peter H. Gleick … Himself
Tyrone Hayes … Himself
David Hemson … Himself
Pamela Hill … Bottled Water Restaurant Patron
William Joseph Hill … Bottled water restaurant patron
Penn Jillette … Himself
Ronnie Kasrils … Himself
Gigi Kellett … Herself
Jean Luc-Touly … Himself
Anna Debwese Mape … Herself
William E. Marks … Himself
Patrick McCully … Himself
Fatima Meer … Herself
Gerard Mestrallet … Himself
Bob Nameng … Himself
Sunita Narain … Herself
Marcela Olivera … Herself
Oscar Olivera … Himself
Erik D. Olson … Himself
Jim Olson … Himself
Rod Parsley … Himself
Medha Patkar … Herself
Julian Perez … Himself
Boone Pickens … Himself
Mary Anne Rennet … Herself
Jim Schultz … Himself
Paul Schwartz … Himself
Vandana Shiva … Herself
Rajendra Singh … Himself
Holly Wren Spaulding … Herself
Achim Steiner … Himself
Terry Swier … Herself
Teller … Himself
James Wolfensohn … Himself

Plot: Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. ‘Flow’ confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause. add synopsis

Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination

All Genres:
Documentary

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 85 min

Languages: English | Mandarin

Director:

Tagline: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.

Writers: Patrick Creadon (writer) and Christine O'Malley (writer) …

Cast: Robert Bixby … Himself
Humphrey Bogart … Himself (archive footage)
Warren Buffett … Himself
George Bush … Himself (archive footage)
George W. Bush … Himself (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter … Himself (archive footage)
Bill Clinton … Himself (archive footage)
Stephen Colbert … Himself (archive footage)
Kent Conrad … Himself (as Sen. Kent Conrad)
Ander Crenshaw … Himself (as Rep. Ander Crenshaw)
Bing Crosby … Himself (archive footage)
Douglas Durst … Himself
Dwight D. Eisenhower … Himself (archive footage)
Gerald Ford … Himself (archive footage)
Alan Greenspan … Himself
Judd Gregg … Himself (as Sen. Judd Gregg)
Yoni Gruskin … Himself
Kay Harms … Herself
Sue Herrera … Herself (archive footage)
Chrissy Hovde … Herself
John F. Kennedy … Himself (archive footage)
Steve Kroft … Himself (archive footage)
George Miller … Himself (as Rep. George Miller)
Richard Nixon … Himself (archive footage)
Paul O'Neill … Himself
Chris Parnell … Budget Book Author (archive footage)
Ron Paul … Himself (as Rep. Ron Paul)
Peter G. Peterson … Himself (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan … Himself (archive footage)
Diane Rehm … Herself
Franklin Delano Roosevelt … Himself (archive footage)
Robert Rubin … Himself
Donald Rumsfeld … Himself (archive footage)
Tim Russert … Himself (archive footage)
Scott Spradling … Himself
Mike Tully … Himself
David M. Walker … Himself
Brian Williams … Himself (archive footage)

Plot: Few are aware that America may be on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. explores the country’s shocking current fiscal condition and ways to avoid a national economic disaster. add synopsis

Awards: 4 nominations

All Genres:
Documentary

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 95 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Remember high school? It's gotten worse.

Cast: Jake Tusing … Himself
Megan Krizmanich … Herself
Colin Clemens … Himself
Mitch Reinholt … Himself
Hannah Bailey … Herself rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Geoff Haase … Himself
Jennifer Lucht … Herself
Jennifer Sheopherd … Herself
Ali Wikalinska … Herself

Plot: A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.

Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations

All Genres:
Documentary

Release Year: 2007

Country: UK | Germany | USA

Runtime: 90 min | UK:96 min

Languages: English

Director: Alastair Fothergill

Mark Linfield

Tagline:

Writers: Alastair Fothergill (writer) Mark Linfield (writer)

Cast: James Earl Jones … Narrator (voice)
Patrick Stewart … Narrator (voice: English version)
Ulrich Tukur … Narrator (voice: German version)

Plot: Feature-length version of the documentary TV series "Planet Earth" (2006), following the migration paths of four animal families. add synopsis

Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination

All Genres:
Documentary

Release Year: 2007

Country: Australia

Runtime: 90 min

Languages: English

Director: Sunny Abberton

Macario De Souza (co-director)

Tagline: Blood is thicker than water

Writers: Sunny Abberton (written by) and Stuart Beattie (writer)

Cast: Russell Crowe … Himself – Narrator (voice)
Kelly Slater … Himself
Cheyne Horan … Himself
Jack Kingsley … Himself
Sean Doherty … Himself
Koby Abberton … Himself
Sunny Abberton … Himself
Jai Abberton … Himself
Wayne Cleveland … Himself
Maurice Cole … Himself
John Gannon … Himself
Mark Matthews … Himself
Wayne Bartholomew … Himself (as Wayne 'Rabbit' Bartholomew)
Nick Carroll … Himself
Derek Hynd … Himself

Plot: A film about the cultural evolution of the Sydney beach side suburb of Maroubra and the social struggle faced by it’s youth – the notorious surf gang known as the Bra Boys.

All Genres:
Documentary

Release Year: 2006

Country: USA

Runtime: 92 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline………..Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.

Cast: Martin Sheen … Narrator (voice)
Reverend Gadget … Himself (as Greg 'Gadget' Abbott)
Dave Barthmuss … Himself
Ed Begley Jr. … Himself
Jim Boyd … Himself
Alec N. Brooks … Himself
Alan Cocconi … Himself
John R. Dabels … Himself
Phyllis Diller … Herself
Colette Divine … Herself
Tom Everhart … Himself
David Freeman … Himself (as S. David Freeman)
Frank Gaffney … Himself (as Frank J. Gaffney Jr.)
Mel Gibson … Himself
Greg Hanssen … Himself

Plot: A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.

Awards: 2 nominations