Documentaries About Sex and Romantic Relationships
•Deliver Us From Evil
In her Academy Award nominated (2006) documentary, Deliver Us From Evil,, director Amy Berg uses gripping testimony by victims, interviews with expert witnesses and archival footage to expose the Catholic Church's shocking cover up of incidents of child abuse by members of the clergy, particularly the ongoing pedophilia of Father Oliver O'Grady. Read my full review.More »
•Bigger, Stronger, Faster
In his highly personal documentary, director Chris Bell takes us down the path he's followed since childhood as he has struggled to find his place in his family and to define his personal goals with regards to athleticism and the use of steroids. Steroid use has serious health consequences, including infertility. Read my full review.More »
•The Invisible War
Filmmaker KirbyDick's The Invisible War exposes the frequent incidents of rape of men and women -- but mostly of women -- soldiers, in the U.S. military, the systematic cover-up of reported incidents and ongoing victim persecution by U. S. military authorities. It's a shocker! Read my full review.More »
•Made In India
After seven years of trying to have a baby, Lisa and Brian Switzer, a San Antonio, Texas couple, sell their house and use the proceeds to hire a surrogate mother in Mumbai, India, to bear their child. Aasia Khan accepts the assignment as a way to earn money to support and educate her own children, but keeps the agreement secret because of the shame it might bring upon her. The match is arranged by a medical tourism companies that runs this sort of transaction, negotiating fees and facilitating all practical aspects of the 'womb for rent' relationship. Read my full review.More »
•Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Some 30 years after film director Roman Polanski, at age 44, was accused of having sex with a 13-year old girl, the scandalous case, still controversial and fascinating, is the subject of Marina Zenovich’s documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. The film’s title refers to the difference in the public's attitude towards Polanski in France, where he currently resides and is the object of desire, and in the U.S., where he is still considered to be a wanted criminal. Read my full review.More »
•How To Survive A Plague
Filmmaker David France’s How to Survive a Plague tracks the role of activists -- women and men, gay and straight -- in demanding that the U.S. government and health care system focus on the HIV AIDS epidemic as their priority, find viable treatments and treat patients humanely. With ongoing public protests, their brave efforts, born of desperation and justified rage, eventually brought results, with the reduction of the number of fatalities and the end of the ever-expanding death-dealing epidemic that the sexually transmitted disease had been devastating the GLBT community for a decade. Read my full review.More »
•For The Bible Tells Me So
Are Scripture and homosexuality mutually exclusive? Theologians and academics interviewed in Daniel Karslake's documentary film say no, and they back up their opinions with quotations from the Bible. The film reveals the ways in which Scripture has been used to discriminate against homosexual men and women, and shows how literal — and oft inaccurate — interpretations of the Bible are causing widespread despair and the destruction of lives. Read my full review.More »
•When Strangers Click
The dangers of Internet dating have been played out in narrative features and laid out in documentaries such as Catfish, the troubling true account of how an older woman used her daughter's online identity to lure a younger man. But Robert Kenner's entertaining and heartwarming When Strangers Click shows positive possibilities by following five people -- three men and two women -- who've found better, happier relationship results. Read my full review. More »
•For My Wife
After hospital administrators denied her the right to sit by the bedside of her dying partner, Charlene Strong commited herself to changing laws so that others who've committed to same sex partnerships would not have to suffer such cruel discrimination. Read my full review.More »
•The Sons of Tennessee Williams
During the 1950s, gays in New Orleans were persecuted as they were elsewhere in the country. Homosexuality was against the law. Gays who congregated were subject to pubic humiliation, harassment and arrest. Never-the-less, in January 1959, a group of gay men in New Orleans decided to form their own Mardi Gras krewe, stage a parade and their own ball, crown their own Mardi Gras Queen -- and do it all in drag. Read my full review.More »