Phil Gries
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Known For

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
Wag the Dog

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
Bogart: The Untold Story

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
Shoah

Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful innocence. As Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she spoke for the world's suffering children and families, earning an affection and admiration that only increased with news of her untimely death. From the star herself we learn of her career and the family and friendships that were her priority.
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and television.
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
Highway 61

From 1978 to 1985 Alan Lomax traveled the American South and Southwest with a television crew to document regional folklore with deep historical roots. From the resulting 400 hours of footage came the five-program series American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.
American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, archival footage and on-camera interviews with many figures involved with the Lassie films or television series.
The Story of Lassie

A virus from outer space transforms a bio-researcher into a blood thirsty monster. But chief, Dr.Vialini doesn't like the cops and public to be involved in this secret experiment. But he becomes lunch very soon.
Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor

Steven, a meek accountant-in-training, is living contentedly with his wife Clara and working for her brothers, managing the books at their junkyard. All of this changes when the belly dancer they hire for Steve's birthday turns out to be Anke, one of his classmates. Suddenly smitten, Steven begins to pursue Anke, who falls for him when he protects her from an overly lecherous customer. News travels fast in a close-knit neighborhood, however, and soon Clara and her brothers find out about the illicit relationship. Pushed to the edge, Steven will have to decide between his marriage with Clara and his love for Anke.
Don't Mess with My Sister!

A series of interviews with notorious porno filmmaker Phil Prince, intercut with outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage from his best known films.
The Prince of Porn

What really happened to Marilyn Monroe? People still speculate that Ms. Monroe had affairs with both President John F. Kennedy and his younger brother, Robert F. Kennedy. Director Christopher Olgiati explores the theory that Ms. Monroe got too close to both brothers, and that this may have ultimately led to her demise. The documentary includes interviews with historians, friends and those purported to be involved in the alleged cover-up.
Say Goodbye to the President: Marilyn and The Kennedys

The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This groundbreaking program exposed thousands of working-class kids raised on Hollywood movies to the power of documentary film - all under the watchful eye of DADAist, pioneering experimental filmmaker and radical thinker, Hans Richter.
Cinema and Sanctuary

A unique 'direct cinema' feature length documentary (no narration or interviews) originally filmed in the Spring of 1970 and concluded during the Summer of 2017 (footage added, restored, and re-edited). A day in the life of an inner-city Harlem elementary school. In 2018 filmmaker Phil Gries reunited with seven of his former Harlem elementary students whom he hadn't seen in 50 years.
Harlem School 1970

International criminal, Lee Balcourt, locks horns with blackmailer, Ken Cushing, in a battle for ultimate control of Balcourt's fortune - and the richest, most voluptuous women in the world: decadent Caroline, jaded Elise, innocent Claire, devastating Liza, and more.
FireStorm 3

The sequel to Firestorm which follows the memoirs of a wealthy family.
FireStorm II: The Angel Blade

Crazy jealous ad executive David has finally gone and done it. With suspicion, infidelity and his own raging guilt, he has pushed his loving wife away and into the arms of a macho cop. Now he is a man possessed by sexual daydreams he can't distinguish from reality. And to make matters worse, after each one, there always seems to be some indication that it was not all fantasy.
Snake Eyes 2

A woman who has accidentally come into possession of an ancient Chinese manuscript is kidnapped by a gang trying to find the manuscript, and when she refuses to tell where it is, she is tortured, raped and forced to perform in a B&D/S&M sex show.
Oriental Techniques in Pain and Pleasure

A wealthy's couple's facade covers guilt and sexual secrets. The obsessed Louise is a woman with far too much interest in her "family."
Dreamwalk

Porn star turned director Walter Airhart makes the dirtiest, nastiest, filthiest sex films in the world. But what he's really looking for in his life is purity. Trouble is, he's converted his formerly innocent storybook princess wife into an insatiable woman who will do anything to please him. And it does nothing for him anymore. So he resorts to the fledgling young actress who will do anything to be in his movies.