Every month we screen a popular documentary film.
June: The YouTube Effect (2022: 99 minutes) In this eye-opening documentary, Alex Winter explores the ascension and acceleration of YouTube, a video-sharing website that started with humble origins and has gone on to change how we experience the world. With exclusive access to some of YouTube’s biggest stars, the film presents an eye-opening and troubling look at the platform now so powerfully embedded in our lives.
July 15th: Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019: 93 minutes) Take an in depth voyage into the sci-fi masterpiece Alien with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time burst to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.
August 19th: Arrows of Fire: Riding Across the Australian Outback (2013: 76 minutes) This documentary is more than just a chronicle of a father, his adult son and two friends on a picturesque motorcycle ride in the Australian Outback. Drawing parallels between the early space explorers, Paul, Josh, Duncan and Ben don their riding gear and take off on a journey into their physical, mental and emotional limits.
The library does not endorse any opinion or perspective in selected movies. Documentaries may not be suitable for all ages.