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GREAT FILMS ABOUT GREAT MINDS Documentary and feature films perfect for the classroom
Examined Life Astra Taylor
Filmmaker Astra Taylor (ZIZEK!) accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. More...
Zizek! Astra Taylor
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important—and outrageous—cultural theorists working today. This captivating, erudite documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of this incomparable academic and writer who has been called “the Elvis of cultural theory”. More...
Derrida Amy Ziering Kofman, Kirby Dick
One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of “deconstruction” Jacques Derrida has single-handedly altered the way we look at history, language, art and film. More...
Wittgenstein Derek Jarman
A visually stunning and profoundly entertaining work about modern philosophy and the dark genius that revolutionized it. This self-tortured eccentric, who preferred detective fiction and the musicals of Carmen Miranda to Aristotle, is a fitting subject for Derek Jarman’s irreverent imagination. More...
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. From the co-director of THE CORPORATION. More...