He is the most famous and fabled mobster of his era. But the "teflon Don" was done in by the betrayal of those who served him, and may well be the last of his breed. John Gotti climbed out of humble Bronx beginnings on a ladder of success, leaving a body behind on every rung. Once near the top, he eliminated rival Paul Castellano and assumed control of the nation's most powerful crime ...
Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar made this penetrating documentary about the career and views of linguist and media critic Noam Chomsky. While the man is the subject of the movie, the filmmakers wisely and carefully choose not to make Chomsky more important than his insights into the way print and electronic journalism tacitly and often willingly further the agendas of the powerful. We learn a lot ...
Director Oliver Stone added 17 minutes of previously unseen footage for the "director's cut" edition of his hypnotic courtroom epic about the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That fateful day in Dallas set in motion a sequence of events that would only intensify the mystery behind Kennedy's death, causing New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison ...