IFC Back to Basics presented by Dewars. Wednesday Nights at 9PM ET / 6PM PT
A Themed Double Feature Showcasing Indie Innovation - Wednesday Night Starting at 9PM
Back to Basics Documentary Challenge Finalists!!!

Submit your three-minute documentary for a chance to win cash.
1st prize is $7500. Runner-up prize is $2500. Good luck!

Finalists!!

  • 1. The Man with the Electric Boots

  • 2. Round Up

  • 3. Lights Sabers Action

  • 4. Bleeding Borders

  • 5. Mental Block

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Wednesday, Sep. 3 at 9:00 PM EDT

Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee took a break from making Western period dramas to fashion this wild and woolly martial arts spectacular featuring special effects and action sequences courtesy of the choreographer of The Matrix (1999), Yuen Woo Ping. More
Karate for Life Karate for Life
Wednesday, Sep. 3 at 11:15 PM EDT

This martial-arts actioner from director Kazuhiko Yamaguchi is the third in a series of films inspired by the life of Masutatsu Oyama. More
The Claim The Claim
Wednesday, Sep. 10 at 9:00 PM EDT

One man's small empire threatens to collapse under the weight of his greed and deceit in this drama that transplants the story of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge to 19th century America. More
Mad Dog Morgan Mad Dog Morgan
Wednesday, Sep. 10 at 11:05 PM EDT

Dennis Hopper plays the title character in this true story of a 19th-century Australian gold-digger who is pressed into a life of crime. More
Gosford Park Gosford Park
Wednesday, Sep. 17 at 9:00 PM EDT

Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early '30s. More
Kansas City Kansas City
Wednesday, Sep. 17 at 11:30 PM EDT

The jazz world of 1930s Kansas City serves as the backdrop for an offbeat story of kidnapping, political corruption, and organized crime in director Robert Altman's loving but unsentimental look at his childhood hometown. More
Havoc Havoc
Wednesday, Sep. 24 at 9:00 PM EDT

A pair of naive young girls learn that even the most insignificant actions can have lasting consequences in this music-driven take on teen culture starring Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips and directed by two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple. More
Elephant Elephant
Wednesday, Sep. 24 at 10:30 PM EDT

Director Gus Van Sant returned to the low-key style of his early independent efforts with this semi-improvised exploration of how violence makes its way into a typical American high school. Eric (Eric Deulen) and Alex (Alex Frost) are two close friends who are students in a well-to-do suburb of Portland, OR. More