Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
- nature documentary
- poetic documentary
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Marlon Brando
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Elton John
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Madonna
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Adolf Hitler — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Bill Clinton — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Fidel Castro — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Ronald Reagan — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Paul McCartney — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Ringo Starr — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- George Harrison — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- John Lennon — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Mao Zedong — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Vladimir Lenin — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Directed
- Godfrey Reggio
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 159 ratings
- Studio
- Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education, Qatsi Productions, IRE Productions, Miramax
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1983Koyaanisqatsi
Where it starts.
Powaqqatsi
1988
Naqoyqatsi
2002 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
