Juxtaposing rapturous wedding day flashbacks with remarkably candid present-day interviews, 112 WEDDINGS explores timeless th...

An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a deeply personal, first-hand account of ...

A CINEMA OF DISCONTENT features insightful interviews with 12 Iranian filmmakers, including the internationally-acclaimed dir...

The American Indian Movement (AIM) is chronicled by recounting the life story of Dennis Banks, co-founder and leader of AIM. ...

For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden and homosexuality is punis...

Meet a group of people who share is a deep desire to have more meaning in their lives, a closer bond with their families and ...

Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal's (Manufacture...

In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture ...

The magnificent and tragic story of the great ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq. With a soul-stirring soundtrack and exquisite vis...

Director Jacob Hatley's intimate documentary finds Levon Helm at home in Woodstock, NY, in the midst of creating his first st...

Alex Mar's lyrical first work is a bold and artful documentary that braids together the stories of three young Americans who ...

This delightful autobiographical documentary follows a nice Jewish boy turned hippie who travels to India after reading Ram D...

A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH traverses the glob...

Paramahansa Yogananda was one of the most influential spiritual leaders of his time and his impact is still felt today all ov...

Alice Guy-Blaché was a true pioneer who got into the movie business at the very beginning—in 1894, at the age of 21. Two y...

A deep dive into the ground breaking life and career of Lina Wertmuller, the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award...

BEING IN THE WORLD takes us on a journey around the world to meet philosophers influenced by the thought of Martin Heidegger,...

Thirty years after his death, Joseph Beuys still feels like a visionary and is widely considered one of the most influential ...

A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voi...

A lively lesson in filmmaking, from one of its undisputed masters.

During the punk rock stage in the late '70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of "Do it yourself" independent filmmaking....

In his final—and most daring—cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pu...

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell ph...

Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb's edict ...

With global food shortages on the horizon, forward-thinking chefs, environmentalists and food scientists are turning toward a...

This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her ...

Legendary actress Charlotte Rampling reveals her views on aging, beauty, desire and death with disarming frankness.

Ten-year-old Flynn McGarry transforms his living room into a supper club, using his classmates as line cooks and serving a ta...

Award-winning filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) returns to China for another riveting documentary on that country's ever-...

The century-old conflict in the Middle East continues to play a central role in world politics. And yet, amidst this fierce, ...

A bold and fresh visual narrative of Africa's struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s.

The arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chogyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.S. in 1970. Trungpa beca...

Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on ...

This meditation on cinema’s past from Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 5...

Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian an actor, and a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from ...

The ground-breaking new documentary feature film DEFINING HOPE from director Carolyn Jones (THE AMERICAN NURSE) follows eight...

A feature-length documentary film highlighting the career of poster artist Drew Struzan, whose most popular works include the...

As one of America's masters of photography, Duane Michals brings us on a journey through his creative process. As we follow h...

Two conventional Harvard professors began probing the edges of consciousness in the '60s. Timothy Leary ended up in jail, whi...

A revealing look inside the kitchen of renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria that Film Threat calls "an insider look at somethin...

For this entertainingly intimate documentary portrait of renowned Israeli writer Etgar Keret, filmmaker Gur Bentwich accompan...

An intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray that explores the relationship between Murray’s family l...

In October, 2012, Superstorm Sandy tore into New York and woke the city up to the fragility of its shorelines. EVERYTHING IS ...

In this miraculous documentary, filmmaker Pan Nalin travels to the Kumbh Mela, one of the world's most extraordinary religiou...

A cinematic journey about buried family secrets, the Holocaust (from a third generation perspective) and how it is never too ...

Shot in Lagos at the peak of his career in 1982, this documentary contains interviews with Fela Kuti detailing his thoughts o...

Leon Vitali was a rising British television actor who's first encounter with Stanley Kubrick proved decisive — he swiftly r...

The story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life, his music, his social and political importance.

The first nonfiction film to ever win the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, FIRE AT SEA takes place in Lam...

1,200 feature films were made in Germany’s Third Reich, some 100 of them blatant Nazi propaganda. Nearly seventy years afte...

Anthropological in scope, sensuous in detail and emotionally resonant throughout, FOREIGN PARTS is an exemplary social record...

This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most imp...

What really is consciousness, and how does it manifest in the brain and body? Is it possible to physically change the brain s...

The critical issues of Iranian cinema are examined by framing several key questions and providing informed responses through ...

Using a montage of footage from the highest quality restorations, Ruediger Suchsland illustrates Siegfried Kracauer's 1947 th...

Almost three decades after his death, legendary pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate audiences worldwide.

Legendary German painter Gerhard Richter granted filmmaker Corinna Belz access to his studio in the spring and summer of 2009...

A feature length documentary about an extinct giant woodpecker, small town in Arkansas hoping to reverse it misfortunes, and ...

"Ecosexuals" Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle protest against the environmentally devastating practice of mountain top remov...

This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequen...

Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining document...

Shot over a decade with unprecedented access, this film beautifully bares the artist’s process— and it’s as mesmerizing...

From her wild and idealistic roots as a hippie in Copenhagen, the film follows Hannah Nydahl and her husband Ole to the hedon...

With never-before-seen archival footage, unearthed film excerpts, rare home movies and new interviews, HARLAN – IN THE SHAD...

Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible ma...

A personal documentary about the iconic actor in his intimate moments, with clips from some of his 250 films and his own hear...

In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch held a special exhibition devoted to the work of Hieronymus ...

Key films from the more than 1000 features the Nazis produced from 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, costume dramas,...

An extraordinary personal look at the people of Iraq prior to and immediately after the US invasion of 2003.

An extraordinary personal look at the people of Iraq prior to and immediately after the US invasion of 2003.

State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, AKA Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when s...

One great auteur pays loving tribute to another in this film by Ettore Scola about his decades-long friendship with Federico ...

While cooking and taking walks in the French countryside, the legendary co-founder of Direct Cinema, Richard Leacock, shares ...

An eclectic group of young pioneers - Canadian hippie journalists, photographers, musicians, scientists, and American draft d...

In Columbus, Ohio, a group of young people with an array of developmental challenges prepares for an iconic event - a spring ...

Filmmakers Gereon Wetzel and Joerg Adolph observe Gerhard Steidl as he travels the world to meet and collaborate with such re...

Using testimonies and aerial images, filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand confronts the realities and diversity of human conditions...

A fascinating documentary on one of the 20th century’s most beloved street photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013). Leiter...

Ayat, Salam, and Nariman are three of the participants in The Camera Project, an initiative launched by the Jerusalem-based h...

In the inspiring and thought-provoking INNSÆI – THE POWER OF INTUITION, go on a soul-searching, global journey to uncover ...

An eye-opening insider's account of disability in 21st century America. The film traces Simi Linton's personal growth as a di...

Thanks to exclusive, intimate access to the legendary yogi, Jake Clennell's documentary showcases the profound spirituality e...

Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles accompanies the prolific Chinese director Jia Zhangke on a walk down memory lane, as he rev...

Through the stories of transgender individuals and their spouses, friends, and allies, JUST GENDER explores the confusion, th...

Pritzker Prize winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He reached the top of his profession, but had littl...

The story behind Mikhail Khodorkovsky's arrest and subsequent conviction — the story of a man who has transformed from the ...

The first film to fully expose the humanitarian crisis of North Korea, this stylish, deeply moving documentary is centered ar...

A landmark 3-hour documentary that follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist ...

Former Mayor Ed Koch was the quintessential New Yorker. First-time filmmaker (and former Wall Street Journal reporter) Neil ...

Kumaré is an enlightened guru from the East who builds a following of disciples in the West. But Kumaré is not real. He is ...

A vibrant portrait of Radio France, that nation's equivalent of NPR or the BBC. Directed by Nicolas Philibert, a master of th...

A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white...

Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the N...

In the astonishingly gripping LET THE FIRE BURN, director Jason Osder has crafted that rarest of cinematic objects: a found-f...

An illuminating look at the American criminal justice system from the perspective of a juror on a trial that resulted in a de...

A powerful documentary that follows the life of iconic Syrian peace activist Ghiyath "Little Gandhi" Matar, a key organizer o...

With interviews from 1960's art scene vets Dennis Hopper and George Herms, and an appearance on The Tonight Show, the film re...

A cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magne...

Cecil Beaton was a dazzling chronicler of his time. Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland blends archival footage and photographs ...

Death, taxes, and menopause are unavoidable facts of life. LOVE, SWEAT & TEARS is a groundbreaking, inspiring, and humorous l...