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An unvarnished account of the repatriation of the remains of immigrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the Arizona desert.
MORE ›In this cinematic homage, legendary documentarian Chris Marker turns his lens on the equally legendary feature filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. An examination of the central themes…
MORE ›In the wake of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro called on ambitious Cuban architects to create five National Art Schools on the site of a…
MORE ›The Vietnam era is as wrenching now as it was 30 years ago when Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged a night’s bivouac on the…
MORE ›Ken Burns’s documentary profiles the first African-American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports—Heavyweight Champion of the World—and his struggle, in…
MORE ›As a former child soldier in Liberia, Spencer has been traumatized by the civil war in his country. Will his community accept him back following…
MORE ›The Amazon Labor Union (ALU)—a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island—takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.
MORE ›Union Maids weaves together rare archival footage with the personal stories of three remarkable women, embattled workers who rose up to organize and empower their class during the rank-and-file labor movement of the 1930s, with each woman powerfully recounting the pivotal moments when she could no longer remain silent.
MORE ›Sit-downs, scabs, goon squads, unemployment, hunger marches, red baiting and finally the energetic birth of the CIO—the 1930s were a landmark period for the American…
MORE ›Argentine Simón Pedro stabbed a man and has been sentenced to prison. What make his case unusual is that Simón has a choice in where he…
MORE ›The story of Esperanto, the language that attempts to span all boundaries, through archival footage and contemporary interviews with those who practice its art.
MORE ›From small stories come grand heroism. Weaving old footage of the Nazi occupation of Europe with modern reminiscences, this movie tells of other Schindler’s Lists,…
MORE ›A gaggle of delightfully eccentric collectors welcome you into their obsessions with unique items undervalued by average folk.
MORE ›Attorney Steven wise and his colleagues at the Nonhuman Rights Project launch a history-making lawsuit arguing for captvies chimpanzees’ right to personhood.
MORE ›Guided by the drift of smoke and dreams, the Buddhist monk Tenzin Zopa sets off on a quest to find the reincarnation of his recently…
MORE ›Trevor Paglen is the subject of Yaara Bou Melhem’s documentary, which follows the artist as he develops several projects, including Orbital Reflector and Sight Machine,…
MORE ›Nighttime Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is often illuminated solely by thousands of portable LED lights. With the power often cut out, people have found a way to improvise. In this visually layered experimental short, three screens reflect a city filled with political strife and violence, and people who are primed to resist their circumstances.
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