Films


War Against the Weak
Justin Strawhand

We recoil in horror from Joseph Mengele’s barbaric Holocaust experiments, but how many know his work was based on the principles of the American eugenics…

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War at a Distance
Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki, one of Germany’s best-known experimental filmmakers, continues his provocative filmic essays on the relationship between wartime production and destruction. Using military-industrial images and…

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War Don Don
Rebecca Richman Cohen

A riveting war crimes trial in Sierra Leone is closely watched by a healing nation.

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The War Game
Peter Watkins

Originally produced for television, this film was banned from TV broadcast. Later released theatrically by the BFI, this incredible story visualizes what could happen immediately…

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The War of Raya Sinitsina
Efim Graboy

This spirited portrait follows a Soviet World War II veteran, Raya Sinitsina, who survived the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, during which over a million civilians…

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War Photographer
Christian Frei

This film offers an immediate, first-person perspective on the scenes photojournalist James Nactwey captures in warzones around the world, deepened with self-reflection about his intent and process.

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The War Room
Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker

The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House—and changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, renowned cinema verité filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker captured the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton’s crack team of consultants—especially James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, who became media stars in their own right as they injected a savvy, youthful spirit and spontaneity into the process of campaigning.

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The War Room
Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker

This utterly captivating classic follows James Carville and George Stephanopoulos as they plot, react, and attack to ensure Arkansas governor Bill Clinton is elected president.

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War/Dance
Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine

For the children of the Patongo refugee camp in the most perilous region of Northern Uganda, dancing is a kind of salvation and music soothes…

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Warning Signs
MTV Neworks, American Psychological Association

School shooters, from the point of view of the kids. Premiered the day after the Columbine Massacre.

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The Wash
Lee Lynch, Lee Anne Schmitt

The Wash is a meditative portrait of the river wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall, California. Lush Super 8 cinematography contributes to…

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Waste Land
Lucy Walker, João Jardim, Karen Harley

Artist Vik Muniz is renowned for making portraits out of unusual objects—sugar, dirt, peanut butter, chocolate syrup. Here, filmmaker Lucy Walker follows Muniz as he…

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Watchers of the Sky
Edet Belzberg

Four extraordinary people embody the vision of Rafael Lemkin, who created international law to stop genocide and hold leaders accountable.

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The Watson’s Hotel
Ragunath Vasudevan, Nathaniel Knop, Peter Rippl

The Watson’s Hotel is a dawn-to-dusk Mumbai city symphony contained within a single building, the oldest surviving cast-iron structure in India; this once majestic relic of the British Empire is now falling to ruin near the civil and high courts.

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The Way I Look at You: 5 Stories of Driving School
Jean-Stephane Bron

This intimate and uniquely probing film portrays the relationships that develop between five pairs of driving school instructors and students in Lausanne, Switzerland. Their distinctive…

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The Way I Look at You: 5 Stories of Driving School
Jean-Stéphane Bron

This uniquely insightful film explores the relationships that develop between five pairs of Swiss driving school instructors and their students; in their obligatory interactions, complex personal stories are revealed. Festival Year: 2000

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The Way It Is
Elizabeth Salgado

A boiled egg. A slurped saucer. Each sequence of this exquisite movie is reduced to its essence as it tells a year in the life…

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The Way We Get By
Aron Gaudet

The Bangor International Airport in Maine is often the last stop for American troops leaving for war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the first when…

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