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This meditative piece of living history unwinds the racist relationship between the Missouri towns of Ferguson (once predominantly white) and Kinloch (once predominantly black) and traces a path to the 2014 murder of Michael Brown.
MORE ›Five children divulge their feelings about their parents’ divorces in thoughtful, poetic, and humorous prose.
MORE ›A warm and candid portrait of the extraordinarily brave, empathic photographer, who died in Libya in 2011, by his partner on the film Restrepo.
MORE ›A young man reflects upon his volatile past while driving through the rain to a hospital, where an anxious and suspenseful night awaits him. Rain-dappled…
MORE ›A young journalist couple changes the breaking-news landscape as they take to the Los Angeles skies in their helicopter, capturing some of the city’s most pivotal moments as they unfold on the streets below, including the 1992 riots and the O.J. Simpson pursuit. Featuring extensive footage from their archive, Whirlybird reflects on their extraordinary success and the personal consequences of living with the pressing impulse to get to the story first.
MORE ›This enigmatic short weaves together past and present to explore what happened to a young Finnish actress at a hotel party in 1939.
MORE ›Against the backdrop of an ethereal North Dakota winter, three children and their immigrant mother describe scenes of isolation and exertion—the impact of the oil boom on their everyday lives.
MORE ›Three decades ago, the world was poised to stop global warming. Using exclusively archival material, “The White House Effect” tells the origin story of the climate crisis and how a political battle in the George H.W. Bush administration changed the course of history.
MORE ›Seventy-five percent of Japan’s population was born after 1945 and when questioned on the streets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many have no idea of the…
MORE ›This true-crime doc examines the sensationalized trial of notorious a South Boston gangster and brings new allegations of law-enforcement corruption to light.
MORE ›When Vincent Chin was beaten to death in a working-class Detroit bar, the Asian-American community was outraged. When the two unemployed autoworkers who murdered Chin…
MORE ›Go behind the scenes, onstage, and inside the minds of Le Tigre, the pioneering feminist electro- punk band, on their final tour.
MORE ›This fascinating youth documentary reflects on the struggle of Black South African and African-American youth in their quest for liberation and democratic rights. Shot on…
MORE ›This unflinching story of the Ferguson uprising is told by the activists who were there, chronicling the birth of a new generation of resisters in America.
MORE ›How much can a child endure from a mother who repeatedly promises to stop abusing drugs and put her life back together? Why Can’t We…
MORE ›Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki’s latest documentary, Why We Fight, is a powerful essay on American foreign policy in the age of the military-industrial complex. Borrowing the…
MORE ›Alan Berliner’s brilliantly edited exploration of insomnia, the science of sleep, and the challenges of balancing art and family is an idiosyncratic blend of the…
MORE ›Born into a life of privilege, Anna Larina was both a daughter and a widow of Soviet founding fathers. Anna Larina’s story encompasses the tragic…
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