Films


Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour
Kerthy Fix

Go behind the scenes, onstage, and inside the minds of Le Tigre, the pioneering feminist electro- punk band, on their final tour.

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Who’s GonnaTake the Weight?
Alonzo Rico Speight

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…

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Whose Streets?
Sabaah Folayan

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.

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Why Can’t We Be a Family Again?
Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel

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…

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Why We Fight
Eugene Jarecki

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…

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Wide Awake
Alan Berliner

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…

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Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story
Rosemarie Reed

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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The Wild Child
Francois Truffaut

Based on the true account of Jean Marc-Gaspard Itard, a doctor at The National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Paris, The Wild Child…

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A Will for the Woods
Amy Browne, Jeremy Kaplan, Tony Hale, Brian Wilson

This film explores the green burial movement by focusing on one man’s quest for a final resting place that will do no harm to the earth.

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William Faulkner Funeral Procession

Filmed on July 7, 1962, this brief black-and-white film quietly documents the funeral of one of America’s most powerful writers, William Faulkner. Shot by a…

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William Faulkner’s Mississippi
Don Horan

A stirring film that invokes the uncommon world of William Faulkner through his personal writings and striking black and white footage of Mississippi in the…

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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
Sarah Kuntsler, Emily Kunstler

The late attorney William Kunstler represented civil rights and anti-war activists, as well as accused terrorists and murderers. In William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, filmmakers…

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Windfall
Laura Israel

Once a peaceful community, the rural town of Meredith, N.Y., is now torn apart by the recent development of industrial wind turbines.

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The Window Cleaner
Jules Bucher

The Window Cleaner is a charming U.S. Government Office of War Information short that presents the common man during the period of World War II,…

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Window Cleaner
Jules Bucher

Window Cleaner is a charming Office of War Information (OWI) short designed to present the common man of America. Following a window cleaner on his…

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The Winter Garden’s Tale
Simon Mozgovyi

Valentina Voronina has devoted her life to a floriculture pavilion where she tends plants and manages repairs to the greenhouse to keep it alive and standing. This heartrending film follows her transition when she’s asked to retire.

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Winter Light
Skule Eriksen

In the archipelago of Lofoten, off the Arctic coast of Norway, sunlight wanes in autumn and ultimately dips below the winter horizon. Filmmaker Skule Eriksen’s…

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Winter Soldier
Winter Soldier Collective: Fred Aranow, Nancy Baker, Joe Bangert, Rhetta Barron, Robert Fiore, David Gillis, David Grubin, Jeff Holstein, Barbara Jarvis, Al Kaupas, Barbara Kopple, Mark Lenix, Michael Lesser, Nancy Miller, Lee Osborne, Lucy Massie Phenix, Roger Phenix, Benay Rubenstein, Michael Weil.

A rare documentary classic, Winter Soldier captures the terrifying testimonies of more than 200 ex-GIs at the 1971 Detroit Winter Soldier Investigation concerning American atrocities…

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