Films
North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. This film describes a journey taken across the social, economic, and psychological tobacco terrain…
MORE ›With a blend of performance footage and penetrating discussions about her purpose and process, this film follows Okwui Okpokwasili as she tours her powerful one-woman play around the country.
MORE ›Jay Leyda takes the viewer around The Bronx, his black-and-white cinematography as perky as René Clair’s of Paris, as gently touching as a witty poet’s…
MORE ›An unemployed Puerto Rican father chases the “look of a lifetime” when he realizes he bears an uncanny resemblance to our 44th president.
MORE ›Florin Krasniqi is a charismatic, straightforward Brooklyn contractor who owns a roofing company. He is also one of the biggest suppliers of guns and ammunition…
MORE ›A rapid-fire succession of archival footage and Hollywood clips offers an unconventional view of the Great Depression.
MORE ›A murder trial ignites the small farming community of Munnsville, New York, when Delbert Ward, an eccentric and uneducated man, confesses to suffocating his brother in the isolated home they shared with two other brothers. Was the killing an act of mercy? Was Delbert’s confession coerced? In Brother’s Keeper, a surprisingly complicated story emerges.
MORE ›Famed horse whisperer Buck Brannaman ―helps horses with people problems‖ by invoking the healing magic of the human-animal bond.
MORE ›“Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.” So said R. Buckminster Fuller, who, for the better part of the…
MORE ›An experimental portrait of the filmmaker’s grandfather, Carroll B. Williams Jr., a ground-breaking African-American forester, that reflects on his work and legacy in the twilight of his life.
MORE ›The stories of six people and their guide dogs explore the powerful bond between human and canine.
MORE ›A droll visit of discovery to desolate North Dakota and it’s active, inactive, and being decommissioned (blown-up) missile silos. With a mordant commentary about the…
MORE ›Fanciful dreams meet cold reality as a Scottish family tries to raise American bison far from their native grasslands.
MORE ›This concert film captures one performance by the Dutch band the Ex, 25-year veterans of the underground avant rock scene. Much like Fugazi, whom Jem…
MORE ›Fidelis Cloer, a German supplier of luxury armored vehicles and self-confessed war profiteer, found the “perfect war” when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.…
MORE ›Candid interviews with colleagues and acquaintances trace the infamous late lawyer’s life and career, from his early days as a prosecutor in the still-controversial espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg—director Ivy Meeropol’s grandparents—to his work with Senator Joseph McCarthy to his role as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and mentor.
MORE ›This is an extraordinary, renowned documentary about the messianic German director Werner Herzog struggling against desperate odds in the Amazon basin to make his epic…
MORE ›An intimate look at life on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a waterway teeming with activity and rife with pollution.
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