Films


Bright Leaves (Work-in-Progress)
Ross McElwee

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…

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Bronx Gothic
Andrew Rossi

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.

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A Bronx Morning
Jay Leyda

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…

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Bronx Obama
Ryan Murdock

An unemployed Puerto Rican father chases the “look of a lifetime” when he realizes he bears an uncanny resemblance to our 44th president.

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The Brooklyn Connection
Klaartje Quirijns

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…

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Philippe Mora

A rapid-fire succession of archival footage and Hollywood clips offers an unconventional view of the Great Depression.

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Brother’s Keeper
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

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.

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Buck
Cindy Meehl

Famed horse whisperer Buck Brannaman ―helps horses with people problems‖ by invoking the healing magic of the human-animal bond.

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Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon

“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…

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Buckskin
Mars Verrone

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.

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Buddy
Heddy Honigmann

The stories of six people and their guide dogs explore the powerful bond between human and canine.

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Buffalo Common
Bill Brown

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…

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Buffalo Dreams
Maurice O'Brien

Fanciful dreams meet cold reality as a Scottish family tries to raise American bison far from their native grasslands.

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Building a Broken Mousetrap
Jem Cohen

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…

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Bulletproof Salesman
Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker

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.…

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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Ivy Meeropol

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.

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Burden of Dreams
Les Blank

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…

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Buriganga
Michelle Coomber

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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