Films


The Edge of Dreaming
Amy Hardie

When one of filmmaker Amy Harding’s disturbing dreams manifests in real life, she is left to wonder if her most recent premonition—that she will die in the upcoming year—will also come true.

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Edgecombe
Crystal Kayiza

The stories of Shaka Jackson, Doris Stith, and Deacon Joyner, residents of the agricultural community of Edgecombe County, N.C., highlight the spirit of the place they call home, while exploring the lasting legacy of slavery in the American South.

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The Editor and the Dragon: Horace Carter Fights The Klan
Martin M. Clark, Walter E. Campbell

A smalltown newspaper editor in North Carolina stands up to the KKK and is awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his courageous and tireless dissent.

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Educating Peter
Thomas C. Goodwin, Geradine Wurzburg

It’s Peter’s first day of third grade. He’s excited and scared, like 46 million other children on their way to the first day of a…

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The Education of Shelby Knox
Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt

This film goes through four tumultuous years in the life of an idealistic high school student in Lubbock, Texas. Watch as she comes to question…

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Egg Lady
Una Celma

Eggs, cups of flour, cups of sugar. This is what it takes to make the June 17 Birthday Cake at a Latvian bakery, which produces…

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Eighty Layers of Me (that you’ll have to survive)
Tricia Creason Valencia

What’s a cheerleader to do after high school ends? An exuberant short, enriched by optical printing, Eighty Layers of Me presents some utterly atypical second…

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El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Gereon Wetzel

Ferran Adrià’s renowned restaurant closes for six months every year while chefs perfect an avant-garde menu of impressive alchemy.

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El Inmigrante
David Eckenrode, John Sheedy, John Eckenrode

El Inmigrante is a film about the American and Mexican border crisis. Eusebio de Haro, a young Mexican border crosser, is shot and killed by…

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El Velador
Natalia Almada

At dusk, the sun’s golden light casts an eerie glow on a vast collection of extravagant mausoleums where some of Mexico’s notorious drug lords have been laid to rest. Through the confines of the cemetery, El Velador reflects on a community besieged by violence.

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Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker, Andy Picheta

Acclaimed documentarians Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, and D A Pennebaker direct this enthralling portrait of Broadway legend Elaine Stritch. Combining the on-stage performance from her…

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Elations in Negative
Jennifer Reeves

A bloody adaptation of a William Carlos Williams poem.

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Elefsina Notre Amour
Mahdi Fleifel

Deserted landscapes, ancient ruins, and abandoned shipwrecks at sea—Elefsina’s archeological sites don’t come close to being as hauntingly beautiful as these dead ships. Elefsina Notre Amour is a short sci-fi essay, a timeless archive, filmed on 16mm color Kodak.

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Elephant
Wes Sterrs

An elephant arrives on an island off the coast of Maine and, on a day like any other, the tightly wound circle of life unfurls.

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The Elk Calf
Elena Koptseva

Katya is a professional “elk calf.” Every spring she delivers elk calves. Right after the delivery, Katya takes a newborn away from its mother.  Sometimes it’s simpler to be an elk calf than to work things out with her own son.

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Eloquent Nude: The Love and Legacy of Edward Weston and Charis Wilson
Ian McCluskey

Charis Wilson was a free-spirited California girl when she first modeled and fell for photographer Edward Weston in 1934. This engaging film shows that Charis…

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The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
Kazuo Hara

This extremely controversial and innovative film premiered in Tokyo in 1987. The documentary traces the efforts of Okuzaki Kenzõ to chronicle war crimes, including murder…

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Empire
Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol’s 1964 unique meditation on the Empire State Building was displayed at the Center for Documentary Studies.

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