Films
If you’ve been to hell and back, how do you exorcise the memories? Former U.N. commander
Roméo Dallaire’s new mission: end the use of child soldiers.
Fighting Grandpa is a sensitive and probing portrayal of the filmmaker’s Korean immigrant grandparents and their marriage. The brilliant use of home movies, photographs, and…
MORE ›This dreamlike meditation follows the creation of a massive sculpture from fabrication to transportation.
MORE ›The Film of Her is an unusual short documentary about film restoration. It is well known that Kemp Niver restored the Library of Congress Paper…
MORE ›At the end of World War II, 60 minutes of raw film, shot by the Nazis propaganda machine, was discovered in an East German archive.…
MORE ›In 1996, host Heklina first mounted Trannyshack, an irreverent rock ’n’ roll drag show featuring subversive absurdist performances, a fierce soundtrack, and a transcendent spirit.…
MORE ›Ten years after Frøydis cut all contact with her parents due to neglect and violence during her upbringing, she is confronted with her father being on his deathbed.
MORE ›On April 16, 1979, one week to the day after winning the Academy Award for Best Director for The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino began principle…
MORE ›Set in the auto industry of Detroit, this film tells the story of a group of radical African-American workers who try to build an independent…
MORE ›Humphrey Jennings was the spiritual heir to Basil Wright, and a poet who was in the right place at the moment he was most needed:…
MORE ›In this autobiographical portrait, Nina Davenport boldly lays bare the hardships and triumphs of her journey toward single motherhood in a modern age.
MORE ›In this stirring tribute, Alan Berliner traces the tenacious lines of connection between him and his cousin Edwin Honig as Edwin slowly succumbs to Alzheimer’s disease.
MORE ›First Position follows six young performers for a year as they work to compete in the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the world’s largest,…
MORE ›Doe-eyed and quick to smile, fortysomething Eva longs for a sense of normalcy—her own place, a job, a boyfriend. As she explains it to her…
MORE ›In 1966, in Dakar, Senegal, over two thousand dancers, artists, and writers from Africa and the African Diaspora came together to participate in the historic…
MORE ›As politicians and the press debate the merits of countless school reforms, it is teachers who enter the classroom every day and fight the real…
MORE ›At the request of an ailing friend, a fisherman sets out to free Juanita, a beloved and exceptionally talented carp.
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