Films
Why are movies about outrageous con artists so fun to watch? Forbidden Lie$ combines caper with exposé and teems with so many self-serving characters that…
MORE ›A riveting, on-the-ground look at the Oakland Police Department during a period of intense scrutiny and reform, as a new sergeant aims to correct protocol in the wake of charges of misconduct and abuse.
MORE ›The life story of acclaimed Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki is interwoven with excerpts from his poignant legacy lecture at the University of British Columbia.
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MORE ›Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris is the final resting place of many great artists, writers, and composers, and visitors come daily to bring flowers, tidy…
MORE ›Artist Frank Wong’s detailed dioramas of the Chinatown of his childhood serve as portals to the past in a changing San Francisco.
MORE ›When Richard Minnich was rear-ended in 1990, he emerged unscathed. One week later, he couldn’t remember a thing: not his wife, not his children, nothing.…
MORE ›An astonishingly provocative and haunting tale of two young women who take inordinate risks in Warsaw’s ruthless urbanity to unhinge the course of a bleak,…
MORE ›Through an embodied camera eye that moves freely in the in-between place that is an alley connecting two streets,Fortuneevokes a sense of magical realism and offers texture to the meditation on the Chinese American identity, which can also be characterized as a liminal space.
MORE ›In the wee hours, when electrical demand is down, workers stoke elaborate furnances to produce the steel frames for Steinway pianos.
MORE ›Visually provocative, mysterious and philosophical, acclaimed filmmaker Trinh Minh-ha’s The Fourth Dimension is more than a Japanese travelogue. It is a meditation on life and…
MORE ›Using the metaphor of a foxhole as a place a soldier can feel safe, two Vietnam veterans reflect on how their meeting during the war…
MORE ›As part of our 20th anniversary celebration, Full Frame is pleased to launch “Framing the Conversation”, a new series of discussions in the A&E IndieFilms Speakeasy in which individual filmmakers reflect on their work. In this inaugural year, two of the field’s most renowned filmmakers—Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker—discuss their careers and the documentary filmmaking profession.
MORE ›The fine line between genius and madman/ego-maniac is explored in this film which documents the personal and professional lives of Frank Lloyd Wright. Interviews with…
MORE ›Frank Lloyd Wright was a great American architect and an authentic genius, a man who believed he was destined to redesign the world, creating everything…
MORE ›Activist Angela Davis recounts her 1970 arrest and trial, which helped define her life as a revolutionary icon and champion of free speech.
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