Films


Framing the Conversation

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.

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Frank Lloyd Wright
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

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…

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Frank Lloyd Wright
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

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…

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Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
Shola Lynch

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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Freedom Hill
Resita Cox

After the Civil War, freed African Americans settled in the floodplains along North Carolina’s Tar River. This land becomes Princeville, the first town chartered by…

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Freedom Riders
Stanley Nelson

For eight months in 1961, 400 black and white men and women risked their lives when they flouted Jim Crow laws to sit side by…

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Freedom Summer
Stanley Nelson

Remarkable archival footage and unforgettable eyewitness accounts take us back to the summer of 1964, when hundreds of civil rights activists entered Missisippi to help enfranchise the state’s African American citizens.

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Freedom Summer
Marco Williams

This investigative documentary takes us back to that moment when the only thing that mattered was making the U.S. a country worth living in for…

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Freeheld
Cynthia Wade

This heart-wrenching tale takes us through the struggles of a highly respected police lieutenant who, while battling terminal cancer, must take on the city council…

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Fresh Docs
Alix Blair, Jeremy Lange

The Fresh Docs program will feature a work-in-progress cut of Farmer Veteran (Working Title), followed by a moderated conversation with the filmmakers.

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Friendly Persuasion
Jamsheed Akrami

The Iranian cinema is the subject of this fascinating and highly informative documentary by Jamsheed Akrami. Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and other top directors discuss…

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A Friendship in Tow/Toe
Atsushi Kuwayama

In the brief ascent up a flight of stairs, a pair of strangers find a rapport across languages and generations.

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From Parts Unknown
Michael T. Workman

The poignant experience of a young man who determines an unlikely outlet for his pain and hardships: In local wrestling, he finds catharsis, community, and a sense of purpose.

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From Swastika to Jim Crow
Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub

An inspiring account of the experiences and activities of Jewish scholars, refuges from Nazism, who came to the U.S. and taught in traditional black colleges…

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From the Other Side
Chantal Akerman

Renowned Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman shifts her focus to the border town of Agua Prieta in Mexico where would-be illegal immigrants ponder the risks of…

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From the Pole to the Equator
Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi

In the 1970s, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi began making films from early nitrate footage, reframing shots and keeping the scratches and damaged bits.…

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From This Day Forward
Sharon Shattuck

In the lead-up to her wedding, filmmaker Sharon Shattuck returns home to better understand the enduring relationship between her mother and transgender father.

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Frozen Heart
Stig Andersen, Kenny Sanders

From the snowy Norwegian land comes this intriguing portrait of the explorer Roald Admunsen, the first man to sail the Northwest Passage, the first man…

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