Films
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.
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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.
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›The Fresh Docs program will feature a work-in-progress cut of Farmer Veteran (Working Title), followed by a moderated conversation with the filmmakers.
MORE ›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…
MORE ›In the brief ascent up a flight of stairs, a pair of strangers find a rapport across languages and generations.
MORE ›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.
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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…
MORE ›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.…
MORE ›In the lead-up to her wedding, filmmaker Sharon Shattuck returns home to better understand the enduring relationship between her mother and transgender father.
MORE ›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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