Films
Throughout his career, Martin Scorsese has brilliantly documented the world around him. Not since Mean Streets had a subject seemed more tailor-made for his talents…
MORE ›Terry Linehan made this short, caring and unpretentious film about the family that runs the Goody Goody Omelet House and the “extended family” of regular…
MORE ›In a global economic chain linking the United States to India to Israel, the incredibly intimate act of baby making has been outsourced.
MORE ›Goshogoaka is a structural film, one that will cause many to re-evaluate the definition of “documentary.” Consisting entirely of six ten-minute takes of a gymnasium…
MORE ›Absorbing and gritty, this documentary has plot, suspense and characters more compelling than any fiction film. Granted total access to a Harlem self-help drug abuse…
MORE ›Changing winds blowing through a field of grass create mesmerizing patterns and otherworldy landscapes in this symphony of sound and movement.
MORE ›From 1976 to 1983 a brutal regime in Argentina “disappeared” thousands, including hundreds of pregnant women who gave birth in concentration camps before they were…
MORE ›Gray Days considers the state of the exploding population of the incarcerated elderly. This intellectually provocative short film follows the stories of two elderly inmates…
MORE ›In this gripping, disturbing and important work, filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and Brother’s Keeper) journeys to Austria with a group of…
MORE ›The fat’s in the fire—Pat’s, Geno’s, Jim’s, or Tony Luke’s? Cheese whiz or provolone? The meat, the roll, or the restaurant hygiene? Young or old,…
MORE ›Issei looks like one cool Japanese guy. He’s got it all, expensive clothes, the perfectly messed up hair, a boyish grin frozen in time, a…
MORE ›A chilling investigation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill through the stories of people still experieincing its aftereffects—from oil executives to Gulf Coast residents—long after the media moved on.
MORE ›A meandering camera takes a graceful, evocative journey through the spaces and operations of Warsaw’s Grand Theatre as it presents the opera Madama Butterfly.
MORE ›Filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to document the systematic use of rape as a weapon of war. With a…
MORE ›On the Mississippi river between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is a stretch of land dubbed “Cancer Alley.” The residents of this area, mostly poor…
MORE ›A real-life thriller about the complex relationship between a Palestinian spy and his Israeli Shin Bet handler.
MORE ›In 1979 members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazis opened fire on a Communist Workers Party rally, killing five protesters and injuring…
MORE ›This sweeping, lyrical look at the lives of residents of East Java, Indonesia, explores the ongoing ramifications of a mudflow disaster, caused by natural gas drilling, that wiped out 16 villages in 2006.
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