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In a tiny New Zealand farming town, a community rugby squad vows to come back from a losing season.
MORE ›Public policy and personal memories collide in San Francisco in the attempt to memorialize the tragedy of AIDS on a national scale.
MORE ›Growing Up Female captures six women, from the ages of four to twenty-six, as they experience coming of age in America. Each reveals impressions specific…
MORE ›Julia Reichert and Jim Klein’s first film, widely seen as the first feature documentary of the modern-day Women’s Liberation Movement, offers six portraits of girls and women at various ages, examining how they are socialized. Added to the National Film Registry in 2011, Growing Up Female remains in active distribution fifty-three years after its initial release.
MORE ›Adult students with Down Syndrome question their unknown futures. After attending the same school for decades, is there anything left to be discovered in this place, and what opportunities exist in the outside world?
MORE ›Pinocchio, Schnozola, Sir Nose… Charles grows up to be clearly self-conscious of his prominent Italian nose. Still, he was shocked when one of the teachers…
MORE ›Mexican workers are welcomed to North Carolina’s farms for long months of officially sanctioned exploitation; when the agricultural season is over, they go home to…
MORE ›After the dismantling of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa, Bishop Desmond Tutu and others were assigned the troubling…
MORE ›Set in Mozambique, this new film examines the human side of environmental sustainability.
MORE ›A captivating peek between the covers of romance novels, this film reveals the yearnings of five individuals from around the world—a novelist, a cover model, and three readers—who are all embroiled in the genre as they navigate love in a modern age.
MORE ›Barbara Kopple takes on gun violence in a gripping study of advocacy’s methods and antagonists.
MORE ›Every four years, the spectacle of women’s Olympic gymnastics entrances sports enthusiasts and couch potatoes alike. But audiences don’t see the ordeals that these young…
MORE ›Each year thousands of Jamaicans spend six months cutting sugar cane by hand in Florida. They arrive with hopes of decent wages and a better life, only to find themselves exploited in ways that recall the shameful days of slavery.
MORE ›A single suspenseful shot takes us inside the art of aural illusion and reveals that all is not as it seems or sounds.
MORE ›With humor and searing insight, Penny Lane’s examination of the Satanic Temple reveals the controversial religious movement’s aim to shine a light on the hypocrisy around America’s separation of church and state.
MORE ›Where do celebrities get their pricey hair extensions? Some of the best are “temple hair” from India—long, luxurious tresses never subjected to harsh chemical processes…
MORE ›Hal Ashby’s controversial films about race, sex, politics, and unconventional love made him a Hollywood rarity in the 1970s—a director who made films outside studio control. This loving remembrance by his peers celebrates the iconoclastic filmmaker.
MORE ›Observational and impressionistic, this poetic film is a humanist exploration of an Alabama community, where mostly black, working-class families live, work, dream, celebrate, and struggle together.
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