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MORE ›Mr. Ophüls’s Academy Award-winning film about the 40-year search for the “Butcher of Lyon.”
MORE ›This epic examination of the life of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyons,” doggedly explores questions of evil, complicity, memory, responsibility, and evasion.
MORE ›Charles and Ray Eames are well known for their contributions to the modern design of furniture, architecture, and even film. This film, which is subtitled…
MORE ›Eugene Jarecki’s previous film, Why We Fight, was a startling look at the genesis of United States combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House I…
MORE ›In Botswana, two young men must wrestle with the choice between honoring ancestral traditions or following modern possibilities.
MORE ›In fascinating detail this film portrays the lifestyles and reproductive habits of several kinds of jellyfish.
MORE ›George Stoney, notable documentarian, investigates Robert Flaherty’s film and returns to the island of Aran to record the process and result of Flaherty’s work. He…
MORE ›Three young women on the autism spectrum attempt to navigate social rules and the impending challenges of adulthood as they prepare for their first formal dance.
MORE ›A profound and strangely reassuring film about people in Oregon who end their own lives under the state’s Death with Dignity Act.
MORE ›Part icon, part iconoclast, Melvin Van Peebles is a filmmaker with an autobiography that’s as fascinating as any of his motion pictures. This playful documentary…
MORE ›This remarkable film follows the campaign of political newcomer Abdul El-Sayed, taking us behind the scenes of the Michigan Democratic primary election as the gubernatorial hopeful and his team of young visionaries maneuver around bureaucratic obstructions within their own party.
MORE ›Adapted from the research of Soviet psychologist A.R. Luria—who in 1931 went to Uzbekistan to document Moscow-mandated literacy programs—this playful, inventive experimental film explores how…
MORE ›Four soldiers who fought together in Iraq come home to resume their normal lives—with very different results. As one of them says, ―We went to war as a unit and came home alone.
MORE ›In a misty Finnish dreamscape, locals stew over the mechanized monsters and Thai immigrants who pilfer their revered cloudberries.
MORE ›In the early 1980s when the number of AIDS cases in America began to soar, many organizations with the resources to help turned a blind…
MORE ›In 1954, after the Supreme Court handed down the Brown v. Board decision, school board members in Hoxie, Arkansas, who were motivated more by conscience…
MORE ›Huey Long is an historical portrait of one extraordinary man. When Long proclaimed, “I was born into politics with a whirlwind for my bride,” it…
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