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In John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk, narrated by Wesley Snipes, Bourne explores the biopic form that has framed much of his work…
MORE ›“Making a documentary,” John Huston says, “wasn’t really any different than making any other film except that the material reveals itself, tells its own story.”…
MORE ›Here’s the real Johnny. Since 1948, Johnny has been spinning the hits in Custer, Michigan. He’s changed with the times, and “raised his own crowd.”…
MORE ›The story of one of the most devastating disasters in American history. The film chronicles the events leading up to and following the moment on…
MORE ›On November 18, 1978, over 900 people died at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana in the largest mass suicide in history. Jim Jones…
MORE ›The Soviet Union’s most famous composer took a sea voyage to America near the end of his life. This remarkable documentary is structured around his…
MORE ›In this elegy filmed in a country retirement home—on a beautiful bluff in rural Quebec—two dozen seniors live out their final years to the slow rhythms of the changing seasons.
MORE ›Bombay train. Sprawl, shanty, skyscraper, rail sardines. Strap-hanger’s watch at 9:15. Harbor, bus, bottleneck, Buddha. Another rail-yard corpse—is that ten today? Magic hour Mumbai. Filmmaker…
MORE ›NBC News producer Alexandra Pelosi’s video diary of her year-and-a-half-long road trip with George W. Bush, and the rest of the 2000 presidential campaign bubble.…
MORE ›Devoted to the law and unwilling to mince words, Kholoud Al-Faqih is the first female judge in the family court system of the West Bank, navigating its bureaucracy and providing a rare glimpse into Islamic courts and gendered justice.
MORE ›Pioneering filmmaker Julia Reichert, who passed away in 2022, shares the intimate story of her youth, as a working-class girl, and how she began to dream of a larger life for herself, coming to embrace her working-class identity, and discovering feminism, documentary filmmaking, and her own voice. This luminous short film was edited and completed by Julia’s partner Steven Bognar.
MORE ›The tragic and poignant story of the Collyer brothers, the world’s most famous hoarders, told through remarkable paper puppets that move through intricate handmade sets.
MORE ›A young soldier has been convicted of raping the wife of a general in Congo. He’s serving time in jail and his own wife has…
MORE ›Members of the United Mine Workers take over the Pittston Coal Company and wait for the cops to attack in this verité recounting of one of the most important labor struggles of the second half of the twentieth century.
MORE ›From the filmmaker of The Farm, Juvies is a compassionate and harrowing examination of the journeys of three young men through Maryland’s Juvenile Justice System:…
MORE ›A sensual meditation on life, war, and notions of progress in a city pummeled by decades of war, the film meanders more than it asserts.…
MORE ›Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s artistic practice plays with the English language, exploring that space between what is immediately intelligible and what is deliberately opaque. Displayed on…
MORE ›Some people sing in the shower and have dreams of being the next Barbara Streisand, Phantom of the Opera, or Blues Brother. Forget Star Search…
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