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Call her a freedom fighter or a terrorist; Leila Khaled was the first woman to ever hijack an airplane. Born and raised in Haifa, in…
MORE ›An inside look at the life of the brilliant satirist, Lenny Bruce. Narrated by Robert DeNiro, the film follows Bruce’s evolution from strip club comic…
MORE ›An intimate look at the songs, poetry, and life of one of music’s most loved and influential songwriters. In the tradition of landmark documentaries about…
MORE ›National Teachers Academy is a high-performing public elementary school in a predominately Black neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. As gentrification creeps further into…
MORE ›While her husband Mitja lies trapped at the bottom of the Barents Sea inside the dying Russian submarine Kursk, Olga Kolesnikov tries to hold onto…
MORE ›Director Srdjan Keca is halfway around the world when his dad, Marinko, dies suddenly and alone. Grief-stricken, confused, and somewhat angry, he rushes home to…
MORE ›A Letter Without Words reconstructs the emergence of Nazi rule in Germany along with the story of a family caught in momentous historical change. This…
MORE ›This gripping multi-perspective account takes us deep within the shadows of a commercial fishing vessel.
MORE ›Follow the life of Omar, a Cuban refugee who leaves his wife and children behind to build a new life in New York City. As…
MORE ›Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities.
MORE ›The megacity of 100 years ago, operating at a different speed, viewed by a motionless camera positioned at discrete distances from its bustling life. These…
MORE ›This visually stunning biography of one of the 20th century’s most important artists accents the brilliant Mexican painter’s original, anarchic and rabble-rousing persona. The filmmakers…
MORE ›This film tells the story of Hank Greenberg’s struggle to become the first Jewish man to play Major League Baseball in the 1930’s. Through historical…
MORE ›Can we really live forever? And would we want to? Through interviews with monks, physicists and everyone in between, this film explores the human need to control life and death.
MORE ›In this simple and humanizing film, some thirty homeless men and women explain what possessions they keep in their shopping carts, and why the items…
MORE ›An aging resident imparts the history of his seaside Italian town. His recollections, and a trove of impeccably photographed artifacts, reveal the evolutions of one place over time.
MORE ›Released in 1903, Edwin S. Porter’s Life of an American Fireman is one of the earliest American films. The groundbreaking silent short portrays a firehouse…
MORE ›As a young war photographer and a member of South Africa’s photojournalist/daredevil “Bang Bang Club,” Kevin Carter covered many horrors during and after the fall…
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