Films
The first time John Grierson used the term “documentary” was in reference to Moana, thus defining a new type of filmmaking made famous four years…
MORE ›Three-dimensional characters that jump off the screen and astonishing access to one family’s day-to-day life create a gripping story. What happens when children are let…
MORE ›For two decades Richard Scott Smith seduced women by preying upon their profound desire for companionship in order to commit identity fraud and theft, leaving them emotionally and financially devastated. This four-part series shares the stories of Smith’s wives as they come together, with the help of a bounty hunter named Carla, to reclaim their savings and their dignity.
MORE ›When Gene Robinson was elected Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, he made history as the first openly gay, non-celibate bishop in the Episcopal Church…
MORE ›This romantic whirl through the British film archives captures love and courtship in the 20th century through a kaleidoscopic montage of clips.
MORE ›A scientific look at the romantic life of the octopus, filmed over a ten-year period.
MORE ›Love Machina follows Bina48, a humanoid AI, commissioned in 2007 by Martine and Bina Rothblatt. An early sketch of potential digital consciousness, Bina48 is our vehicle to explore the Rothblatt’s futurist ideas and their quest to be in love forever.
MORE ›Afghan-Australian aid worker Mahboba Rawi must challenge traditions and navigate a web of complex negotiations to help two young Afghanis marry for love.
MORE ›Tennis coach Nick Bollettieri trained some of the sport’s greatest champions, but his volatility and harsh methods came at a price. Conversations between director and subject revisit moments of triumph and anguish, including Bollettieri’s infamous falling out with Andre Agassi.
MORE ›In Thy, a faraway Danish fishing community, there are now over five hundred Thai women. Fifteen years ago, there was one—Sommai, who has since become…
MORE ›In this stunning and elegant tribute, Patel pays homage to his aging mother as he captures the beauty and artistry of her life’s work: making…
MORE ›Seven elderly monks at a Cistercian abbey in Ireland humorously muse on their spiritual experiences, way of life, and the inevitable end to it all.
MORE ›The Loving Story tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their landmark Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that changed history.
MORE ›A provocative chronicle of the groundbreaking civil rights battle of Richard and Mildred Loving, arrested for their interracial marriage in Virginia in 1958, whose case eventually went to the Supreme Court.
MORE ›A ten-minute assemblage of tracking shots captures a shattered New Orleans neighborhood in the early morning mist. Each of the caved-in houses and crushed objects…
MORE ›This stunningly photographed film captures the various works of Swiss artist Heinrich Lüber, for whom the world is a museum. Rather than set up his…
MORE ›Lucille Safford and her husband, Melvin, worked for my family for many years in Charlotte, N.C.—she as a housekeeper, he as a yardman. Lucille and…
MORE ›This film makes me hear the Clash singing, “daddy was a bankrobber, but he was a good man.” Serious and playful, fast paced and brilliant,…
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