Films


Mike Wallace Is Here
Avi Belkin

Composed entirely of archival footage, with no narration, this penetrating portrait of the storied 60 Minutes journalist—a man for whom interviewing was an aggressive artform and an enduring search for truth—charts Wallace’s highs and lows both on and off the air.

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Miles Above
Michael Welt

In this study of the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, see the tragedy unfold from the multiple perspective of amateur photographers who recorded the explosion from…

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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Stanley Nelson

Navigating his professional and personal lives, this remarkable study of the jazz musician unfolds through reflections from musicians, scholars, lovers, and friends. Davis’s own reflections—and the music itself—narrate his extraordinary genius and sometimes turbulent life.

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Milking The Rhino
David E. Simpson

Television’s ubiquitous nature shows in the sixties and seventies perpetuated a myth of rural Africa as a modern-day Eden where great beasts roamed free across…

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Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones
Harvey Wang

Milton Rogovin is an optometrist by trade, but he sees best with his camera. Rogovin began photographing the Lower West Side of his native Buffalo…

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Minding the Gap
Bing Liu

Skateboarding and strained family relationships bond three friends together in this introspective saga about the journey from youth to adulthood.

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Minka
Davina Pardo

A 250-year-old farmhouse is the repository of cherished memories for a renowned foreign correspondent and his adopted Japanese architect son.

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Mirador (Lookout)
Antón Terni

In the lovely and magical world of Pablo, Valeria, and Oscar, time is spent camping, swimming, drinking and talking, and going to concerts along the Uruguayan coast. Their reverie, shared through poetic imagery and Pablo’s insightful musings, is a sensory experience in which the three friends navigate their blindness while foregrounding their connection with each other.

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Miroir Noir
Vincent Morisset

Arcade Fire makes beautiful and moody music and Vincent Morrisett has made a beautiful and moody film about them. More specifically, Miroir Noir is about…

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The Mirror
David Christensen

This beautifully shot film blends the absurdism of Fellini and the generosity of DeSantis as it closely observes a remote village in the Italian Alps whose mayor lights upon an ingenious solution to a seemingly insurmountable dilemma: for three months of the year, the village is plunged into the shadow of a nearby mountain.

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Miss America
Lisa Ades

Combining rare archival footage and still photographs with never-before seen live footage of the Miss America Pageant today, this film explores why Miss America is…

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Miss India-Georgia
Daniel Freidman, Sharon Grimberg

First generation Indian-American daughters grab for glory in this hybrid of a beauty pageant, the Miss India-Georgia competition. This freewheeling look at four contestants follows…

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Missing Allen: The Man Who Became a Camera
Christian Bauer

Allen Ross was a filmmaker’s filmmaker—artistic, committed and reliable. And then he went missing. Friend and fellow filmmaker Christian Bauer decided after five years out…

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The Missing Picture
Rithy Panh

This deeply poetic and personal document uses hundreds of clay figurines to recreate events and validate memories of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

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Mississippi Masala
Mira Nair

Mississippi Masala opens in Uganda in 1972 with the expulsion of all Asian Africans by Idi Amin. One family tearfully leaves their home and lands…

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Mistaken for Strangers
Tom Berninger

Matt Berninger, the lead singer of the rock band the National, invites his younger brother to work as a road and film the band on tour—with unexpected results.

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Mistress Dispeller
Elizabeth Lo

Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. With strikingly intimate access, Mistress Dispeller follows this unfolding family drama from all corners of a love triangle.

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Model House
Goran Radovanovic

The bravado and posturing of the Croats and Serbs in the former Yugoslavia is long dead and gone. And in the ruins families remember when…

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