Films


Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

At work on their album St. Anger, the members of the legendary band find themselves embroiled in bitter disputes, so they bring in their therapist to help.

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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

Neil Sedaka had it right: “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”—even harder if that refers to heavy metal mega-band Metallica. With a career spanning more…

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Microwave
Pin Pin Tan

One idea, one shot, one surprise. So simple, yet so rich. A gem.

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Midnight Family
Luke Lorentzen

Midnight Family follows one family’s high-speed nights as they earn a living driving their privately owned ambulance in Mexico City, combating rival for-profit EMTs in a city where the government provides 45 public ambulances for a population of 9 million.

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Mighty Times: The Children’s March
Bobby Houston, Robert Hudson

In May of 1963, the national media circulated brutal images of the violent civil rights struggles taking place in Birmingham, Alabama. To this day, images…

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Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Robert Houston

Mighty Times revisits a familiar historical event—the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and 1956—with a focus on the leadership role of Rosa Parks and the…

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Mija
Isabel Castro

Doris Muñoz is the only daughter of Mexican immigrant parents and the only one of their children born in the United States. For most of…

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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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Militantropos
Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi

Militantropos captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war—those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight—tracing both the instinct to survive and the need for closeness.

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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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