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This film tells the riveting story of Miklos Radnoti, a Hungarian poet who perished in the Holocaust. Throughout his forced travels from the Bor copper…
MORE ›For three decades, bandleader and master trumpeter Doc Severinsen was a mainstay of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Treasured for his exceptional talent, he is equally remembered for his eccentric outfits and charismatic banter with the show’s beloved host. Now in his nineties, and still performing and teaching, Severinsen lights up this radiant film about his life and career, which weaves together archival footage; recollections from friends, family, and fans; and intimate conversations with the man himself, whose passion for music remains evergreen.
MORE ›This epic series accompanies five families as they migrate from India, the West Bank, Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico to the United States. Shot…
MORE ›On a small farm in the Norwegian forest, the Payne family seeks a wild and free existence. They practice home-schooling and strive for a closely-knit family dynamic in harmony with nature. However, when tragedy unexpectedly strikes the family, it upends their idyllic world and forces them to forge a new path into modern society.
MORE ›To highlight our 2006 Southern Sidebar Series and pay tribute to the people devastated by Hurricane Katrina, we present a special program featuring Branford Marsalis…
MORE ›A member of the National Guard returns from Iraq and sees in New Orleans’s devastation a new mission. He has hopes for a marriage to…
MORE ›Like their neighbors, the legendary New Orleans music community was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Music documentarian Robert Mugge creates an emotional portrait of…
MORE ›Can the Russian Orthodox Church be persuaded to canonize a young martyred border guard who has become an icon throughout the land?
MORE ›City of Tomorrow traces the spectacular and often troubling changes that overtake New York during the era of the Great Depression and beginning of WWII.…
MORE ›In this segment from Burns’s New York series, immigrants agitate for more control over their lives while the city comes to its most stunning political…
MORE ›Two brief 1930s newsreels from the series News of the Day offer a historical look at the way events were reported during the Great Depression.
MORE ›Still reeling from the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, a bereaved community opens up about the aftermaths of an unthinkable tragedy.
MORE ›An extraordinary, disturbing film that probed Nazi concentration camps in an exercise of memory, using camera tracking to evoke mood and theme. Actual photographs and…
MORE ›Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in “Night and Fog” (Nuit et brouillard), one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust. Juxtaposing the stillness of the abandoned camps’ empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, Resnais investigates humanity’s capacity for violence, and presents the devastating suggestion that such horrors could occur again.
MORE ›John Grierson’s documentary unit of the British General Post Office produced gems such as Night Mail. This film brings to life the nightly run of…
MORE ›When filmmaker Todd Karehana discovers his mother’s strange nightly ritual—feeding the stray cats near his childhood home—he becomes her accomplice in an effort to understand…
MORE ›Many know Paul Bowles as an acclaimed author of stories and novels, including The Sheltering Sky. What is less well-known is that before becoming a…
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