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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two of the most significant pioneers fighting for women’s rights. Creating a women’s movement where none existed…
MORE ›On May 8, 1945—VE Day—poet and radio man Norman Corwin broadcasts “On a Note of Triumph” and moves a nation. Eric Simonson details Corwin’s radio…
MORE ›Every summer a surprising number of bearded men flock to Key West to take part in the annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, imitating a famous author who himself donned the persona of fearless adventurer.
MORE ›With unprecendented access and years of home movies, this multidimensional film points a lens at international arms smuggler and philosophical businessman Viktor Bout.
MORE ›Experience how class operates in gentrification through the youthful eyes of 10-year-old Pam Taylor and her 12-year-old brother Scott in their multiracial Chicago neighborhood. The…
MORE ›Photographer and filmmaker Eugene Richards offers unmediated scrutiny of a Good Samaritan Center in Nebraska; his expressive camera seeks the unexpected to depict elderly residents.…
MORE ›The Nuremberg trials mark the first time in history that moving images—invested therefore with the indisputable power of truth—play a major role as judicial evidence…
MORE ›Eat it, wear it, pet it or feed it to the gators. A goofy short exposition of nutria lore reveals the past, present and future…
MORE ›This wildly fantastic story of Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, whose goat testicale impotence cure and million-watt radio station brought him fame and fortune, spins together animation and an unreliable narrator.
MORE ›Jem Cohen’s short elegiac comment on street photography in post-9/11 New York reveals the city’s idiosyncratic beauty in striking 16mm. As Cohen tells it “Sometimes…
MORE ›An experimental and haunting collection of vignettes, Deborah Stratman’s O’er the Land weaves several picturesque and arresting strands into an evocative essay on freedom as…
MORE ›The stories of brothers-in-law Abu Jandal and Hamdan—Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard and driver respectively—converge and diverge in ways that shed light on a part of the world too few understand.
MORE ›The stories of brothers-in-law Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan—Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard and driver, respectively—converge and diverge in ways that shed light on Al Quada’s activities and America’s foreign policy.
MORE ›From potato peelers to iPhones, every manufactured item we use has a person behind it. Gary Hustwit’s film brings us behind the scenes of our…
MORE ›“I see history as a badly mixed cocktail,” explains a veteran bartender in Lima, Peru. “Made of semi-democratic elections, coups, terrorism, and corruption.” Dutch filmmaker…
MORE ›Akiko, one of the last living survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, recounts her devastating story through intricate and searing animation.
MORE ›Tracing little more than the movement and texture of the night sky, both the astronomical and the atmospheric, this experimental film truly belongs in a…
MORE ›Renowned banjo virtuosos Béla Fleck and acclaimed bassist Edgar Meyer have been collaborating for more than 20 years. In this verité film, go on tour…
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