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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…
MORE ›An austere and contemplative observation of Lake Victoria fishermen rendered in arresting
chiaroscuro.
Filmmaker Steve James returns to his hometown of Hampton, Virginia, to explore the lasting polarization surrounding the 1993 trial of Allen Iverson, then a high school basketball star three years away from the NBA.
MORE ›Dr. Madan Kataria is a physician and founder of Laughing Club International, creating a therapy to help reduce common stressors of everyday life in India.…
MORE ›Two workmen and an apprentice drive through Belfast at night, replacing old sodium streetlights with LED. Beneath their glow, the city grapples with change, as progress marches on
MORE ›Compiled from hundreds of home movies to create a dream ride across 20th-century America, this mixtape’s soundtrack and narration is provided by the audience.
MORE ›“I wouldn’t own a mean chicken,” says Glen Comeaux, who has been raising fighting birds for 43 years in southwest Louisiana. Cockfighting is legal there,…
MORE ›In the summer of 2019, young father Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his not quite two-year-old daughter, Angie Valeria, drowned in a river on the…
MORE ›Are you convinced that there were no voting irregularities in 2004? Then witness Fannie Lewis in action on November 2, 2004, as she struggles to…
MORE ›The filmmaker’s search for jokes told by Palestinians yields both cultural insights and pointed commentary behind the humor.
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