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This non-linear profile of jazz critic Nat Hentoff is laced with music and illuminates the civil libertarian’s enduring influence.
MORE ›Commissioned by the Roosevelt Administration, Lorentz made this film for less than $20,000 and it transformed U.S. government film production. His photographers rivaled the fine…
MORE ›Les Blank considered this free-form feature documentary about beloved singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974, to be one of his greatest accomplishments. Hired by Russell to film him at his recording studio in northeast Oklahoma, Blank ended up constructing a unique, intimate portrait of a musician and his environment.
MORE ›Video camera in hand, a sheltered young man eager for self-reinvention leaves home in Baltimore and heads to Libya to join in the fight against Muammar Gaddafi.
MORE ›Maggie Lauterer, a popular TV anchor and mountain girl, decides to run for Congress in her home district of western North Carolina. This cinema-verité portrait…
MORE ›This revealing film offers a dispiriting and inspiring account of how Maggie Lauterer runs for a congressional seat in North Carolina. The panoply of contemporary…
MORE ›Irina Markova loves training poodles, large and small, under the circus big top, creating a glittery symbiosis between herself and her fluffy cream and caramel colored dogs.
MORE ›A pure visual treat, The Poot traces the production of beautiful, handmade Persian rugs from sheep to market.
MORE ›The Poot serves as a beautifully crafted tribute to the ancient Iranian tradition of carpet weaving, documenting the detail and precision that goes into each hand-loomed creation.
MORE ›Drink in hand, Jason Holliday, a gay African American hustler and aspiring nightclub performer, regales us with stories of his life.
MORE ›Based on the Portraits of Grief that have appeared in The New York Times since the tragedy of September 11, 2001, this film recounts the…
MORE ›This third installment of a trilogy follows an Indonesian family distinguished by the mother and grown son’s devotion to different religions, Christianity and Islam.
MORE ›This film tells the story of one woman who descends from middle-class security to welfare and then abject poverty. But her fierce desire to protect…
MORE ›Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.
MORE ›From outer space to inner space—Ray and Charles Eames’s classic 1977 short about the powers of magnification by ten, from the end of the universe…
MORE ›To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. Predators is a surprising exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create.
MORE ›Video blogger and aspiring singer Samantha Montgomery is unaware she has a folower and fan in the form of an enigmatic Israeli composer, whose unforgettable Youtube mashups might just help Samantha achieve her dreams.
MORE ›In the 2000s, there were hundreds of prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay by the US government for interrogation in the war against terrorism. David…
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