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This groundbreaking film captures the 1960 Wisconin primary as John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey battle for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
MORE ›Generally recognized as the film which introduced the cinema-verité style of documentary filmmaking, Primary is politics at its most exposed—the Democratic Party campaign during the…
MORE ›The Right Honorable Dame Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s 40th Prime Minister, led her nation through unprecedented challenges, implemented bold policies, and became the second leader in history to give birth in office, all while championing an inclusive and empathetic leadership style that changed global expectations of what a leader can be.
MORE ›More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes” is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives.
MORE ›In September 2003, the U.S. Military raided Yunis Khatayer Abbas’ house, taking Abbas and his brothers into custody for allegedly plotting to assassinate British Prime…
MORE ›During WWII, Italian prisoners of war were brought to the United States from Italy and were placed in POW camps throughout the U.S. This beguiling…
MORE ›“Why didn’t you leave?” This urgent and inspiring film follows two women’s complex stories of survival while exploring the way we talk about and deal with domestic violence as a society.
MORE ›Procession documents a collaborative filmmaking project where six survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy confront their trauma by creating films about…
MORE ›Nine people with concealed still 35mm cameras sneak into the Ocaranza Psychiatric Institute in Hidalgo, Mexico. The resulting montage of still images, often blurry and/or…
MORE ›If you raise a chimpanzee as a human being, could he learn to communicate with you through sign language? The extraordinary saga of Nim, the subject of a 1970s experiment, is also a chronicle of human frailty.
MORE ›Rami Malek and Michelle Williams understatedly narrate guidelines from a top-secret NSA handbook, as the viewer travels from stark and isolated spots in the National Business Park to a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan.
MORE ›When Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende in an extraordinarily violent coup on September 11, 1973, cultural advisor Ariel Dorfman…
MORE ›A special work-in-progress screening of Peter Raymont’s upcoming film exploring the experiences of novelist and playwright Ariel Dorfman. The world-renowned writer of numerous works, including…
MORE ›The 1913 Native Land Act, a precursor to and bulwark of apartheid in South Africa, led to the forcible removal of six million black people…
MORE ›Already banned by the Indonesian government, this new work by Leonard Retel Helmrich (2005 Full Frame Grand Jury Award Winner—Shape of the Moon) introduces us…
MORE ›The distinct experiences of a reformed gay Christian, bank robber, martial artist, and terrorist are woven together to
present universal themes.
A reformed gay Christian, a violent criminal, a left-wing German terrorist, and a bullied child who learns kung fu for self defense tell us their…
MORE ›Filmmaker Marc Levin uses an infamous hoax, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—a book fabricated in Russia at the end of the 19th century—as…
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