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As himans face a “perfect storm” of disastrous scenarios, scientist Cary Fowler demonstrates the importance of biodiversity by developing seed banks around the globe.
MORE ›Seeing Red reveals the untold story of rank-and-file Americans who joined the American Communist Party to fight for social change in the 1930s and the price they paid for it during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. These so-called Reds fought for labor rights, tenants’ rights, food security, and racial equality, and in many cases won victories.
MORE ›Sally Morgan is a practicing psychic from England and a single mother supporting her extended family. Her livelihood is based on her assertion that she…
MORE ›Selena Quintanilla—the “Queen of Tejano Music”—and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.
MORE ›The right-to-die debate goes West in this riveting portrait of a man and his family grappling with a darker side of rugged individualism. At 77,…
MORE ›With its thirst-inducing series of images and sounds, this charming, nostalgic short takes us into the last seltzer factory in New York.
MORE ›The narrator/filmmaker sets out on a quixotic mission to make a film about people he’s never met in a village he’s never been to. What…
MORE ›Ophüls’s documentary about religious conflict and violence in Northern Ireland.
MORE ›Shot in 1898, this film about the separation of twins looks like one of the last great “genre” paintings of the period, and remains hypnotic…
MORE ›Anna Wintour, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for twenty years, is the most powerful and polarizing figure in fashion. Hidden behind her trademark bob…
MORE ›A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family’s history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archival war footage to narrate the story…
MORE ›Based on a series of oral histories and the life story of the filmmaker’s mother, Zem Ping Dong, Sewing Woman paints a bittersweet portrait of…
MORE ›Remember the first time you heard about sex? Through clips from film and TV archives, this hilarious, humbling film takes a look at our country’s earnest attempts to share the facts of life.
MORE ›The filmmaking team that brought us The Drug Years offers an in-depth examination of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. A powerful soundtrack…
MORE ›The flashy, music video style of this documentary belies the affecting story of women’s boxing champion Lucia Rijker, which gradually emerges as its centerpiece. A…
MORE ›In 1994, approximately 800,000 people were brutally slaughtered in Rwanda. Most belonged to the Tutsi tribe, though many of the victims were moderate Hutus who…
MORE ›In the beginning of this remarkable tale, we meet thirty-year-old Mukhtaran Mai, her face wrapped in a colorful scarf and her eyes and voice frayed with…
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