Film Category: NEW DOCS
Images of foamy breakers, of the changing seasons across meadow and linksland, of a monument to a 1928 sea rescue turned tragic—with these, filmmaker Collis…
MORE ›“Imagine your body telling your brain it doesn’t want it in there anymore,” says Reade Whinnem, “and then doing everything it can to try and…
MORE ›Eggs, cups of flour, cups of sugar. This is what it takes to make the June 17 Birthday Cake at a Latvian bakery, which produces…
MORE ›According to national statistics, there are two million children who rely on their grandparents to raise them. In Big Mama, a touching and completely poignant…
MORE ›Although quite young, Russia’s capitalistic system already has an all-too-familiar hallmark: the effort of extreme poverty on those not fortunate enough to share the wealth.…
MORE ›The sound of “Claire de Lune” being played gently on the piano provides the atmosphere and wordless sentiment for The Bridge Man, a short film…
MORE ›On May 3, 1968, a helicopter co-piloted by Warrant Officer Arthur F. Chaney went down in Vietnam. The body of Art Chaney was never recovered.…
MORE ›Striking imagery and mesmerizing composition draw the world of the men and women who work at the Nabors Oil Drilling Platform in Odessa, West Texas…
MORE ›On May 11, 1996, Value Jet flight 592 crashed into the Everglades of Florida, killing 110 people. Nothing could have prepared two homicide detectives and…
MORE ›The only remaining flophouse on the Bowery is shown here in all its glory. Straight-on documentary style yields a non-sentimental portrait of the drinkers, horse-players,…
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