Film Category: NEW DOCS
Backup singers, the unsung heroes of pop music, finally get their moment in the spotlight in this
jubilant history and appreciation.
After a young woman is allegedly raped, her family faces a flawed justice system to take her case
to trial.
An unvarnished account of the repatriation of the remains of immigrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the Arizona desert.
MORE ›A microenterpreneur has a dream: to reduce gynecological diseases among rural Indian women
by teaching them to make, and sell, sanitary pads.
Former Almadén mercury miner Pablo spends his halcyon days cursing, kvetching, and chainsmoking
to the chagrin of his wife and his doctor.
An artful reflection on a nuclear waste repository in the Nevada desert is filmed against a backdrop of boundless horizon and thoughts about deep time.
MORE ›There is more than meets the ear in these vivid and surprising accounts of performance and
perseverance in the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, music scene.
A fascinating and witty cinematic portrait of a gigantic Soviet-era edifice and its denizens in
Warsaw, Poland.
The history of Napster, from its humble chatroom beginnings to its takedown at the hands of a
music industry that didn’t know what hit it.
This non-linear profile of jazz critic Nat Hentoff is laced with music and illuminates the civil libertarian’s enduring influence.
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