Film Category: NEW DOCS

GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts
Scott Hicks

GLASS offers a rare glimpse of a great composer at work. What is the process involved in creating a symphony? What forces led to the…

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Alone in Four Walls
Alexandra Westmeier

This film observes Russian teenage boys who have been sent to a locked reform school for a range of crimes, from the petty to the…

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At the Death House Door
Steve James, Peter Gilbert

For fifteen years Rev. Carroll Pickett served as death house chaplain to the Walls prison unit in Huntsville, Texas. There he presided over ninety-five executions.…

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Be Like Others
Tanaz Eshaghian

In Iran, homosexuality is punishable by death. Transexuality, on the other hand, is not only legal, it is promoted as a “treatment” for gay men…

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Beautiful Son
Julianne Yamamoto King, Don King

The filmmakers of Beautiful Son are the parents of Beau, whose change in behavior during the third year of his life led to a diagnosis…

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The Betrayal
Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath

During the Vietnam War, more bombs were dropped on Laos than were deployed during World War I and World War II combined. Famed cinematographer Ellen…

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Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Christopher Bell

Being the best is an American obsession and when it comes to body image and athletic performance the pressure to win starts young. Filmmaker Christopher…

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Bomb It
Jon Reiss

Late twentieth-century globalization was first evidenced not through PC’s, the internet, or cell phones, but by Hip Hop. The earliest of the five elements of…

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Boogie Man
Stefan Forbes

Lee Atwater was a blues-playing rogue who led the Republican party to historic victories, helped make liberal a dirty word, and transformed the way America…

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Bulletproof Salesman
Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker

Fidelis Cloer, a German supplier of luxury armored vehicles and self-confessed war profiteer, found the “perfect war” when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.…

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