Film Category: NEW DOCS
This epic exploration of undocumented workers walking to the United States from as far away as El Salvador is unlike any other film on the…
MORE ›Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki’s latest documentary, Why We Fight, is a powerful essay on American foreign policy in the age of the military-industrial complex. Borrowing the…
MORE ›Each year, the drama program of Long Island’s ANCHOR (Answering the Needs of Citizens with Handicaps Through Organized Recreation) sponsors an extravagant, one-night-only production of…
MORE ›The Lonely Planet tourist guidebook suggests bringing food and sundries to inmates at the women’s prison in Quito, Ecuador. Some of the women there were…
MORE ›Artfully edited excerpts of a hundred public relations films from the dawn of the century to today—made by the telephone company for operators or the…
MORE ›Get down, boogie and praise the Lord. Press On traces the history of “sacred steel,” a unique steel guitar-based gospel music born in African American…
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…
MORE ›Accompanying George Patton’s forces across Europe after D-Day, German-speaking American troops practiced psychological warfare and interrogated captured German soldiers. They gathered crucial intelligence for the…
MORE ›On May 17, 2004, same sex marriage became legal in the state of Massachusetts. This film follows seven couples as they make wedding plans in…
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,…
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