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Examine the illegal arms trade and how it functions across the globe through the stories of four experts on arms trafficking. They recount their firsthand experiences with the black market and how the illegal flow of weapons facilitates loss of li...

Both an astronomical and cosmological meditation and a documentary about John Dobson, the octogenarian astronomer and former Vedanta monk who tours the country with his telescope, showing astonished amateurs of all ages how they, too, can tune in ...

David M. Rosenthal's white-knuckle thriller starts with a bang: a single shot, aimed at a lone deer, that hits and kills a young woman. The hunter, John Moon (Sam Rockwell, SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS), watches her die before discovering a box of money near...

When 14 women-Israelis, Palestinians, Bedouin Arabs, and American settlers in the West Bank-are brought together with the shared goal of losing weight, they find out they have far more in common than they ever would have imagined. A Slim Peace tak...

Solanas is one of Latin America's great militant filmmakers. On par with his classic Hour of the Furnaces, A Social Genocide is both grand cinema and a passionate plea to reflect on the devastating consequences that globalization, neo-liberal poli...

A Song Can’t Burn follows a Scottish musician working with refugee children who have crossed the border from Syria to Lebanon.

A Song For Daniel compares a routine day of two 9-year-old Iraqi boys; one living in Baghdad and the other, born and raised in New York City. A profound examination of culture and place seen through eyes of two boys on opposite sides of the world.

A Song of Grace tells a poetic story about a Black mother raising an exceptional young artist.

A Son's Sacrifice follows the journey of Imran, a young American Muslim who struggles to take over his father's halal slaughterhouse in Queens. A first-generation American, Imran must confront his mixed heritage and gain acceptance from his father...

When a plan is unveiled to build a football stadium in Manhattan for the New York Jets, an epic battle ensues. The grassroots campaign against the stadium starts small, but when Cablevision, which owns Madison Square Garden, gets involved, what s...

This documentary follows two young gymnasts with unprecedented access, as they prepare for the Mass Games, one of North Korea's most important and elaborate events. Along with striking footage of the Games themselves, this eye-opening film also sh...

A Story of Bones chronicles Annina van Neel's tireless work to reclaim and honor the neglected history of St. Helena after the remains of thousands of freed slaves are uncovered on the remote island.

A deeply personal meditation on the horrors of war and its effects is shown through the eyes of Armenian journalist Vardan Hovhannisyan. Weaving together footage from his country's 1994 conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the Nagoma Karabakh...

The story of a disheartened dancer and a disabled boy--both of whose lives are transformed by the magic and power of Chhou, a traditional Bengali dance of great spectacle and color-is recounted movingly, if improbably, by a renowned Bollywood chor...

Two people recount their first meeting on the New York City subway.

Dipti, Amrita and Ritu are all young, modern women in India looking to get married—some desperately, some reluctantly. A Suitable Girl follows them over the course of four years as they juggle family, career and friends, intimately capturing their...

A sword-wielding figure wearing a white dress lurks menacingly in the forest, waiting to descend upon an unsuspecting village in the muddy backwaters of rural East Germany. As heads roll with each stroke, dutiful, straight-laced cop Jakob bec...

Join Sable on her gliding, a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and through landscapes littered with fallen spaceships. Explore the desert on a hoverbike, scale monumental ruins, and encounter other nomads in the wilds whilst u...

Iraqi Kurd Rosebiani returned to Iraq with the specific goal of documenting the legacy of Saddam Hussein's regime. Interviews with survivors and with relatives of victims drive home the point that, as one official notes, while bloody dictators usu...

A young professor faces criticism over a classroom controversy while grappling with his beloved grandmother’s serious illness. The sharp comedy explores how people face modern crises, both real and self-inflicted.