1971

Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate ...

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Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys

In the forests of Finnish Lapland, brothers Aarne and Lasse Aatsinki carry on the generations-old tradition of reindeer herding...

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Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution

Kirsty Sword Gusmão went to Timor-Leste to document injustice in an area closed to Western journalists. Over the next decade, s...

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Autism in Love

What does it mean to love and be loved? With remarkable compassion, director Matt Fuller examines the reality of autistic adult...

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Ballet 422

Justin Peck, wunderkind choreographer of the New York City Ballet, undertakes the Herculean task of creating the company’s 422n...

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Ballroom Dancer

In 2000, Slavik Kryklyvyy became the World Latin American Dance Champion. Enduring success seemed assured, but instead Slavik's...

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Big Men

For her latest industrial exposé, Rachel Boynton (Our Brand Is Crisis) gained unprecedented access to Africa's oil companies. T...

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Bombay Beach

The rusting relic of a failed 1960s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren California landscape and symbol of the failure...

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Cinema Komunisto

For 32 years, Leka Konstantinovic was the personal film projectionist for Yugoslavian president and noted film enthusiast Josip...

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Democrats

In the wake of Robert Mugabe’s highly criticized 2008 presidential win, a constitutional committee was created in an effort to ...

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Despicable Dick and Righteous Richard

Richard has been pissing people off for 50 years. A recovering alcoholic from North Dakota, he finally musters the courage to c...

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Dior and I

Frédéric Tcheng’s masterful documentary enters the storied world of the House of Christian Dior, with a privileged, behind-the-...

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Downeast

Gouldsboro, Maine. Hit hard by the closure of the sardine canning factory, its laid-off residents—mostly 70-year-olds—just want...

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Fame High

Scott Hamilton Kennedy's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Garden captures all the drama, competition, heartbreak, and trium...

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Fishtail

The iconic voice and noble philosophies proffered by Harry Dean Stanton punctuate this authentic look at life on the edge of wi...

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Garnet's Gold

Twenty years ago, Garnet Frost nearly lost his life hiking near Scotland’s Loch Arkaig. The near-death experience haunts him to...

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Give Up Tomorrow

In 1997, Paco Larrañaga was arrested for the murder of two sisters on a provincial island in the Philippines. Over the next 13 ...

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Havana Motor Club

Reforms have offered opportunity in Cuba but the children of the Revolution are unsure of the best route forward. For a half-do...

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Heineken Audience Award Winner

Give Up Tomorrow won this award: In 1997, Paco Larrañaga was arrested for the murder of two sisters on a provincial island in t...

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High Tech, Low Life

As the Chinese government expands its efforts to police the Internet and block websites in the country, and television stations...

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Indian Point

Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity t...

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In My Father's House

After moving into his childhood home on Chicago’s South Side, Grammy Award–winning rapper Che "Rhymefest" Smith hesitantly sets...

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In Transit

The Empire Builder is America’s busiest long-distance train route, running from Chicago to Seattle. Throughout these corridors ...

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Jiro Dreams of Sushi

An appetizing documentary in every sense, Jiro Dreams of Sushi follows 85-year-old master sushi chef Jiro Ono, paying lushly ph...

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Koran By Heart

The world's preeminent Koran-recitation competition takes place each year in Cairo, drawing Muslim children from as far as Taji...

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