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1971
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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