Documentary

In many ways it was the perfect match: Ernest Hemingway whose heroes personified his definition of courage – “grace under ...

A documentary following a sex surrogate and two of her clients.

A documentary of the decline of America. Featuring footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much, much more.

An exploration of a decaying synagogue.

A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either ...

In this classic 1969 documentary, the Man in Black is captured at his peak, the first of many in a looming roller-coaster career. Fresh on the ...

An obituary for Victor Jara, the Chilean folksinger who was murdered in a football stadium by the military junta during the days of the September ...

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being ...

An obituary of Che Guevara, made in forty-eight hours to be shown at the mass meeting on the 18th October 1967 in the Plaza de la Revolucion in ...

In December 1967 a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, traveled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes ...

This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story ...

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the ...

Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega ...

The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of ...

This film is less a typical musical short and more like an educational film. It consists of a narrator describing the music, composition and ...

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse ...

Featuring archival footage from both German and UK sources, this documentary examines the defense of Britain during the early years of World War II.

Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers.

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris that chronicles the ‘gutter punk’ ...

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.

A look at what it’s like to be gay and black in America.

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des femmes du ...

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to ...

A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle. This ...

The people of Footscray are battlers and so is their football team. The ‘mighty’ Bulldogs haven’t won a premiership since 1954. ...

Documentary about the pornography industry and the apparent violent anti-woman slant much of it takes.

A tribute to the spirit and humanity of people who are physically different from the average: very tall and very large men and women, a bearded ...

This documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin introduces us to Randy Horne, a high steel worker from the Mohawk community of ...

Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along ...

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the ...

A true story of four Jewish intellectuals born in New York and educated at City College during the 1930s, and their divergent paths over the next ...

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

An ode to rural France and the simple joys of life, Dominique Benicheti’s glorious masterpiece Cousin Jules captures the daily routine and ...

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, ...

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in “Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd” (1982).

The Eagles performed live for the first time in April 1994 after a fourteen-year-long hiatus. Their reunion album’s name was in reference to Don ...

Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions ...

A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.

A visit with a master of the Oldest Art In The World: tattooing. Disabled by arthritis since the age of four, confined to a wheelchair, his ...

A documentary about Forbidden City, a San Francisco Chinese-American nightclub open from the 1930s to the 1960s.

This documentary follows Rick Zakowich as he faces his lifelong struggles with his weight and body image. Child therapist by day and blues singer ...

Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee exposes the truth behind Lee’s death and the cover-up that ensued.

The gold medal for the men’s 10,000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.

Denise Crosby takes a first look at the huge fans of “Star Trek” from around America and how the series has affected and shaped their ...

We follow the Newman-Haas (Andretti) racing team through the process of building, testing, and racing for a season. This includes extensive race ...

Live performance by Robyn Hitchcock, in… well, a storefront.

A study in the world of hip-hop, done mostly with interviews, in order to see why it is as popular as it is today and what the future holds.