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Becoming Bulletproof

Becoming Bulletproof

Documentary · Film Documentaries

BECOMING BULLETPROOF documents the making of Bulletproof, the Western film featuring Zeno Mountain Farm's actors with and without disabilities

Bullets and Blueberries

Bullets and Blueberries

Documentary

The Holocaust began with the indiscriminate mass shootings by the Einsatzgruppen in the bloodlands of Eastern Europe and was perfected in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Bullets And Blueberries explores the motives, methods and madness of the perpetrators.

Chasing Madoff

Chasing Madoff

Documentary · Mystery · History

Based on the New York Times best-seller No One Would Listen, CHASING MADOFF is the compelling story of how Markopolos and his team of investigators pieced together a chain of white-collar predators and revealed some of the most frightening truths behind the infamous scandal.

Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

Music Documentaries · Documentary · Music

Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine explores the publication’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse, then imminent demise following the deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer…

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Silent

Acclaimed three-part documentary tells the proud, sad story of D.W. Griffith: the man who first brought artistry and ambition to the movies, and then, having dragged a reluctant American film industry to international prominence, found it had no more use for him.

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Documentary · Film Documentaries

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy: it is about the deeply gifted and flawed people behind a dark and difficult masterpiece; New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era.

Disaster Playground

Disaster Playground

Documentary · Science

Who are the people safeguarding the planet from asteroid destruction? What will happen when the Earth is finally threatened and how long will we have to save the human race? Disaster Playground investigates future outer space catastrophes and the procedures to manage and assess the risks

Elvis: Return to Tupelo

Elvis: Return to Tupelo

Documentary · Music & Dance

Elvis Presley may have been born with the rock 'n roll in his blood but without poverty, southern culture and a mother whom he adored, Elvis Aaron Presley might have been just another poor white guy rather than the King of Rock 'n Roll. Narrated by Kris Kristofferson.

F.T.A.

F.T.A.

Comedy · Documentary · Performance

In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. Despite being highly controversial, it was a huge success among stationed soldiers. Out of circulation and difficult to see for decades, F.T.A. has now been fully restore…

Fish War

Fish War

Documentary

When the state of Washington banned tribes from fishing in their traditional waters and began arresting Indigenous fishers, it ignited the violent Fish Wars.

Flex is Kings

Flex is Kings

Documentary · African-American · Art Documentaries

Flex is Kings is a riveting and awe-inspiring look inside the world of Brooklyn street dancing known as flexing. Directors Michael Beach Nichols and Deidre Schoo take audiences along on the emotional journey of several young dancers; dancers who vie for a chance to make something of themselves by ba…

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Avant Garde

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several…

The Gospel of Eureka

The Gospel of Eureka

Documentary

Love, faith and civil rights collide in a southern town as evangelical Christians and drag queens step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes in this documentary narrated by Mx Justin Vivian Bond.

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

Art · Documentary · Biography

Enter the colorful world of Emmy®-winning, Oscar®-nominated Patricia Field, savvy retailer and costume designer behind Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Ugly Betty, and The Devil Wears Prada.

High Ground

High Ground

Documentary · War

A group of wounded veterans join an expedition to climb the 20,000-foot Himalayan Mount Lobuche, led by blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer.

How to Fold a Flag

How to Fold a Flag

Documentary · War

Follows a group of U.S. veterans as they create new lives post-Iraq against the backdrop of the 2008 election.

I Am JFK Jr.

I Am JFK Jr.

Documentary · Politics · History

I AM JFK JR. tells the story of a little boy who would grow up to become one of the most famous men in America.

I Am Richard Pryor

I Am Richard Pryor

Documentary · Biography

I AM RICHARD PRYOR tells the story of the legendary performer and satirist, who transcended race and social barriers with his irreverent and biting humor.

In Search of Kundun

In Search of Kundun

Documentary

In Search of Kundun with Martin Scorsese is a deeply insightful film documenting the unique encounter of filmmaker Martin Scorsese (The Irishman, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver) with the Tibetan people and their spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama. Filmed in 1997, this emotional saga takes us from the s…

Just Around the Corner

Just Around the Corner

Documentary · Music

JUST AROUND THE CORNER takes you through the life of Bob Benjamin, from before his diagnosis with Parkinson's to the beginnings of his incredible foundation, responsible for raising over a million dollars toward research.

Kansas vs. Darwin

Kansas vs. Darwin

Documentary

In May of 2005, a three-member subcommittee of the Kansas State Board of Education held hearings to determine whether Charles Darwin’s long-held Theory of Evolution should be challenged in public-school science curriculum. At stake was, in effect, the definition of science for Kansas schoolchi…

Last Impresario

Last Impresario

Documentary · Art Documentaries

The Last Impresario is a portrait of Michael White, the enfant terrible of London's theater world in the 1970s. He is the man responsible for introducing Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch to international audiences.

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

Documentary

This star studded tribute brings into focus the dazzling, complex period of Liza Minnelli’s life starting in the 1970s, just after the tragic death of her mother Judy Garland— as she confronts a range of personal and professional challenges on the way to becoming a bona fide legend.

Lord, Save Us From Your Followers

Lord, Save Us From Your Followers

Documentary · Religion

Fed up with the divisiveness overtaking America, director Dan Merchant sets out on the daring search for meaningful dialogue and the true face of faith.

Love, Sweat & Tears

Love, Sweat & Tears

Documentary

Death, taxes, and menopause are unavoidable facts of life. Love, Sweat & Tears is a groundbreaking, inspiring, and humorous look at a long-taboo subject that will impact both women and men during their lifetimes.

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Documentary

The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality a secret.

Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger

Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger

Documentary

Drawing on a rich array of archive material, Martin Scorsese explores ithe films of Powell and Pressburger - two romantics and idealists, who thrived in the face of adversity during World War II but were eventually brought low by the film industry of the 1950’s.

Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video

Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video

Documentary · Music · Music & Dance

MONEY FOR NOTHING: A HISTORY OF THE MUSIC VIDEO is a rip-roaring, full-length documentary, taking in the a refresher course on the last sixty years of pop music.

Out of the Clear Blue Sky

Out of the Clear Blue Sky

Documentary

Within weeks of the attacks on September 11, 2001, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick became a public pariah after 658 of their employees remained missing. A true account unfolding over months and years.

Radical Wolfe

Radical Wolfe

Documentary

This illuminating look at Tom Wolfe follows his journey from beat reporter at the Washington Post to overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement and author of major works like The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full.

STOP

STOP

Documentary · African-American · Politics

STOP places the stop and frisk controversy in the context of a long history of civil rights, with profound implications for today's criminal justice system.

Sorry/Not Sorry

Sorry/Not Sorry

Documentary

An examination of Louis C.K., who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017. They explore his comeback and the unseen effects of this on the women who spoke publicly about his behavior.

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Music & Dance

This documentary chronicles the nascent Muslim punk rock movement in America. The film follows The Taqwacores (a term combining the Muslim concept of God consciousness with hardcore punk), and charts their brave, foolish, and often exhilarating attempts to navigate the gap between their cultures and…

Theater of War

Theater of War

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Theatre

Filmmaker John Walter artfully captures Meryl Streep groping for - and then seizing the character in her unforgettable portrayal of Mother Courage in Tony Kushner's adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht masterpiece Mother Courage and Her Children.

This Ain't No Mouse Music

This Ain't No Mouse Music

Music Documentaries · Art Documentaries · Documentary

Filmmakers Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling join Chris Strachwitz for a hip-shaking stomp from New Orleans to Texas, Cajun country to Appalachia, as he continues his passionate quest for the musical soul of America.

Whores' Glory

Whores' Glory

Documentary

WHORES' GLORY, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following MEGACITIES, WORKINGMAN'S DEATH), is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. Glawogger's latest larger-than-life documentary is an audacious, non-judgmental study of sexuality, politics, hu…

Worst to First: The True Story of Z100 New York

Worst to First: The True Story of Z100 New York

Documentary

The true story of the legendary Z100 New York radio station.

Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story

Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story

Documentary

Yes I Am - The Ric Weiland Story chronicles LGBTQ pioneer & unknown founder of Microsoft.