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5 Broken Cameras

Sundance Film Festival · Academy Award Nominees · RT Certified Fresh

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Academy Award Nominee f…

Back to Normandy

Documentary

Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, In the Land of the Deaf) travels to the Normandy countryside to catch up with the locals he helped cast in a movie three decades earlier - a starting point for a remarkably rich exploration of memory, history, madness, life and death, and, of course, t…

The Blues Under the Skin

Music · Documentary

In the early 1970s, during a resurgence of interest in the Delta blues, music documentarian Roviros Manthoulis traveled to the Mississippi Delta to capture the remnants of the authentic American blues, filming candid interviews and intimate performances by such legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Sonny Te…

The Challenge (2017 documentary)

Earth Day · Documentary

Italian visual artist Yuri Ancarani’s exquisite documentary, winner of the Filmmaker of the Present award at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival, enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry.

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Film Documentaries · Sexuality · Documentary

THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, revealing the personality and philosophies of one of our most iconic screen stars.

Chichinette: The Accidental Spy

World Cinema · Documentary

Marthe Cohn, a 99 year old Jewish woman born in France, tells the story of how she became a spy in Nazi Germany. For decades after the war ended she never spoke about the experience, but now she travels the globe to share her story.

Epicentro

Documentary

Epicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the U.S.S. Maine still resonates, from Academy Award nominee Hubert Sauper (Darwin's Nightmare).

Filmmakers for the Prosecution

RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

Adapted from a monograph by Sandra Schulberg, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt by brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. Seventy-five years later, Jean-Christophe Klotz uncovers never-before-seen footage and intervi…

Fire at Sea

Academy Award Nominees · RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

An Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary Feature and the first nonfiction film to ever win the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Fire at Sea takes place in Lampedusa, a remote Mediterranean island that has become a major entry point for refugees into Europe. Award-w…

Four Daughters

Documentary · Academy Award Nominees · Cannes Film Festival

Winner of the Best Documentary prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Four Daughters is a riveting cinematic exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood about a Tunisian woman whose two eldest daughters were radicalized by Islamic extremists.

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Film Documentaries · Avant Garde · Art Documentaries

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…

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

Architecture · Art Documentaries · Documentary

A feature documentary as mercurial as its subject: the impresario of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus (1962-78). Featuring interviews with Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik.

Godard Cinema

Film Documentaries · Documentary

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema and Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.

The Goddesses of Food

Food & Wine · Documentary

In November of 2013, TIME Magazine released an international cover story called “The Gods of Food”. Unfortunately, not a single female chef appeared on the list. The new documentary, THE GODDESSES OF FOOD is here to change popular perception. In the male dominated food universe, dis…

A History of Israeli Cinema

Historic Drama · Film Documentaries · Art Documentaries

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than 70 years of Israeli film with commentary from filmmakers, scholars and critics

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero

Documentary

An extraordinary personal look at the people of Iraq prior to and immediately after the US invasion of 2003.

Human

Environment · Earth Day · Documentary

Using testimonies and aerial images, filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand confronts the realities and diversity of human conditions.

The Lost Film Of Nuremberg

Film Documentaries · Documentary

Inspired by Sandra Schulberg’s decade-long research into the making of and suppression of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, The Lost Film of Nuremberg re-traces the hunt for film evidence used to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood — Budd &am…

Louvre City

Fine Art · Art Documentaries · Documentary

LOUVRE CITY takes the form of one of the classic symphonies of the 1920s, which begin at daybreak, end at nightfall, and chronicle the lives of urban dwellers at work and at play. Rather than focus on its familiar role as a monument to high culture, director Nicolas Philibert shows us the everyday l…

La Maison de la Radio

Art Documentaries · Documentary

LA MAISON DE LA RADIO is a vibrant portrait of Radio France, that nation's equivalent of NPR or the BBC. Directed by Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have), a master of the documentary genre, LA MAISON shows the day-to-day of a beloved cultural institution, as radio hosts, producers and journalists p…

Makala

Documentary · World Cinema · Cannes Film Festival

Featuring stunning cinematography, Makala (Swahili for "charcoal") is a powerful testament to one man's commitment to his family, and his endurance in working to provide them with a brighter future.

Mantra: Sounds Into Silence

Documentary

An uplifting documentary exploring the growing music and social phenomenon of chanting Mantras.

The Messenger

Science · Earth Day · Environment

For thousands of years, songbirds were regarded by mankind as messengers from the gods. Today, these creatures have woven inextricably into the fabric of our environment and are vanishing at an alarming rate.

Moana With Sound

Documentary

Seeking to make another "Nanook of the North", Robert Flaherty chose Samoa for the docu-fiction film "Moana" in 1924. Fifty years later, Flaherty's daughter Monica returned to Samoa to produce a unique sound version. In 1924, documentary film pioneers Robert and Frances Flaherty and family traveled …

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Film Documentaries · Lesbian · Documentary

MUTANTES is a documentary about pro-sex feminism, a movement that seeks to redefine how we understand pornography and its role in media. Through interviews with sex workers, porn actresses, and other members of the sex industry, the film demystifies and explores the various sexual niches of punk por…

The Mystery of Picasso

Biography · Art · Documentary

Filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot and painter Pablo Picasso used experimental and innovative techniques to create an entirely new kind of art documentary — one that is both joyous and suspenseful.

On the Adamant

Documentary

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting, enlightening documentary invites viewers to come aboard the Adamant, a floating refuge on the Seine River in the heart of Paris that offers care with dignity for adults with mental illnesses.

Oporto of My Childhood

Biography · History · Documentary

With the rigor of inspiration, director Manoel de Oliveira returns to Oporto (commonly referred to as Porto), the city of his birth, to reveal a society unseen by most travelers or tourists.

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Fine Art · Architecture · Documentary

In 1993, artist Anselm Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barjac, a town in the south of France. Sophie Fiennes' film sheds insight into the years that Kiefer spent there, engaged in a fervent process of artistic creation, in order to shape the estate according …

The Pearl Button

Culture · Earth Day · World Cinema

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious button that was discovered…

Peshmerga

World Cinema · War · Documentary

Bernard-Henri Lévy travelled to the front lines of ISIS, seeking first-hand understanding of the ongoing conflict.

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Peabody Award Winners · Documentary

Fatma Hassona, a Palestinian photographer killed by an Israeli airstrike, developed a friendship by video call with filmmaker Sepideh Farsi for a dialogue that transcended current events to create a compelling work of art.

The Sorrow and the Pity

History · War · Documentary

What did French people of do during WW II? Marcel Ophüls' Oscar-nominated documentary shattered the myth of an undivided and universally resistant France under the Vichy government.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

RT Certified Fresh · Documentary · Music Documentaries

The incredible story of how jazz music and soft power were used on both fronts of America's ideological battles during the Cold War - including in the Congo. An epic, original and supremely stylish trip through the 20th century from an original angle.

The Super 8 Years

Documentary · Cannes Film Festival

The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family’s memory, compiled from gorgeously textured home movie images taken from 1972 to 1981.

To Be and to Have

World Cinema · Documentary

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Touch Me Not

Documentary · Drama · Sexuality

Filmmaker Adina Pintilie’s Golden Bear winner is a brave and raw look at bodies, intimacy, and empathy, exploring the private lives and sexual desires of four people with an approach that blurs the line between fiction and documentary.

Tough Being Loved by Jerks

Documentary

Because he had published the twelve Danish cartoons that had triggered the wrath of Muslims worldwide, Philippe Val, the editor of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, was cited to court by the Great Mosque of Paris, the World Muslim League and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France.

The Troubles We've Seen

History · War · Documentary

One of the most important films of director Marcel Ophüls' career, THE TROUBLES WE'VE SEEN explores the ethical challenges of war commentary, interlacing footage of 1993 Sarajevo with caustic references to Hollywood depictions of war.

Two in the Wave

World Cinema · Film Documentaries · Art Documentaries

Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. TWO IN THE WAVE documents their intensely combative and creative relationship.

West of the Jordan River

Documentary

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary Field Diary with this portrait of the citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation.

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

Biography · Film · Documentary

For over two decades, Frances Marion was one of the most powerful names Hollywood; now, her fascinating story come alive in this insightful documentary narrated by Uma Thurman and Kathy Bates.

The Competition

World Cinema · Documentary

The Competition begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate—that of La Fémis, one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals and accepting only forty students per year from hundreds of applicants. This Wiseman…