BIX: "ain't none of them play like him yet"
Using archival photographs and rare footage and interviews with friends and colleagues, Oscar® winner Brigitte Berman's acclaimed documentary paints a vivid portrait of a vanished era and brings to life the only cornetist Louis Armstrong regarded as an equal.
Bill Cunningham New York
“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society…
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Pulitzer prize winner Archibald MacLeish scripted this touching portrait of the woman who emerged from a privileged but painful childhood to become a powerful humanitarian. Academy Award winner for Best Documentary. Introduced by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
Science saved brainiac comedian Emily Levine and Emily uses science – and jokes! – to save the world.
Framing Agnes
In this innovative cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, an all-star cast of trans performers and artists including Angelica Ross (Pose), Jen Richards (Mrs. Fletcher), and Zackary Drucker (Transparent), bring to life the story of a pioneering transgender woman who participated in an…
Great Directors
Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary GREAT DIRECTORS. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Say…
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (Kino Cult #50)
This unique documentary recounts the history of the shock-value driver's education films that haunted American teens. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, these grisly movies used unflinching color footage of fatal accidents to scare young drivers.
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Filmmaker Beth B accompanies the legendarily boundary-pushing No Wave musician and underground performance artist Lydia Lunch on her latest tour and, through interviews with her collaborators and Lunch herself, examines the qualities that have been present in her provocative and powerful art since t…
The Man You Loved To Hate
A full-length documentary on von Stroheim’s life and career. Filled with rare photographs and excerpts from Stroheim’s legendary and lesser-known works, it is the definitive documentary profile of this most fascinating artist. U.S. 1979. 78 min. Color/B&W.
Monk With a Camera
Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk in 1972.
Moving From Emptiness: Zen Dude
Zen calligraphic painter Alok Hsu Kwang-han proposes that it arises from emptiness, the silent space that houses the intelligence prior to thought. Armed with rice paper, ink, brush and a collection of Zen teaching and Koans, Alok opens the door to a world of magical brush strokes and enchanted stud…
Nationtime
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Conv…
Radical Wolfe
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.
Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara
Director Philip Haas follows land artist Richard Long on his walk across Algeria’s Hoggar, a volcanic region of the Sahara Desert.
With Byrd at the South Pole
The first flight over the South Pole by Admiral Richard E. Byrd was filmed by two cameramen from Paramount Newsreel, winning an Oscar® for achievement in cinematography