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Documentary · Food & Wine

Chef Jake Bickelhaupt goes from running an illegal restaurant in his home to being a culinary celebrity in less than a year.

5 Broken Cameras

Documentary · RT Certified Fresh · Sundance Film Festival

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…

90° South: With Scott to the Antarctic

Earth Day · Photography · Documentary

This spellbinding chronicle of Captain Robert Scott's race for the South Pole features narration by photographer Herbert Ponting, quoting directly from Scott's recovered journal on the final days of his failed expedition. Hauntingly beautiful imagery of Antarctic landscapes and wildlife act as lasti…

A Small Good Thing

Spirituality · Environment · American Independent

Meet a group of people who share is a deep desire to have more meaning in their lives, a closer bond with their families and communities, and a connection to themselves and the natural world.

The AIDS Show

Documentary · History

THE AIDS SHOW combines excerpts from a collaborative piece of theatre written in an unprecedented health crisis with interviews from the show's creators and performers, producing a powerful hybrid of documentary and drama about the community most affected by the disease – gay men.

About Tap

Documentary · Music Documentaries · Music & Dance

About Tap features stylistic performances and recollections by three of America’s leading male tap dancers: Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde and Chuck Green. By introducing viewers to a unique history of dance, director George Nierenberg strives to answer the question, “How does an artist disco…

Acasa, My Home

Documentary · RT Certified Fresh

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, an abandoned water reservoir just outside the bustling metropolis, the Enache family lived in perfect harmony with nature for two decades, sleeping in a hut on the lakeshore, catching fish barehanded, and following the rhythm of the seasons. When this area i…

Act of God

Earth Day · Documentary

Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal's (Manufactured Landscapes) captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects o…

Advanced Style

Documentary · Photography

Acclaimed street style photographer Ari Seth Cohen and director Lina Plioplyte dive into the personal lives of New York City’s most fashionable seniors.

Afghan Star

Documentary · Music & Dance · RT Certified Fresh

In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to the country. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV's wildly popular American Idol-style series Afghan Star. Like its Western predecesso…

After Parkland

Documentary

Filmed in the days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people, this intimate chronicle weaves together interviews, vérité footage, and personal videos into a moving portrait of one community's crusade to turn tragedy into progress.

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

Documentary · Ballet · Music & Dance

Of the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. She was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. At age 27, Tanny was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again.

Against the Current

Documentary · Sports

Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak over 2,000 kilometers around Iceland, counter-clockwise and “against the current.”  Veiga’s personal journey is no less remarkable.  Veigar had a wife and family but deci…

Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

Documentary · Art Documentaries · Culture

An intimate and powerful encounter with one of today's most politically influential artists and the system he challenges.

Alive & Well

Documentary

ALIVE & WELL is a powerful documentary film about the human condition, which follows seven resilient people coming to terms with the profound reality of living with the hereditary chronic illness known as Huntington's Disease.

All The Difference

Documentary · African-American

The largely invisible and often crushing struggles of young African-American men come vividly — and heroically — to life in All the Difference, which traces the paths of two teens from the South Side of Chicago who dream of graduating from college. Statistics predict that Robert and Kris…

American Delivery

Health · Documentary

Amid a growing maternal health crisis in the U.S.—especially for women of color—nurses are at the core of systemic efforts to catch new mothers before they fall through the broken healthcare safety net.

The American Nurse

Documentary · Health and Healing

THE AMERICAN NURSE is a heart-warming film that explores some of the biggest issues facing America - aging, war, poverty, prisons - through the work and lives of nurses.

American Yogi

Spirituality · Biography · Religion

This delightful autobiographical documentary follows a nice Jewish boy turned hippie who travels to India after reading Ram Dass’s iconic book Be Here Now, a trip which altersthe trajectory of his life.

And Now, Miguel

Native and Indigenous Americans · Documentary

Oscar-winning director Joseph Krumgold follows a 12-year-old New Mexican boy's mission to visit the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in this underappreciated documentary.

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Environment · Earth Day · RT Certified Fresh

A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch traverses the globe using state of the art camera techniques to create a stunning, provocative and unforgettable sensory experience of our species's breadth and impact. Narrated by…

Araya

Documentary · History

Margot Benacerraf captured the life of the Venezuelan saliñeros in this masterpiece of poetic filmmaking. A forerunner of feminist Latina cinema, Araya won the 1959 International Critics Prize in Cannes.

Armadillo

Documentary · War

Janus Metz's Armadillo follows a platoon of Danish soldiers on a six-month tour of Afghanistan in 2009. An intimate, visually stunning account of both the horror and growing cynicism of modern warfare that provoked a national debate over government policy and the rules of engagement.

Asylum

Documentary · Health and Healing

A truly unique documentary that examines the controversial ideas of psychiatrist and philosopher R. D. Laing. ASYLUM is both an exploration of Laing's alternative theories on schizophrenia and an invaluable record of the day-to-day lives of some forgotten members of society.

The Atomic Cafe

National Film Registry · Comedy · Earth Day

This darkly funny and eerily relevant 1982 cult classic about how to stop worrying and love the bomb is pieced together from government-produced educational and training films, newsreels and advertisements. Presented in a sparkling 4K digital restoration.

Ayurveda: The Art of Being

Documentary · Meditation · Health and Healing

This visually lush documentary travels 10,000 miles throught India, Greece, and the U.S. to accompany practitioners of AYURVEDA - probably the oldest continually practiced holistic healthcare system in the world.

BIX: "ain't none of them play like him yet"

Music · Music Documentaries · Biography

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.

Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

Documentary · Biography

A Hollywood star at age two, Baby Peggy was a has-been at 11, forced to perform in vaudeville to support her family. As Diana Serra Cary, she became an author and advocate for children's rights.

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…

Ballets Russes

Documentary · Music & Dance · RT Certified Fresh

Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes. What began as a group of Russian refugees who never danced in Russia became not one bu…

Before The Nickelodeon

Documentary · Film Documentaries · Silent

Noted film historian Charles Musser co-wrote and directed this definitive tribute to Edwin S. Porter, the mechanic and cameraman for Thomas Edison, now recognized as a major contributor to the evolution of film structure. From the time of The Great Train Robbery in 1903 until Griffith started at Bio…

Behind the White Glasses

Documentary

Behind the White Glasses offers a deep dive into the ground breaking life and career of Lina Wertmuller, the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for her masterpiece Seven Beauties.The documentary spans decades, from the unpublished pictures taken in Cinecitta, when…

Being in the World

Documentary · Music & Dance

Being in the World takes us on a journey around the world to meet philosophers influenced by the thought of Martin Heidegger, as well as experts in the fields of sports, music, craft, and cooking, in a celebration of human beings, and our ability to find meaning in life through the mastery of physic…

Below Sea Level

Documentary

Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over. Rosi spent five years shooting BELOW SEA LEVEL, which documents the hand-to-…

Beware of Mr. Baker

Documentary

This no-holds- barred, moving, and hilarious portrait of the man referred to as rock’s first great drummer (and perhaps still its best) lets him tell his own story, intercut with footage of his continent-hopping life, from London to L.A., Nigeria, Italy, South Africa, and (way) beyond.

Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint

Documentary · Staff Picks · Art Documentaries

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painti…

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

Art Documentaries · Biography · Tribeca Film Festival

A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960's and 70's to profoundly embrace life and…

Bill Cunningham New York

Documentary · Photography · RT Certified Fresh

“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…

Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

Documentary · Art Documentaries

This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work that eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retr…

Billy Wilder Speaks

Documentary · Film Documentaries

Billy Wilder Speaks is a lively lesson in filmmaking, from one of its undisputed masters.

Black Zombie

Documentary

Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried origins. Born from enslavement, spiritual belief, and resistance, it first emerged in Haiti before becoming one of pop culture’s most profitable monsters. The film traces its evolution fr…

Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism

Lesbian · Documentary · LGBTQ

Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism immerses the viewer in the San Francisco leather dyke scene, shattering assumptions about gender and lesbian sexuality, while broadening the discussion about personal expressions of eroticism and their political implications.

Bloom Up

Documentary · World Cinema

Pet shop owners by day and swingers by night, Italian couple Hermes and Betta grant filmmaker Mauro Russo total access to their lives, resulting in an honest and sex positive look at the swinger lifestyle that is fascinating and sensual without ever feeling vulgar or exploitative.

The Blues Under the Skin

Documentary · Music

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…

Boatman

Earth Day · Documentary · Spirituality

Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over.  His first feature, Boatman (1993), captures life and death on the Gang…

Boneshop of the Heart

Documentary · Fine Art · Art Documentaries

This acclaimed and thought-provoking documentary provides a rare and illuminating exploration of the creative process through incisive portraits of five seminal figures from a significant chapter in contemporary American folk art. Variously described as outsiders, naive, or visionary, the artists pr…

Born in Evin

Documentary · World Cinema

In her directing debut, German-Iranian actress Maryam Zaree confronts the circumstances of her birth inside one of the world’s most notorious prisons. Her parents, political opponents to Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini, spent years in prison, and then managed to find asylum in Germany. …

Born to Be

Documentary · Lesbian

With extraordinary access, this documentary offers an intimate look at the pioneering work of Dr. Jess Ting (he/him) at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery to bring quality gender-affirming care to New York City.

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Documentary · RT Certified Fresh

In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design, drawing on over 100 clips from iconic movies and interviews with an all-star cast of women and non-binary film industry professionals.

Brakhage

Documentary · Biography · Film Documentaries

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of the greatest artists of our time. From 1952, at the age of nineteen, until his death, Brakhage created more than 400 films, ranging in length from several seconds to several hours, constantly and consi…

Brave Girls

Documentary

For Karishma, Apsana and Samira, going back to school to complete their secondary education represented a seismic shift in worldview and a reappraisal of what their lives could become. But as final exams approached, their families began preparations for their weddings. Immediately, they were forced …

Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Documentary · Spirituality · Meditation

Brilliant Moon chronicles the life of the writer, poet, and meditation master Khyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet's most revered 20th-century Buddhist teachers. Spiritual guide to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Royal Family of Bhutan, his life and teachings were an inspiration to all who encountere…

Broken Noses

Documentary · Sports

Profiles lightweight boxer Andy Minsker and his boxing club for boys.

Bugs

Environment · Earth Day · Nature

With global food shortages on the horizon, forward-thinking chefs, environmentalists and food scientists are turning toward an unexpected source of protein: insects. Bugs is an artful and thoughtful new documentary that provides a perfect entry point to insect cuisine.

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

Art Documentaries · Culture · Documentary

For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a tasty peek at some of the world's most inn…

Business of Amateurs

Documentary

The NCAA is the face of college athletics, and it generates billions of dollars every year for the top universities in the United States. The Business of Amateurs is the first documentary that challenges the NCAA from the perspective of former student-athletes.

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

Documentary · Music & Dance · Peabody Award Winners

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters traces the powerful story of how one of the most celebrated works of art to come out of the AIDS epidemic revitalized two disparate communities, 30 years apart, both struggling to make sense of the plagues of their generations.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Documentary · RT Certified Fresh

Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty, this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on t…

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

Documentary · Biography

CAPTURED ON FILM deploys archival film clips, rare home videos and narration by Charlize Theron to explore Marion Davies' one-of-a-kind life and work.

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.