90° South: With Scott to the Antarctic
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…
The AIDS Show
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.
Amrum
Director Fatih Akin (In the Fade) reunites with frequent collaborator Diane Kruger in this tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence in the waning days of WWII. On the windswept island of Amrum in northern Germany, a young farmboy sets out on a quest in an attempt to bring solace to his …
Anatahan
NEW RESTORATION! Inspired by an actual event during WWII, Josef von Sternberg's Anatahan, tells the story of a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan during the waning days of the war. The war ends, unbeknownst to the men, and they engage in their ow…
Araya
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.
The Atomic Cafe
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.
The Beloved Rogue
A rich historical romance starring John Barrymore as poet Frances Villon who battles against nasty King Louis the XI in 17th Century France.
Camille Claudel
The biography of the iconic French sculptor Camille Claudel in a tale of love, betrayal and female empowerment, starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu.
The Champion: A Story of America's First Film Town
For almost a decade Fort Lee, New Jersey was the filmmaking hub of the US. That golden age is celebrated in this documentary — along with silent films preserved by the Library of Congress.
The Clay Bird
A family is torn apart by religion and war when young Anu is sent from his loving home to study at a strict madrasah in the months leading up to Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan.
Come Back, Africa
In making this mixture of documentary and drama, director Lionel Rogosin’s aimed to reveal the harsh injustice of apartheid in Sophiatown, a South African ghetto where Black citizens formed their own vibrant community and culture. Rogosin spent a year meeting with locals in order to capture th…
Come Back, Africa/Black Roots
Working secretly with activists and ordinary Africans, Lionel Rogosin created the first film exposing apartheid. He then took the fight for equality home to the US with the astonishing Black Roots.
Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt
The Memorial Quilt was started by the NAMES Project in the summer of 1987...and by the fall of '88, the quilt had grown to include 8,288 panels. Through on-the-scene documentation, filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman wove the NAMES Project's efforts to memoralize AIDS victims into an emotion…
A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney bring the bustling streets of three-hundred-year-old China to life through their analysis of the 72-foot-long seventh scroll of "The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour" by Wang Hui.
Diplomacy
In this riveting adaptation of the stage success by Cyril Gély, the great Volker Schlöndorff (Academy Award winner THE TIN DRUM) has created a psychologically elaborate game of political manners between two highly contrasting characters, hoping to prevent the destruction of Paris, France…
Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon
In the early twentieth century, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon shot local footage of people in the north of England going about their daily activities, preserved and restored to offer a look back in time with an original score by In the Nursery.
Fabian: Going to the Dogs
In this dazzling adaptation of Erich Kästner’s classic of Weimar literature, a young ad-man spends his days working for a cigarette company and his nights wandering the streets of Berlin, where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects…
The Giant Woman and the Lightning Man
Philip Haas’s eye-popping film covering Australian Aboriginal artwork takes viewers through the stunning, painstaking step-by-step processes of preparing paintings by desert tribesmen.
In the Land of the Head Hunters
In 1911, photographer Edward S. Curtis traveled to British Columbia to work with members of the Kwakwaka'wakw to create a film celebrating the art and culture of this Native American people.
Joan the Maid: The Battles
For the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two-part study, director and co-screenwriter Jacques Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English. As Joan, Sandrine Bonnaire gets at the reality behind…
Joan the Maid: The Prisons
The second part of Rivette’s diptych, brought leading lady Sandrine Bonnaire a César Award nomination for her powerful performance. Joined in this installment by other excellent French actresses, including Edith Scob, Hélène de Fougerolles, and Nathalie Richard, Bonnaire t…
Master Shot: The Films of Miklós Jancsó
Kino Lorber is proud to bring to North American theaters this touring series featuring restorations of six films by Miklós Jancsó, "the greatest Hungarian film director of all time" (Béla Tarr). All films are restored in 4K from their original 35mm camera negative by Nation…
Millay at Steepletop: Two Films by Kevin Brownlow
MILLAY AT STEEPLETOP aims to recapture the joyous fire of Edna St. Vincent Millay's work by combining readings of her poetry with rare archival footage, while THE LAST TRAM offers a poetic farewell to Glasgow's trolleys.
On the Bowery: The Films of Lionel Rogosin Vol. 1
Lionel Rogosin's portrait of life on New York's skid row remains devastating and powerful more than sixty years later. Also features making-of docs by the filmmaker's son Michael Rogosin.
Oporto of My Childhood
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.
Paragraph 175
Directed by Oscar winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, this documentary about the persecution of homosexuals by the Third Reich raises provocative questions about memory, history and identity through survivors' testimonials.
People of the Wind
A nominee for Oscars® and Golden Globes alike, PEOPLE OF THE WIND documents the famous Bakhtiari migration, a 200-mile journey made twice every year by 500,000 Iranian nomads and their animals.
Red Psalm
Set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s. When a group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner, they are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence. Structured as a passion play. An awesom…
The Round-Up
Miklós Jancsó’s most renowned work depicts a prison camp in the aftermath of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. After the Hapsburg monarchy succeeds in suppressing Lajos Kossuth's nationalist uprising, the army sets about arresting suspected guerillas, who are subject to torture and …
Sand Bubbles: C. Dorflinger & Sons Glass Factory
Lost for more than ninety years, SAND BUBBLES resturns in restored 35mm to provide an incredibly rare look at turn-of-the-century industry at a prestigious glass-making company.
The Sorrow and the Pity
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.
South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition
When explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton hired cameraman Frank Hurley to join an expedition across the South Pole, no one could never have predicted their ship would be trapped in pack ice and the members marooned.
The Troubles We've Seen
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.
Winsor McCay: The Master Edition
Winsor McCay was the first master of animation and one of its greatest and most influential artists. His films — joyous, hilarious and beautiful —continue to delight and astonish audiences today.
Winter Soldier
Winter Soldier is a documentary chronicle of an extraordinary investigation conducted by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in 1971, when vets from all branches of the US military came from across the country to speak out about the atrocities they had committed and witnessed while stationed in …
Winter Wind
In the mid-1930s a group of Croatian anarchists led by the grim revolutionary ascetic Marko Lazar (played by the film’s French producer Jacques Charrier) escape a bungled ambush in Yugoslavia crossing the dense forests at that country's Northern border in an effort to seek refuge in Hunga…
You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South
Focusing the Highlander School's role in helping build grassroots movements, this documentary tells the stories of ordinary people fighting for civil and labor rights and against toxic waste and strip mining.