Directed by Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Titarenko • Documentary • 2023 • 98 minutes

On February 24, 2022, Yevhen Titarenko didn’t have to puzzle over what he should do. He went to the front. And from the first minute of Russia’s large-scale aggression against Ukraine, he began to record everything ...

Directed by Alexander Abaturov • Documentary • 2022 • 70 minutes

In 2013, filmmaker Alexander Abaturov cousin Dima Ilukhin was killed during a Russian Special Forces (Spetsnaz) operation in the Republic of Dagestan. He was 21. The fighter who shot him in the head and was himself subsequently kil...

Directed by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss • Documentary • 2023 • 74 minutes

THE FIVE DEMANDS is a riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, a...

Directed by Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen • Documentary • With Peter Beinart, Noam Chomsky • 2023 • 84 minutes

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young A...

Directed by Mohamed Jabaly • Documentary • 2020 • 22 minutes

Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly’s 2020 short film follows the interactions with friends and family back home in Gaza while living in exile in Northern Norway, not being able to return. Jabaly’s first award-winning feature Ambulanc...

Directed by Ilan Ziv • Documentary • 2022 • 120 minutes

This documentary masterfully traces the history of anti-Semitism and its effects, from cartoon-like medieval church iconography showing Jews with funnels on their heads, to WWII propaganda comparing Jews to rats and neo-Nazis marching in th...

Directed by Kim A Snyder • Documentary • 2020 • 86 minutes

From Kim A. Snyder, director of the Peabody Award-winning documentary Newtown, comes an insightful, rousing coming-of-age story of a generation of youth leaders determined to take the reins and fight for justice at a most critical time i...

Directed by Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn • Documentary • With Ava Breuer, Faith Quinn, Julia Weinberg • 2023 • 80 minutes

A college student searches for answers and justice after discovering deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.

Directed by Jimmy Leipold • Documentary • With Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Stuart Ewen, David Miller • 2020 • 53 minutes

In 1916, Woodrow Wilson ran on a platform strongly opposing US entry into WWI. But just a few months after taking office, the United States declared war on Germany. Soon after...

Directed by Zaynê Akyol • Documentary • 2023 • 127 minutes

The Islamic State group consumed the attention of the West for years. They were despised, feared, and by some, embraced. But who were they? Filmed in prisons and detention camps, this engrossing documentary turns the camera on men and wo...

Directed by Mohamed Jabaly • Documentary • 2016 • 78 minutes

Mohamed, 24, aspires to make films in Gaza City, despite the lack of water, electricity, and closed borders that are part of every ‘normal’ day under the 7-year Israeli blockade of Gaza. While many young people dream of leaving Gaza, M...

Directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib • Documentary • 2021 • 89 minutes

The district of Yarmouk (Damascus, Syria) sheltered the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018.

When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad saw Yarmouk as a refuge of rebels and ...

Directed by Romed Wyder • Documentary • 2018 • 52 minutes

The birth of the modern state of Israel was far from inevitable. As AND THERE WAS ISRAEL compellingly shows, when it comes to Israel and Palestine, the current crisis is rooted choices made in response to 19th century geopolitics, colonia...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2022 • 83 minutes

One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, Chile, demanding justice, education...

Directed by Marie Skovgaard • Documentary • 2019 • 88 minutes

After her own divorce, Sherin openly begins granting islamic divorces to women unhappily married and performs inter-faith marriages of Muslim women and non-Muslim men. Having sacrificed her own marriage for the cause, Sherin wants to ...

Directed by Brent E. Huffman • Documentary • 2015 • 58 minutes

SAVING MES AYNAK follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition. A Chinese state-owned mining company is closing in on the ancie...

Directed by Arthur MacCaig • Documentary • 1995 • 55 minutes

On July 16, 1945 at 5.30 a.m., in a remote site in the New Mexico desert, America successfully detonates its first atomic bomb. In El Paso, Texas, one hundred miles away, the city's residents are awakened by a silent but blinding light...

Directed by John Junkerman • Documentary • 2002 • 74 minutes

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: Stop participating in it.”
- Noam Chomsky

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in our Times gives the public a rare opportunity to see and listen to one of the m...

Directed by Gerald Fox • Documentary • With Robert Frank, June Leaf • 2019 • 86 minutes

Completed in 2004, Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank was the first ever feature-length documentary about the legendary Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker. Originally deemed too pers...

Directed by Liz Magic Laser • Documentary • With Liz Magic Laser • 2023 • 54 minutes

Edited by Isaac Goes and Michelle Yoon of Kinet Media. Cinematography and additional editing by Laura Geisswiller.

Performance artist and filmmaker, Liz Magic Laser, explores the shaking body as both a sympto...

Directed by Carol Dysinger • Documentary • 2023 • 92 minutes

This story of intimate female friendship forged amidst America's longest war is told by a filmmaker who spent fifteen years in and out of Afghanistan. In this war movie, the battlefield lies behind the curtains of an Afghan home as Bib...

Directed by Reiner Holzemer • Documentary • With Dries Van Noten, Iris Apfel, Pamela Golbin • 2018 • 90 minutes

For the first time, fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year, Reiner Holzemer documented the ...

Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer • Documentary • 1981 • 46 minutes

Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute city symphony directed, produced and edited by Manfred Kirchheimer. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images of graffiti- covered elevated subway ...