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OVID Exclusives

OVID Exclusives

Many of the films and series on OVID are only on one subscription streaming service - us! So here are the top fifty of the titles exclusive to OVID, based on the total amount of time each film was viewed, during the first four (4) months of the year up through April 30th. We will update this list in July with the info through June 30th.

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OVID Exclusives
  • Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy

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    Wang Bing's monumental YOUTH trilogy is driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines — just like the lives of the young garment workers portrayed. Wang immerses himself in the lives of these workers, as they try to find potential dates, negotiate better piece-work rates with bosses, and sew ...

  • Edward Said: The Last Interview

    Directed by Mike Dibb • Documentary • 2004 • 114 minutes

    Producer: D. D. Guttenplan; Interviewer: Charles Glass

    Edward Said, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was one of the most important literary critics of the late 20th century, and for many y...

  • Where God is Not

    Directed by Mehran Tamadon • Documentary • 2023 • 112 minutes

    Taghi, Homa and Mazyar were arrested and interrogated by the Iranian regime. All three testify with their bodies, with their gestures and tell what it means to resist, what it means to break. Is there any hope that the torturer will o...

  • A Shepherd

    Directed by Louis Hanquet • Documentary • 2024 • 70 minutes

    In the mountains of France, a shepherd fights to preserve his way of life against the threat of wolves and the challenges of traditional livestock farming. A Shepherd is a poetic documentary that explores the intimate relationship betwe...

  • The Elk Forest

    Directed by Ane Helga Lykka • Documentary • 2021 • 57 minutes

    Sigrid has hunted elk for years, but is still not sure if she actually wants to shoot the beautiful animal. She’s hunting with her father, Geir, who is faithfully doing everything he can to facilitate for his daughter’s first kill. Si...

  • The Gospel of Revolution

    Directed by François-Xavier Drouet • Documentary • 2024 • 116 minutes

    The revolutionary fervor that swept through Latin America in the 20th century owes much to the participation of millions of Christians who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith. Driven by liberation theolog...

  • Heimat is a Space in Time

    Directed by Thomas Heise • Documentary • 2019 • 218 minutes

    In HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME, German filmmaker Thomas Heise shares the stories of three generations of his family, in their own words.

    Heise sets the tone early, reading an anti-war essay written in 1912 by his grandfather Wilhelm, whe...

  • Bad Hair

    Directed by Mariana Rondón • Drama • With Samuel Lange, Samantha Castillo • 2013 • 93 minutes

    A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.

    Junior is a b...

  • The Two Sights

    Directed by Joshua Bonnetta • Documentary • 2020 • 90 minutes

    The first solo feature from Joshua Bonnetta (co-director, El Mar La Mar), The Two Sights (An Dà Shealladh) explores the disappearing tradition of second sight in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. As we listen to locals' accounts of haun...

  • The Five Demands

    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...

  • Roubaix, Police Department, Ordinary Business

    Directed by Mosco Boucault • Documentary • 2007 • 87 minutes

    A teenage runaway. A stabbing spree during a Christmas dinner that leaves multiple casualties. A series of sexual assaults in a subway station. This is the “ordinary business” that police in the working class northern French town of Ro...

  • Expedition Content

    Directed by Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati • Documentary • 2020 • 78 minutes

    Note: For best viewing results, please manually adjust the streaming quality to 720p or higher.

    An immersive marvel of sonic ethnography, Expedition Content draws on audio recordings made by recent college graduate...

  • Terrorists in Retirement

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    Directed by Mosco Boucault • Documentary • 1983 • 71 minutes

    Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released – after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1983 – TERRORISTS IN RETIREMENT is the story of men and women from Armenia, Poland, and Romania, mostly Jews, who fough...

  • White Balls on Walls

    Directed by Sarah Vos • Documentary • 2023 • 90 minutes

    The slogan “Meet the Icons of Modern Art” needs to be scraped off the glass wall of the Stedelijk, Amsterdam’s Museum of Modern Art. Because precisely who these icons of modern art are is very much the question.

    Who gets to decide? And who...

  • Family Practice

    Directed by Jeshua Dreyfus • Drama • With Dani Levy, Dimitri Stapfer, Sibylle Cano • 2020 • 89 minutes

    Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up...

  • Malintzin 17

    Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky and Mara Polgovsky • Documentary • 2022 • 64 minutes

    Filmed from the unusual vantage-point of a second-floor apartment window, MALINTZIN 17 portrays two parallel expressions of parental care. 

    For seven days and nights filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky and his five-year-...

  • Convulsive States

    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...

  • Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said

    Directed by Makoto Sato • Documentary • With lan Pappe, Elias Khoury, Azmi Bishara, Daniel Barenboim, Rashid Khalidi, Michel Warschawski, Noam Chomsky, Dan Rabinowitz • 2006 • 138 minutes

    Borrowing its title from the author's 2000 memoir, OUT OF PLACE traces the life and work of Edward Said (193...

  • The Shooting on Mole Street

    Directed by Mosco Boucault • Documentary • 1998 • 90 minutes

    On March 1, 1996, 15-year-old Shafeeq Murrel was killed on the street in South Philadelphia — innocently caught in the crossfire between rival pairs of crack dealers out for revenge. Shafeeq’s murder was one of 435 in Philadelphia that...

  • Ok, Joe!

    Directed by Philippe Baron • Documentary • 2024 • 52 minutes

    After the landing of the Allied forces in 1944, writer Louis Guilloux was recruited as an interpreter for the American army. He would soon be confronted with the dark side of liberation: the rapes and murders committed by American sold...

  • Geographies of Solitude

    Directed by Jacquelyn Mills • Documentary • 2022 • 103 minutes

    An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic, the film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived there for over 40 years collecting, cleaning and doc...

  • The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

    Directed by Jerry Aronson • Documentary • With Joan Baez, William F. Buckley, William S. Burroughs • 2005 • 84 minutes

    This documentary chronicles the life of American beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Born and raised in New Jersey, Ginsberg attends Columbia University alongside fellow beats Jack Keroua...

  • Capitalism: A six-part series

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    Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of "neo- liberalism," capitalism is by far the world's dominant ideology. But how much do we understand about how it originated, and what makes it work?...

  • Echoes of the Invisible

    Directed by Steve Elkins • Documentary • With Paul Salopek, Rachel Sussman, Al Arnold, Anil Ananthaswamy, Lynda Lynch, Losang Samten • 2020 • 106 minutes

    "Echoes of the Invisible" interweaves a mosaic of profound quests. A blind man runs alone through Death Valley as journalist Paul Salopek walk...