Directed by Alain Kassanda • Documentary • 2023 • 89 minutes

At Ibadan, Nigeria’s oldest university, a student association hosts a documentary screening and discussion group. In a country where dissent is frequently punished, this Thursday Film Series becomes a space for conversation and impassi...

Directed by George Ungar • Documentary • 1995 • 94 minutes

What was a reputed Nazi collaborator doing reconnoitering the Canadian Northwest in 1934? In that year, mogul Charles Bedaux embarked on an ill-fated journey across through the Canadian Rockies. His upper-crust caravan, called "The Champ...

Directed by Anne Worthington • Documentary • 2022 • 31 minutes

In 2021, in the small rural town of Genoa Nebraska, a harrowing search commenced to locate the graves of Native America children who were taken from their tribes and sent to the Genoa U.S Indian Industrial School, one of America’s la...

Directed by Mat Rappaport • Documentary • With Hasso Spode, Sussanna Misgajski, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper • 2022 • 72 minutes

Architecture, mass tourism and political ideology come together in Touristic Intents, a new documentary that investigates the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora on Germany'...

Directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh • Documentary • With Meera Devi, Suneeta Prajapati, Shyamkali Devi • 2021 • 98 minutes

2022 Acadamy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature! Reporting from a social environment built to divide based on caste and gender, a fearless group of journalist...

Documentary • 2014 • 58 minutes

Forty-year-old academic economist Miklos Nemeth was more surprised than anyone when he was named Prime Minister of Hungary. It was 1989, and the Communist system was on the brink of collapse. Nemeth, an outsider with few friends in the Party, was charged with the ...

Directed by Paul Mitchell, Anastasiya Popova • Documentary • 2023 • 54 minutes

Despite the huge risks, two Russian filmmakers have been filming the impact of the invasion of Ukraine in their country.

The filmmakers get rare access to the brave Russians who are willing to speak out against their...

Directed by Paul E. Gierucki • Documentary • With Curly-Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser • 2024 • 87 minutes

A fascinating collection of forgotten Stooge rarities including outtakes, home movies, newsreel footage, as well as promotional and short subject...

Directed by Jessica Gorter • Documentary • 2024 • 96 minutes

Yuri Dmitriev exhumes what the Russian rulers would rather forget. After years of searching the pine forests of Karelia in northwestern Russia, he discovers a mass grave containing thousands of people who were secretly executed during ...

Directed by Anneleen Ophoff • Documentary • 2022 • 26 minutes

Augustine, Charmaine and Jim are some of the hundreds of thousands of Native American children placed in residential schools since the 1870s. The United States government funded over 360 boarding schools which systematically destroyed...

Directed by Esther Hoffenberg • Documentary • 2009 • 74 minutes

Discover France, Normandy, the most nuclearized region on the planet. With both humor and seriousness, Esther Hoffenberg explores a well-kept secret: nuclear power and the reprocessing of its waste. What does it mean to live with nu...

Directed by Sonia Gonzalez • Documentary • 2021 • 58 minutes

In 1981 a group of women occupy the British military base at Greenham Common to protest againsit stockage of U.S. nuclear missiles. Soon thousands of women from all walks of life will join the cause, challenging the state and the milit...

Directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West • Documentary • 2022 • 95 minutes

A comprehensive look at the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find harmful, demeaning, and offensive. The film examines mascoting issues through archival foota...

Directed by Martina Car, Anthony Audi • Documentary • With Phil Harrison, Henry Herrera, Bernice Gutierrez, Bill Payne, Louisa Lopez, Tina Cordova • 2024 • 76 minutes

Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test: the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. In an instant, shrouded...

Directed by Tina Mascara, Guido Santini • Documentary • 2007 • 90 minutes

Chris & Don: A Love Story chronicles the lifelong relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and his much younger lover, artist Don Bachardy. It combines present-day interviews, archival footage shot by the couple f...

Directed by Celeste Bell, Paul Sng • Documentary • With Ruth Negga, Thurston Moore, Kathleen Hanna • 2021 • 96 minutes

Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sin...

Directed by Robert Clem • Documentary • With J.W. Alexander, Ira Tucker • 2018 • 87 minutes

How They Got Over tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source for what we would call rock and roll, and in the process helped to break down racial walls in 1950s America.

Be...

Directed by Antonino D'Ambrosio • Documentary • 2022 • 87 minutes

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Antonino D'Ambrosio, this is the long overdue documentary about the legendary Roberta Flack. Of course she is well known the world over for “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and "Killing Me Soft...

Directed by Mosco Boucault, Ruth Zylberman • Documentary • 2024 • 38 minutes

Just outside Paris, in a peaceful clearing surrounded by woods, a French flag flies above a bare concrete pad. Here, on February 21, 1944, Nazi occupiers executed 23 Resistance fighters by firing squad.

After the execu...

Directed by Erik Shirai • Documentary • 2015 • 93 minutes

A beautiful and immersive portrait of life at the 144-year old Yoshida Brewery, a producer of world class sake. With changing times ahead and new regime led by the 6th generation heir, this is a rarified look at the personal and professio...

Directed by Tiffany Sia • Documentary • 2023 • 32 minutes

Directed by artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia, “The Sojourn” imagines a restless landscape film in Taiwan. Visiting scenic locations shot by King Hu, the short experiments with the road movie genre and its intersection with the martial art...

Directed by Tiffany Sia • Documentary • 2024 • 33 minutes

“A Child Already Knows” is a short film that describes a child’s retelling of an escape from Shanghai disguised as a family vacation through the south. Half-remembered scenes of a historical cusp are recalled alongside a montage of approp...

Directed by Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini, Thomas Briat • Documentary • With Ariane Mnouchkine • 2024 • 59 minutes

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 brings back dark memories of 1930s Europe for Ariane Mnouchkine, the 84-year-old theater director and founder of the prestigious Théâtre du...