Directed by Lavinia Currier • Drama • 2010 • US • English, French, Sango, and Akka with English subtitles
Starring Kris Marshall, Isaach de Bankole, Will Yun Lee

Ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno traveled from New Jersey to the forests of Central Africa to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. He ...

Directed by Chloé Zhao • Arthouse • 2015 • US • English
Starring John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, Irene Bedard

Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao's debut feature captures the subtleties of a marginalized existence. Johnny, a restless Lakota teen, and his little sister Jashaun live with their mother on...

Directed by Alex Steyermark • Documentary • 2014 • US • English
Featuring Alex Steyermark, Lavinia Jones Wright

Journey across America as today's musical artists perform the early songs that inspired a century of popular music, recording them exactly as originally captured on one-of-a-kind 78rp...

Directed by Bette Gordon • Drama • 2009 • US • English
Starring Jamey Sheridan, Steve Buscemi, Aidan Quinn

Vietnam vet “Handsome” Harry Sweeney (Jamey Sheridan) has spent 30 years suppressing a love ended by betrayal. A call from an old Navy buddy (Steve Buscemi) pushes him to confront a 30-year...

Directed by Beth B • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore, Kembra Pfahler

"Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over" by Beth B is the first career-spanning retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No...

Directed by Spencer Ostrander, Theodore Rex King • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
Featuring Paul Auster

"Running Off to the Circus: Paul Auster on Film" is a career-spanning feature-length interview with the legendary author and director. In Part 1 Auster passionately discusses the formative ...

Directed by Robinson Devor • Documentary • 2024 • US • English
Featuring Sara Jane Moore

A gripping portrait of Sara Jane Moore, a suburban San Francisco single mother who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. Fifty years later, her story feels eerily prescient, reflecting how ...

Directed by Shatara Michelle Ford • Drama • 2020 • US • English
Starring Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean

Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a B...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux • Drama • 1935 • US • English
Starring Clarence Brooks, Dorothy Van Engle, Alec Lovejoy

Oscar Micheaux’s remake of his own “The Gunsaulus Mystery” (1921) is based on the true-life murder of Mary Phagan. When a young woman is found dead in a factory office, a Black empl...

Directed by Edo Bertoglio • Arthouse • 1981 • US • English
Starring Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Richard Weigand

Shot in New York City in the eighties and written by Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, "Downtown 81" features graffiti innovator and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat moving through th...

Directed by Bill Gunn • Horror • 1973 • US • English
Starring Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American ide...

Directed by Kevin Rafferty • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
Featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Vic Gatto, Brian Dowling

Blending vintage footage with candid player interviews, including Harvard lineman and future Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Rafferty crafts a vivid portrait of one of the most ...

Directed by Matthew Harrison • Independent, Drama • 1995 • US • English
Starring Jason Andrews, Eddie Daniels, Kevin Corrigan

Director Matthew Harrison, one of the most exciting American independent filmmaking talents to emerge in the 1990's, was awarded a Special Jury Recognition for Directing ...

Directed by Jennifer Trainer • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Meryl Streep, Nick Cave, James Turrell

With appearances by artists ranging from James Turrell to David Byrne and narration by Meryl Streep, this documentary uncovers the history of how MASS MoCA became the largest museum ...

Directed by Ric Burns • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Atul Gawande

A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis, esteemed neurologist Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by famil...

Directed by Jay Bulger • Documentary • 2012 • US • English
Featuring Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana

Ginger Baker is the original rock ‘n roll madman-junkie-superstar that somehow survived 50+ years of drug abuse, disastrous experiments, and four marriages on three continents. This no...

Directed by Anna Biller • Comedy • 2007 • US • English • Mature Content
Starring Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno

“Viva” is a cult retro spectacle about a bored 1970s housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi (writer/director A...

Directed by Carolyn Jones • Documentary • 2025 • US • English
Featuring Toni Tipton, Airica Steed, Nina Martin

In the U.S, where more women die in childbirth than in any other wealthy nation, the joys of pregnancy and motherhood are often overshadowed by fear. Amid a growing maternal health cris...

Directed by Carolyn Jones • Documentary • 2013 • US • English
Featuring Jason Short, Tonia Faust, Naomi Cross

This heart-warming film follows the paths of five nurses in various practice specialties and explores some of the biggest issues facing America through their work. It is an examination o...

Directed by Arthur Dong • Documentary • 1994 • US • English
Featuring Salome Jens, Phillis Abry, David Barrett

Arthur Dong’s award-winning films masterfully explore the LGBTQ experience and powerfully illustrate the many faces of the gay rights struggle in America. He dramatically reveals the...

Directed by Azazel Jacobs • Comedy • 2008 • US • English
Starring Matt Boren, Ken Jacobs, Flo Jacobs

Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles, Mikey returns to his childhood home, a cluttered, cocoon-like Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. Re-installed in a household saturated...

Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • Documentary • 2010 • US • English
Featuring Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Marina Abramović

For over forty years, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson collected interviews with her contemporaries, shaping them into an intimate portrait of their fight to break do...

Directed by Bruce Weber • Documentary • 1988 • US • English
Featuring Chet Baker, Vera Baker, Carol Baker

This portrait of the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews from what turned out to be the last y...

Directed by Susanna Styron • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Paul Auster, Joan Didion, John Lewis

A filmmaker seeking treatment for her daughter's migraine attacks discovers a confounding neurological disease and learns why a devastating condition, afflicting nearly a billion people ...