Directed by Azazel Jacobs • Comedy • 2005 • U.S. • English
Starring Azazel Jacobs, Gerardo Naranjo, Sara Diaz

A story about stolen love and stolen identities, Azazel Jacobs’ "The GoodTimes Kid" is an absurdist comedy of errors, a punk-rock slice of DIY rebellion, and a warmhearted frolic. Slacke...

Directed by Daniel Raim • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Harold Michelson, Lillian Michelson, Mel Brooks

Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don't recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and...

Directed by Connie Hochman • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring George Balanchine, Jacques d'Amboise, Merrill Ashley

"In Balanchine's Classroom" takes us back to the glory years of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to...

Directed by Jeff Zimbalist • Documentary • 2024 • US • English
Featuring John Waters, Oliver Stone, Dick Cavett

Explore the rollercoaster life of America’s most controversial and bestselling author of the 20th Century, Norman Mailer. Prophet, hedonist, violent criminal, literary outlaw, and soci...

Directed by Carolyn Jones • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Cathlyn Robinson, Michelle Lyon, Rabih Saad

Following emergency nurses and their patients in seven unique settings across the U.S, this documentary sheds light on the biggest healthcare crises facing Americans today, and the...

Directed by Steve Brand • Documentary • 1984 • US • English
Featuring Yossi Klein, Zoltan Klein, Breindy Klein

The story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zoltan, who had survived the Holocaust's devastation of Hungarian Jewry by ...

Directed by Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Documentary • 1970 • US • English
Featuring Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee

Nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards, this monumental film follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his rise from regional activist to worl...

Directed by Greg Williams • Documentary • 2013 • US • English
Featuring Tara Conner, Don Fertman, Kristen Johnston

Millions of Americans live in long-term recovery from addiction, yet social stigma and anonymity keep their voices hidden. Advocates—leaders, volunteers, executives, and celebrities...

Directed by Eric Steel • Documentary • 2005 • US • English
Featuring Eric Geleynse, Chris Brown, Susan Ginwalla

“The Bridge” is a visual and visceral journey into one of life's gravest taboos. Director Eric Steel and his crew spent an entire year focusing on San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Br...

Directed by George T. Nierenberg • Documentary • 1983 • US • English
Featuring Thomas A. Dorsey, Willie Mae Ford Smith, Delois Barrett Campbell

One of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time, "Say Amen, Somebody" is a joyous, funny, and deeply emotional celebration of Gospel music fro...

Directed by Philip Haas • Documentary • 1988 • US • English
Featuring David Hockney

Painted by Wang Hui and his assistants, the seventh scroll of "The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour" contains over 72 feet of beautiful and minutely detailed artistry. Director Philip Haas and famed arti...

Directed by Wendy Keys • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
Featuring Milton Glaser

For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding "New York Magazine" and creating the enduring "I Love NY" campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable art...

Directed by Shirley Clarke • Documentary • 1967 • US • English
Featuring Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke

In 1966, director Shirley Clarke spent twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday where she confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-an...

Directed by Emily Taguchi, Jake Lefferman • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring David Hogg, Brooke Harrison, Andrew Pollack

After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 that killed 17 people and launched a nationwide student movement, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Ja...

Directed by Steven Newmark • Documentary • 2018 • U.S. • English
Featuring Ram Dass, Neem Karoli Baba aka Maharaj-ji

"American Yogi" is a delightful autobiographical documentary about a nice Jewish boy from Miami who travels to San Francisco for the “Summer of Love” and returns a hippie. Later, ...

Directed by Marie Losier • Documentary • 2011 • US • English
Featuring Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye

This tender portrait of music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge and their partner, dominatrix Lady Jaye, was filmed over the course of seven years and completed following Lady Jaye’s sudden death in 2007....

Directed by Pamela B. Green • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Agnes Varda, Ava DuVernay, Geena Davis

Narrated by Jodie Foster, this full feature documentary rewrites film history, revealing for the first time the full scope of the life and work of cinema’s first female director, scre...

Directed by Jeffrey Wolf • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Russell G. Jones, Sharon Washington, Jason Samuels Smith

This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work ...

Directed by Alexandra Dean • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Mel Brooks, Peter Bogdanovich, Diane Kruger

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are ...

Directed by Catherine Gund • Documentary • 2014 • US • English
Featuring Elizabeth Streb, Sarah Callan, Fabio Tavares

"Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity" traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb's movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky.

Directed by Nina Menkes • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
Featuring Julie Dash, Penelope Spheeris, Rosanna Arquette

This eye-opening documentary from the Sundance Film Festival explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design and its connections to the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assau...

Directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg • Drama • 1969 • US • English
Starring Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Viveca Lindfors

Rip Torn gives one of his greatest screen performances as a psychiatrist secretly filming his own mental breakdown in Milton Moses Ginsberg's classic exploration of dark eroticism a...

Directed by Peter Wang • Comedy • 1986 • US, China • English, Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Peter Wang, Sharon Iwai, Kelvin Han Yee

The first American movie shot in China, "A Great Wall" is a delightful comedy about a San Francisco computer programmer who quits and moves his family to...

Directed by Carolyn Jones • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Rudolph Bilotti Sr., Berthold Cohen, Charlotte Cohen

"Defining Hope" weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illnesses, and the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much m...