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 Kavery Dutta Kaul • Documentary • 1988 • US • English
Featuring Lord Kitchener, Calypso Rose

The infectious rhythms and exhilarating irreverence of calypso and soca music are celebrated in this newly-restored and vibrant documentary. Told through the eyes of legendary musicians Lord ...

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 Salome Chasnoff • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Lawrence Carter-Long, Candace Coleman, Mike Ervin

"Code of the Freaks" presents a radical reframing of the use of disabled characters in film. Using hundreds of clips spanning over 100 years of moviemaking, and a cast of d...

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...

Directed by Will Sheff • Drama • 2017 • US • English
Starring Duston Cornouyer, Griffin Gamache, Luke Bonner

This dreamlike, nostalgic film is a fictionalized representation of writer/director Will Sheff (of Okkervil River)'s childhood in smalltown New Hampshire, filtered through the best childr...

Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin • Drama • 1956 • US • English
Starring Lori March, Gerald O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn

A follow-up to the hugely successful "Little Fugitive", Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin's "Lovers and Lollipops" is the enchanting tale of a seven-year-old girl's reaction to her mom...

Directed by George T. Nierenberg • Documentary • 1978 • US • English
Featuring Lionel Hampton, Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green

Featuring performances by tap legends Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green, Howard “Sandman” Sims, along with music by the inimitable Lionel Hampton, George T. Nierenberg’s film vibrates...

Directed by Jessica Wolfson, Paul Lovelace • Documentary • 2012 • US • English
Featuring Bob Fass, Judy Collins, Robert Downey Sr.

For nearly 50 years, legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves with his free-form program Radio Unnameable, a cultural hub for music, polit...

Directed by Chris Eska • Drama • 2014 • US • English
Starring Ashton Sanders, Keston John, Tishuan Scott

On the outskirts of the Civil War, white bounty hunters send a young boy on a mission into the north to find a fugitive freed man by earning his trust and luring him back to the south. Groun...

Directed by Carl Deal, Tia Lessin • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
Featuring Brian Nobles, Wink Rivers, Kimberly Rivers Roberts

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. “Trouble the Water” takes you inside ...

Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Rupert Everett, David Hockney, Isaac Mizrahi

Oscar-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright You...