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 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 Marcie Begleiter • Documentary • 2016 • US, Germany • English
Featuring Selma Blair, Bob Balaban, Patrick Kennedy

Eva Hesse, one of America’s foremost postwar artists, helped shape post-minimalism through her pioneering sculptures. Her untimely death cut short a dense career marked b...

Directed by Billy Woodberry • Drama • 1983 • US • English
Starring Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore, Angela Burnett

A key masterpiece of the L.A. Rebellion film movement written by Charles Burnett, "Bless Their Little Hearts" showcases director Billy Woodberry's attentive eye and sensitivity to real-...

Directed by Michael Powell • Drama • 1938 • UK • English
Starring Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie

Two families living on a remote island off of Scotland are torn asunder by a race between their sons in this thrilling romantic drama from director Michael Powell. Their challenge thre...

Directed by Ayoka Chenzira • Drama • 1994 • U.S. • English
Starring Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Kirby Nunes, Lee Dobson, Jennifer Copeland, Keyonn Shepard, Isaiah Washington

An essential film in the ‘90s Black cinema canon, Ayoka Chenzira's overlooked classic "Alma's Rainbo...

Directed by Kent Mackenzie • Arthouse • 1961 • US • English
Starring Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds

From dusk to dawn, a group of young Native Americans in Los Angeles hang out, dance, drink, flirt, and remember life on the reservations they have left in this glistening film. Outside ...

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci • Drama • 1993 • France, Liechtenstein, UK • English
Starring Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda

Drawing on Buddhist history, “Little Buddha” is Bernardo Bertolucci's religious tour de force. A Tibetan monk believes that a 10-year-old American boy, Jesse, is...

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 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 Géza von Radványi • Drama • 1958 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Romy Schneider, Lilli Palmer, Therese Giehse

A landmark of queer cinema, "Maedchen in Uniform" (1958) follows a boarding school student who falls for her kind teacher, but her heartfelt confession spa...