Directed by Suzanne Raes • Documentary • 2023 • Netherlands • Dutch with English subtitles
Featuring Pieter Roelofs, Anna Krekeler, Jonathan Janson

Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever, mounted in early 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the...

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 Matt Tyrnauer • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Ian Schrager Steve Rubell, Norma Kamali

A haven of hedonism, glitz, and glamour, the infamous New York nightclub Studio 54 was the ultimate escapist fantasy until it imploded in financial scandal. With unprecedented access a...

Directed by Halina Dyrschka • Documentary • 2019 • Germany • English, German, Swedish with English subtitles
Featuring Johan af Klint, Julia Voss, Ulla af Klint

The subject of a 2018 awe-inspiring retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term even ...

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 Vanessa Lapa • Documentary • 2014 • Austria • German with English subtitles
Featuring Tobias Moretti, Sophie Rois

On May 6th 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund Germany where they discovered hundreds of private letters, documents, diaries ...

Directed by Nancy Buirski • Documentary • 2023 • US • English
Featuring Bob Balaban, Brian De Palma, Jon Voight

This is not a documentary about the making of "Midnight Cowboy". It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a trouble...

Directed by Sophie Fiennes • Documentary • 2018 • UK, Ireland • English
Featuring Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare

Sophie Fiennes’s electrifying documentary is a journey through the public and private worlds of mega-icon Grace Jones that contrasts musical sequences with intimate perso...

Directed by Cameron Yates • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry

While many of his peers were still playing with toys, Flynn McGarry was creating remarkable gastronomic delights. Enjoying unwavering support from his artist mother Meg, he devoted himself entirely...

Directed by Nathaniel Kahn • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Jeff Koons, Jerry Saltz, Jeffrey Deitch

"The Price of Everything" examines the role of art and passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society. Featuring collectors, dealers, and a rich range of artists from Jeff Ko...

Directed by Vanessa Gould • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Bruce Weber, Margalit Fox, William McDonald

The first documentary to explore the world of obituary writers, "Obit." focuses on the legendary team at 'The New York Times', who approach their work with journalistic rigor and ...

Directed by Gianfranco Rosi • Documentary • 2016 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Featuring Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Pietro Bartolo

An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, "Fire at Sea" takes pla...

Directed by Talal Derki • Documentary • 2018 • Syria, Germany, Lebanon • Arabic with English subtitles
Featuring Tia Alkerdi, Yara Ibrahim, Abu Osama

Academy Award Nominee and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, "Of Fathers and Sons" follows filmmaker Talal Derki as he travels to his hom...

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 Jack Hazan • Documentary •1974 • UK • English
Featuring David Hockney

In this intimate and innovative film about artist David Hockney, director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid. The result is at once a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s an...

Directed by Justin Pemberton • Documentary • 2020 • New Zealand • English, French with English subtitles
Featuring Thomas Piketty, Francis Fukuyama, Joseph Stiglitz

Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty, this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey...

Directed by James Szalapski • Documentary • 1976 • US • English
Featuring Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, David Alan Coe

In the mid-‘70s, filmmaker James Szalapski documented the then-nascent country music movement that would become known as “outlaw country.” Inspired, in part, by newly-long-haired...

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 Franck Ribiere • Documentary • 2015 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Jacques Abbatucci, Marcos Bassi, Joe Beef

A global pursuit (with layovers in Japan, Argentina, Brazil, France, Spain, the U.S. and other countries) for the best steak in the world, "Steak (R)evolut...

Directed by Frank Simon • Documentary • 1968 • US • English
Featuring Jack Doroshow, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick

More than 40 years before “RuPaul's Drag Race", this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive d...

Directed by Alex Gibney • Documentary • 2014 • US • English
Featuring Bill T. Jones, Paul McCartney, Questlove

​​Directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, “Finding Fela” tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life and how he created a new musical movement, Afrobeat, which he used to expres...

Directed by Ada Ushpiz • Documentary • 2015 • Israel, Canada • English, Hebrew, German with English subtitles
Featuring Alison Darcy, Angela Winkler

This spirited and thought-provoking documentary about German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt dives into rare, archival footage to offer a portrait...

Directed by Oren Jacoby • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman

As theatergoers prepare for the return of Broadway after COVID, an all-star cast, including Hugh Jackman, Helen Mirren, James Corden, Viola Davis, and Ian McKellen, tell the story of th...

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 ...