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 Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman • Documentary • 2015 • US, Senegal • English, French, Wolof with English subtitles
Featuring Ousmane Sembene, Mbissine Therese Diop, Samba Gadjigo

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible ...

Directed by Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine • Documentary • 2011 • US • English
Featuring Bill Bowes, Herbert Boyer, Nolan Bushnell

“Something Ventured” tells the story of the creation of America's start-up economy, an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and econo...

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 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 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 Yuri Ancarani • Documentary • 2017 • France, Italy • Arabic with English subtitles
Featuring Khaled Al-Hammadi, Nasser Al-Kaabi

This exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of Qatari sheikhs with a passion for falconry. The opulence of this Middle Eastern gas state is on displ...

Directed by Daniel Vernon • Documentary • 2019 • UK • English
Featuring Ike White, Lana Gutman, Greg Errico

Serving a life sentence for murder, music prodigy Ike White had plenty of time to perfect his musical talent. Ike's skills were so exceptional that his story captured the media's attention...

Directed by Claire Simon • Documentary • 2016 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Alain Bergala, Emilie Deleuze, Xanae Bove

Claire Simon, one of France’s leading documentarians, gives an enlightening all-access tour behind the scenes at France’s premiere film school, La Femis, dur...

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 Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Justin Vivian Bond, Anita Bryant, Lee Keating

Welcome to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a one-of-a-kind oasis in the Ozarks where Christian piety rubs shoulders with a thriving queer community. This lushly photo...

Directed by Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Edna Buchanan, Gary Monroe

By the 1970s, a number of New York Jewish retirees had turned from seasonal visitors to year-round residents of South Beach, making Miami home to a population that was primarily over...

Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • 1998 • UK, US, South Africa • English
Featuring Corin Redgrave, Joseph Bale, Adriaan Bassier

In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theater director was arrested with Nelson Mandela. His name was Cecil Williams. This...

Directed by Su Rynard • Documentary • 2015 • France, Canada • English, German, Dutch, French with English subtitles
Featuring Bill Evans, Erin Byne, Peter Marra

For thousands of years, songbirds were regarded by mankind as messengers from the gods. Under threat from climate change, pesticides an...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2014 • Chile, Spain, France • Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Patricio Guzmán

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, "The Pearl Button" explores the supernatural landscape of Chile. With its 2,670 miles of c...

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 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 Jerry Rothwell • Documentary • 2021 • US,UK • English
Featuring Jordan O'Donegan, Jeremy Dear, David Mitchell

Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida and winner of the Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, "The Reason I Jump" is an immersive cinematic explorati...

Directed by Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot • Documentary • 2022 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot, Blanche Madeleine Dumenil Duchesne

The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devote...

Directed by Deborah Scranton • Documentary • 2006 • US • English
Featuring Zack Bazzi, Duncan Domey, Ben Flanders

Immediate, raw, and direct, “The War Tapes” is the first film shot by the soldiers themselves, bypassing the embedded reporter filter and providing an intimate front-row look at how ...

Directed by Deborah Shaffer, Stewart Bird • Documentary • 1979 • US • English
Featuring Roger Baldwin, Sophie Cohen, Jack Fair

Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changed the course of American history....

Directed by Alison Reid • Documentary • 2019 • Canada • English
Featuring Anne Innis Dagg, Tatiana Maslany, Victor Garber

In 1956, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made a solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. In "The Woman Who Loves Giraffes", Anne (then 86) retraces ...

Directed by Maya Zinshtein • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring Pat Robertson, Yael Eckstein, John Hagee

In this provocative look at strange political bedfellows, Israeli filmmaker Maya Zinshtein investigates the political alliance between American evangelicals, Israel’s right wing, and...

Directed by Keith Maitland • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, Megan Gilbride

On August 1, 1966, a sniper from the top floor of the University of Texas Tower opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. Combining archival footage with rotosco...