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 ...

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 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 Emmanuel Gras • Documentary • 2018 • France • Swahili with English subtitles
Featuring Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo

Winner of the 2017 Grand Prize and Golden Eye Special Mention for Best Documentary at International Critics Week in Cannes, "Makala" is Emmanuel Gras' powerful testa...

Directed by Beth B • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore, Kembra Pfahler

"Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over" by Beth B is the first career-spanning retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No...

Directed by Dennis Scholl • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Jerry Saltz, David Anfam, Neal Benezra

Jackson Pollock once said of Clyfford Still, “he makes the rest of us look academic,” Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a “myth-maker” and Clement Greenberg called him “an independent gen...

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...

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 Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier • Documentary • 2019 • Canada • English, Russian, Italian, German, Mandarin, Cantonese with English subtitles
Featuring Alicia Vikander

Narrated by Alicia Vikander, this stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on h...

Directed by João Vargas Penna • Documentary • 2019 • Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
Featuring Roberto Burle Marx, Amir Haddad

A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio ...

Directed by Bill Morrison • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates

Part fever dream, part historical record, this is the bizarre true story of some 533 silent film reels, buried for almost 50 years in a sub-arctic swimming pool, deep in the Yukon permafrost....

Directed by Bert Stern • Documentary • 1959 • US • English
Featuring Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Anita O'Day

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and directed by renowned photographer Bert Stern, this film features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends includin...

Directed by Aaron Maurer • Documentary • 2021 • US • English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Congressman Raul Ruiz

"Invisible Valley" weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snow- birds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California...

Directed by Marcus Lindeen • Documentary • 2018 • Sweden • English, Swedish, French, German, Japanese, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Fe Seymour, Maria Bjornstam

In the summer of 1973, a young international crew of six women and five men embarked together on an un...

Directed by Robin Lutz • Documentary • 2021 • Netherlands • English, Dutch, Italian and German with English subtitles
Featuring Stephen Fry, George Escher

Equal parts history, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening portrait of M.C. Escher gives us the man through his...

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 Inés Toharia • Documentary • 2023 • Spain, Canada • English, French, Japanese, Catalan, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Martin Scorsese, Jonas Mekas, Ousmane Sembene

This documentary argues for the importance of film preservation through the voices of archivists, cur...