Directed by Connie Hochman • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring George Balanchine, Jacques d'Amboise, Merrill Ashley

"In Balanchine's Classroom" takes us back to the glory years of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to...

Directed by Rüdiger Suchsland • Documentary • 2018 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Featuring Udo Kier, Susan Sontag

Narrated by Udo Kier, Rüdiger Suchsland's film suggests that the Third Reich was an immersive movie starring the German nation created by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goeb...

Directed by Daniel Raim • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Harold Michelson, Lillian Michelson, Mel Brooks

Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don't recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and...

Directed by Verane Frediani • Documentary • 2017 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Dominique Crenn, Barbara Lync, Alice Waters

In the male dominated food universe, discover the women changing the game on all levels. "Goddessess of Food" presents the best female chefs, including...

Directed by Peter Nicks • Documentary • 2015 • US • English
Featuring Sean Whent, Cat Brooks, Jonathan Cairo

Winner of the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival "The Force" is a cinema vérité look inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal dema...

Directed by Johan Grimonprez • Documentary • 2009 • Belgium, Germany, Netherlands • English
Featuring Alfred Hitchcock, Ron Burrage, Mark Perry

Johan Grimonprez uniquely combines 60's advertising, hysterical Red Menace newsreels, and Alfred Hitchcock into a black comedy journey through the globa...

Directed by Daniel Raim • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
Featuring Jeff Goldblum, Norman Jewison, Topol

Narrated by Jeff Goldblum and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim, this documentary captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world ...

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 Tony Zierra • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Stellan Skarsgard

Leon Vitali was a British television actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for a role in "Barry Lyndon". That first encounter with the auteur proved decisive—he swiftly resolved to ...

Directed by Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana • Documentary • 2017 • Canada • English
Featuring Robbie Robertson, Martin Scorsese, Jackson Browne

Filmmakers Stevie Salas, Catherine Bainbridge, and Alfonso Maiorana examine the musical contributions of indigenous artists and their influence o...

Directed by Sue Williams • Documentary • 2020 • US • English and Cantonese with English subtitles
Featuring Denise Ho

"Denise Ho – Becoming the Song" profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented access, the film explores her remarkable jo...

Directed by Rahul Jain • Documentary • 2017 • India, Finland, Germany • Hindi with English subtitles

Marrying stunning visuals with social advocacy, Rahul Jain's debut documentary - winner of the Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival - takes audiences into the ...

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 Nicolas Philibert • Documentary • 2002• France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Georges Lopez

The one-room schoolhouse, where one teacher instructs several grades at once, is generally regarded as a quaint thing of the past. However, Nicolas Philibert offers an in-depth look...

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 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 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 Andreas Johnsen • Documentary • 2016 • Denmark • English, Danish with English subtitles
Featuring Josh Evans, Roberto Flore, Ben Reade

"Bugs" is an artful and thoughtful new documentary that provides a perfect entry point to insect cuisine. Watch as filmmaker Andreas Johnsen and his ...

Directed by Brigitte Berman • Documentary • 1981 • US • English
Featuring Bix Beiderbecke, Richard Basehart, Doc Cheatham

Cornetist / pianist / composer Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was jazz’s man who got away. Beiderbecke became a legend even in his short lifetime, bringing an amazing new...

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 explorat...

Directed by Astra Taylor • Documentary • 2018 • Canada • English
Featuring Astra Taylor Angela Davis, Cornel West

Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis and featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, a...

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 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...