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 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...

Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • 2020 • US, Spain • English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Carlos Sanchez Martinez, Jon Teixeira Casado, Francisco Jose Iglesias

Ecological restoration is a worldwide movement intended to turn back the tide of mass extinction and restore plane...

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 Steven Newmark • Documentary • 2018 • U.S. • English
Featuring Ram Dass, Neem Karoli Baba aka Maharaj-ji

"American Yogi" is a delightful autobiographical documentary about a nice Jewish boy from Miami who travels to San Francisco for the “Summer of Love” and returns a hippie. Later, ...

Directed by Óskar Páll Sveinsson • Documentary • 2021 • Iceland • Icelandic with English subtitles
Featuring Veiga Grétarsdóttir

Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak over 2,000 kilometers around Iceland, counter-clockwise and “against the current.” Veiga’s per...

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 Göran Hugo Olsson • Documentary • 2014 • Sweden, US, Denmark, Finland • English, Swedish, French, Portuguese with English subtitles
Featuring Lauryn Hill, Robert Mugabe, Tonderai Makoni

Narrated by Lauryn Hill, this profound essay from the director of "The Black Power Mixtape" comes ...

Directed by Lionel Rogosin • Arthouse • 1959 • US • English, Afrikaans with English subtitles
Starring Zacharia Mgabi, Vinah Bendile, Miriam Makeba

In making this powerful mix of documentary and drama, director Lionel Rogosin aimed to reveal the harsh injustice of apartheid in Sophiatown, a Sout...

Directed by Robert May • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring William Blackwell, Sal Delgadillo, Robert Kesselring

"Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time" is a true story about obsession, greed, and the hunt for gold. When a retired missile scientist makes a monumental discovery, he hatches ...

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...