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 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 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" is a b...

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...

Directed by Eva Vitija • Documentary • 2022 • Switzerland, Germany • English, German, French with English subtitles
Featuring Gwendoline Christie, Annina Butterworth

This unique look at celebrated author Patricia Highsmith is based on her diaries, notebooks, and reflections of her lovers, friend...

Directed by José Luis López-Linares • Documentary • 2022 • France, Spain, Portugal • French, English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Jean-Claude Carrière, Nahal Tajadod-Carrière, Julian Schnabel

In his last journey, prolific screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière returns to Spain and talks ...

Directed by Hubert Sauper • Documentary • 2020 • Austria, France • English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Oona Chaplin, Fena LeChuck, Juan Pedron

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, "Epicentro" is an immersive and metaphorical portrai...

Directed by Andres Veiel • Documentary • 2018 • Germany • English, German with English subtitles
Featuring Joseph Beuys

A chronicle of the life and work of the iconoclastic, 20th-century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys. This documentary is not a portrait in the traditional se...

Directed by Shirley Clarke • Documentary • 1967 • US • English
Featuring Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke

In 1966, director Shirley Clarke spent twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday where she confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-an...

Directed by Wendy Keys • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
Featuring Milton Glaser

For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding "New York Magazine" and creating the enduring "I Love NY" campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable art...

Directed by Juliet Bashore • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • US • English • Mature Content
Featuring Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin

Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunges into the 1980s porn industry and takes an unsparing look at issues...

Directed by Jeffrey Perkins • Documentary • 2019 • US, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Denmark, Italy, France, Netherlands • English
Featuring Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, Nam June Paik

This feature documentary is as mercurial as its subject, George Maciunas, impresario of the international...

Directed by Kristi Zea • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Murray, Chuck Close

An intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray, this documentary explores the relationship between Murray’s family life and career as well as her place in contempo...

Directed by Nancy Buirski • Documentary • 2015 • US • English
Featuring Robert Redford, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary

Robert Redford narrates this intimate portrait of Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, who began probing the edges of consciousness through psychedelics. Now...

Directed by Oeke Hoogendijk • Documentary • 2022 • Netherlands • English, Dutch with English subtitles
Featuring Johanna Stephens-Janning, Doris Stockhausen, Julika Stockhausen

Brilliant...Megalomaniac...Unstageable – these are just some of the words that have been used to describe the mammoth a...

Directed by Matt Wolf • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Marion Stokes, Anne Stokes Hochberg, Frank Hollman

Matt Wolf’s documentary delves into the strange life of Marion Stokes, who obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-e...

Directed by George T. Nierenberg • Documentary • 1983 • US • English
Featuring Thomas A. Dorsey, Willie Mae Ford Smith, Delois Barrett Campbell

One of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time, "Say Amen, Somebody" is a joyous, funny, and deeply emotional celebration of Gospel music fro...

Directed by Wayne Price • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Guy Clark, David Allan Coe, Justin Townes Earle

2021 marked the 45th anniversary of the seminal music documentary "Heartworn Highways", a film that captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw Country movement in the mid-70s. Toda...