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The Pearl Button
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Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2014 • Chile, Spain, France • Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Patricio GuzmánWinner 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...
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Ever Deadly
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Directed by Tanya Tagaq, Chelsea McMullan • Documentary • 2022 • Canada • English, Inuktitut with English subtitles
Featuring Tanya Tagaq, Laakkuluk Williamson, Bathory Mary Gillis"Ever Deadly" weaves together intimate concert footage of Tanya Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections, stunni...
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Acasa, My Home
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Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc • Documentary • 2020 • Romania, Germany • Romanian with English subtitles
Featuring Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica EnacheWinner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary follows a family with...
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Out of My Head
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Directed by Susanna Styron • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Paul Auster, Joan Didion, John LewisA filmmaker seeking treatment for her daughter's migraine attacks discovers a confounding neurological disease and learns why a devastating condition, afflicting nearly a billion people ...
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Manufactured Landscapes
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Directed by Jennifer Baichwal • Documentary • 2007 • Canada • English
Featuring Edward BurtynskyInternationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civi...
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The Super 8 Years
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Directed by Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot • Documentary • 2022 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-BriotThe French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove ...
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Sisters with Transistors
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Directed by Lisa Rovner • Documentary • 2021 • UK • English
Featuring Laurie Anderson, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kim Gordon"Sisters with Transistors" is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly trans...
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When the Beat Drops
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Directed by Jamal Sims • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Anthony DavisDrop into the electric and subversive underground dance scene known as bucking. As voguing exploded out of the ballroom scene of NYC, bucking was boldly pioneered in the clubs of the Deep South as a new form of se...
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The French
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Directed by William Klein • Documentary • 1982 • France • English, French with English subtitles
Featuring Arthur Ashe, Bjorn Borg, Jimmy ConnorsGo behind the scenes of the 1981 French Open with photographer and filmmaker William Klein, who was the first to be granted full, exclusive access to...
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'Til Kingdom Come
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Directed by Maya Zinshtein • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring Pat Robertson, Yael Eckstein, John HageeIn this provocative look at strange political bedfellows, Israeli filmmaker Maya Zinshtein investigates the political alliance between American evangelicals, Israel’s right wing, and...
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Keep Quiet
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Directed by Sam Blair, Joseph Martin • Documentary • 2016 • UK, Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Featuring Casanad SzegediAs vice-president of Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials. But his life was upended when his gr...
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Mantra: Sounds Into Silence
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Directed by Georgia Wyss • Documentary • 2018 • Spain, France, Greece, India, US, UK • English
Featuring Krishna Das, Snatam Kaur, Deva PremalA feature-length documentary exploring the growing musical and social phenomenon of chanting, "Mantra: Sounds into Silence" shares the stories of people ...
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Kaddish
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Directed by Steve Brand • Documentary • 1984 • US • English
Featuring Yossi Klein, Zoltan Klein, Breindy KleinThe story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zoltan, who had survived the Holocaust's devastation of Hungarian Jewry by ...
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Web Junkie
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Directed by Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam • Documentary • 2014 • Israel, US • Mandarin with English subtitles
Featuring Ran TaoChina is the first country to label internet addiction a clinical disorder. “Web Junkie” exposes a Beijing rehab center where teenagers are being "deprogrammed" and forced...
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Walk with Me
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Directed by Marc J. Francis, Max Pugh • Documentary • 2017 • UK • English
Featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Chân KhôngNarrated by Benedict Cumberbatch and featuring unprecedented access, "Walk With Me" takes us deep inside the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master...
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Trouble the Water
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Directed by Carl Deal, Tia Lessin • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
Featuring Brian Nobles, Wink Rivers, Kimberly Rivers RobertsWinner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. “Trouble the Water” takes you inside ...
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Tower
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Directed by Keith Maitland • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, Megan GilbrideOn 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...
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Framing Agnes
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Directed by Chase Joynt • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
Featuring Zachary Drucker, Chase Joynt, Silas HowardWinner of the NEXT Innovator Award and Audience Award at the Sundance, "Framing Agnes" is the story of the pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender study co...
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
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Directed by Marie Losier • Documentary • 2011 • US • English
Featuring Genesis P-Orridge, Lady JayeThis 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....
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Nationtime
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Directed by William Greaves • Documentary • 1972 • US • English
Featuring Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Amiri BarakaNarrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, "Nationtime" is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana in 1972, an event that gathered Black ...
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Kids for Cash
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Directed by Robert May • Documentary • 2013 • US • English
Featuring Mark Ciavarella, Michael ConahanA riveting look behind a notorious scandal that rocked the nation. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School, a small town in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania elected a charismatic judge...
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Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
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Directed by Catherine Gund • Documentary • 2014 • US • English
Featuring Elizabeth Streb, Sarah Callan, Fabio Tavares"Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity" traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb's movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky.
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Monk with a Camera
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Directed by Tina Mascara, Guido Santi • Documentary • 2014 • US • English
Featuring Nicholas Vreeland, Richard Gere, Khyongla RinpocheNicholas Vreeland walked away from a life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk in 1972. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, and trained ...
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After Parkland
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Directed by Emily Taguchi, Jake Lefferman • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring David Hogg, Brooke Harrison, Andrew PollackAfter the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 that killed 17 people and launched a nationwide student movement, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Ja...