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...

Directed by Shirley Clarke • Documentary • 1986 • US • English
Featuring Ornette Coleman, William Burroughs, Yoko Ono

Ground-breaking filmmaker Shirley Clarke combined forces with Ornette Coleman to create this dazzling window into the life of the great jazz artist and innovator. Documentary foo...

Directed by Werner Penzel • Documentary • 2017 • Germany, Japan • English, German, Japanese with English subtitles
Featuring Sabine Timoteo, The Sangha Community of the Antaiji Zen Monastery of Japan

A masterly immersion into life at a Japanese Zen monastery that is both simple and beautifully f...

Directed by Philip Haas • Documentary • 1988 • US • English
Featuring David Hockney

Painted by Wang Hui and his assistants, the seventh scroll of "The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour" contains over 72 feet of beautiful and minutely detailed artistry. Director Philip Haas and famed arti...

Directed by Gianfranco Rosi • Documentary • 1993 • Italy • English, Hindi, Italian with English subtitles

Academy Award Nominee Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the liv...

Directed by Beth B • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Ida Applebroog

This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B (“Exposed”). Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Po...

Directed by Deborah Scranton • Documentary • 2006 • US • English
Featuring Zack Bazzi, Duncan Domey, Ben Flanders

Immediate, raw, and direct, “The War Tapes” is the first film shot by the soldiers themselves, bypassing the embedded reporter filter and providing an intimate front-row look at how ...

Directed by Pieter van Huystee • Documentary • 2016 • Netherlands • English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian with English subtitles
Featuring Matthijs Ilsink, Peter Klein, Jos Koldeweij

Follow a team of Dutch art historians as they crisscross the globe to unravel the secrets of Hieronymus Bosch. In 2016...

Directed by Nicolas Philibert • Documentary • 2023 • France, Japan • French with English subtitles
Featuring Nicolas Philibert

Golden Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting documentary from Nicolas Philibert invites viewers aboard the Adamant, a floating refuge on Paris’ Seine R...

Directed by George T. Nierenberg • Documentary • 1978 • US • English
Featuring Lionel Hampton, Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green

Featuring performances by tap legends Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green, Howard “Sandman” Sims, along with music by the inimitable Lionel Hampton, George T. Nierenberg’s film vibrates...

Directed by Cyril Leuthy • Documentary • 2022 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Guillaume Gouix, Cyril Leuthy, Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. He arose in the 1960s as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive youth. Six decades and 140 fi...

Directed by Margot Benacerraf • Documentary • 1959 • Venezuela, France • Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring José Ignacio Cabrujas

Hailed as a masterpiece of poetic filmmaking, director Margot Benacerraf’s documentary captures the stories of three families and their back-breaking work in th...

Directed by Markus Imhoof • Documentary • 2018 • Switzerland, Germany • English, German with English subtitles
Featuring Markus Imhoof, Caterina Genta, Robert Hunger-Buhler

"Eldorado" is a documentary inspired by director Markus Imhoof’s childhood relationship with an Italian girl just after Wor...

Directed by Jenny Murray • Documentary • 2018 • US • English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Dora Maria Tellez, Daisy Zemora, Claudia Lopez Alonso

"Las Sandinistas!" tells the untold stories of Nicaraguan women warriors and social revolutionaries who shattered barriers to lead combat a...

Directed by Mark Noonan • Documentary • 2017 • Ireland • English
Featuring Kevin Roche

"Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect" is a feature documentary that considers many of the key questions throughout the career of Pritzker Prize winner Kevin Roche, including the relationship between architects an...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2014 • Chile, Spain, France • Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Patricio Guzmán

Winner 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...

Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc • Documentary • 2020 • Romania, Germany • Romanian with English subtitles
Featuring Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica Enache

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary follows a family with...

Directed by Susanna Styron • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Paul Auster, Joan Didion, John Lewis

A 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 ...

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot • Documentary • 1956 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Pablo Picasso, Henri-Georges Clouzot

Filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot and the most influential artist of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso, use experimental and innovative techniques to c...