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...

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...