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 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...

Directed by Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot • Documentary • 2022 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot

The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove ...

Directed by Jamal Sims • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Anthony Davis

Drop 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...

Directed by William Klein • Documentary • 1982 • France • English, French with English subtitles
Featuring Arthur Ashe, Björn Borg, John McEnroe

Go 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 ...

Directed by Maya Zinshtein • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring Pat Robertson, Yael Eckstein, John Hagee

In this provocative look at strange political bedfellows, Israeli filmmaker Maya Zinshtein investigates the political alliance between American evangelicals, Israel’s right wing, and...

Directed by Sam Blair, Joseph Martin • Documentary • 2016 • UK, Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Featuring Casanad Szegedi

As 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...

Directed by Georgia Wyss • Documentary • 2018 • Spain, France, Greece, India, US, UK • English
Featuring Krishna Das, Snatam Kaur, Deva Premal

A feature-length documentary exploring the growing musical and social phenomenon of chanting, "Mantra: Sounds into Silence" shares the stories of people ...

Directed by Steve Brand • Documentary • 1984 • US • English
Featuring Yossi Klein, Zoltan Klein, Breindy Klein

The 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 ...