
Araya
Margot Benacerraf captured the life of the Venezuelan saliñeros in this masterpiece of poetic filmmaking. A forerunner of feminist Latina cinema, Araya won the 1959 International Critics Prize ...
Margot Benacerraf, Venezuela, 1959
Asylum
A truly unique documentary that examines the controversial ideas of psychiatrist and philosopher R. D. Laing. ASYLUM is both an exploration of Laing's alternative theories on schizophrenia and an inva...
Peter Robinson, U.S., 1972DVD

The Atomic Cafe
This darkly funny and eerily relevant 1982 cult classic about how to stop worrying and love the bomb is pieced together from government-produced educational and training films, newsreels and advertise...
Kevin Rafferty and Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty, U.S., 1982Blu-ray, DCP, DVD
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BIX: "ain't none of them play like him yet"
Using archival photographs and rare footage and interviews with friends and colleagues, Oscar® winner Brigitte Berman's acclaimed documentary paints a vivid portrait of a vanished era and brings t...
Brigitte Berman, Canada, 1981DCP

Bloodsisters: Introduction by Jill Casid

F.T.A.
In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. Despite being highly controversial, it was a huge success among statio...
Francine Parker, U.S., 1972
Heartworn Highways
In the mid-‘70s, filmmaker James Szalapski documented the then-nascent country music movement that would become known as “outlaw country.” Inspired, in part, by newly-long-haired Wil...
James Szalapski, U.S., 1976I Wish I Knew
Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant portrait of this fast-changing port city.
Jia Zhangke, China, 2010
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of mu...
Bert Stern, U.S., 1959Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Kaddish
In Steve Brand’s timeless documentary KADDISH -- as bracing as any fiction -- we witness a candid portrait of a young Jew coming to terms with his father's traumatic history. It is the story of ...
Steve Brand, U.S., 1984
Kamikaze Hearts
Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the naive newc...
Juliet Bashore, U.S., 1986
King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis
King: A Filmed Record...from Montgomery to Memphis is the landmark 3-hr documentary that chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement i...
U.S., 1970Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

London in the Raw
“The world’s greatest city laid bare!”, roars the tagline to LONDON?IN?THE?RAW (1964), a salacious documentary that tours the strip-clubs and underground dives of the still-swinging ...
Normal Cohen and Arnold L. Miller, U.K., 1964Blu-ray, DVD

Moana With Sound
Seeking to make another "Nanook of the North", Robert Flaherty chose Samoa for the docu-fiction film "Moana" in 1924. Fifty years later, Flaherty's daughter Monica returned to Samoa to produce a uniqu...
Robert Flaherty and Frances Flaherty and Monica Flaherty, U.S., 2015Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Nationtime
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African Ameri...
William Greaves, U.S., 1972
Nuremberg
One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, Nuremberg: Its Lessons For Today shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis’ own...
Stuart Schulberg, U.S., 1948DCP

Portrait of Jason
Shirley Clarke filmed gay actor, hustler, chanteuse Jason Holliday's 12-hour soliloquy, creating a documentary that Ingmar Bergman said was "the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.&rdq...
Shirley Clarke, U.S., 1967
Primitive London
An outrageous jolt of British exploitation, PRIMITIVE?LONDON (1965) is an exposé of the hidden desires and bizarre vices that percolate behind the exterior of English life.
Arnold L. Miller, U.K., 1965Blu-ray, DVD

The Queen
More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag, as well as LG...
Frank Simon, U.S., 1968Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Strange Victory
Interweaving wartime footage with dramatic scenes, Leo Hurwitz crafted this devastating portrait of postwar American fascism, racism, and anti-semitism.
Leo Hurwitz, U.S., 1948
UNITY TEMPLE: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MODERN MASTERPIECE
Filmmaker Lauren Levine follows the challenging $25 million restoration of Wright's first public commission and the painstaking efforts to bring the 100-year-old building back to its original beauty.
Lauren Levine, 2020
The Wobblies
“Solidarity! All for One and One for All!” Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird’s impassioned documentary is a history of the radical labor union the Industrial Workers of the World...
Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird, U.S., 1979DCP

You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South
Focusing the Highlander School's role in helping build grassroots movements, this documentary tells the stories of ordinary people fighting for civil and labor rights and against toxic waste and strip...
Lucy Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver, U.S., 1985