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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Bloodsisters: Introduction by Jill Casid

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...

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...

Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant portrait of this fast-changing port city.

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...

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...

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...

“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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Interweaving wartime footage with dramatic scenes, Leo Hurwitz crafted this devastating portrait of postwar American fascism, racism, and anti-semitism. 

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.

“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...

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...