In a polarized society, Sweden's Dialogue Police are united by humor and a shared calling: defending democracy with dialogue as their weapon.
Susanna Edwards | 2025 | 90 minutes | Color | Swedish; English; Farsi; Turkish | English subtitles
A grassroots branch of Catholicism that stood with the poor and oppressed played a powerful and influential role in Latin American revolutionary movements.
François-Xavier Drouet | 2024 | 116 minutes | Color | Spanish; French; Portuguese | English subtitles
Explores the revolution of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel masterpiece, Maus, with humor and finesse.
Pauline Horovitz | 2025 | 52 minutes | Color | French; English; German | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Explores one of the world's longest conflicts through archival Swedish TV footage, challenging conventions of history-writing and how media perceived the issue.
Göran Hugo Olsson | 2025 | 206 minutes | Color | Swedish; English; Arabic; Hebrew | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Arlane Mnouchkine, the founder of the Théâtre du Soleil, travels to Ukraine to work with actors as an act of solidarity during the Russian invasion.
Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini and Thomas Briat | 2024 | 59 minutes | Color | English; French; Ukrainian | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
A retrospective of filmmaker Robert Kramer’s work and a moving biography of a friendship, directed and narrated by his longtime cinematographer.
Richard Copans | 2025 | 74 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
The story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world – what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become.
Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland | 2024 | 79 minutes | Color | Arabic; Hebrew | English subtitles
PERSONALE is set at a four-star hotel in northeastern Italy where guests come to ski, swim, and relax. But instead of the scenery, the film focuses on the unseen: the housekeeping staff who are at the bottom of the hotel hierarchy, and whose work is absolutely essential.
Carmen Trocker | 2024 | 93 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
The rise and fall of Dutch filmmaker Jan Teunissen (1898-1975). As head of the Department of Film of the Dutch Nazi Party and SS, he became the most powerful man in the Dutch film industry during World War II.
Luuk Bouwman | 2025 | 108 minutes | Color | Dutch | English subtitles
New on Blu-ray! A journey along Route 1, from Maine to Miami, yields a rich tapestry of American life.
Robert Kramer | 1990 | 254 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
Through rare and long-forgotten footage, this documentary uncovers the hidden machinery of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay—one of history's longest-running regimes.
Juanjo Pereira | 2025 | 92 minutes | Color | Guarani; Spanish; German; French; English; Portuguese | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Forty years after her arranged marriage as a child, Hawa finally begins an independent life and learns to read. However, with the return of the Taliban to power, her dreams, along with those of her daughter and granddaughter, are cut short.
Najiba Noori and Rasul Noori | 2024 | 84 minutes | Color | Farsi | English subtitles
In the second installment of Wang Bing's YOUTH trilogy, individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops and become ever more dramatic as the seasons go by.
Wang Bing | 2024 | 226 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
In the final installment of the YOUTH trilogy, Wang Bing starts out in Zhili's deserted textile workshops on New Year’s Eve, before travelling to Shiwei's marriage in the Yunnan mountains.
Wang Bing | 2024 | 160 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Patricio Guzmán's jubilant record of the 12 months following the election of Chile’s first socialist president, Salvador Allende.
Patricio Guzmán | 2023 | 96 minutes | French; Spanish | English subtitles
A personal documentary that tracks the construction of America's collective memory (or lack of one) of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Martin Lucas | 2016 | 56 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
Illuminating stories told by scientists who actually worked on the Manhattan Project.
Arthur MacCaig | 1996 | 55 minutes | Color | English
Explores the rape and murders committed by the US army against French civilians after WWII.
Philippe Baron | 2024 | 52 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Chantal Akerman follows choreographer Pina Bausch and her dance company on a European tour.
Chantal Akerman | 2013 | 57 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
Celebrates the life and work of Gerda Taro, a charismatic Jewish refugee from Germany, an anti-fascist, and a trailblazing photographer.
Camille Ménager | 2021 | 58 minutes | Color | French; English; Spanish | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
A series on cross-cultural healthcare. Four films raise awareness about how cultural barriers affect patient-provider communication and other aspects of care for patients of diverse backgrounds.
Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. and Julia Haslett | 2003 | 47 minutes | Color | English
