Plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for independence where cinema was mobilized as a weapon of political struggle against colonialism.
Mila Turajlić | 2023 | 94 minutes | Color | Serbian; English; French; Arabic | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
A filmmaker interviews his grandparents about their experience of Belgian colonialism.
Alain Kassanda | 2023 | 89 minutes | Color | Lingala; French | English subtitles
Short films from the French New Wave — the earliest works of its most emblematic auteurs. Including Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Maurice Pialat, and more.
2023 | 348 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
6 months on the front line of war with a Ukranian medical unit.
Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Titarenko | 2023 | 98 minutes | Color | Russian; Ukrainian | English subtitles
Documents the Japanese government’s re-writing of textbooks and education to support their political point of view.
Hisayo Saika | 2023 | 108 minutes | Color | Japanese; 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
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Rosine Mbakam's narrative film debut about a seamstress facing a series of misfortunes.
Rosine Mbakam | 2023 | 93 minutes | Color | French; Bamileke; Cameroon Pidgin | English subtitles
Captures the uncertainty of a young woman living in the Uyghur region, who is at a personal crossroads.
Bastien Ehouzan and Mukaddas Mijit | 2022 | 56 minutes | Color | Uygur | English subtitles
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
A box set of films by acclaimed filmmaker Natalia Almada.
Natalia Almada | 2023 | Color | Spanish; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Four documentaries and 2 short films are included in this box set, with a 6-page booklet about the filmmaker.
Rosine Mbakam | 2022 | 349 minutes | Color | Cameroon Pidgin; French | English subtitles
The City of Lights as seen in short films by six New Wave master directors.
Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer and Jean Rouch | 2020 | 96 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
A film director shows long forgotten, historical footage of Togo to modern day audiences.
Jürgen Ellinghaus | 2023 | 96 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Wang Bing's epic profile of Chinese garment workers.
Wang Bing | 2023 | 215 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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A playful and candid portrait of Donna Haraway, one of the most important living thinkers in the field of science and technology.
Fabrizio Terranova | 2017 | 81 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
The filmmaker reflects on her great-grandfather, who was a revolutionary general and then president of Mexico.
Natalia Almada | 2009 | 83 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
Profiles the home funeral movement, and the complex psychological, cultural, legal and financial issues surrounding families choosing to prepare loved ones at home for burial or cremation.
Elizabeth Westrate | 2003 | 56 minutes | Color | English
A devout Muslim immigrant faces possible death from stomach cancer but cultural and linguistic confusions complicate his treatment in an American hospital.
Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. and Julia Haslett | 2006 | 58 minutes | Color | English
Named to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress and preserved by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, Madeline Anderson’s essential work brings viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights.
Madeline Anderson | 1970 | 30 minutes | Color | Closed Captioned
Follows World Bank and International Monetary Fund decision-makers in Uganda, showing how top-level decisions are made in the field. (released April, 1998)
Peter Chappell | 1998 | 85 minutes | Color | English
Chronicles Ruth Stone's heroic life story as a poet, mother, and teacher, leaving no question as to why she became both a Vermont and national treasure.
Nora Jacobson | 2022 | 77 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
Filmmaker and historian Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community that has vanished - and confronts fundamental questions of his own identity in the process.
Kamal Hachkar | 2014 | 86 minutes | Color | English subtitles
Cinematic meditation on technology and motherhood.
Natalia Almada | 2022 | 81 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
The story of a simple fruit... upon which a global empire was built.
Mathilde Damoisel | 2018 | 52 minutes | Color | Closed Captioned
