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
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
Newly restored! Veteran director Marc Allegret’s philosophical and restrained adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s sexually explosive novel, the first time it was ever brought to film.
Marc Allégret | 2022 | 104 minutes | English subtitles
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
Exposes the French scandal of Nicolas Sarkozy's special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi.
Yannick Kergoat | 2025 | 104 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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
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The film examines the creation of the State of Israel and looks at the history of Zionism (1896-1948) under the very specific angle of the responsibility of the western world.
Romed Wyder | 2019 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Che, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left.
Chris Marker | 2001 | 178 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
Exposes the French scandal of Nicolas Sarkozy's special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi.
Yannick Kergoat | 2025 | 104 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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
An edgy, raw documentary exploring the politics of disability through performances at a national conference on disability and the arts.
David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder | 1995 | 48 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Seven young scholars share their love for Yiddish avant-garde poetry written between the World Wars.
Nurith Aviv | 2020 | 61 minutes | Color | French; English; Hebrew; Yiddish | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
