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Violence, birth and sex were cut from films by the Australian Censorship Board from 1958-1971 and went unseen... until now.
Sari Braithwaite | 2019 | 66 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Sustainable design in the tropics: Puerto Rican architect Fernando Abruna Charneco is a pioneer of locally-suited green buildings.
Ruben Abruna | 2014 | 55 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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An animated coming-of-age tale of a young African boy searching for his brother, who has left home to fight in the First World War.
Simon Rouby | 2020 | 82 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
An comedy about eight "kings of Paris" meeting for lunch.
Edouard Baer | 2022 | 101 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The story plunges us into Parisian life at the beginning of the twentieth century, a hotbed of artistic creation with the blossoming of Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism.
Amelie Harrault, Pauline Gaillard and Valerie Loiseleux | 2020 | 300 minutes | Color | English; French
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Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Chris Hilton and Gauthier Flaunder | 1997 | 52 minutes | Color
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A behind-the-scenes history of the Soviet Union's 10-year long war in Afghanistan.
Gulya Mirzoeva | 2015 | 52 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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An intimate drama about the emotional and financial complexities of a separation, and the complexity of the end of a long love story.
Joachim Lafosse | 2017 | 100 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Defying modernity, 90-year-old Agatha forges a solitary existence on her family's farm, growing vegetables and preserving heirloom seeds. Without a driver's license, cell phone, running water, or even a functioning landline Agatha’s daily rituals form a vivid counterpoint to modern life.
Amalie Atkins | 2025 | 86 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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A look at the long-term effects, on U.S. soldiers, the Vietnamese people, and the environment of Vietnam, of the spraying of Agent Orange on Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Masako Sakata | 2008 | 66 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile.
Ignacio Aguero | 2009 | 80 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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A behind-the-scenes look at Al Jazeera, the most important television news channel in the Arab world. ** Viewer's Choice, 2003 Middle East Studies Association FilmFest **
Tewfik Hakem | 2003 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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An aspiring corrido composer faces two life-changing choices: to traffic drugs or unlawfully cross the border into the United States. Directed by Natalia Almada.
Natalia Almada | 2005 | 70 minutes | Color | Spanish; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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An exploration of the fascinating history of Santeria.
Eliezer Perez Angueira | 2013 | 40 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Five newly restored early short film masterpieces from the legendary filmmaker.
Alain Resnais | 2022 | 80 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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What happens when five HIV-positive gay men spend a week preparing for their first solo parachute drop?
Vincent Boujon | 2017 | 80 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Qiong Wang boldly explores her family history and relationships, and how they intersect with the ongoing consequences of China’s one-child policy.
Qiong Wang | 2021 | 175 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Reflections on Islam and clothing, Iranian cinema, Persian painting and more characterize this thought-provoking artistic documentary.
Reza Haeri | 2010 | 35 minutes | Color
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Written by Éric Rohmer and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, two friends unknowingly meet and make plans with the same Patrick.
Jean-Luc Godard | 1958 | 20 minutes | French | English subtitles
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An exploration of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
Alain Resnais | 1956 | 21 minutes | French | English subtitles
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A poignant experimental documentary that explores the effects of tragedy and remembrance on a bi-cultural family.
Natalia Almada | 2001 | 19 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Since 2014, in France, Restorative Justice has been offering victims and offenders the opportunity to engage in dialogues within secure environments.
Jeanne Herry | 2024 | 118 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Narrative film adaptation by Chantal Akerman of Joseph Conrad's first novel, following a European man living in Southeast Asia and his half-indigenous daughter.
Chantal Akerman | 2016 | 127 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Centered around the only filmed interview ever given by acclaimed French philosopher Louis Althusser, who murdered his wife, Helene, a few weeks after the interview was given.
Bruno Oliviero | 2017 | 55 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.
Irina Gedrovich | 2007 | 26 minutes | Color | Russian
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A concise and fast-paced history of the volatile forces at work in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1980s
Obie Benz | 1982 | 29 minutes | Color
A Palestinian girl's world is turned upside down when she learns the man she grew up idolizing is not her real father.
Mohamed Diab | 2022 | 100 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
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A young woman (Alysson Paradis) refuses to attend her husband's funeral and goes on a road trip with her son and sister instead. During this improvised trip, they will rediscover each other and relearn freedom.
Guillaume Gouix | 2024 | 80 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A young woman's struggle to start her own farm.
Marion Gervais | 2017 | 46 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A swift instructive look at the artist El Anatsui demonstrating his process, and discussing his theories.
Susan Vogel | 2011 | 28 minutes | Color
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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
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The story of Andre Steiner, dubbed "the Jewish Schindler," who saved thousands of Slovak Jews during the Holocaust.
Brad Lichtenstein | 1999 | 55 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Spotlights the epidemic of heart disease among African Americans through the story of
45-year-old Keith Hartgrove, who has already experienced two heart attacks and quadruple bypass surgery.
Jay Fedigan | 2001 | 57 minutes | Color | English
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Gendun Choephel, a legendary figure in Tibet, turned from the monastic life he was born to (as the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama), to become a fierce critic of his country's religious conservatism and isolationism.
Luc Schaedler | 2006 | 97 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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From exploiting the cow's physical body to manipulating its cells, a new 21st-century farm animal is under construction.
Bernard Block | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
Enchanting stories unfold as animals embark on spellbinding journeys across the world.
Camille Almeras, Caroline Attia, Ceylan Beyoglu, Haruna Kishi, Olesya Shchukina, Natalia Chernysheva | 2025 | 72 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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In southern Italy, a group of shopkeepers stand up to the "tax" imposed by the local mafia.
Ludovica Tortora de Falco | 2017 | 50 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
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Director Ilan Ziv traces the origins of today's antisemitism in France from the Middle Ages to the infamous Dreyfus Affair.
Ilan Ziv | 2022 | 120 minutes | Color | French; English; Hebrew | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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The biography and current relevance of the sociologist and political philosopher, co-authoer of EMPIRE, and his role as an intellectual leader of the anti-globalization movement.
Alexandra Weltz and Andreas Pichler | 2005 | 52 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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In this Peabody Award-winning film, former "Comfort Women" forced to serve Japanese troops during WWII tell their harrowing stories.
Tiffany Hsiung | 2016 | 104 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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A five-part documentary series that presents a fresh, insightful picture of contemporary life across the Arab world.
Various | 2001 | 130 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
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The story of a woman caught up in a cycle of pregnancies because of social pressure to produce a male child, and two other stories of babies, in need, or absent, in Arab countries.
Suheir Farraj, Abbas Hashim, and Abeer Esber | 2001 | 26 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
A Moroccan woman confronts her liberal bourgeois family and their servants about the relationship between them.
Yto Barrada | 2001 | 26 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
The stories of people confronting obstacles to their personal relationships and happiness in Algeria and Lebanon.
Samia Chala and Muriel Aboulrouss | 2001 | 26 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
Explores the hopes and aspirations of Arab men and women as embodied in the dreams and realities of flying.
Ghalia Sheikh, Lubna Haddad, Abbas Hashim, and Raed Helou | 2001 | 26 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
Four young women face issues of independence and empowerment in Algeria, Egypt, and Lebanon.
Ali Bilail, Samia Chala, and Muriel Aboulrouss | 2001 | 26 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
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Filmed in courtrooms, correctional institutions, treatment centers, and family homes, this searing documentary examines the results of the tragic decline in mental health services for children and adolescents at risk.
Karen Bernstein and Ellen Spiro | 2005 | 57 minutes | Color | English
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Newly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.
Tania Rakhmanova | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; Russian | English subtitles
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An artist (Benoît Poelvoorde) moves to Normandy to start life anew and find inspiration in this amusing comedy.
Stefan Liberski | 2025 | 110 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A story of ardent love between two women with heroic destinies, united through life and death.
Delphine Deloget | 2020 | 26 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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In Vienna, the two artists would shake up conventions and imagine an alliance stronger than the bonds of marriage.
Delphine Deloget | 2020 | 26 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Frida and Diego lived a tumultuous love affair; two soul mates connected by their shared love for their country.
Delphine Deloget | 2020 | 26 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Münter and Kandinsky's idyll is the story of a romance between two artists linked to the avant-garde of modern German painting.
Delphine Deloget | 2020 | 26 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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In the 1920s, they were one of the most high-profile and scandalous couples on New York’s avant-garde scene.
Stéphanie Colaux and Delphine Deloget | 2019 | 26 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Capa and Taro were the perfect combination of two politically active people, united by photography. It’s also the tale of unbridled love that did not withstand the ravages of war.
Stéphanie Colaux and Delphine Deloget | 2019 | 26 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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This is the story of two tormented souls, bound until death by love and art.
Stéphanie Colaux and Delphine Deloget | 2019 | 26 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Man Ray and Lee Miller is the story of a passionate love affair which revealed the talents of an artist who was overlooked by the public for too long.
Stéphanie Colaux and Delphine Deloget | 2019 | 26 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Otto Modersohn helped his beloved become one of the greatest artists of modern painting.
Stéphanie Colaux and Delphine Deloget | 2019 | 26 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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This documentary series tells the story of intimate and tumultuous love stories in the context of art history.
Stéphanie Colaux and Delphine Deloget | 2022 | 234 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Holocaust survivor Simone Lagrange vividly recounts her experiences in Auschwitz, and the role she played in bringing Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to justice.
Elisabeth Coronel, Florence Gaillard, and Arnaud de Mezamat | 2011 | 88 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Belgians recount how they saved Jewish children during WWII.
Myriam Abramovicz and Esther Hoffenberg | 1980 | 84 minutes | French | English subtitles
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A series of five films which document the epic struggle of Canada's Native People.
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A suspenseful drama-thriller in the vein of classic Hitchcock, centering on a mother's revenge for the accidental death of her son.
Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri | 2018 | 87 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The stories of three families show us what the textbooks and studies cannot - what it's really like to love and care for children with autism.
Karen Cunninghame | 1988 | 29 minutes | Color | English
A family learns to deal with a son's autism diagnosis.
Robert Parish | 2013 | 30 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Documents the power to transform pain into action and to lift the veil of repression that has gripped a generation of young people orphaned by Argentina's 'Dirty War.'
John Knoop and Karina Epperlein | 2010 | 40 minutes | Color
Examines this century's first genocide - the killing of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I.
Pea Holmquist | 1988 | 100 minutes | Color
Based on one of the most daring escapes from East Germany during the Cold War.
Michael Bully Herbig | 2019 | 125 minutes | Color | German | English subtitles
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Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, BAMAKO is both a courtroom drama and portrait of everyday Mali life.
Abderrahmane Sissako | 2020 | 117 minutes | Color | French; Bambara | English subtitles
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By assigning financial value to elements of nature, can markets save the planet?
Denis Delestrac and Sandrine Feydel | 2015 | 90 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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A new generation of freelance photographers flies low-cost to war zones on their own dime in the hope of selling images to printed media or websites.
Jerome Clement-Wilz | 2016 | 52 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Madou, a Senegalese fisherman, risks his life on an illegal boat to Europe.
Idrissa Guiro | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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One woman's fight to have her daughter legitimized by the Moroccan judicial system.
Deborah Perkin | 2014 | 83 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
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The new restoration is now on Blu-ray and DVD! The epic chronicle of Chile's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it in 1973.
Patricio Guzmán | 2023 | 275 minutes | English subtitles
The epic chronicle of Chile's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it in 1973. Judy Stone of the San Francisco Chronicle called it "a landmark in the presentation of living history on film."
Patricio Guzmán | 1998 | 184 minutes | Spanish | English subtitles
Deals with the creation by ordinary workers and peasants of thousands of local groups of "popular power."
Patricio Guzmán | 1998 | 78 minutes | Spanish | English subtitles
The epic chronicle of Chile's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it in 1973.
Patricio Guzmán | 1998 | 263 minutes | Spanish | English subtitles
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus with this lively, wide-ranging documentary exploring the history, present and future of the utopian design and architecture school and communal social movement around the world.
Niels Bolbrinker and Thomas Tielsch | 2019 | 90 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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In Chris Marker's film, workers at a textile factory on strike in pre-May '68 France, not just for more money, but for a different way of life.
Mario Marret and Chris Marker | 2003 | 39 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Meet Dr. Pitanguy, the "Golden Scalpel" at a leading Brazilian plastic surgery clinic.
Cathie Levy | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | Portuguese | English subtitles
Questionnaire test booklets to evaluate work habits, attitudes, and skills important for job readiness, work adjustment, and job employability.
Ralph L. Becker | 2005 | Color | English
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The residents of the historic Chinese city of Fengjie clash with officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world's largest dam.
LI Yifan and YAN Yu | 2012 | 147 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Yan Yu follows BEFORE THE FLOOD with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project.
YAN Yu | 2012 | 60 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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An in-depth exploration into the recent internal conflicts of the ANC in South Africa, leading to Jacob Zuma's election as president.
Jihan El-Tahri | 2010 | 138 minutes | Color | English
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Wang Jiu-liang travels to more than 500 landfills, documenting Beijing's unholy cycle of consumption.
WANG Jiuliang | 2012 | 72 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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A biography of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka, abducted on the streets of Paris and murdered in 1965, the infamous "Ben Barka affair."
Simone Bitton | 2003 | 84 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The story of the first international conference on Africa, which established its division amongst the European powers, and created Congo as a personal possession of the Belgian king.
Joel Calmettes | 2011 | 84 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, Chris Marker shot this passionate documentary, reflecting the state of the place and its spirit with remarkable acuity.
Chris Marker | 2021 | 29 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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S ex symbol, feminist icon, devoted mother: French actress Bernadette Lafont was a multi-faceted performer and refused to be boxed into one role.
Esther Hoffenberg | 2024 | 66 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Why do some books become bestsellers? This documentary examines the phenomenon in today's global publishing industry.
Vassili Silovic and Annick Cojean | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
Along a sleepy Hunan riverside, two delinquent boys experience a summer of love and violence.
YANG Heng | 2012 | 112 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Returning to Todos Santos after 30 years, a look at the profound economic and social changes that have transformed this Guatemalan Mayan village.
Olivia Carrescia | 2011 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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The story of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) and his collection of art by schizophrenic patients.
Christian Beetz | 2008 | 75 minutes | Color | English subtitles
Traveling along the cross-Andes route of an oil pipeline in Ecuador, a case study of the troubling connections between corporations, Western consumption, and the 3rd World.
Nadja Drost | 2005 | 66 minutes | Color | English
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Neither man nor woman, Chris is a "Two-Spirit," in between genders.
Laurence Perigaud | 2017 | 76 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Director Marcia Tambutti Allende seeks to understand the man behind the legend that was her grandfather, Salvador Allende.
Marcia Tambutti Allende | 2016 | 98 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Superstar architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron must negotiate between two cultures, two architectural traditions and two political systems to build the new National Stadium for the Olympics in Beijing.
Christoph Schaub and Michael Schindhelm | 2008 | 88 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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This engaging, non-confrontational documentary invites us to look at the fluidity of sexuality in a whole new way as two "bi-curious" young women confront their fears and inhibitions.
Suzanne Babin & Leona Gilbert | 2009 | 43 minutes | Color | English
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Documents China's rapid economic and social transformation by following the rural workers who leave their Yunnan hometown to move to the city of Huzhou to work in its textile factories.
Wang Bing | 2017 | 152 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Reeling from a failed marriage and seeking solace and a new perspective, a Hmong man cares for his aging mother amidst the deceptively tranquil landscape of rural Montana.
Vera Brunner-Sung | 2025 | 85 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Examines the experiences of single mothers in South Korea, where there remains a strong social taboo against single parenthood.
Paik Yeonah | 2013 | 52 minutes | Color | English; Korean | English subtitles
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A contemporary David-and-Goliath story that sheds a harsh light on the colonial past and troubled present of The Republic of Congo.
Clemente Bicocchi | 2012 | 78 minutes | Color | English; French; Italian | English subtitles
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A young schoolteacher unknowingly enters a tangled web of politics.
YANG Jin | 2012 | 93 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
A taut, suspenseful thriller about a black-box analyst with an extraordinarily acute ear, who is investigating a deadly plane crash. Starring Pierre Niney.
Yann Gozlan | 2022 | 130 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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An animated account of Haiti's liberation told through the eyes of two African slaves.
Robin Lloyd and Doreen Kraft | 1979 | 20 minutes | Color
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Traces the history of African-American art, placing great works in context and including commentary from celebrated contemporary visual artists.
Jacques Goldstein | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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A history of the esoteric ideas and myths that served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideology and inspired Adolf Hitler.
Rudiger Sunner | 2009 | 90 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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A queer motocross coming-of-age drama—sensitive, deeply felt, quietly profound. Rebel Without a Cause with dirt bikes.
Antoine Chevrollier | 2025 | 103 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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François Crémieux served as a French UN peacekeeper near the Bosnian town of Bihać. He never saw combat, but he was left deeply shaken by the experience.
Chris Marker | 2021 | 25 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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This creative documentary shows real-life characters recreating protest movements from Hong Kong's modern history.
Chan Tze Woon | 2022 | 98 minutes | Color | Yue Chinese (Cantonese); Mandarin; English | English subtitles
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Largely unknown today, this is the history of Emerik Blum's company, Energoinvest, which defied capitalist conventions on its way to success.
Jasmila Žbanić | 2025 | 76 minutes | Color | Bosnian; English; German | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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The life and work of legendary director Robert Flaherty ("Nanook of the North"), the "father of documentary."
Mac Dara O Curraidhin | 2011 | 84 minutes | Color | English
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Explores the theme of historical memory in post-Franco Spain, focusing on the unknown story of LGBT repression under Franquismo.
Andrea Weiss | 2017 | 75 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Flora finds she has a much greater affinity for plants than for people.
Jeanne Barbillon | 2023 | 15 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Following four-year-old Ronen, a young boy with Down syndrome, this intimate documentary concretely demonstrates that inclusive preschool classrooms benefit both children with special needs and their typical peers.
Jessica Jennings | 2007 | 44 minutes | Color | English
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An intensely personal film about growing up with Asperger Syndrome, following 12-year-old Adam as he struggles to make sense of bullies, girls, and life in the real world.
Marianne Kaplan | 2006 | 47 minutes | Color | English
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The day before Congo gained independence, the sabre of the Belgian king Baudouin was stolen by a young Congolese. Fifty years later the filmmakers search for him, and discover the meaning of his act.
Dries Engels and Bart Van Peel | 2011 | 57 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A documentary expose of how pharmaceutical companies create demand for the drugs at their disposal, and buy the science they need to prove their effectiveness.
Anne Georget | 2011 | 52 minutes | Color
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Twenty-two women, ages 6 to 84-years-old, discuss how breasts play a crucial role in the experiences of puberty, motherhood, sex, health and aging. *Outstanding Achievement Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
Meema Spadola and Thom Powers | 2004 | 50 minutes | Color | English
Explores the tragic personal and social impact of asbestos-related disease, through the stories of several former asbestos workers.
Bill Ravanesi | 1990 | 36 minutes | Color | English
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Academy Award winning portrait of poet and journalist Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio in childhood and spent much of his life in an iron lung.
Jessica Yu | 1996 | 35 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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The first film about the Kyrgyz tradition of bride kidnapping takes viewers inside families, to talk with kidnapped brides who have managed to escape as well as those who are making homes with their new husbands.
Petr Lom | 2005 | 51 minutes | Color | Kyrgistan | English subtitles
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Profiles Lency, a man who lives in Cuba's central mountains who has a creative solution to all of life's daily problems there.
Rigoberto Jimenez | 2013 | 30 minutes | Color | English; Spanish
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In the 1950's, Ivory Coast artist Bruly Bouabré created hundreds of pictograms based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété.
Nurith Aviv | 2005 | 17 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Join young Viscount Arthur de Soultrait in the run-up to his wildly elaborate birthday/brand relaunch party.
Chloe Mahieu and Lila Pinell | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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This intimate documentary follows an indigenous Mexican family through one critical year of life.
Hatuey Viveros Lavielle | 2015 | 80 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Some people travel to Bolivia to go down the dangerous silver mines, to see the medieval work conditions. Are they crawling through the contaminated tunnels to learn about a foreign culture, or to escape boredom?
Charlotta Copcutt, Anna Weitz & Anna Klara Ahrén | 2006 | 46 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Six-part series. How much do we understand about how capitalism originated, and what makes it work?
Ilan Ziv | 2015 | 318 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out in The Wealth of Nations. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade.
Ilan Ziv | 2015 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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Adam Smith was both economist and moral philosopher. But his work on morality is largely forgotten, leading to tragic distortions that have shaped our global economic system.
Ilan Ziv | 2015 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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The roots of today's global trade agreements lie in the work of stockbroker David Ricardo and demographer Thomas Malthus. Together, they would restructure society in the image of the market.
Ilan Ziv | 2015 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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Have we gotten Marx wrong by focusing on the Communist Manifesto instead of on his critique of how capitalism works - a critique that is relevant and as penetrating as ever?
Ilan Ziv | 2015 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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The ideological divide between the philosophies of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek has dominated economics for nearly a century. Is it time for the pendulum to swing back to Keynes? Or do we need a whole new approach that goes beyond this dualism?
Ilan Ziv | 2015 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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An exploration of the life and work of Karl Polanyi, who sought to reintegrate society and economy. Could the commodification of labour and money ultimately be as disastrous as floods, drought and earthquakes?
Ilan Ziv | 2015 | 53 minutes | Color | English
Information on all the main speakers, academic consultants, and additional interviewees featured in Capitalism.
Ilan Ziv | 2015 | 320 minutes | Color | English
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Based on six case studies of seriously ill hospitalized patients, this moving film focuses on the key roles of nursing staff in improving patient-clinician communication in end-of-life care.
Ben Achtenberg | 2001 | 45 minutes | Color | English
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This three-part series deals with end-of-life care and decision making in the hospital, through profiles of several severely ill patients and the staff who deal with them.
Ben Achtenberg with Christine Mitchell, RN, FAAN | 2002 | 75 minutes | Color | English
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French cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects on French and international politics, art and culture at the start of the new millennium.
Chris Marker | 2006 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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A controversial affirmative action policy in India has brought about unprecedented social and political change.
Florence Martin Kessler | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Focuses on six women who regularly confront each other from opposite sides of a police barricade—three believe that abortion is an inalienable right, three consider it murder.
Julie Gustafson | 1991 | 54 minutes | Color
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Chronicles three diverse Arab New Yorkers - a beat cop, a minister, and a high-level diplomatic correspondent - as they wrestle with their place in wartime America.
David Van Taylor and Brad Lichtenstein | 2002 | 54 minutes | Color | English
A young couple and their two children living in a squatter settlement in the Philippines' capital, Manila.
Gary Kildea | 1983 | 109 minutes | Color
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A film about the Philippines' second largest export product - maternal love - and how the international trade in love and care affects the women involved, their families, and families in the West.
Marije Meerman | 2002 | 50 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
Follows three families whose babies are in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Their stories demonstrate the capacity of ordinary individuals to adapt to crises with extraordinary grace and courage.
Claire Marie Panke | 2000 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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This captivating video features neuroscientist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, author of The Executive Brain, as well as neurologist and best-selling author Dr. Oliver Sacks (Awakenings), in a discussion of frontal lobe damage.
Neal Goodman | 2004 | 30 minutes | Color | English
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Each year, approximately 1.5 million people have their lives suddenly changed by brain and spinal cord injuries or stroke.
Daniel Labbato | 2007 | 57 minutes | Color | English
Illustrates new research in nueroplasticity and how the changing brain plays an important role in treating mental diseases and disorders.
2012 | 44 minutes | Color | English
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A self-portrait by experimental narrative and feminist Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
Chantal Akerman | 2001 | 64 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Four documentaries spanning two decades are included in this 5-disc box set, with a 16-page booklet and bonus film about the late filmmaker.
Chantal Akerman | 2016 | 419 minutes | Color | English; French; Spanish | English subtitles
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This short film by Jean-Luc Godard is a wry and funny commentary on toxic masculinity and relationships.
Jean-Luc Godard | 1958 | 13 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Karin Viard and Emmanuelle Devos star together for the first time as two women who want more out of life-at work and at home
Anne Le Ny | 2017 | 91 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Step inside a tiny underground hair salon and meet its charismatic owner, a Cameroonian immigrant named Sabine.
Rosine Mbakam | 2019 | 70 minutes | Color | Cameroon Pidgin; French | English subtitles
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After the coup in 1973, Chile was turned into a laboratory for the world's most radical neo-liberal experiment.
Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdeavellano | 2016 | 85 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
Takes the viewer on a journey through the past century - the bloodiest in history - from the perspective of children, and tells their stories in their voices.
Shelley Saywell | 2002 | 90 minutes | Color | English
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An emotional historiography on Jewish children whose lives in a normal Parisian apartment building were upended by the Nazi occupation.
Ruth Zylberman | 2020 | 100 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles
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Patricio Guzmán's landmark film The Battle of Chile(1976) documented the "Popular Unity" period of Salvador Allende's government, the tumultuous events leading up to the 1973 coup, and Allende's death. Guzmán has returned to show The Battle of Chile in his homeland for the first time, and to explore the terrain of the confiscated (but reawakening) memories of the Chilean people.
Patricio Guzmán | 1998 | 58 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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An observational essay about public spectacles in contemporary China.
Bo Wang | 2013 | 50 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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The entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector Uli Sigg has played a role in the transformation of China's art world since the 1970s.
Michael Schindhelm | 2017 | 93 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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A rigorous investigation on the cholesterol case, dealing with social, political, scientific and economical issues.
Anne Georget | 2018 | 82 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Do you say "I love you" with flowers - or by doing the dishes?! The place of chores in the battle of the sexes.
Kathy Garneau and Lauren Davis | 1995 | 48 minutes | Color | English
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When a devastating mercury spill by the world's richest gold mining corporation hits a quiet peasant village in the Peruvian Andes, a courageous young mayor emerges to lead his people on a quest for healthcare and justice.
Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd | 2003 | 75 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Five Chris Marker short films devoted to animals collected together and available for the first time!
Chris Marker | 2006 | 17 minutes | Color | No dialog
Shot over three years, CHRONICLE OF A GENOCIDE FORETOLD follows several Rwandans before, during, and after the 1994 genocide.
Daniele Lacourse and Yvan Patry | 1997 | 141 minutes | Color
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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
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An intricately edited documentary composed of film clips from the major works of the Brazilian "Cinema Novo" movement and period interviews with its leading filmmakers.
Eryk Rocha | 2017 | 90 minutes | Color | Portuguese; French | English subtitles
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Gianni Di Gregorio directs and stars in this comedy about three retirees who decide to move away from Rome to find a better standard of living.
Gianni Di Gregorio | 2019 | 92 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
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The story of the young, Jewish, Ukrainian-born woman who in 1909 sparked the 'Uprising of the 20,000' -- the first massive strike of New York City garment workers.
Alex Szalat | 2005 | 51 minutes | Color | English
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Workers at the Yema Watch Factory in Besancon depict their own labor struggles in this collective production initiated by Chris Marker.
The Medvedkin Group | 2013 | 37 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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A close look at that part of the female anatomy that exists purely for pleasure, and how this highly sensitive organ has long been ignored or misunderstood in the medical literature.
Stephen Firmin & Variety Moszynski | 2004 | 60 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Soviet-born Ukrainian director Vitaly Mansky explores Ukraine after the Maidan revolution.
Vitaly Mansky | 2016 | 114 minutes | Color | Russian; Ukrainian | English subtitles
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Despite having been eliminated from popular TV show The Voice, Luc has a 3-year plan to become a millionaire. Will his dream become a reality?
Francois-Xavier Drouet | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Every day hundreds of men risk life and limb going down into the Buzhanska mine in the Ukraine to mine coal with rusty old tools from the Soviet era.
Gael Mocaer | 2014 | 80 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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In Nigeria, a group of students from the University of Ibadan organize a film club and transform a small classroom into a space for conversation and impassioned debate.
Alain Kassanda | 2023 | 89 minutes | Color | English; French; Yoruba | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Academy Award nominee for Best Short Documentary. Explores four open-ended cases in which nurses confront serious ethical dilemmas in their day-to-day work.
Joan Sawyer | 1983 | 26 minutes | Color | English
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An exploration of racism and skin color in Cuba during the 1950s.
William Sabourin O'Reilly | 2016 | 30 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Delves into the mystery of our origins, seeking the latest discoveries that may answer the question - What exactly was it that first initiated our genesis, our species' actual birth?
Matthias Von Gunten | 2000 | 88 minutes | Color | English
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A fascinating visit with the legendary writer in her Paris apartment on the Palais Royal circa 1951. And Jean Cocteau drops by.
Yannick Bellon | 2003 | 29 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A filmmaker interviews his grandparents about their experience of Belgian colonialism.
Alain Kassanda | 2023 | 89 minutes | Color | Lingala; French | English subtitles
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The trial of the "Upington 25" in South Africa in 1986 saw twenty-five men and women from a black township tried for the murder of a local black policeman.
Mitzi Goldman | 2014 | 75 minutes | Color | English
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A multi-cultural array of patients, clinicians, and other healthcare workers explore the many ways that differences in culture, race and ethnicity affect health and the delivery of healthcare services.
Jennie Greene & Kim Newell | 2001 | 69 minutes | Color | English
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The story of Luiz Carlos Prestes, legendary leader of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) for over 35 years, who died in 1990.
Toni Venturi | 1998 | 105 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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A quartet of short films (on one DVD) that lay bare the reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2010 | 69 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Tens of thousands of women have been raped during 20 years of war in eastern Congo.
Angele Diabang | 2015 | 52 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The life of the first black photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Carroll Parrot Blue | 1984 | 28 minutes | Color
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As a juror at Jacques Viguier’s trial, Nora (Marina Foïs) is convinced that he did not kill his wife. This intuition quickly becomes an obsession.
Antoine Raimbault | 2019 | 110 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Completes Patricio Guzmán trilogy on his native Chile and the lasting impact of Pinochet’s coup d’état.
Patricio Guzmán | 2019 | 85 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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When a countryside doctor finds out that he suffers from a serious illness, he is left with no choice but to find a replacement.
Thomas Lilti | 2017 | 102 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
The story of Fulani cattle herders in West Africa using U.S. satellite imaging technology to find grazing and water for their herds during drought.
Christopher Walker | 1999 | 52 minutes | Color
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A Torres Strait Islander sets out on a voyage of discovery to the great museums of Europe where his cultural heritage now lies.
Frances Calvert | 1998 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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Filmed in Jordan and on the West Bank, investigates the terrible reality of femicide—the killing of sisters or daughters suspected of losing their virginity, for having refused an arranged marriage or having left a husband.
Shelley Saywell | 1999 | 44 minutes | Color | English
Methamphetamine, or crystal meth, has become the drug of choice for teenagers in small towns across North America. Highly addictive, cheap, and easy to get, it can cause psychosis, permanent brain damage, and even death. This program documents a year in the lives of three families devastated by this powerful, seductive drug.
Eva Wunderman | 2007 | 45 minutes | Color | English
Eight animated shorts from the most important showcase for young cinematic talent in Cuba
2013 | 35 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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An allegory for a working class suburb in decline, this film investigates the story of Shawn Nelson, who stole a tank and went on a rampage through the residential streets of Clairemont, CA.
Garrett Scott | 2011 | 57 minutes | Color | English
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Designed to introduce cultural competence and diversity skills to mental/behavioral health professionals and students who deal with multi-cultural client populations.
Harriet Koskoff | 2002 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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A film about the movement called Culture Jamming. Pranksters and subversive artists are causing a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare...
Jill Sharpe | 2002 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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Traces renowned, prize winning writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India.
Aradhana Seth | 2003 | 50 minutes | Color | English
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Behind the scenes at Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder, a leading law firm specializing in personal injury cases.
Thomas Balmes | 2008 | 69 minutes | Color | English
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Meet the Oscar-winner behind the ALIEN xenomorph and architect of nightmares.
Belinda Sallin | 2015 | 95 minutes | Color | German | English subtitles
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Eight African filmmakers each contribute a documentary portrait of the life of a different West African child.
Various | 2017 | 130 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Dead Souls documents the testimony of survivors of the hard-labor camp in the Gobi Desert in Gansu, China.
Wang Bing | 2018 | 506 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
A unique and intimate look at the realpolitik of South Africa's negotiated settlement, filmed in the closing stages of the writing of South Africa's new constitution.
David Jammy | 1997 | 52 minutes | Color
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From the early 1920s until his death in 1969, Dr. Robert Douglas Spencer practiced medicine in a small town in Pennsylvania, where he treated colds, set fractures - and performed illegal abortions.
Danielle Renfrew and Beth Seltzer | 1998 | 25 minutes | Color | English
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The previously untold story of how the French military trained Latin American death squads in the 60s and 70s (and even U.S. Special Forces in the early days of our Vietnam War).
Marie-Monique Robin | 2004 | 60 minutes | Color | English; French; Spanish | English subtitles
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Between 1975 and 1991, Cuba sent more than 400,000 soldiers and civilians to Angola to support of the country's left-wing government. Two thousand of them never returned.
Carla Valdes Leon | 2017 | 45 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Can multinationals make an ethical profit? This film finds out as it follows Nokia's new "ethical management consultant" on a trip to a supplier factory in China.
Thomas Balmès | 2005 | 79 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A portait of Delphine, a Cameroonian woman who turned to prostitution to support her family.
Rosine Mbakam | 2021 | 91 minutes | Color | Cameroon Pidgin; French; English | English subtitles
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A survey of journalists working in various media and languages around the world, as they grapple with their relationships to government, and the dangers of speaking truth to power.
Calvin Skaggs | 2006 | 114 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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A how-to manual to the recent democratic (but definitely not spontaneous) revolutions in Georgia, Serbia, and the Ukraine.
Tania Rakhmanova | 2007 | 52 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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A long overdue investigation into the 1981 El Mozote massacre in El Salvador, and the Reagan administration's cover-up of it.
Daniele Lacourse and Yvan Patry | 1995 | 57 minutes | Color
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An exploration of the life and ideas of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century.
Safaa Fathy | 2001 | 68 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Explores the intentional destruction of priceless artwork, artifacts and historical sites through war and terrorism.
Tim Slade | 2017 | 85 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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One of the most controversial Italians films of the '80s, DEVIL IN THE FLESH takes Raymond Radiguet's classic novel and updates it to modern times.
Marco Bellocchio | 2021 | 109 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
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President Jacobo Arbenz had led the successful 1944 revolt against the military dictatorship in Guatemala. Ten year later, he was overthrown by a CIA-sponsored coup.
Andreas Hoessli | 1997 | 90 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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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
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The rising importance of Islamic values in an Indonesian public school is apparent in this portrait of modern schoolgirls Kiki and Dila.
Ariani Djalal | 2016 | 89 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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How Jean Renoir gradually guides an actress into the essence of her role.
Gisèle Braunberger | 2021 | 22 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The Soviet regime in Estonia went head to head with J.R. Ewing and the heroes of Western television...and lost.
Jaak Kilmi | 2010 | 80 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Footage from a dozen amateur videographers becomes a symphony of urban social dysfunction in China.
HUANG Weikai | 2012 | 58 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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In Papua New Guinea, local tribes are caught in a cycle of poverty due to oil companies looking for new fields and tourists in search of exoticism.
Céline Rouzet | 2022 | 85 minutes | Color | French; English; Huli | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
The remarkable life and passionate relationships of French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, one of the world’s first international celebrities.
Guillaume Nicloux | 2026 | 98 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Ordinary people from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh recount their tumultuous experiences after the 1947 British subdivision of colonial India.
Satti Khanna and Peter Chappell | 1987 | 57 minutes | Color
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Against the wishes of the authorities, 60-year-old Yuri Dmitriev searches for mass graves from the era of Stalin’s terror against his own people - until one day he is arrested and sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony. Following Yuri closely, the film paints a shocking picture of the way the Russian state rewrites history and treats its citizens.
Jessica Gorter | 2024 | 96 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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In divided Germany, studies showed that East Germans enjoyed their sexual lives more than their West German counterparts. What could account for the difference?
André Meier | 2007 | 52 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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An immersive journey through 70 years of images and sounds from Lebanon, marked by beauty, trauma, joy, and forgetting.
Lana Daher | 2026 | 75 minutes | Color | French; Arabic; English | English subtitles
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The great filmmaker Jia Zhangke travels with acclaimed painter Liu Xiaodong to Thailand where they meet workers in the throes of social turmoil.
JIA Zhangke | 2012 | 70 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Daily life in the largest public hospital in the Republic of Guinea
Thierry Michel | 1997 | 59 minutes | Color
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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
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Juxtaposes the testimonies of three Rwandan genocide survivors—Rosette, Charlotte, and Christine—with images of well-dressed white Belgian women.
Rosine Mbakam | 2021 | 14 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Revisits 70 years of communist power in the Eastern Bloc through the prism of sexuality.
Ināra Kolmane | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Based on a true story, a young inmate (Adéle Exarchopoulos) falls in love with her married prison director (Guillame Gallienne).
Pierre Godeau | 2015 | 110 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv, contemplating her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood.
Chantal Akerman | 2016 | 78 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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People in the Democratic Republic of Congo travel via boat to the capital to demand reparations for their injuries incurred during the Six-Day War.
Dieudo Hamadi | 2021 | 89 minutes | Color | Swahili; Lingala | English subtitles
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Five people in a Rust Belt town struggle to reinvent their lives and their dreams in contemporary America.
Aaron Matthews | 2013 | 45 minutes | Color
The two Aboriginal elders who set out to save their community from cultural extinction by combining traditional knowledge and contemporary scientific expertise.
Christopher Walker | 2005 | 50 minutes | Color | English
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An exploration of the design and philosophy behind a 20 year-old experimental, ecological collective housing project in the center of Berlin.
Beate Lendt | 2012 | 85 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Takes a sharp but disarming approach in examining the romance of gambling, and reveals the decidedly unromantic reality.
Lisanne Skyler | 2001 | 71 minutes | Color | English
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Tilda Swinton's narration and a treasure trove of rare archival footage trace the origins of today's hyper-connected world.
Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, and Thomas Tode | 2015 | 85 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Exposes the massacre, cover-up, and the years of denial of what was undoubtedly one of the darkest nights in the history of France.
Philip Brooks & Alan Hayling | 2003 | 52 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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The story of the prominent early Canadian literary figure - who was also a civil servant responsible for a brutal Native assimilation program.
James Cullingham | 1995 | 57 minutes | Color
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The history of gold mining and capitalism in South Africa; and of the disease and poverty which persists to this day.
Catherine Meyburgh & Richard Pakleppa | 2019 | 98 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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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
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Punks who struggled with Hungary's communist regime discuss their experiences, music and mohawks.
Lucile Chaufour | 2015 | 51 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Condemned "Rightists" sentenced "thought reform" share first-person accounts of life in a notorious Chinese labor camp.
HU Jie | 2009 | 101 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Six 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
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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
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Two films that provide a uniquely comprehensive, intimate and moving portrait of one of the great and lasting thinkers of the 20th century.
252 minutes | Color | English
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An extended discussion with Prof. Edward Said filmed less than a year before his death. The noted literary critic and Palestinian activist delivers his final testament about his life and work as a committed intellectual.
Mike Dibb | 2004 | 114 minutes | Color | English
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The beloved chocolate soda drink, born in immigrant neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century, is explored in this short film about a simple beverage and its meaning to generations of Jewish Americans.
Nora Claire Miller, Peter Miller, and Amy Linton | 2020 | 15 minutes | Color | English
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Newly restored! Eight of the legendary filmmaker’s key works in a 4-disc boxset, with a 24-page booklet and bonus film about Rouch in Africa.
Jean Rouch | 2017 | 604 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The reknowned designer and architect Eileen Gray was always ahead of her time; thirty years after her death she is still considered the very essence of the Modern.
Jorg Bundschuh | 2007 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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A haunting meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors.
Leandro Katz | 1999 | 30 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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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
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From dusk to dawn Martin watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious Drug Lords.
Natalia Almada | 2011 | 72 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Is the land of the pyramids modernizing — or does Egypt’s modernization represent just another pyramid scheme?
Claire Billet, Nadia Blétry | 2026 | 53 minutes | Color | English; Arabic; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Explores the effects of new screen-based advertising sign systems on urban environments and public space.
Alice Arnold | 2013 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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Follows several residents in the "Elena" building, located in Central Havana, over a three-year period.
Marcelo Martin | 2014 | 43 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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An epic journey through voices and sounds from elsewhere. Landscapes, outlooks on the world, outlooks on life: Desert, snow, valley, jungle, ice, rainforest. An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter | 2010 | 240 minutes | Color
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In one of Chris Marker's few fiction films, political dissidents seek refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country.
Chris Marker | 2007 | 21 minutes | Color | English
A comprehensive emergency response-training tool that educates both the individual and the caregiver.
2006 | 24 minutes | Color | English
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What it would have been like if television had covered the ratification process of the US Constitution in 1781.
Muffie Meyer and Ellen Hovde | 1998 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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A landmark film that was one of the first to reveal the full horrors of apartheid to the world.
Antonia Caccia, Chris Curling, Simon Louvish, Nana Mahomo, Vus Make and Rakhetla Tsehlana | 2003 | 44 minutes | Color | English
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The Ottomans ruled three continents for six centuries. How did their rule end, and how does this history inform politics today?
Mathilde Damoisel | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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The Ottomans ruled three continents for six centuries. How did their rule end, and how does this history inform politics today?
Mathilde Damoisel | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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The Ottomans ruled three continents for six centuries. How did their rule end, and how does this history inform politics today?
Mathilde Damoisel | 2017 | 104 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
Straight, gay and in-between Beijingers unleash a whirlwind of transsexual mayhem.
CUI Zi'en | 2012 | 80 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
This program focuses on people who experience complex partial seizures, and whose symptoms are frequently misdiagnosed as psychiatric or emotional disorders.
Paul J. Joseph & Mark R. Brown | 1993 | 27 minutes | English
A rebellious teenager endures the harsh realities of rural life in northern China, until an uncovered secret from his past changes his life forever.
YANG Jin | 2012 | 151 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A history of "outsider art" or "art brut" spontaneously produced by self-taught creators on the fringes of society.
Arthur Borgnis | 2018 | 80 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A powerful and evocative series of short, one-character dramas created by two nurse-educators, and designed to focus discussion on complex ethical issues in end-of-life care.
Helen Emmott, RN, and Julie Russell, RN | 2005 | 54 minutes | Color | English
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The first definitive film treatment of the Basque-Spanish conflict, EUSKADI looks at the tumultuous history of a long running struggle which is far from its resolution.
Arthur MacCaig | 1984 | 97 minutes | Color
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In Glasgow, an inspiring and profoundly moving portrait of what citizens are capable of in the face of injustice.
Felipe Bustos Sierra | 2026 | 99 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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An “observational narrative” which is a mesmerizing contemplation on solitude.
Natalia Almada | 2016 | 98 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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A galvanizing examination of the fight for free college education that burst onto the South African political landscape and quickly escalated into a violent national movement.
Rehad Desai | 2019 | 85 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Seydou Konaté is a doctor in a remote area in Mali. But he is at the center of a global issue: bringing quality health care to rural people left behind by development.
Daisy Lamothe | 2006 | 78 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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A new look at history that re-shapes the Middle East conflict. In two parts.
Ilan Ziv | 2014 | 104 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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A new look at history that re-shapes the Middle East conflict.
Ilan Ziv | 2014 | 52 minutes | Color | English; Hebrew; Arabic | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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A new look at history that re-shapes the Middle East conflict.
Ilan Ziv | 2014 | 52 minutes | Color | English; Hebrew; Arabic | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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In the hyper-connected isolation of social networks names become tags, words are links, and interfaces are never innocent.
Georg Boch | 2011 | 28 minutes | Color
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This video is designed for women who have just been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and includes interviews with leading oncologists, psychologists, nurses and social workers, as well as a wide range of women living with the disease.
Kay Stammers | 2008 | 120 minutes | Color | English
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A remarkable time capsule of Venezuelan political and social history, and valuable background to the ongoing social conflicts in that country.
Peter Gessner and Robert Kramer | 2005 | 30 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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The lives of foster parents Anna and Driss are upended when their foster son's biological father resurfaces and attempts to regain custody.
Fabien Gorgeart | 2022 | 100 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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This documentary suggests that one cause of today's obesity crisis is the decline of the family meal.
Mickey Freeman | 2005 | 19 minutes | Color | English
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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
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Set in a hospice care center, captures the bond shared between patients and caregivers, grown children and their ailing parents, while challenging stereotypes of aging and dying.
Mike Attie | 2010 | 19 minutes | Color
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Mixes documentary and fiction techniques to recount an African art object's 100 year journey - a whole century of Western attitudes towards African culture packed into 8 minutes!
Susan Vogel | 2003 | 8 minutes | Color | English
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The inner workings of a Christian community in rural China, whose ways of life and worship are threatened by the world around them.
XU Xin | 2012 | 80 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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The landmark collaboration between Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais in protest of the Vietnam war.
Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais | 2013 | 115 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Meet Willie, Steve and Jerry, D.C.'s experts in pin-striped suits and feathered hats. How long can they stay in business?
Ben Crosbie and Tessa Moran | 2015 | 27 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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The story of the only woman cab driver in the Algerian city of Sidi Bel-Abbès.
Belkacem Hadjadj | 2001 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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When job prospects elude them, two twenty-something art school graduates decide to film each other's lives instead.
Yang Mingming | 2016 | 43 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Documents the workings of Chile's Forensic Identification Unit in its quest to reclaim the identities of those 'disappeared' and killed during the Pinochet dictatorship.
Silvio Caiozzi | 2000 | 31 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Dr. Maman moves freely between Western medicine and ancestral magical recipes.
Ariane Doublet | 2017 | 43 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Jean Rouch turns his anthropological eye to bourgeois teenage girls in Paris.
Jean Rouch | 2023 | 25 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Showcases the changing cultural styles of Iran and its clerical elite through its portrait of one master tailor and his time-honored craft.
Reza Haeri | 2010 | 31 minutes | Color
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A film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which was, "in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s." - Manning Marable, Prof. of History, Columbia Univ.
Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman and Peter Gessner | 2003 | 55 minutes | Color | English
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Tells the story of the conflict in Peru which left over 10,000 dead or "disappeared" through an investigation into the killings of eight journalists.
Ilan Ziv | 1985 | 35 minutes | Color
This fire safety training video and curriculum is designed to give your staff a basic overview of fire prevention and what they can do if a fire occurs.
2003 | 28 minutes | Color | English
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Largely overlooked by historians and film buffs, the curious 1912 epic "From the Manger to the Cross" depicted the life of Jesus.
Philippe Baron | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | 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
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In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today called Rijeka, retell the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey.
Igor Bezinović | 2026 | 112 minutes | Color | Croatian; Italian | English subtitles
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A riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. 57-minute version.
Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss | 2023 | 57 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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A riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. 74-minute version.
Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss | 2023 | 74 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Five of the master documentarian's seminal works in an 8-disc boxset, with a 24-page booklet and bonus film about Guzman.
Patricio Guzmán | 2015 | 775 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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This early Melvin Van Peebles short is a small-scale tale of obsession, greed and violence.
Melvin Van Peebles | 1961 | 12 minutes | No dialog
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A bold exploration of a Northern Irish community's memories of the Troubles.
Alessandra Celesia | 2025 | 116 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Yang is a 30-year-old itinerant singer with a complicated love life, illegally busking in China's big cities, trying to evade the authorities. Which he does, for a while...
Huang Weikai | 2014 | 93 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Behind the scenes of the highly controversial James Bay Hydro-Quebec power plant project.
Boyce Richardson | 1991 | 59 minutes | Color | Closed Captioned
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Tells the story of Deni Prieto Stock, killed by the Mexican army in 1973.
Luisa Riley | 2013 | 78 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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A world champion kite flyer shares his passion for flight with a man blind from birth in this tale of friendship that challenges our notions of disability.
Tom Collinson | 2010 | 24 minutes | Color
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A powerful portrait of Africa's most widely acclaimed contemporary artist El Anatsui.
Susan Vogel | 2011 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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A look inside the secret chambers where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow.
Martin Hablesreiter | 2010 | 52 minutes | Color
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An early short from French New Wave director Jacques Rivette.
Jacques Rivette | 1957 | 27 minutes | French | English subtitles
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A verite documentary that captures the rhythms of agricultural life in Niger, and how the vagaries of market price and harvest can affect the most intimate personal decisions.
Elhadj Magori Sani | 2010 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Captures the Sufi rites of the annual Opet Festival in Egypt.
Elizabeth Wickett | 1990 | 48 minutes | Color | English; Arabic | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Since its earliest days, the Iranian regime has relied on forced, televised confessions to humiliate and discredit its opponents and instill fear in its citizens
Maziar Bahari | 2014 | 58 minutes | Color
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A poignant tour of the importance of art in the lives of visitors to the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters and other artists from around the world.
Heddy Honigmann | 2007 | 95 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The remarkable life of Adolfo Kaminsky, a master forger who helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi persecution, and a rare glimpse into the clandestine world of underground resistance movements.
Jacques Falck | 2000 | 52 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Allan Sekula and Noel Burch investigate maritime trade, the global supply chain and 21st-century capitalism.
Allan Sekula & Noel Burch | 2012 | 112 minutes | Color | English
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Discover a historic maze of stone circles, terraces and engravings that offer archaelogists new insight into South Africa's past.
Terri Ella | 2015 | 52 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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The life of a countryside fortune teller provides a candid and deeply revelatory look at people living on the fringes of Chinese society.
XU Tong | 2012 | 129 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Captures the energy and fierce intellect of the philosopher and the key, sometimes contradictory, elements of his work.
Francois Caillat | 2014 | 52 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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This four-part series profiles individuals who are struggling to deal with the often unexpected death of a loved one: a child, a parent, a spouse, or a sibling. In sharing the pain of mourning, they explore universal experiences that will help others to begin healing.
Calgary Health Region Grief Support Center | 2008 | 82 minutes | Color | English
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Four people with bipolar disorder, along with their families and psychiatrists, share their struggles to achieve control over the illness and their lives.
Jonathan David | 1987 | 56 minutes | Color | English
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A view of the Iranian Green Revolution protest movement, which followed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed 2009 election victory.
Anonymous | 2011 | 57 minutes | Color | French; Farsi | English subtitles
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Documentarist Raymond Depardon travels through provincial France in a camper, gathering conversations with people from all walks of life.
Raymond Depardon | 2018 | 84 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
A documentary about Freddy Ilanga, an African man whose life was abruptly transformed through a chance encounter with Che Guevara.
Katrin Hansing | 2013 | 24 minutes | Color | English; French; Spanish | English subtitles
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What would you do if your income was taken care of? A search for explanations, possibilities, and experiences regarding the implementation of this concept.
Christian Tod | 2017 | 92 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Follows two medical students, Antoine and Benjamin, as they experience the intensity of their first year of medical school.
Thomas Lilti | 2018 | 92 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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An oblivious jeweler’s assistant with love on his mind falls in with petty criminals, without knowing their trade, until they decide to rob his employer.
Maurice Lehmann | 2022 | 106 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Examines the impact of rapid industrialization on traditional housing styles and ways of living in Taiwan.
Wynette Yao | 1987 | 23 minutes | Color
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Chantal Akerman retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. "One of the 10 Best Films of the 1990s."— J. Hoberman, Artforum
Chantal Akerman | 2003 | 110 minutes | Color | No dialog
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Using technology developed for the military, the flow of illegal immigration into San Diego has been stemmed. But for the desperate, there are still the dangerous deserts of Arizona, where Chantal Akerman shifts her focus.
Chantal Akerman | 2012 | 99 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
They were called idiots and for 160 years Fernald State School was where they would stay. Residents, staff and families recall the evolution of attitudes toward people with developmental disabilities.
William C. Rogers | 2007 | 57 minutes | Color | English
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Two interweaving stories of youth crime and family crisis shed light on illegal emigration and human trafficking in China's Fujian province.
Robin Weng (WENG Shouming) | 2012 | 90 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., Ella Baker played an instrumental role in shaping the American civil rights movement. 48-minute version.
Joanne Grant | 1981 | 48 minutes | Color
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Friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., Ella Baker played an instrumental role in shaping the American civil rights movement. 63-minute version.
Joanne Grant | 1981 | 63 minutes | Color
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This is the story of Komusa Tenapo, master mason and heir to the secrets of Djenne architecture, the traditional use of mud in Malian buildings.
Susan Vogel | 2007 | 58 minutes | Color | French; Bambara | English subtitles
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A visual essay on cultural memory, urban space, and real estate speculation.
Mercedes Alvarez | 2012 | 110 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Meet the Nobel Prize-winning author of works including One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Justin Webster | 2015 | 90 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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The story of one woman's brutal ordeal as a "comfort woman" for the Japanese Army during World War II.
BAN Zhongyi | 2012 | 80 minutes | Color | Japanese; Mandarin | English subtitles
By bringing together urban dance and opera singing, can a new generation of artists storm the Bastille today?
Philippe Béziat | 2022 | 109 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles
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Looks at the growing problem of gambling addiction among teenagers.
Laura Turek | 2013 | 46 minutes | Color | English
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In a lavish country villa, a will reading is the occasion for three couples’ romantic and sexual pursuits and deceptions.
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | 2022 | 84 minutes | French | English subtitles
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A remote village in southwest China is haunted by traces of its cultural past while its residents piece together their existence.
ZHAO Dayong | 2012 | 169 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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The definitive account of America's most violent prison rebellion, its deadly suppression, the days of torture that ensued, and the almost 30 year legal case that followed.
Brad Lichtenstein | 2001 | 90 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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A sweeping look at the big political events of recent years that signify the end of an era in South Africa.
Rehad Desai and Jabulani Mzozo | 2017 | 77 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Based on the internationally acclaimed novel of the same name, THE GIRL IN THE FOG follows the sudden disappearance of Anna Lou, a 16-year-old girl from a small mountain village in the Italian Alps.
Donato Carrisi | 2017 | 129 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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A precise courtroom drama about a 16 year old girl accused of murdering her best friend.
Stéphane Demoustier | 2019 | 96 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A feature film which confronts contemporary Chinese life with a brand new perspective, as it portrays a fraught single-mother, daughter relationship in Beijing.
Yang Mingming | 2018 | 116 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
Niillas Somby, a Sami, an ethnic group which inhabits northern Scandinavia, is fighting the Norwegian authorities, trying to compel them to release the skull of a rebellious ancestor.
Paul-Anders Simma | 2000 | 49 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Searing first-person interview with a feisty Holocaust survivor.
Patrick Sobelman and Hugo Sobelman | 2022 | 116 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
The lives of a teacher, a lawyer, and a lobbyist become intertwined.
Frédéric Tellier | 2023 | 122 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Explores the cultural and emotional roots of the loss of the breast through the intimate stories of four breast cancer patients and their surgeons.
Bernadette Wegenstein | 2016 | 94 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
Profiles of individuals who love and support someone struggling with mental illness, examining the profound impact that these disorders can have on other family members.
Anna Ledbetter, Gary Ledbetter, & Krista Ledbetter | 2007 | 22 minutes | Color | English
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Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon to be born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans.
Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra | 2017 | 135 minutes | Color | Portuguese | English subtitles
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Egypt in the months leading up to the Tahrir Square demonstrations—and a revolution already simmering under the surface.
Katia Jarjoura | 2011 | 72 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Director Vitaly Mansky's portrait of the storied Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev. Here, he presents his final testimony.
Vitaly Mansky | 2021 | 100 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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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
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In the working-class district of Treichville, Abidjan, the association of young drum revelers assembles for spectacular displays of modern song and dance.
Jean Rouch | 2021 | 28 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
In the search of a new perspective, three retirees become “Granny-Nannies" and each get a child to take care of after school.
Wolfgang Groos | 2020 | 104 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Tells the story of three unconventional social workers united by a common vision that transcends the antagonisms between their countries.
Helene Klodawsky | 2016 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
Blends humor, music and insight in an entertaining primer for physicians and other healthcare providers who need to talk with patients about end-of-life decisions.
Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. | 1996 | 25 minutes | Color | English
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A journey through the history of visionary architecture, a survey of the most significant architectural movements of the 20th century that challenged conventional concepts.
Jesper Wachtmeister | 2007 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
A onetime darling novelist disgusted with the publishing world, lets a duplicitous government insider tempt him into ghostwriting a manifesto designed to transform the landscape of French public opinion.
Nicolas Pariser | 2015 | 100 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
A comprehensive, multi-ethnic perspective on the ways Americans deal with grief and loss in all their forms.
Bert Atkinson | 1998 | 57 minutes | Color | English
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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
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A global survey of the impacts on cultures, economies, and the environment of the most powerful globalizing force of our time: tourism.
Pegi Vail | 2014 | 79 minutes | Color
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A group of people have gathered in what used to be the village grocery store. Among the vineyards in rural France, they are trying to start a platform for broadcasting documentary films.
Claire Simon | 2023 | 111 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. Every eleven years hundreds of men come here, to dig up guano, the shit the birds leave behind.
Janos Richter | 2011 | 27 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Uses the famous painting by Picasso to bear witness to the atrocities of the Spanish civil war and fascism.
Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens | 2021 | 14 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Women veterans of Mozambique's independence war offer an intimate view of the country's troubled history since 1975.
Ike Bertels | 2013 | 80 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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The contentious debate over gun control, as seen through the eyes of two mothers on opposite sides of the issue.
Thom Powers | 2004 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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Starring and directed by French filmmaker and comic Alex Lutz, GUY is a witty, warmhearted mockumentary about a seventy-something pop star who has seen better days and a son's attempt to retrace the life of the father he never knew.
Alex Lutz | 2019 | 101 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Can a mega-city mobilize its 22 million citizens to become water-sustainable?
Jose Cohen | 2014 | 82 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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For generations the Bozo people of Mali lived along the banks of the Niger river, fishing for their livelihood. But now...
Andrey Samoute Diarra | 2014 | 72 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Jerusalem can rightfully be called the hat capital of the world, and this colorful and personal trip takes us along the diverse headdresses of the three religions populating the city.
Nati Adler | 2006 | 52 minutes | Color | Hebrew | English subtitles
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Many African AIDS patients consult with tranditional faith healers for their medical care.
Francois-Xavier Demanche and Thierry Lestrade | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Stretching from the dawn of World War I to the present day, Thomas Heise’s monumental essay film reflects on the fraught evolution of Germany’s national identity through the prism of one family’s history.
Thomas Heise | 2019 | 218 minutes | Color | German | English subtitles
Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. Recently their financial situation has worsened and when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality.
Marcelo Martinessi | 2019 | 98 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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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
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An intimate and revealing look at Henry Miller, and his life and work through this program from the archives that originally aired on television in Quebec in 1969.
2010 | 58 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia's Hermitage, the world's largest museum.
Aliona van der Horst | 2006 | 73 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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This five-part series is the expanded, in-depth version of THE HERMITAGE DWELLERS.
Aliona van der Horst | 2006 | 125 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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Neuroscientists and psychologists are approaching a common understanding of how the brain's fear circuitry works, and changes.
Enrico Cerasuolo and Sergio Fergnachino | 2009 | 53 minutes | Color | English
Three disturbing portraits of Iraq veterans highlighting the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder, estimated to affect as many as one in five soldiers returning from the war in Iraq.
Iris Adler | 2006 | 57 minutes | Color | English
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A darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern.
Thomas Lilti | 2015 | 101 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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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
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An unprecedented feat in international law: the dictator of Chad, Hissein Habre, is brought to trial.
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | 2016 | 82 minutes | Color | English; French; Arabic | English subtitles
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The working class has played an essential part of European countries’ history – through revolutions, wars and social progress. In 4 episodes of a spectacular tale, this show reminds us of what our societies owe to the workers’ movements and its struggles.
Stan Neumann | 2022 | 208 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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With the beginnings of the "Factory System" comes a new conception of work and time, which the uprooted workers will have to accept.
Stan Neumann | 2022 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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A look back at the emergence of the great insurgencies that shook Europe at the end of the century.
Stan Neumann | 2022 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Europe has industrialized to the point that the war which breaks out in 1914 is also industrialized.
Stan Neumann | 2022 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Has the working class disappeared today?
Stan Neumann | 2022 | 52 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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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
After a century of films that caricatured, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this film traces a secret history of Black Americans and their connection to the horror-film genre.
Xavier Burgin | 2019 | 83 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Part 1 of Marcel Ophuls' Academy Award winning examination of the Nazi officer Klaus Barbie.
Marcel Ophuls | 2010 | 114 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Part 2 of Marcel Ophuls' Academy Award winning examination of the Nazi officer Klaus Barbie.
Marcel Ophuls | 2010 | 107 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Part 3 of Marcel Ophuls' Academy Award winning examination of the Nazi officer Klaus Barbie.
Marcel Ophuls | 2010 | 46 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Marcel Ophuls' Academy Award winning examination of the Nazi officer Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon," weaves together 40 years of footage and interviews.
Marcel Ophuls | 2010 | 267 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Seven Brazilian teenagers film their housemaids, exposing issues of class, race, and gender in their families, and in their country.
Gabriel Mascaro | 2013 | 76 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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What is happiness? And how do we get more of it? Visiting leading figures in positive psychology and observing clinical experiments, this is a light-hearted but serious investigation.
Line Hatland | 2006 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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This inspiring video was created by 13-year-old Brett after losing his mother to breast cancer when he was ten. Original music, animated video, photographs and artwork illustrate the teenager's experiences, thoughts, and feelings, while he takes the viewer on a journey through several years of his life.
Brett Hardy Blake & Lori Hope | 2000 | 26 minutes | Color | English
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A detailed investigation, with archives and exclusive interviews with the participants, into how Vladimir Putin rose from mayoral aide in St. Petersburg, to President of Russia, in only eight years.
Tania Rakhmanova | 2007 | 52 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
Juliette Binoche stars in this comedy about how to be a good wife.
Martin Provost | 2023 | 110 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The story of the Gupta family’s spectacular rise from flea market shoe salesmen to establishing a massive black owned business empire in South Africa.
Rehad Desai & Mark Kaplan | 2020 | 93 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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At a lycée on the Ivory coast, Jean Rouch meets with white colonial French high school students and their black African classmates (all non-actors) and persuades them to improvise a drama.
Jean Rouch | 2017 | 93 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
The first sober, in-depth examination of the history of suicide bombing. Filmed in Iran, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Israel, Palestine, Europe and the United States.
Ilan Ziv | 2002 | 55 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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The story of 25 people from four Chilean indigenous groups who in the 19th centry were exhibited as attractions across Europe.
Hans Mulchi | 2013 | 93 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
Part I. A sweeping picture of history, changing lives, occupations and displacements on the West Bank, and political division within the Israeli Jewish community.
Ilan Ziv | 1983 | 51 minutes | Color | English; Hebrew; Arabic | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Part II. A sweeping picture of history, changing lives, occupations and displacements on the West Bank, and political division within the Israeli Jewish community.
Ilan Ziv | 1983 | 49 minutes | Color | Hebrew; Arabic; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
A sweeping picture of history, changing lives, occupations and displacements on the West Bank, and political division within the Israeli Jewish community.
Ilan Ziv | 1983 | 100 minutes | Color
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What do tech and agri-business innovations mean for the fight against malnutrition?
Yves Billy | 2014 | 55 minutes | Color
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Illuminating stories told by scientists who actually worked on the Manhattan Project.
Arthur MacCaig | 1996 | 55 minutes | Color | English
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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
This award winning entertaining resource is loaded with ideas for staff but may also help motivate the most die hard "couch potato."
1994 | 24 minutes | Color
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Filmmaker Su Friedrich moves her fiesty mother into an "independent living" facility.
Su Friedrich | 2018 | 42 minutes | Color | Closed Captioned
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Explores the filmmaker's 40 plus films and charts the sites of her peregrinations.
Marianne Lambert | 2016 | 67 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
An intimate look at black South Africans' cultural resistance to apartheid.
Chris Austin and Peter Chappell | 1981 | 54 minutes | Color
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An innovative independent thriller, shot in New York City, which centers on a revolutionary group plotting to attack a fascistic political regime.
Robert Kramer | 2011 | 128 minutes | Color | English
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In Nazi concentration camps, Japanese war camps and Gulag labor camps, starving prisoners risked their lives to document fantasy recipes.
Anne Georget | 2017 | 70 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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What is the cost of truth for families damaged by Colombia's violent past?
Juan Jose Lozano and Hollman Morris | 2011 | 85 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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An injured equestrian stuntman (Albert Dupontel) develops a bond with his insurance agent (Cécile De France).
Denis Dercourt | 90 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A gripping and emotional legal drama based on a true story that moved France for three decades. Starring Daniel Auteuil and Sebastian Koch.
Vincent Garenq | 2015 | 87 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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This intimate documentary documents the forced resettlement of villages by the French Army during the Algerian War of Independence. It sheds light on a largely silenced, yet essential part of Algerian French colonial history.
Dorothée-Myriam Kellou | 2020 | 71 minutes | Color | French; Arabic | English subtitles
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Captures the power, promise, and fear generated by the early days of rock n’roll.
François Reichenbach | 2023 | 11 minutes | French
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Biographical profile of the out-spoken African-American writer.
St. Clair Bourne | 1983 | 60 minutes | Color
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Neonatal intensive care units save thousands of infant lives each year. This film profiles a family whose children are all "graduates" of the NICU, and explores the impact of medical technology on their lives.
Richard Kahn | 2002 | 56 minutes | Color | English
Best Practice Strategies for Maximizing Staff Performance: In Place - Just In Time Training. 6 Episodes on 3 DVDs! Dr. Tom Pomeranz focuses on the four coaching strategies that can serve to dramatically enhance the effectiveness of Direct Support Professionals.
Dr. Thomas Pomeranz | 2015 | 240 minutes | Color | English
The second feature film from actress-turned-filmmaker Jeanne Herry takes us deep into the world of French human services, where the fate of one baby exposes the conflicting fears and desires of the many people involved.
Jeanne Herry | 2018 | 110 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.
Petra Seeger | 2009 | 95 minutes | Color
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Imamura tries to locate unreturned Japanese soldiers in Malaysia.
Shôhei Imamura | 2012 | 45 minutes | Color | English; Japanese | English subtitles
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Shohei Imamura continues searching for unreturned Japanese soldiers.
Shôhei Imamura | 2012 | 50 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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A meditation on 1968 political uprisings in France, Czechoslovakia, China, and Brazil.
João Moreira Salles | 2017 | 127 minutes | Color | Portuguese | English subtitles
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Four filmmakers travel with guerrillas into combat in El Salvador.
Frank Christopher and Alex Drehsler | 1984 | 75 minutes | Color
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A close look at infidelity and the particular, divergent ways in which it's experienced and understood by men and women. Directed by Philippe Garrel.
Philippe Garrel | 2017 | 73 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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The dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet learn to perform "Glacial Decoy," the seminal 1979 work by choreographer Trisha Brown.
Marie-Helene Rebois | 2017 | 79 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
In this doc-fiction hybrid, a peasant journeys through the Sierra Maestra to buy a new mule.
Rigoberto Jimenez | 2013 | 36 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. This is a portrait of theirs lives and their daily struggle for survival.
Eugenio Polgovsky | 2009 | 90 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Reconstructs the long-forgotten murder of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, and draws a connection between the unsolved murder of Little, and the attempted murder of the town itself.
Travis Wilkerson | 2003 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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The insect apocalypse is here and pesticides are to blame.
Miyuki Droz, Sylvain Lepetit, and Sébastien Séga | 2022 | 58 minutes | Color | French; English; Italian | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Transsexuals in Iran. Intimate conversations with doctors, religious authorities, and transsexuals about the mind/body conflict, Islamic interpretations, and the impact of sex-change treatments on their lives.
Zohreh Shayesteh | 2006 | 39 minutes | Color | Farsi | English subtitles
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Bulimia can affect women and men from all walks of life, and it kills nearly 20 percent of its victims every year. This moving documentary profiles individuals and families affected by this eating disorder.
Michelle Blair | 2003 | 56 minutes | Color | English
Hong Kong student protestors who had taken refuge at the Polytechnic University realize that they are trapped by the police.
Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers | 2021 | 88 minutes | Color | Yue Chinese (Cantonese) | English subtitles
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Brings viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights.
Madeline Anderson | 1960 | 20 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the relationship between music and social change.
Peter Miller | 2000 | 30 minutes | Color | English
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One black family's commitment to a quality education, from the pre-1965 time of segregation, through desegregation, and through the recent period of resegregation. **Winner, John E. O'Connor Film Award, American Historical Association**
Chea Prince | 2003 | 56 minutes | Color | English
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An intimate look at the Catonsville Nine who on May 17, 1968 walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and incinerated them with homemade napalm.
Lynne Sachs | 2001 | 45 minutes | Color | English
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A filmic journey starring Tilda Swinton as she traces the former Berlin Wall via bicycle.
Cynthia Beatt | 2010 | 60 minutes | Color | English
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An Italian noirish thriller about a man accused of murder.
Stefano Mordini | 2022 | 102 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
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Depicts clashes in modern Iran between extreme fundamentalism and young people who are pushing for social change, filming with soldiers, religious leaders, students, artists and intellectuals.
Thierry Michel | 2003 | 58 minutes | Color | Farsi | English subtitles
Examines an unusual loophole in Britain's attempt to quell media access in the Irish conflict.
Arthur MacCaig | 1996 | 13 minutes | Color
Examines the current conflict in Northern Ireland after a quarter century.
Arthur MacCaig | 1989 | 52 minutes | Color
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Filmed over three years on what will soon be the world's largest railway network, traces the vast interiors of China on the move.
J.P. Sniadecki | 2015 | 83 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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A personal, poetic look at the uneasy peace on the frontline between Taiwan and China.
S. Leo Chiang | 2024 | 20 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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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
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A journey up the Danube River, this film takes up some of the most challenging paths in Martin Heidegger's thought. With the philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, and filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.
David Barison and Daniel Ross | 2005 | 189 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
This unlikely trio of fathers decide to form a secret pact with one goal: the sons-in-law have to go!
Marc Rothemund | 2020 | 91 minutes | Color | German | English subtitles
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Zackie Achmat, a leading AIDS activist in South Africa, refused to take anti-retroviral medicines until they were made available by the government in public hospitals and clinics.
Brian Tilley | 2002 | 72 minutes | Color | English
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A beautifully composed political documentary investigating the decentralization process in Mali.
Emile Adriaan and Maarten van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal | 2004 | 55 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A charming program from over 40 years ago: Jack Kerouac talks about his childhood, writing On the Road and the origin of the word "beat."
2010 | 30 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Republicans in Northern Ireland answer the question "What are you fighting for?"
Arthur MacCaig | 1996 | 14 minutes | Color | English
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In Jean Rouch's collaborative ethnofiction, three Nigerien men journey to Accra for work.
Jean Rouch | 2012 | 88 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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First film by Mira Nair. A personal record of street life around the Jama Masjid, or Great Mosque, in the old city of Delhi, India.
Mira Nair | 1979 | 20 minutes | Color
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The film, set in Kyrgyzstan, is a search for Jamilia, the title character in the novella by Chinghiz Aitmatov about a young woman who rebels against the rules of Kyrgyz society.
Aminatou Echard | 2018 | 84 minutes | Color | Kyrgistan; Russian; Uzbek; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Two men unknowingly have had a relationship with the same woman.
Maurice Pialat | 2023 | 17 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Explores the origins of Japan's Constitution in the ashes of war, and the significance of its famous peace clause, Article 9, and the debates surrounding it, in the 21st century.
John Junkerman | 2006 | 70 minutes | Color | English; Japanese | English subtitles
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A documentary about Jean Rouch, his films, and his influence on African cinema.
Laurent Védrine | 2017 | 55 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
From 1967, for the first time on video or DVD, a portrait of two of the most influential and controversial writers and thinkers of the 20th century. They discuss their work, lives, and the role of intellectuals in modern society.
Max Cacopardo | 2005 | 60 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A personal investigation into the role of religion in American politics, and specifically this year's presidential election.
Ilan Ziv | 2008 | 90 minutes | Color | English
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Pema Tseden’s new film: on the path of life, sometimes we meet someone whose dreams overtake our own to the point that they converge.
Pema Tseden | 2019 | 87 minutes | Color | Tibetan | English subtitles
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In an internment camp for refugees from the Spanish Civil War, a guard and an artist, Josep Bartoli, befriend each other.
Aurel | 2021 | 74 minutes | Color | French; Spanish | English subtitles
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A journal, a voyage through time. He photographs France, she rediscovers the unseen footage he has so carefully kept: his first steps behind the camera, his TV reports from around the world, snatches of their memories and of our history.
Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret | 2018 | 100 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Six countries in 10 days! A group of Chinese tourists visits Europe at whirlwind speed.
Jill Coulon | 2017 | 56 minutes | Color | Mandarin; English | English subtitles
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An up-close and personal encounter with this influential theorist and author of the best-seller Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
Paule Zadjermann | 2007 | 52 minutes | Color
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A champagne-fizzy comedy of errors, in which a whimsical teen hides out in a sprawling country manor, to the chagrin of its bedeviled owner.
Marc Allégret | 2022 | 97 minutes | French | English subtitles
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They had little in common in life, but Israeli soldier David Biri and Palestinian Fahmi Abou Ammouneh are linked in death, their fates tied to a Gaza crossroads between an Israeli settlement and Palestinian refugee camp.
Ilan Ziv | 2004 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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Tackles eternally mythic themes and contemporary political issues with visually mind-bending aplomb
Kornél Mundruczó | 2017 | 129 minutes | Color | English; Hungarian | English subtitles
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Takes a camera where few have been, a criminal courtroom in Rio de Janeiro, to record the social theatre, the structures of power, what is usually invisible.
Maria Ramos | 2005 | 102 minutes | Color | Portuguese | English subtitles
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Investigates the human rights and legal issues involved when two Salvadoran generals are sued in an American court for atrocities (such as the murder of four American churchwomen) committed during El Salvador's civil war.
Gail Pellett | 2002 | 86 minutes | Color | English
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Agadez, Niger: Alongside the laws of the state, another judicial system exists. The living heritage of the Muslim tradition.
Christian Lelong | 2006 | 78 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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An insider's look at Poland's dissident Workers Defense Committee - and how the group's actions led directly to the formation of the Solidarity union and the end of Poland's Communist regime.
Joanna Grudzinska | 2010 | 56 minutes | Color
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Twenty years after Ceausescu, Romanian GDP is low and infrastructure poor. Interviewing the oligarchs who control the Romanian economy, this film finds out what happened.
Alexandru Solomon | 2011 | 55 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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In Karamay, filmmaker Xu Xin helps a community break the silence nearly two decades after a horrible fire killed nearly 300 schoolchildren.
XU Xin | 2012 | 356 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Shohei Imamura profiles a former Karayuki-San who offers frank testimony into her horrific sexual slavery experiences.
Shohei Imamura | 2012 | 75 minutes | Color | English; Japanese | English subtitles
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The two South African artists speak frankly about their work, their studio practice, their inspirations, and the challenges of success.
Catherine Meyburgh | 2022 | 72 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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A UN-appointed court tracks down those responsible for the crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge.
Remi Laine and Jean Reynaud | 2013 | 79 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A Parisian man (Pierre Deladonchamps) finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in Canada in order to meet his two siblings.
Philippe Lioret | 2016 | 98 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Kigali Shaolin Temple is a kung-fu club in Rwanda started by a group of orphans from the genocide.
Claire Mollard and Magali Chirouze | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A colorful, sensory experience of the Sonepur Fair in India.
Cedric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz | 2017 | 54 minutes | Color | English
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The first feature documentary dealing extensively with Tibetan medicine.
Franz Reichle | 2004 | 89 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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A visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in Japanese tradition, and their relationships to modernist Scandinavian design. With two Pritzker Prize winners, Tadao Ando and Sverre Fehn.
Jesper Wachtmeister | 2006 | 53 minutes | Color | Japanese; Finnish | English subtitles
Explores the origins and history of the Koran - where Muslim tradition and scientific research converge.
Bruno Ulmer | 2010 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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In Kalpi, a small city in northern India, Kumar Talkies is the only movie theater in town. This film juxtaposes life in the village, with the world of rebellion and romance on the silver screen.
Pankaj Rishi Kumar | 2000 | 76 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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The story of Mozambique's National Institute of Cinema (INC) - a history of the birth and death of local cinema, and the birth and death of an ideology.
Margarida Cardoso | 2003 | 52 minutes | Color | Portuguese | English subtitles
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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
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Based on a thorough historical research into the Paris Commune of 1871, this film leads to an inevitable reflection about the present.
Peter Watkins | 2002 | 345 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A film producer is roped into a murder investigation, which starts to intersect with a long-hidden crime from his time as a Resistance fighter during WWII.
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | 2022 | 72 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Tracing a year in the life of a neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia ruled by a paramilitary gang, this is a searing exploration of three lives defined by years of overwhelming violence.
Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez | 2005 | 84 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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A maternity clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo copes with its patients' lack of money while trying to provide the best-intentioned care.
Dieudo Hamadi and Divita Wa Lusala | 2010 | 24 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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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
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Renowned architect Rem Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City explore Lagos, Nigeria, interpreting the chaotic city in an innovative, surprising way.
Bregtje van der Haak | 2003 | 55 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A filmmaker returns to his town to make a documentary about a whale, but time has turned the town into a place of the past. A death makes him understand that the trip is a farewell.
Armando Capó | 2025 | 79 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Following the lives of immigrant women on a soccer team in Rome.
Isabel Achaval and Chiara Bondi | 2022 | 83 minutes | Color | Spanish; Italian | English subtitles
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An engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing computer technology. (from the Jan., 1998 Catalog Supplement)
John Akomfrah | 1997 | 45 minutes | Color | English
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Chris Marker's tribute to Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin prompts a reflection on the relation between art and politics in the former Soviet Union. Box Set includes Medvedkin's silent classic HAPPINESS (1934).
Chris Marker | 1998 | 116 minutes | Color
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Shot secretly and smuggled out of South Africa at the height of the apartheid era, this was the most widely screened and influential anti-apartheid documentary. Now restored and on DVD for the first time.
Chris Curling and Pascoe Macfarlane | 2006 | 55 minutes | Color | English
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A portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society and ran.
Lynne Sachs | 2015 | 37 minutes | Color | English
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Shot in 1968, one year after the Summer of Love, this is a critical yet sympathetic examination of the anti-war movement in New York City.
Peter Gessner & Tom Hurwitz | 2002 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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This 8-part documentary series highlights the men and women, who from 1945 to 1980, produced landmark French films that influenced cinema for generations to come.
Florence Strauss | 2020 | 416 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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LATE SUMMER captures a centuries-old Beijing theatre in its incarnation as a modern-day transient space.
Yi Cui | 2016 | 13 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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It wasn't until Helene was 20 years old that her parents discovered that their autistic daughter was able to not only communicate, but to write deeply complex, philosophical and poetic work.
Julie Bertuccelli | 2017 | 85 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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A squadron commander suffering from an incurable illness searches for an old comrade from Southeast Asia.
Pierre Schoendoerffer | 2021 | 120 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's legendary portrait of Paris and Parisians at the close of the Algerian war.
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme | 2013 | 145 minutes | English; French | English subtitles
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A telephone operator, J.M., falls in love with a mysterious woman, F., entirely by phone.
Marguerite Duras | 2021 | 90 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The stories of three native women who are making control of education an important issues in today's native communities.
Loretta Todd | 1991 | 59 minutes | Color | Closed Captioned
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A moving exploration of the lives of two deaf women who have opted to have cochlear implant surgery that enables them to recover their hearing.
Lori Kuffner | 2009 | 44 minutes | Color | English
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An American soldier returns from Iraq without his left arm and adapts to life with new physical challenges.
Peter Jordan and John Kane | 2010 | 12 minutes | Color | English
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Writer, visual artist and pioneer of the queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up conservative Chilean society during Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1980s.
Joanna Reposi Garibaldi | 2020 | 96 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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In Turkey, Mahmut and Zeynep are siblings who clash with their parents while pushing back against the familial expectations to marry young.
Ahmet Necdet Çupur | 2021 | 93 minutes | Color | Turkish; Arabic | English subtitles
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Documenting the least-known part of the civil rights movement, these are the first-person stories of people with developmental disabilities — labeled "mentally defective"— who were sent away to state institutions.
By Mark R. Lyons | 2007 | 42 minutes | Color | English
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The effects of church and religion on both urban and rural African-American life.
St. Clair Bourne | 1973 | 67 minutes | Color
Against the backdrop of the "Texas Cupcake Controversy," this humorous documentary takes a close look at the processed food industry and at the ways that junk food and beverages are marketed to children.
Lisa Kaselak | 2007 | 33 minutes | Color | English
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In Chris Marker's futuristic reverie, game-developer Laura creates a video game based on the WWII Battle of Okinawa.
Chris Marker | 2014 | 106 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Yulia and Katia are inmates held in a Siberian mental facility against their wishes.
Alexander Kuznetsov | 2016 | 80 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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Kidnapped from South Africa in 1810 and "exhibited" around Great Britain, Sara Baartman was treated as a scientific curiosity.
Zola Maseko | 1999 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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Jean Rouch's self-reflexive depiction of lion hunting among the Songhay people of Niger, and the social structure that underlies it.
Jean Rouch | 2012 | 77 minutes | Color | English
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December 3, 1984. Bhopal, India. The worst chemical disaster of all time. How has Union Carbide manipulated the US and Indian legal systems for 20 years to avoid facing justice?
Ilan Ziv | 2004 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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Jean Rouch brings his Nigerien collaborators to France to perform a reverse ethnography of late-1960s Parisian life.
Jean Rouch | 2012 | 92 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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A slice-of-life film shot in a small-town cafe in Northern France.
François Reichenbach | 2023 | 12 minutes | French | English subtitles
When an impoverished country couple adopts a crippled young girl and puts her to work begging on city streets, a battle soon ensues over her fate.
PENG Tao | 2012 | Color | English | English subtitles
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About Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Exposes tensions in a society assailed by modernization, Islam and global tourism, yet confident that it will maintain its own distinctive character.
Susan Vogel | 2003 | 53 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Cairo is one of the few medieval cities in the world that remains relatively intact. This a portrait of Darb al-Ahmar, a neighborhood in the old city now facing a process of radical change.
Maysoon Pachachi | 2001 | 56 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Profiles seven people who spend most of their lives in online virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft.
Daniel Moshel | 2013 | 86 minutes | Color | English
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Alan Lomax (1915-2002) traveled the world with his recording equipment, capturing folk songs.
Rogier Kappers | 2014 | 95 minutes | Color | Dutch | English subtitles
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Over 100 people at homeless shelters, food banks, and job training centers discuss their experiences of poverty.
Natalie Bookchin | 2016 | 45 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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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
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A Cuban filmmaker explores her parents' memories of the USSR.
Carla Valdés León | 2024 | 19 minutes | Color | Spanish; Russian | English subtitles
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An examination of German Jewish life and culture and the lasting intellectual, moral and spiritual void that loss has meant to their fatherland.
Nurith Aviv | 2010 | 30 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Examines an unprecedented experiment in local democracy in the southern Chinese village of Wukan.
Jill Li | 2020 | 180 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Explore the growing movement and innovative projects around the world to uncover once-buried urban waterways.
Caroline Bacle | 2013 | 72 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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The story of Yuri Lotman (1922-1993), little-known - except maybe in Estonia! - pioneer of semiotics.
Agne Nelk | 2009 | 57 minutes | Color | English subtitles
Following numerous pilgrims, LOURDES is an insightful meditation on the human capacity for empathy and hope.
Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai | 2021 | 92 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Maurice Pialat's poetic but critical essay about the Parisian suburbs.
Maurice Pialat | 1961 | 19 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Two people with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy are united in their commitment to each other and to living their lives with dignity and grace.
Thymaya Payne | 2011 | 41 minutes | Color | English
An Oscar-shortlist selection and recently named to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, this is the definitive account of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage.
Nancy Buirski | 2012 | 77 minutes | Color | English
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In the Peruvian Andes, in the town of Lucanamarca, old wounds are re-opened when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrives to investigate a massacre from 20 years ago.
Carlos Cardenas and Hector Galvez | 2009 | 69 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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A highly engrossing family drama about a successful artist who must cope with his sudden paralysis following an accident.
Laura Longsworth | 2010 | 84 minutes | Color
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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
Traces the story of the life of an extraordinary man, one whose struggle for land rights, and his remarkable life in general, had a profound effect on indigenous rights in Australia.
Trevor Graham | 1998 | 87 minutes | Color | English
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A kaleidoscopic view of life for young adults in the contemporary Republic of Georgia.
Tinatin Gurchiani | 2013 | 101 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Jean Rouch's essential and controversial work is a classic of ethnographic cinema.
Jean Rouch | 2012 | 28 minutes | Color | English
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Madam Phung and her transgender singers travel around Vietnam, sparking fascination and hostility from the local people.
Nguyễn Thị Thấm | 2014 | 87 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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In a culture where bodies seem customizable, how do we perceive body image, and how are desires for a better self influenced by reality television and the makeover industry?
Bernadette Wegenstein and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes | 2007 | 65 minutes | Color | English
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Lisette Nigot seems an unlikely candidate for euthanasia. At 79, she is in good health, feels no pain, and does not seem depressed. But she says she sees no reason to continue living. And Dr. Philip Nitschke is willing to help her.
Janine Hosking | 2005 | 55 minutes | Color | English
Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman's new film, an intimate and sentimental visit to the Spanish capital.
Patricio Guzman | 2003 | 41 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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A semi-autobiographical romantic comedy of childhood and first love, set in the tumultuous world of 1970s Italy.
Pierfrancesco Diliberto | 2017 | 90 minutes | Color | English; Italian | English subtitles
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In Niger, where more than 80% of the population is illiterate, radio is the main means of mass communication.
Stephanie Barbey and Luc Peter | 2017 | 54 minutes | Color | English subtitles
The fortunes of three generations living in the shadow of Russia's most breathtaking industrial project of the 1930s. The film was inspired by Joris Ivens'Song of the Heroes. (from the January, 1998 Catalog Supplement)
Pieter Jan Smit | 1997 | 60 minutes | Color | English subtitles
Offers remarkable footage of live performances, as well as first person interviews with the choreographer, Maguy Marin, whose work is daring, moving and continues to defy convention.
David Mambouch | 2020 | 105 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Documentary portrait of a housemaid agency in Beirut, Lebanon.
Maher Abi Samra | 2016 | 67 minutes | Color | English; Arabic | English subtitles
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Profiles members of the Cuban National women's baseball team, who pursue their passion in a soceity filled with machismo and prejudice.
Ernesto Perez Zambrano | 2013 | 27 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Profile of the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, D.C. which primarily serves and is likewise staffed by the African American community.
Ben Crosbie and Tessa Moran | 2010 | 20 minutes | Color | English
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Reunites Peter Lennon and cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who recount the making of their then controversial, now classic, documentary on Ireland in the Sixties.
Paul Duane | 2005 | 27 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Four dynamic Malian musicians use their music to stand up to religious extremism.
Lutz Gregor | 2017 | 93 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Short but sweet look at the work of the renowned African artist whose photographs have documented social and cultural changes in Mali over a forty-year period.
Susan Vogel | 2006 | 8 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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From impressive architectural projects to economic, environmental and social concerns, everything about shopping malls, and more.
Helene Klodawsky | 2009 | 78 minutes | Color | English
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A portrait of Colonel Honorine, or "Mama Colonel," that addresses the issue of violence towards women and children in the DRC.
Dieudo Hamadi | 2017 | 72 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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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
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A gentle portrait by Jean Rouch of the spiritual traditions of a fishing village in the Gulf of Guinea.
Jean Rouch | 2012 | 18 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
WANG Xilin, 86, is one of China’s most important modern classical composers. In this film by Wang Bing, he revisits some of the horrifying events that still live on in his memory.
Wang Bing | 2023 | 60 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Shohei Imamura's investigation into the disappearance becomes an investigation into the nature of fiction and reality.
Shohei Imamura | 2012 | 130 minutes | Color | English; Japanese | English subtitles
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Confronted with unforeseen pregnancies and, in most cases, abortions, men reveal their feelings and thoughts.
Coline Grando | 2018 | 58 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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In Geneva, Switzerland, film directors Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard meet for a surprisingly intimate and sometimes contentious dialogue.
Frederic Choffat and Vincent Lowy | 2011 | 44 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A personal portrait of the great French writer Marguerite Duras. Made with home moves, archives, film extracts, readings, and television interviews filmed over many years.
Dominique Auvray | 2003 | 61 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A brilliant mathematics student (Ella Rumpf) has her future derailed after an unexpected error in her thesis presentation. She decides to start life anew.
Anna Novion | 2024 | 115 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Follows a group of young men from the day they enlist in the US Marine Corps, through basic training.
François Reichenbach | 2023 | 21 minutes | French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Tells the extraordinary story of Marius Petipa, the groundbreaking French choreographer who went on to create Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty.
Denis Sneguirev | 2019 | 52 minutes | Color | French; Russian; English; Italian | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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A 7-foot-tall Midwestern evangelical minister struggles with transgender identity under pressures from a conservative church, community, wife and children.
Matt Kliegman | 2020 | 88 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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In the deserted hills of an Indonesian island, Marlina, a young widow, is robbed and raped for her cattle. Seeking justice, she goes on a journey for empowerment and redemption.
Mouly Surya | 2017 | 93 minutes | Color | Indonesian | English subtitles
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Follows the extraordinary path of the Marquis of Wavrin, a Belgium explorer who lived with and documented Amazonian tribes in the early 1900s.
Grace Winter & Luc Plantier | 2019 | 85 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A provincial builder falls in love with an alluring shopgirl, oblivious to her crowded romantic past or that she’s waiting for a local politician’s wife to die so she can marry rich.
Georges Lacombe | 2022 | 108 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Hilarious 7 minute animated introduction to Karl Marx's worldview.
Bob Godfrey | 1978 | 7 minutes | Color
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A new exploration into the relevance of Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis.
Jason Barker | 2012 | 52 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Chronicles the historic events surrounding the 1997 massacre of 45 pacifist supporters of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation who were massacred while seeking refuge in a church.
Nick Higgins | 2008 | 58 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Reclaims an important episode in the history of Congolese popular culture, the Matamata and Pilipili series of colonial-era film comedies, while exploring the complex terrain of colonial relationships and media representations.
Tristan Bourland | 1997 | 58 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows waste to the shores, mountains, and ocean floor.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter | 2023 | 105 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Now on one DVD, Olivia Carrescia's three films on the Mayan Indians of Guatemala preserve a record, and provide an acute observation on how the indigenous culture has been affected by, yet survived, that country's tumultuous history.
Olivia Carrescia | 2008 | 155 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Contrasts the experiences of Mayan families who came to Indiantown, Florida as refugees fleeing the violence in Guatemala in the early 1980s, with the struggles of those continuing to arrive in search of better lives.
Olivia Carrescia | 1994 | 56 minutes | Color
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What happens when love gets in the way of letting go? As a teenager with multiple disabilities prepares for his Bar Mitzvah, his family and community consider what Mark's life will be like when they are no longer able to protect him.
Judd Ehrlich | 2003 | 56 minutes | Color | English
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Ordinary citizens take a stand against the planned destruction of their homes to make way for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
OU Ning | 2012 | 85 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Snow and ice, as far as the eye can see - Nikolaus Geyrhalter's new film immerses audiences in a world of white. MELT explores these spectacular locations and the gradual disappearance of the ice that was once assumed to be eternal.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter | 2026 | 128 minutes | Color | English; German; French; Japanese | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Roving the city of Lima, Peru, Heddy Honigmann meets teachers, actors, professionals, civil servants and many others who have turned to taxi driving to earn enough to get by.
Heddy Honigmann | 2007 | 80 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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This classic series, created by Emmy and Academy Award winner Peter Davis, explores both the continuity and the change embodied in the people and institutions of one Midwestern community: Muncie, Indiana.
Peter Davis | 2010 | 360 minutes | Color | English
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Examines faith working in the lives of a fundamentalist family. Part of the acclaimed Middletown series.
Richard Leacock and Marisa Silver | 1982 | 60 minutes | Color
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An American entrepreneur struggles to make his pizza business succeed. Part of the acclaimed Middletown series.
Tom Cohen | 1982 | 90 minutes | Color
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The complexities of contemporary American marriage. Part of the acclaimed Middletown series.
Peter Davis and John Lindley | 1982 | 60 minutes | Color
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The role of competitive sports, in this case basketball, in the community, for the coaches, and, most of all, for the players themselves. Part of the acclaimed Middletown series.
E. J. Vaughn | 1982 | 60 minutes | Color
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A mayoral race in middle America. Part of the acclaimed Middletown series.
Tom Cohen | 1982 | 90 minutes | Color
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Two young women start their careers as midwives at a chaotic public hospital in Paris.
Léa Fehner | 2024 | 100 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A lilting, free-associative masterpiece that follows dozens of characters as they try to reconcile their ideals with the realities of American life.
Robert Kramer and John Douglas | 2011 | 195 minutes | Color | English
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Before dying of starvation in a concentration camp, Mina carefully recorded her favorite recipes, hoping they would somehow make it to her daughter overseas.
Anne Georget | 2017 | 45 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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How could 34 South African mineworkers be killed during a non-violent strike for better wages... not under apartheid, but today?
Rehad Desai | 2014 | 86 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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In a Dutch classroom, refugee children learn alongside locals under Miss Kiet's firm but loving hand.
Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster | 2017 | 113 minutes | Color | English; Dutch | English subtitles
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Three parts! The definitive history and visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years.
Thierry Michel | 2000 | 160 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Part one of the definitive history and visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years.
Thierry Michel | 2000 | 51 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Part two of the definitive history and visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years.
Thierry Michel | 2000 | 51 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles
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Part three of the definitive history and visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years.
Thierry Michel | 2000 | 58 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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A film about ordinary people who transform insignificant things into works of art.
Stephane Sinde | 2017 | 54 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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In this landmark documentary, Jean Rouch collaborates with his subjects to produce a complex portrait of Nigerien migrants in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
Jean Rouch | 2012 | 70 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
Explores the history of the CFA Franc and monetary colonization in Africa. Can a country be truly independent if its currency is still controlled by its former colonial oppressors?
Katy Léna Ndiaye | 2023 | 104 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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How the best-selling, unsightly plastic chair took the world by storm.
Hauke Wendler | 2022 | 90 minutes | Color | Portuguese; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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The decades-spanning tumultuous romance of a quintessentially French couple.
Nicolas Bedos | 2017 | 120 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The children of the Montana de Luz orphanage in Honduras are HIV positive, and a living testament to the beauty and innocence of childhood. This is a stirring portrait of a loving community.
Matthew Leahy | 2009 | 40 minutes | Color | English
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How do body and mind exist as an integrated whole? The eminent neurobiologist Francisco Varela devoted his entire life to answering this question. Featuring His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama
Franz Reichle | 2005 | 80 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Explores the intersection of therapy and research of children with cerebral palsy as they grow in self-confidence and physical capability through participation in "hippotherapy," or physiotherapy involving horseback riding.
Veronica Sive | 2009 | 27 minutes | Color | English
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The little-known history of Spain's bloody colonial ambitions in North Africa, and how they became a prelude to the Spanish Civil War.
Julio Sanchez Veiga | 2009 | 90 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Two extraordinary women, diagnosed with end stage cancer, are facing death head on, determined to lead richer, more rewarding lives in the time that they have.
David Liban | 2009 | 57 minutes | Color | English
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A gripping cinema verite documentary that shows how China's one-child policy plays out in the daily lives of women in one Chinese village.
XU Huijing | 2014 | 68 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
A revealing, heartrending portrait of two generations of young, single mothers living in the shadow of abuse and abandonment.
Inbal Goldstein | 2005 | 66 minutes | Color | English
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Traveling from Copenhagen to China, and from Australia to the US, this documentary looks at the state of carbon emissions and efforts to rein them in.
Yves Billy | 2011 | 52 minutes | Color | English
The story of artistic genius Ohad Naharin, one of the most important choreographers in the world, who redefined the language of modern dance.
Tomer Heymann | 2017 | 100 minutes | Color | English; Hebrew | English subtitles
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Attempting to escape North Korea, Mrs. B. is sold by smugglers to a Chinese farmer. She becomes a smuggler herself and struggles to reunite with her sons, but the secret service gets involved…
Jero Yun | 2017 | 71 minutes | Color | English; Korean | English subtitles
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Dually profound and amusing, delves into the "family values" debate via an exposé of women who are single mothers by choice.
Ric Esther Bienstock | 1996 | 56 minutes | Color | English
For six years, actor and director Alison Peebles has been keeping a secret: she has multiple sclerosis. Now, in the midst of working on an important TV series, she finds she can no longer hide her symptoms. She's afraid this revelation may destroy her career — and she'll also have to kiss goodbye to her sexy, high-heeled shoes.
Lucinda Broadbent and Alison Peebles | 2007 | 29 minutes | Color | English
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An unflinching look at the brutal methods used by the Abidjan police chief to investigate the murder of a police officer.
Mosco Boucault | 2024 | 86 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The story of the founder of the Republic of Turkey, called Atatürk ("the father of the Turks").
Severine Labat | 2008 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
A bittersweet and moving comedy about love standing the test of time, starring iconic real-life couple Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal.
Yvan Attal | 2019 | 106 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A fragmented meditation on surviving the Warsaw Ghetto, in an intimate conversation between father and daughter.
Esther Hoffenberg | 2009 | 15 minutes | French | English subtitles
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The story of an underground church founded by Nigerian missionaries offers a rare glimpse inside an immigrant African community in China.
ZHAO Dayong | 2012 | 77 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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An explosive social revolution brought 1.5 million Chileans to their feet. It was the event Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for.
Patricio Guzmán | 2022 | 83 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Based on the director's life, a well-to-do widow living in Paris takes an Afghan refugee into her home. Starring Fanny Ardant, Nawid Elham, and Pierre Deladonchamps.
Benoît Cohen | 2025 | 91 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Mojtaba, Hamzeh, Zar, like many other people, have undergone interrogation in Iran. The director asks them to interrogate him as an agent of the Islamic Republic might do.
Mehran Tamadon | 2025 | 82 minutes | Color | Farsi | English subtitles
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A hybrid film about life in Myanmar in the aftermath of its military coup.
Myanmar Film Collective | 2023 | 70 minutes | Color | Burmese | English subtitles
An incompetent and near-retired inspector (Christian Clavier) is called in to solve a possible murder plot perpetrated at a billionaire's party in Saint-Tropez.
Nicolas Benamou | 2022 | 90 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Examines the forces that shaped cartoonist Naji Al-Ali as an artist, as a human being, and shows how his experiences mirror those of other exiled Palestinians.
Kasim Abid | 2000 | 52 minutes | Color
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Till today the history of the 1937 "Rape of Nanking" is a point of contention between China and Japan. How is it seen in each country, and can a shared memory ever be constructed?
Michael Prazan | 2007 | 53 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A group of Congo's high school students desperately tries to pass their final exam in order to graduate.
Dieudo Hamadi | 2017 | 92 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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A lively look at the latest developments in the scientific study of laughter.
Jacques Mitsch | 2012 | 48 minutes | Color | English
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Female street artists are on the front lines in the fight for freedom in Egypt today.
Mark Nickolas and Racha Najdi | 2015 | 40 minutes | Color | English; Arabic | English subtitles
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An explosive, personal look at secularism in the Muslim country of Tunisia.
Nadia El Fani | 2011 | 71 minutes | Color | French; Arabic | English subtitles
A sweet romantic comedy directed by and starring Gianni di Gregorio. A generous portrait of aging, friendship, love, and the possibility of second chances.
Gianni di Gregorio | 2023 | 91 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
This DVD collects two recent comedy shorts from Cuba.
2013 | 44 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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One evening in the 1980s, Qiu Fu, a leading clown-role actor in 20th-century Sichuan opera, is killed in an accident and must reluctantly set off for the Ghost City.
QIU Jiongjiong | 2022 | 180 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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The contemporary art world is changing dramatically. How are collectors, museum directors, dealers and artists responding to transformations in the market?
Frank van den Engel | 2014 | 57 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Cédric Anger wrote and directed this chilling chronicle of notorious serial killer Alain Lamare.
Cédric Anger | 2016 | 111 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
School's out! Between the beach and the hotel, with his friends and family, Nicholas is really going to enjoy a holiday to remember.
Laurent Tirard | 2018 | 97 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Three cops in Paris have the night to decide one man’s fate.
Anne Fontaine | 2020 | 98 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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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
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A vibrant portrait of French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, brought to life by Charlotte Le Bon (The White Lotus).
Céline Sallette | 2025 | 99 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Unforgettable stories of WWII's deadly Siege of Leningrad, which took more than 1 million lives.
Jessica Gorter | 2012 | 77 minutes | Color | English; Russian | English subtitles
The life story of Norodom Sihanouk, by turns Cambodia's King, Prime Minister, Prince, Head of State for Life, Exile, and Prisoner.
Gilles Cayatte | 2009 | 52 minutes | Color
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John Akomfrah's remarkable meditation about chance, fate and redemption.
John Akomfrah | 2011 | 94 minutes | Color | English
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Massamba and his daughter Mati, slaves on Eugène Larcenet's plantation, hatch a daring plan to escape slavery, braving numerous obstacles in their pursuit of freedom.
Simon Moutaïrou | 2025 | 98 minutes | Color | French; Wolof | English subtitles
A seemingly minor traffic collision has far-reaching consequences for a medical examiner haunted by the death of a child he might have prevented.
Vahid Jalilvand | 2017 | 104 minutes | Color | Farsi | English subtitles
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NO GODS NO MASTERS: A HISTORY OF ANARCHISM is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the multi-faceted global anarchist movement – once a mass force that sought not to seize political power, but to utterly destroy it.
Tancrède Ramonet | 2017 | 156 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Part 1 follows the expansion of the anarchist movement from Europe to America, where it grew, fueled by disillusioned immigrants. Anarchists would spread their influence through general strikes and collective action within the trade union movement.
Tancrède Ramonet | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; German; French | English subtitles
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Part 2 looks at differing strains within the anarchist movement during the peak of its popularity – when it seemed, for a time, that the dream of anarchist revolution might come to pass.
Tancrède Ramonet | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; German; French | English subtitles
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Part 3 traces the appropriation of anarchism by communists, and of anarchist symbolism by fascists in France, Italy, and Spain, and takes an in-depth look at the Spanish Revolution of 1936.
Tancrède Ramonet | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; German; French | English subtitles
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In her essential final feature, Chantal Akerman documents her relationship with her mother, a Holocaust survivor.
Chantal Akerman | 2016 | 115 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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It's the late 1980s, while Xiaoli's teachers talk about China's recovery from the devastation of the Cultural Revolution, another wave of cultural change is already underway.
SHU Haolun | 2012 | 85 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned movement, examining how a global project of political emancipation was constituted by the cinematic image.
Mila Turajlić | 2023 | 100 minutes | Color | Serbian; English; French; Arabic | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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The dreams and disenchantments of a teenager who is discovering the reality of the traditional world of sumo.
Jill Coulon | 2017 | 55 minutes | Color | English; Japanese | English subtitles
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In West Africa many young women, who dream of escaping a life of misery by marrying a rich, white foreigner, surf the Internet for marriage proposals.
Francois Ducat | 2009 | 53 minutes | Color
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A beautiful and candid portrait of the American working class experience set against the backdrop of a town's snowmobile race.
Nick Bentgen and Lisa Kjerulff | 2014 | 105 minutes | Color
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Acclaimed filmmaker Shu Haolun explores the culture and history of his Shanghai neighborhood upon its impending destruction.
SHU Haolun | 2012 | 70 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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In Chile's Atacama Desert, Patricio Guzman studies distant galaxies, ancient civilizations, and the remains of the disappeared.
Patricio Guzmán | 2011 | 90 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
A stark, graphic warning about crystal meth aimed especially at pre-teens and younger children who might be influenced by older kids to "experiment." Classroom scenes show students practicing "refusal skills," and a plain-talking physician asks "What part of your brain would you like to do without?"
Eva Wunderman | 2007 | 11 minutes | Color | English
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Focusing on several articulate teens undergoing treatment, this video helps nurses, physicians, social workers and psychologists understand the needs and feelings of this special population.
Jana Levenson Brenman & Tom Hill | 1991 | 23 minutes | Color | English
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The story of the "mother of avante-garde film"—the influential experimental filmmaker who inspired artists such as Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Kenneth Anger.
Martina Kudlacek | 2007 | 97 minutes | Color | English
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Online videos diaries are stitched together into a dense, polyphonic essay on race and identity.
Natalie Bookchin | 2017 | 24 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Muriel's idol shows up on her doorstep one night and turns her life upside down.
Jeanne Herry | 2014 | 105 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A celebration of Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade's sensual vision.
Heddy Honigmann | 2007 | 76 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Heddy Honigmann's latest film focuses on Peru's capital city of Lima, revealing the contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis and corruption.
Heddy Honigmann | 2009 | 93 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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China is doing everything in its power to silence filmmaker Hu Jie, but he remains on his lonely mission to document the country's true history.
Rita Andreetti | 2019 | 78 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Set in China’s Loess Plateau, Of Shadows captures the liveliness and resilience of a local traveling group of shadow-play artists.
Yi Cui | 2019 | 79 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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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
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A family on the Himalayan plains discovers their dog is worth a fortune, but selling it comes at a terrible price.
PEMA Tseden | 2012 | 88 minutes | Color | Tibetan | English subtitles
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A newly restored print of this 1950 feminist film about girls at a boarding school exploring their discovery of love and attraction.
Jacqueline Audry | 2019 | 96 minutes | French | English subtitles
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After the creation of Israel in 1948, Palestinians who chose to remain on their land were banded into farming communities. But most of this land has since been lost to Israeli kibbutz and moshav settlements.
Antonia Caccia | 1981 | 55 minutes | Color | Arabic; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Two films made collaboratively by Chris Marker and striking workers in 1968 and 1969.
Chris Marker and The Medvedkin Group | 2014 | 76 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Chronicles the first year of the implementation of the Israeli-Palestinian accords as experienced by both Palestinians and Israelis from all walks of life.
Ilan Ziv | 1998 | 103 minutes | Color | Arabic; Hebrew; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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More than a surrealist travel diary, this film tells the story of the friendship between a group of painters, photographers and poets who are passionate about art.
François Lévy-Kuentz | 2021 | 53 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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After surviving a terrible accident, Pierre (Jean Dujardin) decides to explore France on foot.
Denis Imbert | 2024 | 95 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Follows four children on their long and challenging journeys to school, in Kenya, Morocco, India and Argentina.
Pascal Plisson | 2017 | 77 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Filmmaker Chris Marker's homage to his friend and colleague, Andrei Tarkovsky. A unique and intimate portrait of the legendary Russian filmmaker.
Chris Marker | 2000 | 55 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Chantal Akerman follows choreographer Pina Bausch and her dance company on a European tour.
Chantal Akerman | 2013 | 57 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Paraguayan director Renate Costa Perdomo investigates a gay man's persecution and murder.
Renate Costa Perdomo | 2012 | 91 minutes | Color | Spanish
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Poetically tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality - and a different world - through the cinema.
Ignacio Aguero | 1988 | 55 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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One in two thousand babies are born with anatomy that doesn't clearly mark them as either male or female. This provocative documentary demystifies the issue through intimate profiles of people born intersex.
Ajae Clearway | 2006 | 26 minutes | Color | English
After the storming of the Bastille, a young French couple (Adèle Haenel and Gaspard Ulliel), begins to realize dreams of emancipation in a newly formed assembly where they witness the creation of a new political system.
Pierre Schoeller | 2018 | 121 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Du Haibin's award-winning documentary of the earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province in 2008 explores how victims, citizens and government respond to a national tragedy.
DU Haibin | 2012 | 117 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
A full day - from 4.00am until 11.00pm - in the life of President Nelson Mandela.
Harriet Gavshon | 1995 | 53 minutes | Color
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The first ever independently produced current affairs series aired by the South African Broadcasting Corporation's TV1.
1996 | Color
A look at gay life in South Africa.
Nicolaas Hofmeyr | 1995 | 26 minutes | Color
Examines the troubling issue of land rights in the new South Africa.
Clifford Bestall | 1994 | 26 minutes | Color
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The premiere episode of the acclaimed Ordinary People series visits two rallies commemorating the 1961 Sharpeville massacre - one staged by the Inkatha Freedom Party, the other by the African National Congress.
Clifford Bestall | 1994 | 26 minutes | Color
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Filmmaker Ignacio Aguero's gentle exploration of home, family, history and Chilean society.
Ignacio Aguero | 2013 | 120 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
A brutally frank portrait of the social and environmental problems plaguing contemporary China.
YING Liang | 2012 | 111 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A Belgrade apartment divided in two—with one half that has been locked for generations—tells the story of Serbia's political turmoil.
Mila Turajlić | 2018 | 104 minutes | Color | Serbian | English subtitles
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A spectacular visual essay composed of epic tableaus, a haunting vision of our modern food industry, and the methods and technology utilized for mass production.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter | 2018 | 92 minutes | Color
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Reveals how everyday chemicals-pesticides, Aspartame and plastics-may be slowly poisoning us.
Marie-Monique Robin | 2011 | 112 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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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
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A groundbreaking documentary that explores what it's like to grow up with gay or lesbian parents, as Americans struggle to re-define family values.
Meema Spadola | 2004 | 56 minutes | Color | English
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A couple starts their own newspaper in rural Russia... which lands them in danger.
Eline Flipse | 2012 | 58 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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Traces the life and work of Edward Said (1935-2003), the Palestinian-born intellectual who wrote widely on history, literature, music, philosophy and politics.
Makoto Sato | 2006 | 138 minutes | Color | English; Arabic; Hebrew | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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A political manifesto for the resistance of women in Chinese and Hong Kong society, be they workers, artists, intellectuals or militants.
WEN Hai and ZENG Jinyan | 2020 | 100 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Shohei Imamura follows a former Japanese soldier during his first trip home after having been abandoned by the military in Thailand during World War II.
Shohei Imamura | 2012 | 48 minutes | Color | English; Japanese | English subtitles
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Spanning nine years, Dr. Kasia Clark's story reveals how the human spirit can combine with medicine, complementary therapies, support, athletics, and art to challenge cancer.
Katherine Deutch Tatlock | 2011 | 61 minutes | Color | English
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Judith Scott had Down syndrome, was deaf, and did not speak. Then, after 35 years of institutionalization, she created a series of sculptures that have fascinated and mystified art experts around the world.
Betsy Bayha | 2006 | 26 minutes | Color | English
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A true story of France's greatest financial scandal and Jérôme Kerviel (Arthur Dupont), the low-profile young trader who was held responsible.
Christophe Barratier | 117 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A comedic morality tale about the dangers of modern urban life.
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | 1957 | 25 minutes | French | English subtitles
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The first episode in Chris Marker's remarkable series on the impact of ancient Greek civilization on western life today.
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 3 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Democracy, or City of Dreams".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 4 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Nostalgia, or The Impossible Return".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 5 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Amnesty, or History on the March".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 6 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Mathematics, or the Empire Counts Back".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Episode 7 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Logomachy, or the Dialect of the Tribe".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 8 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Music, or Inner Space".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 9 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Cosmogony, or the Ways of the World".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 10 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Mythology, or Lies Like Truth".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 11 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of sexuality, desire and marriage.
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 12 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Tragedy, or the Illusion of Death".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Episode 13 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Philosophy, or the Triumph of the Owl".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; German; English | English subtitles
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Chris Marker takes thirteen words of Greek origin that cover an array of subjects in order to find the ancient Greece that accompanies our thoughts, inspires our writers, influences our politics and ideals of beauty.
Chris Marker | 2018 | 338 minutes | Color | French; Greek; English | English subtitles
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Episode 2 of renowned filmmaker Chris Marker's mythical masterpiece about the influence of Greek culture on our society. This episode explores the theme of "Olympics, or Imaginary Greece".
Chris Marker | 2018 | 26 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles
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Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait of a working-class Chinese family.
LIU Jiayin | 2012 | 110 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Breaking new ground, Liu Jiayin's follow-up to her masterful debut OXHIDE turns a simple dinner into a profoundly intimate study of family relationships.
LIU Jiayin | 2012 | 132 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Compulsive hoarding has been linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and dementia. This video profiles two families whose lives have been shaped by the "packrat," behavior of a family member.
Kris Britt Montag | 2004 | 28 minutes | Color | English
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Profiles painter Sue Coe, whose shocking art cries passionately for justice in troubled times.
Helene Klodawsky | 1987 | 25 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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A year in the life of one of the country's biggest college newspapers, Penn State's The Daily Collegian, as it struggles with declining circulation and difficult choices about how to represent its diverse readership.
Aaron Matthews | 2007 | 78 minutes | Color | English
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A student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War keep her from experiencing a normal life
Mounia Meddour | 2019 | 108 minutes | Color | French; Arabic | English subtitles
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Artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger resurrects the old Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Latin Quarter of 1960s Paris.
Ulrike Ottinger | 2020 | 131 minutes | Color | German; English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
The story of the road round Paris, the most significant 'redevelopment' project in Paris since Haussmann's time.
Richard Copans | 2010 | 54 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Architectural historian Francois Loyer, an expert on 19th-century Paris, examines the foundation of the modern city in Georges-Eugene Haussmann's massive "renovation" of the 1860s.
Stan Neumann | 2010 | 49 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A love letter to living in Paris.
Guy Gilles | 1965 | 10 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Reveals the struggles of black South African workers to organize unions in the face of a vast entanglement of repressive government policies.
Cliff Bestall and Michael Gavshon | 1981 | 47 minutes | Color
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An astonishing journey of redemption, faith, and devotion, following a group of villagers who leave their families and homes to make a Buddhist "bowing pilgrimage" to the holy capital of Tibet.
Zhang Yang | 2016 | 117 minutes | Color | Tibetan | English subtitles
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The history of the long and bitter battle for Northern Ireland.
Arthur MacCaig | 1979 | 93 minutes
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Paul Gauguin's life, from Brittany to Tahiti, is illustrated by his paintings and extracts from his diary.
Alain Resnais | 2021 | 13 minutes | French | English subtitles
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A mother and son deal with his cancer diagnosis. Starring Catherine Deneuve.
Emmanuelle Bercot | 2022 | 123 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The first in depth look at non-violent revolutions around the world.
Ilan Ziv | 1989 | 53 minutes | Color
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Adapted from the eponymous novel by Leïla Slimani, the film offers a true pedestal to Karin Viard who seizes with formidable mastery this role of a disturbed nanny whose mask of perfection gradually cracks.
Lucie Borleteau | 2019 | 99 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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An exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab society.
Yamina Benguigui | 2001 | 52 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
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This nuanced and delightful dramedy stars Emmanuelle Devos and Grégory Montel as two people who just might need each other more than they realize.
Grégory Magne | 2021 | 100 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A box set of films by acclaimed filmmaker Natalia Almada.
Natalia Almada | 2023 | Color | Spanish; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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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
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This Academy-Award winning film follows a drama group for senior citizens, as they create and perform a play about looking for dates through the personal ads.
Keiko Ibi | 1998 | 37 minutes | Color | English
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Dancer Homer Avila lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer and thought he'd never dance again until choreographer Alonzo King challenged expectations of what it means to be "disabled."
Karina Epperlein | 2007 | 22 minutes | Color | English
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In 1946, Pablo Picasso asked fellow artist Michel Sima to document Picasso's artwork-in-progress.
Christian Tran | 2017 | 58 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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This lively and engaging video explores the impact media has on young women's physical, psychological and emotional health, and offers tools to begin dissecting the media that influence our behaviors, attitudes, and values.
Carol Tizzano | 2007 | 40 minutes | Color | English
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The story of the landmark legal case against General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, before and after his arrest in London in 1998.
Patricio Guzmán | 2002 | 109 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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Shohei Imamura's look at rival gangs of pirates in the Philippines.
Shohei Imamura | 2012 | 46 minutes | Color | English; Japanese | English subtitles
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Explores the process of grieving through interviews with four bereaved men and women, young and old.
Eric Stange | 1985 | 28 minutes | Color | English
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The Poets follows two acclaimed West African poets, and lifelong friends, Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare as they travel through their home countries of Sierra Leone and Nigeria to explore what has shaped their art.
Chivas DeVinck | 2018 | 99 minutes | Color | English; Krio; Yoruba | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Two artists in rat and bear costumes become embroiled in a murder mystery that raises questions and observation on the nature of art and crime, before spiraling into sublime flights of fancy.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss | 2008 | 29 minutes | Color | German | English subtitles
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Natalie Bookchin is an artist and filmmaker who, through virtuosic editing and innovative sonic and visual montage, interrogates the American crisis and its increased inequality and polarization.
Natalie Bookchin | 2017 | 69 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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The world will have to survive without fossil fuels - sooner, rather than later. What are the alternatives?
Yves Billy | 2011 | 53 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
This four minute, lighthearted video looks at misguided efforts when working with people with disabilities.
1995 | 4 minutes | Color | English
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A searing examination of the Mexican criminal justice system through the case of one man, wrongly accused of murder.
Roberto Hernandez & Geoffrey Smith | 2010 | 88 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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An investigation of America's food aid programs for famine-stricken nations, a multi-million dollar business, which asks both U.S. and African government officials whether such aid creates more problems than it solves.
Jihan el-Tahri | 2004 | 55 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
Examines the effect of non-domestic work on five Egyptian women.
Marilyn Gaunt | 1982 | 26 minutes | Color
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Bosnian refugees create a news program about their lives.
Chris Marker | 2021 | 28 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Seven sessions of training providing skills and education on some of the most important concepts of community inclusion.
Dr. Thomas Pomeranz | Color | English
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The hidden racism of cinematic technology is explored by three dynamic filmmakers in dialogue with one another.
Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen, and Rosine Mbakam | 2021 | 78 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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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
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Whistleblowers, former prisoners and an investigative journalist paint a shocking picture of South Africa’s first privatized prison.
Ilse and Femke van Velzen | 2020 | 84 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Rarely do we hear men talking honestly about their penises—until now. Surveying men from all walks of life, this film explores the naked truth.
Meema Spadola and Thom Powers | 2004 | 55 minutes | Color | English
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A pertinent and impertinent exploration of the profit motive, and its consequences on our daily lives, our history, and our outlook for the future.
Raoul Peck | 2001 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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A critical look at America's booming private prison industry.
Catherine Scott | 2001 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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How do you control people in a democracy? A handful of thinkers developed the first tools of persuasion in 1914 because World War I had to be promoted in the United States. In less than 50 years, they would create one of the most booming industries of our time: public relations.
Jimmy Leipold | 2020 | 53 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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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
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An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.
Jean Rouch | 1962 | 64 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Growing up poor and Latino, James Lilly was a gang member until at 15 he was shot in the back and paralyzed. Today, he shares his story with inner city kids, and tells them what helped him move on: wheelchair racing.
Izumi Tanaka | 2007 | 39 minutes | Color | English
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Director Vitaly Mansky ("Under the Sun") documents Russian President Vladimir Putin's rise to power.
Vitaly Mansky | 2021 | 102 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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China's most prolific gay filmmaker presents a comprehensive historical account of the queer movement in modern China.
Cui Zi'en | 2012 | 60 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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"At 12 o'clock at night, policemen came to our room and started a so-called 'room inspection.' As they began to knock at the door, I turned on a small camcorder. This film is the record of what followed."
Zhu Rikun | 2014 | 21 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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2010 Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Short Subject. The history of the Berlin Wall from the rabbits' point-of-view.
Bartek Konopka and Piotr Roslowski | 2010 | 39 minutes | Color | German | English subtitles
This narrative sheds light on the unexplored lives of the approximately 40 million Christians in China.
GAN Xiao Er | 2012 | 102 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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High in the Andes mountains of Peru, above a small village that scarcely seemed to notice, archaeologists have found the ruins of an indigenous settlement that predates the Incas.
Francis Delfour | 2009 | 52 minutes | Color
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RARE follows an extraordinary mother in a race against time to find a treatment for her daughter's rare genetic disease.
Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. and Nicole Newnham | 2014 | 56 minutes | Color
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Explores the immense influence of artists deemed to have psychological illnesses on 20th-century art history.
Herve Nisic | 2017 | 65 minutes | Color | English; French
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An empathetic portrait of an often-misunderstood profession: teaching.
Thomas Lilti | 2024 | 102 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The riotous, all-male troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo challenge gender and artistic norms in the world of ballet.
Bobbi Jo Hart | 2017 | 90 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Profiles an innovative court in a Brooklyn neighborhood plagued by poverty and crime that is at the center of a legal revolution - the community justice movement.
Meema Spadola | 2004 | 55 minutes | Color | English
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A visually elegant paean to the cultivation and harvesting of the sweet red fruit, and the disappearance of a traditional way of life in rural Japan.
Shinsuke Ogawa & Peng Xiaolian | 2004 | 90 minutes | Color | Japanese | English subtitles
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Why do so many Russians still defend Stalin as a great leader and a hero? Russians speak openly about Joseph Stalin and their traumas, rooted in a violent history.
Jessica Gorter | 2018 | 90 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
From the 1950's through the 1970's, autism was widely blamed on cold and rejecting mothers. This film explores the devastating impact of this misdiagnosis through the stories of seven mothers and their children.
David Simpson, J.J. Hanley, and Gordon Quinn | 2002 | 53 minutes | Color | English
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This tapestry of still photographs, subject-skipping montage and rapid shuttle of wit and philosophy is pure Chris Marker.
Yannick Bellon & Chris Marker | 2003 | 42 minutes | Color | English
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Unveils the complexities of a Cuban society frequently misrepresented by the media.
María Isabel Alfonso, Ph.D. | 2019 | 37 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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After years of unsettling negotiation with France, South Africa finally welcomes home the remains of Sara Baartman in an historic event of repatriation.
Zola Maseko | 2003 | 55 minutes | Color | English
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A delightful screwball farce with surprising depth starring Jean Dujardin and Mélanie Laurent.
Laurent Tirard | 2019 | 90 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
The journey of the "Peace Ribbon," created by South African mothers both black and white, to protest the government's brutal internal policies.
Harriet Gavshon | 1987 | 50 minutes | Color
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A love story, seen through the memories of one young couple.
Valerio Mieli | 2019 | 107 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
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Two artists in rat and bear costumes try to find reasons for all they see and experience, getting closer than expected to the right way.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss | 2008 | 55 minutes | Color | German | English subtitles
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The story of Leopold Weiss, a Viennese Jew who converted to Islam in the 1920's and became the Muslim scholar Muhammad Asad.
Georg Misch | 2009 | 92 minutes | Color
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A Cuban mother educates her son about the harsh realities of discrimination.
Gretel Marin | 2024 | 28 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Woven from home video and news footage collected over 25 years, ROCÍO is the story of a mother's love and the American Dream.
Darío Guerrero | 2022 | 60 minutes | Color | Spanish; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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The last film screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968. A provocative, biting portrayal of 1960s Ireland: the stultifying educational system, the repressive, reactionary clergy, and the myopic cultural nationalism.
Peter Lennon | 2005 | 69 minutes | Color | English
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Interviews members of the Islamic State who want to establish a caliphate.
Zaynê Akyol | 2023 | 127 minutes | Color | Arabic; Kurdish; French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
When an innocuous dinner date ends in a startling altercation with a stranger, Claudio’s apparently placid lifestyle is disrupted, and fault lines begin to appear in the frictionless surface of his professional and domestic existence.
Benjamin Naishtat | 2018 | 109 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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In the heart of Paris, a prestigious high school takes an audacious bet: integrate students from working-class districts and help them through dance and hip hop.
Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai | 2023 | 115 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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It was once illegal to read books by Roque Dalton, one of El Salvador's most celebrated poets, in his own country.
Tina Leisch | 2015 | 85 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Cops in Roubaix, France deal with ordinary and not-so ordinary business while trying to solve a murder.
Mosco Boucault | 2024 | 87 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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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
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Part 1. A journey along Route 1, from Maine to Miami, yields a rich tapestry of American life.
Robert Kramer | 1990 | 125 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Part 2. A journey along Route 1, from Maine to Miami, yields a rich tapestry of American life.
Robert Kramer | 1990 | 129 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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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
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The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes up to 1,000 bodies a year to identify them, and return the remains to their families.
Olivia Carrescia | 2009 | 22 minutes | Color
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Immerses the viewer into a modern Rwanda rediscovering its heritage in a most secret way: female pleasure.
Olivier Jourdain | 2018 | 60 minutes | Color | Kinyarwanda | English subtitles
Investigates the possibility of complicity - knowing or not - by the commanders of the United Nations forces in Bosnia in the disaster that befell Srebrenica.
Ilan Ziv | 1996 | 39 minutes | Color
Explores the personal dimensions of Islam during three religious events in Morocco.
Melissa Llewelyn-Davies | 1979 | 26 minutes | Color
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This early Agnès Varda short looks at the castles of the Loire Valley.
Agnès Varda | 2023 | 21 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A pinpoint-precise and economical study of young love from veteran filmmaker Phillipe Garrel.
Philippe Garrel | 2020 | 101 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile) tells Allende's story, from his youth in Valparaiso and his early career, to his presidency of Chile and death during the coup of September 11, 1973.
Patricio Guzmán | 2006 | 100 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
Before his death in a mysterious plane crash, Mozambican President Samora Machel gave the filmmaker and exclusive interview that forms the basis for the look at one of Africa's most important freedom fighters and revolutionaries.
1989 | 28 minutes | Color
Armed with video cameras, twelve artists present a highly stylized portrait of SAN YUAN LI, a traditional village besieged by China's urban sprawl.
OU Ning & CAO Fei | 2003 | 45 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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In 1986, 600 orphans and rural children from Burkina-Faso were sent to Cuba with the mission of learning a trade so they could come back and develop their country, which was undergoing a Revolution. But after the assassination in 1987 of the country's president and the end of the Cold War, how were they to return?
Géraldine Berger | 2022 | 84 minutes | Color | French; Spanish; Lyélé | English subtitles
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A fascinating portrait of world famous artist, engineer, architect and urban studies scholar Santiago Calatrava, and an interdisciplinary reflection on the perception and impact of architecture.
Christoph Schaub | 2004 | 77 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Told through the testimonies of those who were there during Chile's military coup, Santiago, Italia is a chilling depiction of living under junta rule and an ultimately inspiring expression of hope amidst dire circumstances.
Nanni Moretti | 2019 | 80 minutes | Color | Spanish; Italian | English subtitles
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Exposes the French scandal of Nicolas Sarkozy's special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi.
Yannick Kergoat | 2025 | 104 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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SAVE OUR SOULS follows sailors and medics as they rescue migrants off the coast of Libya.
Jean-Baptiste Bonnet | 2025 | 92 minutes | Color | French; English; Arabic | English subtitles
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Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site from imminent demolition.
Brent E. Huffman | 2016 | 58 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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An oral history of the 1932 massacre of 10,000 El Salvadorans, a trauma that has resonated through six decades of military rule, until the 1992 peace accords ended a brutal, 12-year civil war.
Jeffrey Gould & Carlos Henriquez Consalvi | 2003 | 53 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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The owner of a theater is accused of murder, revealing a web of plots, betrayals and alliances within the theater’s cast and crew.
Henri Decoin | 2022 | 98 minutes | French | English subtitles
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At a Viennese conservatory, a seductive singing teacher seduces his students, with both dramatic and near-tragic results. Stars Brigitte Bardot.
Marc Allégret | 2022 | 96 minutes | English subtitles
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Welcome to a unique Parisian program for immigrant children from all over the world.
Julie Bertuccelli | 2015 | 89 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A French coming-of-age story and a beautiful filmed love letter to the countryside.
Nicolas Vanier | 2017 | 116 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The story of the biggest scientific deception of the 20th century.
Gulya Mirzoeva | 2018 | 55 minutes | Color | English; Russian | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Thirty years after civil war in Peru, three people go on a quest to recover from loss and heal the wounds left by violence.
Daniel Lagares and Mariano Agudo | 2018 | 75 minutes | Color | Spanish; Quechua | English subtitles
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A film crew travels through Tibet, searching for actors for their adaptation of a classic Buddhist story.
Pema Tseden | 2013 | 105 minutes | Color | Tibetan | English subtitles
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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
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A landmark documentary on the gifted young poet who spoke out at the height of Chairman Mao's rule... and her subsequent fate.
HU Jie | 2012 | 115 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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A multi-faceted portrait of artist, philosopher, writer, storyteller and "radical humanist" John Berger.
Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, and Tilda Swinton | 2016 | 90 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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From Oscar-winning producer Eva Orner (Taxi to the Dark Side), this multi-faceted documentary explores the full spectrum of anxiety-related disorders, from panic attacks and phobias to obsessive compulsive disorder.
Eva Orner and Sarah Stephens | 1997 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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A two-part examination of the psychological development of babies, from intrauterine life to the first months after birth. How do fetuses and babies perceive their worlds, and ours?
Bernard George | 2006 | 43 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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For millenia erotic art has been created, often by some of the world's best-known artists. But it is rarely on public display.
Peter Woditsch | 2009 | 77 minutes | Color
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Deep inside a mountain, the Global Seed Vault preserves the seeds of the world. But to whom do they belong?
Kees Brouwer | 2014 | 50 minutes | Color | English; Dutch | English subtitles
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A global investigation into the evolving nature of food production, and the crisis it may portend.
Yves Billy and Richard Prost | 2009 | 52 minutes | Color
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From Rodney King to Osama bin Laden, handicams aren't just for weddings and vacations anymore!
Katerina Cizek & Peter Wintonick | 2003 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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Explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as it promotes not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them.
Catherine Scott | 2005 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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Meet Dana, a feisty, funny, and charming 25-year-old at a crossroads... but not the kind you'd expect.
Robin Greenspun | 2015 | 83 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Investigates the Japanese army's mistreatment of New Guinean women and "comfort girls."
Yuka Sekiguchi | 1989 | 54 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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The film contrasts the stories of prison inmates who are forced to give their newborn baby up with a prison nursery where infants spend the first year of life alongside their mothers.
Randi Jacobs | 2009 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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Profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Baptist minister and inspired photographer / filmmaker who documented the fabric of black American life prior to the civil rights movement.
Lynne Sachs | 2004 | 29 minutes | Color | English
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An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader.
John Akomfrah | 1995 | 52 minutes | Color
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A group of high school seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. Part of the acclaimed Middletown series.
Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines | 1982 | 120 minutes | Color
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This provocative and often lovely suite of short films explores a range of feelings and concerns women have about their breasts. Together or individually, they offer a wonderful variety of ways to stimulate reflection and discussion.
Cathryn Robertson | 2009 | 55 minutes | Color | English
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The rise and fall of tabloid papers in the US and UK. Now, tabloids may be gone, but their spirit is everywhere.
Jean-Baptiste Peretie | 2016 | 52 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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With recently declassified documents and interviews with newly liberated Indonesians, offers a startling new interpretation of events that shaped modern Indonesian history and changed the destiny of Southeast Asia.
Chris Hilton | 2002 | 55 minutes | Color | English
A history of a Jewish family whose origin might be in the Bible.
Ilan Ziv | 1999 | 94 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Across Iran, Lebanon and Iraq a cross-section of major contemporary Shiite figures discuss and debate the history, theology and values of this minority branch of Islam.
Said Bakhtaoui and Mohammad Ballout | 2005 | 53 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A gripping documentary that follows two cops verité-style, while capturing the complex dynamics of a community where selling drugs is seen as the only option for many young men.
Mosco Boucault | 2024 | 90 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Describes the coalition formed by Fundamentalist U.S. Christians and militant Israeli Jews to destroy the Dome of the Rock, Islam's third holiest shrine, and to build a new Jewish temple in its place.
Ilan Ziv | 1985 | 42 minutes | Color
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With his imposing canvasses, pure color and texture, Mark Rothko sought to express fundamental human emotions.
Marjoleine Boonstra | 2016 | 52 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
A gripping and true story set in 1956 in East Germany of a group of students who saw their life changed forever by a harmless human act of solidarity during the early stage of the Cold War.
Lars Kraume | 2018 | 111 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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The story of an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking village of San Agustin Oapan, Mexico.
Roberto Olivares Ruiz and Jonathan D. Amith | 2012 | 65 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
Two interviews filmed 15 years apart illuminating the role, personality and ideas of the novelist, philosopher and political activist.
2012 | 90 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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A comprehensive, accessible examination of the particularities of the Cuban economy.
Ricardo Figueredo Oliva | 2018 | 52 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Three teenagers create a public outcry after they post a video identifying an assailant who attacked one of them.
Nora El Hourch | 2025 | 101 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A family's relationship is shaken when Zorah (Isabelle Adjani), the eldest, decides to write a play based on the haunting and traumatizing events of their childhood.
Yamina Benguigui | 2021 | 100 minutes | Color | French; Arabic | English subtitles
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Although the fighting lasted only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today.
Ilan Ziv | 2007 | 109 minutes | Color | English; Hebrew; Arabic; Russian | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Geyrhalter’s films are nothing short of startling works of art.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter | 522 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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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
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The story of how the world's top decision makers knowingly failed to prevent the spread of the AIDS epidemic.
Philip Brooks | 2002 | 55 minutes | Color | English
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Chronicle of the 1967 Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam protest march on the Pentagon, by documentary essayist Chris Marker. Also on this disc is a second film, THE EMBASSY.
Chris Marker and François Reichenbach | 2007 | 26 minutes | Color | English
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A political hireling working for "United Russia" explains the cold inner mechanic of the system.
Alexander Abaturov | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English; Russian
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Thomas is a hardcore smoker, and he's going to give it up.
Andres Jarach | 2017 | 52 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A reflection on the Promethean dimensions of nuclear power, following German-born Aby Warburg and Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the atomic bomb
Manu Riche and Patrick Marnham | 2017 | 75 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book.
Guy Debord | 2020 | 91 minutes | French | English subtitles
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An introduction to the work of Influential sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, whose 40 books and countless articles represent a renovation and application of social science.
Pierre Carles | 2002 | 146 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Daring and audacious, Softie is one of Kenya's most accomplished photojournalists. But running for election could be his most difficult assignment yet.
Sam Soko | 2020 | 96 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
A tango singer returns to Paris to meet her young grandson.
Jézabel Marques | 2020 | 98 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Explores the artist's work and philosophy, using extensive interviews and documentation of artwork installed around the world.
Chris Teerink | 2014 | 72 minutes | Color | Dutch; Italian | English subtitles
In this Parisian bittersweet romance from Cédric Klapisch, warehouse employee Rémy (François Civil) and research assistant Mélanie (Ana Girardot) have never met, but they live parallel lives.
Cédric Klapisch | 2019 | 110 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A filmmaker explores the death of his cousin, who was killed while on a Russian army mission.
Alexander Abaturov | 2022 | 70 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
Traces the history of Ireland through her music, and Ireland's music through her history.
Arthur MacCaig | 2005 | 55 minutes | Color | English
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With text by Raymond Queneau and music by Pierre Barbaud, THE SONG OF STYRENE is a beautiful, surrealist film.
Alain Resnais | 1957 | 13 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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An inside look at urban and rural hospice centers across South Africa that provide community-based compassionate care in the face of widespread poverty.
Janet S. Parrott | 2010 | 40 minutes | Color
Uncovers the secret history of Western architects who moved to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s, to design the huge new industrial cities being built across Siberia and the steppes.
Anna Abrahams | 1999 | 92 minutes | Color | Dutch | English subtitles
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The heart of this journey is the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr in Jasper, Texas. But this is not an anatomy of his murder, rather, it is an evocation of how this event fits in to a landscape and climate as much mental as physical.
Chantal Akerman | 2003 | 70 minutes | Color | English
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Aided by two black women journalists, the filmmakers visited workers' barracks, a family planning clinic in Soweto, and a shantytown to create the first and most stirring record of black women's lives in South Africa under apartheid.
Chris Austin, Peter Chappell and Ruth Weiss | 1980 | 57 minutes | Color
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Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. Following her trace, and filmed from a dog’s perspective, SPACE DOGS accompanies the adventures of her descendants: two street dogs living in today’s Moscow.
Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter | 2020 | 91 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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This tender coming-of-age story follows a teenage girl who begins a relationship with her friend's brother.
Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan | 2023 | 108 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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In this incindiary film, artist Hu Jie shares the testimony of the brave survivors of the political magazine Spark for the first time.
HU Jie | 2019 | 114 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Two films on one DVD. Director and artist Hu Jie has been called China’s most important unofficial historian-filmmaker.
Hu Jie and Rita Andreetti | 2020 | 192 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Continuing the story started in TRINKETS AND BEADS (1995), in Ecuador, the Waorani people resist the destruction of one of most remote and beautiful areas of the world.
Christopher Walker | 2019 | 90 minutes | Color | Spanish; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Critic and writer John Berger and photographer Sebastião Salgado lead this searing examination of imagery and images, the abyss, hope, and globalization.
Paul Carlin | 2012 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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Chronicles the origins and achievements of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), a model for aboriginal broadcasters the world over.
William Hansen and David Poisey | 1991 | 59 minutes | Color
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The war that was launched in the name of defense of our democracies might have become its biggest threat.
Ilan Ziv | 2022 | 104 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Investigates the role played by the Spanish and French governments in a campaign of terrorist acts designed to suppress ETA and the Basque Separatist movement.
Arthur MacCaig | 2001 | 59 minutes | Color | French; Spanish; English | English subtitles
The core of this haunting meditation on war, land, the Bible, and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed near the West Bank.
Lynne Sachs | 2015 | 63 minutes | Color | English
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In 1996, the German nuclear engineer Karl-Heinz Schaab was accused of selling secret information to Iraq. But was Schaab a shrewd traitor or a simple pawn in a much more extensive network?
Eric Nadler and John Friedman | 2015 | 95 minutes | Color
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In 1978 in New York City, an unknown Czech artist by the name of Pavel Novak held an exhibit entitled Stolen Art...
Simon Backes | 2010 | 56 minutes | Color
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Illustrates the decades-long often violent resistance movement of the indigenous Nasa people of Colombia over rights to their native land.
Margarita Martinez and Miguel Salazar | 2010 | 73 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Following in his great-grandfather's footsteps, Arnaud undertakes a trek across Anatolia to study the Armenian Genocide.
Arnaud Khayadjanian | 2017 | 60 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Shot in Paris in 1973, this feminist film on the fight for abortion rights is both a fascinating historical document, and a reminder of the critical importance of civil disobedience.
Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel | 2024 | 89 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Through a series of remarkable personal accounts, fifteen women reveal their roles in the patriarchal Islamic society of the Gaza Strip where men dictate most aspects of life.
Antonia Caccia | 1996 | 58 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
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A delightful short about trying to get to Paris through flooded countryside. Co-directed by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut | 1958 | 12 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Climate change is opening the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic for shipping. Examines the ecological and geopolitical ramifications.
Yves Billy | 2008 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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The latest science on the world-wide decline of bee colonies, implications,.and what might be done about it.
Mark Daniels | 2011 | 58 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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The hidden lives of homeless migrants who survive in the shadows of one of Shanghai's most affluent and historic streets.
ZHAO Dayong | 2012 | 98 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Explores the cruel realities of sweatshop labor and workplace injury in China, and one lawyer's mission to defend worker's rights.
SHU Haolun | 2012 | 50 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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An old man lets a student live in his apartment for free in exchange for ruining his son's marriage.
Ivan Calbérac | 2022 | 99 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Some people can't seem to throw anything away. This engaging documentary invites us to enter the mind of the compulsive hoarder, while dispelling the stereotype that all "packrats" are isolated elderly derelicts.
Arwen Curry & Cerissa Tanner | 2006 | 20 minutes | Color | English
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An intimate portrait by Camila Guzmán Urzúa about growing up in Cuba during the "golden years" of the Cuban Revolution.
Camila Guzmán Urzúa | 2007 | 80 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Two beautiful and intimate looks at Pablo Picasso, his life, loves and art, on one DVD.
Christian Tran and François Lévy-Kuentz | 2022 | 111 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Academy Award®-winner Nikita Mikhalkov delivers an epic saga, a magnificent love story and portrait of Russia recalled during the glory days before its fall.
Nikita Mikhalkov | 2018 | 160 minutes | Color | French; Russian | English subtitles
Follows ten young women on their quest to become instant superstars on China's biggest television show.
JIAN Yi | 2012 | 73 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Deep in the misty jungle of southern Colombia, between treacherously steep mountain slopes, stands an unfinished concrete bridge as an absurd symbol of human folly.
Simón Uribe | 2020 | 75 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.
Benoît Jacquot | 2021 | 88 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A rare filmed interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter.
Lana Parshina | 2009 | 44 minutes | Color | English; Russian | English subtitles
A kaleidoscopic survey of Pinochet's Chile.
Juan Andres Racz | 1986 | 57 minutes | Color
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A midlife crisis propels graphic designer Michel into a newfound passion for kayaking and a pastoral adventure sparkling with good humour and lighthearted charm.
Bruno Podalydès | 105 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A lively documentary history of Syria's Assad regime, tracing its origins and influence, even as it clings to power in the face of the Arab spring.
Vincent de Cointet and Christophe Ayad | 2011 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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SYSTEM ERROR examines the fundamentals of capitalism and the continuing impact of Karl Marx as an analyst of it.
Florian Opitz | 2019 | 96 minutes | Color | English; Portuguese | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Eight former detainees recall the years spent being tortured in Syria's notorious Tadmor Prison.
Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim | 2017 | 103 minutes | Color | English; Arabic | English subtitles
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Director Stefano Savona lived and filmed on the front lines in Tahrir Square, Cairo, to make this film from the heart of the protests that overthrew Mubarak in Egypt last year.
Stefano Savona | 2012 | 90 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
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In the '70s and early '80s Detroit was the site of an unusual development in U.S. urban politics, as voters elected two socialists to citywide office. The film examines these people against the backdrop of a city in extreme economic crisis.
Stephen Lighthill | 1980 | 55 minutes | Color
This day went down in history as the day Hong Kong pro-democracy fighters stormed the legislative council and in the assembly hall delivered the Hong Kong Protest Manifesto for the first time.
Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers | 2021 | 46 minutes | Color | Yue Chinese (Cantonese) | English subtitles
Follows Ahmed as he falls deep in love with Farah, and although literally overwhelmed with desire, he will try to resist. Starring Sami Outalbali and Zbeida Belhajamor.
Leila Bouzid | 2022 | 103 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
One in six victims of sexual assault are under the age of twelve. Talk to Me allows five brave young women to speak directly about their painful experiences of sexual abuse. The film will be a catalyst for dialogue between students, parents, teachers and counselors.
Saun Ellis | 2006 | 33 minutes | Color | English
Follows the efforts of a small Peruvian town over five years as they fight government efforts to sell the mineral rights under their homes to a multi-national mining company.
Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd | 2007 | 85 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
A Holocaust survivor's journey to Warsaw becomes the springboard for a meditative essay about history, memory, and their preservation in imagery.
Ilan Ziv | 1999 | 106 minutes | Color
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Performance artist Li Ning turns his life into art in this epic work of experimental documentary.
LI Ning | 2012 | 168 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
Men from Mali seek work in New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
Christopher Walker | 1995 | 51 minutes | Color
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An amusing but informative look at the psychological, social and economic issues surrounding the modern American obsession with straight, white teeth.
Alice Arnold | 2007 | 26 minutes | Color | English
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This musical comedy plays with fact and fiction to depict contemporary Iranian life.
Massoud Bakhshi | 2017 | 68 minutes | Color | English; Farsi | English subtitles
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This top-selling video is used to train staff and community on disability etiquette and best practices.
1994 | 26 minutes | Color | English
Antoine, a middle-aged workaholic, is in for a shock when his wife goes on vacation and leaves him with their 4 kids.
Ludovic Bernard | 2020 | 98 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A voyage deep into the Amazon to explore the implications of Brazil's policy on uncontacted indigenous tribes.
Silvio Da-Rin | 2012 | 87 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released, this is the story of Eastern Europeans, mostly Jews, who fought the German occupation of Paris during World War II.
Mosco Levi Boucault | 2024 | 71 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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A positive pregnancy test causes a family's life to unravel.
Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud | 2022 | 80 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, films his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent storm occurs, he becomes a community leader and activist on the global stage.
Julia Dahr and Kisilu Musya | 2017 | 87 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Invaluable for nursing recruitment and retention: Hispanic/Latino and American Indian nurses describe how they came to their careers, and have used their nursing expertise to serve their families, their tribes, and their communities.
Bronwynne C. Evans, RN, PhD | 2002 | 23 minutes | Color | English
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Anthropologist's film reunites a family 200 years after they were torn apart by the transatlantic slave trade.
Emma Christopher, Ph.D. | 2015 | 79 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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An exploration of the carbon market's fight against global warming, a speculative, impalpable market, and sometimes irresponsible market.
Elisabeth Jonniaux | 2017 | 55 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Explores the disturbing relationship between political parties and the advertising industry during election campaigns.
David Vainola | 1997 | 51 minutes | Color | English
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A fictionalized story of an attractive working-class single mother in the North of France who naively agrees to run for mayor.
Lucas Belvaux | 2018 | 114 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Near Jerusalem, the construction of the separation wall continues, a few feet from a senior citizens' home.
Georgi Lazarevski | 2010 | 61 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Pioneering artist Hu Jie uncovers the shocking story of girls' school headmistress who was beaten to death by her students during the Cultural Revolution.
HU Jie | 2012 | 68 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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A platoon of French soldiers and Laotian allies fight their way through enemy territory and dense jungle to meet up with their compatriots as the Indochina War grinds to a halt.
Pierre Schoendoerffer | 2021 | 95 minutes | French | English subtitles
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A film about collisions between the past, present, and future in three Russian cities.
Marina Goldovskaya | 2010 | 39 minutes | Color | Russian | English subtitles
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Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums (Regina Casé) relies on her resourcefulness to take advantage of whatever comes her way, in Sandra Kogut’s humorous and inventive feature.
Sandra Kogut | 2019 | 94 minutes | Color | Portuguese | English subtitles
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On a high-land Tibetan pasture, a screening event unfolds quietly. Monks, herdsmen and their families gather by the screen to observe life captured through their own lenses.
Yi Cui | 2017 | 15 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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An in-depth portrait of a Cuban agricultural collective that has drawn international acclaim for its sustainable practices.
Alejandro Ramirez Anderson | 2014 | 49 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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This tender, intimate, award-winning, and critically-acclaimed drama follows the intertwined lives of a single father, a feminist bookstore owner, and a child seeking a place to belong.
Carine Tardieu | 2025 | 106 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The 1970s fiscal crises in New York and Cleveland.
James Gaffney, Martin Lucas, and Jonathan Miller | 1981 | 48 minutes | Color | English
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Reveals the challenges faced by a native run child care agency in northwestern Ontario.
Gil Cardinal | 1991 | 59 minutes | Color
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Yu Guangyi's stunning debut explores a grueling winter amongst loggers in Northeast China, as they work with traditional methods through one last, fateful expedition.
YU Guangyi | 2012 | 90 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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Presents the case of the Nisga tribe in their long fight for aboriginal rights in British Columbia.
Hugh Brody | 1991 | 59 minutes | Color
A deeply personal film about the relationship between a filmmaker and his daughter.
Francesca Comencini | 2025 | 113 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
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Explores the quest for an HIV vaccine in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rehad Desai | 2023 | 87 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Critically examines American involvement in Vietnam through a compilation of American, Japanese and Vietnamese combat footage.
Peter Gessner | 2002 | 13 minutes | Color | English
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Forget water, oil and rare minerals - there is a new resource everyone wants: our time.
Cosima Dannoritzer | 2019 | 85 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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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
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The story of a small village in El Salvador, destroyed during the country's civil war, and its remarkable rebirth today.
Tatiana Huezo | 2012 | 104 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles
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A lively study of visual culture, and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. What is art's role in the context of public space and urban culture?
Alice Arnold | 2006 | 30 minutes | Color | English
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A cinematic love letter to filmmaker Chris Marker.
Emiko Omori | 2013 | 78 minutes | Color | English
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Two films that place familiar historical events in a startling new perspective and help viewers understand the choices behind, and consequences of, on-screen "reality."
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 2017 | 104 minutes | Color | English
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Directly follows the previous episode and examines documentary filmmaking in times of war and how it was used as propaganda.
David Van Taylor | 2013 | 56 minutes | Color | English
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A history of documentary filmmaking in the US and UK from 1929-1941, including The Great Depression and The New Deal.
Calvin Skaggs | 2013 | 56 minutes | Color | English
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Director Su Friedrich tries to live in the moment, whether it's uplifting or devastating.
Su Friedrich | 2022 | 57 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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This film provides an intimate look at everyday life in Todos Santos, a village in Guatemala's highlands, before the violence of the 1980s.
Olivia Carrescia | 1982 | 41 minutes | Color
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Demonstrates how the political turmoil of the 1980s affected this once quiet Guatemalan village.
Olivia Carrescia | 1989 | 58 minutes | Color
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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
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Alexandra, a French bank employee based in Tokyo, experiences the 2011 Fukushima disaster and needs to decide between putting her job or her family first.
Olivier Peyon | 2021 | 101 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia's 'other' Indigenous minority, Melanesians living on islands north of Cape York and now scattered all across Australia.
Frances Calvert | 2015 | 29 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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A single French mother (Camille Cottin) explores how to live life once her children leave home.
Nathan Ambrosioni | 2024 | 95 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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In this vivid portrait of China's musical heritage, Sichuan Opera performers strive to keep a centuries-old artform alive.
XU Xin | 2012 | 110 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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Meet the inhabitants of Milan's Casa di Riposo per Musicisti, or "Casa Verdi," the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896.
Daniel Schmid | 2014 | 87 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
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To kindle the hope necessary for the living to face, and move on from, the pain and loss of suicide, five people tell their stories.
Barbara Bird | 2013 | 18 minutes | Color | English
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Explores the new possibilities and dangers created by the Human Genome Project's decoding of human DNA.
Philippe Borrel and Gilbert Charles | 2008 | 53 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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With unprecedented access to a Communist Party leader, investigative filmmaker Zhou Hao offers a startlingly candid look inside Chinese politics at the local level.
ZHOU Hao | 2009 | 114 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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In 1925, novice French filmmaker Marc Allégret headed to equatorial Africa, on a journey to film the people of the Congo region.
Marc Allégret | 117 minutes | French | English subtitles
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The inspirational story of a 10-year-old boy with AIDS.
Richard Kotuk | 1998 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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A TRIBUTE TO ALFRED LEPETIT is a breezy short mockumentary with an all-star cast paying tribute to a behind-the-scenes superhero.
Jean Rousselot | 2021 | 8 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The oil company MAXUS and Huaroni Indians of the Amazon.
Christopher Walker | 1996 | 52 minutes | Color
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A freewheeling urban portrait of two young men in Nigeria.
Alain Kassanda | 2020 | 41 minutes | Color | English; Yoruba | English subtitles
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Follow the day by day events during the year after the fall of Ben Ali while Tunisian's elected a new a government and draft a constitution.
Feriel Ben Mahmoud | 2012 | 52 minutes | Color | French; Arabic | English subtitles
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Filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon chronicles the patients of a psychiatric ward where justice and madness meet.
Raymond Depardon | 2018 | 87 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Filmed after the fall of Saddam Hussein, this film traverses the region - from Jordan to Syria, Iran, and Lebanon - to take the pulse of Arab and Iranian youth.
Amal Moghaizel | 2003 | 52 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
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In Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1946 film debut, we follow aging circus clown Beby, from one night's performance to the next.
Jean-Pierre Melville | 1946 | 19 minutes | French | English subtitles
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An emotional follow up to Mosco Levi Boucault’s 1983 documentary Terrorists in Retirement.
Mosco Levi Boucault and Ruth Zylberman | 2024 | 38 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Motivated by a desire to better understand her past, Rosine Mbakam returns to Cameroon after many years to interview her mother.
Rosine Mbakam | 2019 | 76 minutes | Color | French; Bamileke | English subtitles
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The complicated, traumatic story of a young woman, the filmmaker's mother, a well-off, Polish Lutheran before WWII, who afterwards married a Jewish Warsaw ghetto survivor.
Esther Hoffenberg | 2006 | 85 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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This documentary brings Autism syndrome out of the shadows, stressing that young people with developmental disabilities can learn and grow, if their individual needs, styles, and abilities are respected.
Gail Levin, Ann Reinking, and O. Robin Sweet | 2008 | 62 minutes | Color | English
Conceptual and observational but fundamentally a telling look at changes in China today, particularly between rural and urban society.
Du Haibin | 2008 | 93 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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In Santiago, Chile, a neighbor lives through the demolition of the house next door and the construction of a large building in the same place, over a two-year period.
Ignacio Agüero | 2001 | 58 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
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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
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A fascinating portrait of one North Korean girl and her parents in the year as she prepares to join the Korean Children's Union on Kim Jong-Il's birthday.
Vitaly Mansky | 2016 | 110 minutes | Color | English; Korean | English subtitles
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Documentary profile of musicians who play on the sidewalks of Paris and in the Metro.
Heddy Honigmann | 1999 | 108 minutes | Color | French; Spanish | English subtitles
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Is there an alternative to run-of-the-mill TV? The film introduces us to Peter Watkins, who for the last three decades has proven that quality TV may be made without compromise.
Geoff Bowie | 2002 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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Powerful documentary about people with disabilities who struggle to be recognized as sexual beings, free to explore their sexuality and to lead sexually fulfilling lives.
Eva Orner and Sarah Stephens | 1994 | 57 minutes | Color | English
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URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD: INTO HER OWN is an artistic biography of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture.
Daniel Traub | 2020 | 57 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Cinematic meditation on technology and motherhood. Directed by Natalia Almada.
Natalia Almada | 2022 | 81 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
An unusual relationship develops between a Chinese couple struggling with heroin and a filmmaker chronicling their addiction, in this provocative documenrtary on drug abuse, filmmaking and friendship.
ZHOU Hao | 2008 | 105 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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The film charts the life and spiritual odyssey of one of the great modern painters purely through use of his paintings.
Alain Resnais | 1948 | 18 minutes | French | English subtitles
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Chronicles one physician's exploration of how to try and meet the needs of the dying and their families.
Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. | 1998 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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Considers the possible reasons for modern Egyptian women's turn back to tradition.
Marilyn Gaunt | 1982 | 26 minutes | Color
Meeting the "Venerable Wirathu" amounts to traveling to the heart of everyday racism and observing how Islamophobia and hate speech lead to violence and destruction.
Barbet Schroeder | 2020 | 100 minutes | Color | Burmese; Spanish; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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10 contemporary artists and writers invite us to discover or re-discover the painter's work, and to appreciate it in new ways.
Hans Pool & Koos de Wilt | 2010 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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A Corsican radical risks his life by returning to the island where a death warrant awaits.
Thierry de Peretti | 2018 | 107 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Meet the Violette Leduc, who defied taboos by turning her loneliness and "impossible" passions into a great literary career.
Esther Hoffenberg | 2013 | 57 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Nagisa Oshima - the 'New Wave' Japanese director - visits the filmmaking collective led by Shinsuke Ogawa, to discuss the social and cinematic philosophy of one of Japan's best-known documentary film collectives.
Oshige Junichiro | 2004 | 62 minutes | Color | Japanese | English subtitles
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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
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Toni Servillo plays two roles in this elegant and chilling story about world politics.
Roberto Ando | 2017 | 94 minutes | Color | English; Italian | English subtitles
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At 91 years of age, Aime decides to finally fulfil his dream of travelling to Morocco. His photographer grandson goes with him.
Georgi Lazarevski | 2017 | 54 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
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Comprehensive and unflustered research into the history and biology of the female anatomy.
Claudia Richarz and Ulrike Zimmermann | 2014 | 52 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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In Toritama, in Brazil's northeast, the people work all year at making blue-jeans, looking forward to their one annual holiday.
Marcelo Gomes | 2019 | 86 minutes | Color | Portuguese | English subtitles
Thirty years after the end of the war against the United States, two Vietnamese veterans continue to search for the remains of their dead comrades.
Boris Lojkine | 2006 | 84 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Retraces the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968 up until the present day peace process.
Arthur MacCaig | 1998 | 88 minutes | Color | English
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100 feet of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos worthy of Rube Goldberg or Alfred Hitchcock - a discussion starter for sure.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss | 1988 | 30 minutes | Color
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The rise and fall of America's mortgage system and the damage in the wake of its collapse. With Nouriel Roubini, Richard Sylla and Chris Mayer.
Gary Gasgarth | 2009 | 65 minutes | Color | English
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The mysterious closing of a Beijing school sends hundreds of migrant children on a desperate struggle to reclaim their right to an education.
CUI Zien | 2012 | 94 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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The Lebanese singer Hoda Nouhad Haddad, better known as Fairuz, is a legend in the Arab world. The stories of diverse Beirut inhabitants and of their love for her provide a moving commentary on Lebanon's tumultuous history.
Jack Janssen | 2004 | 80 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
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Follows labor activists as they find common ground with workers and help them negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions.
Wen Hai | 2017 | 174 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
Former Black Panther Eddie Ellis' odyssey through New York State's prison system.
Arthur MacCaig | 1996 | 52 minutes | Color | English
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In France, what does it mean to live with nuclear power?
Esther Hoffenberg | 2009 | 74 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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The UNHCR manages camps that shelter more than sixteen million refugees all around the world, creating a virtual country as large as the Netherlands.
Anne Poiret | 2017 | 72 minutes | Color | English; French; Arabic | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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The societies that populate the heart of the African continent form such a mosaic that it is not uncommon to meet villagers speaking six to seven languages. But how much longer will this last?
Sandrine Loncke | 2021 | 56 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Meat consumption in China is skyrocketing; what does it mean for sustainability, public health, food security, climate change, and animal welfare?
Jian Yi | 2014 | 29 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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The story of a simple fruit... upon which a global empire was built.
Mathilde Damoisel | 2018 | 52 minutes | Color | Closed Captioned
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The noted historian's lifelong quest to describe the extermination of the European Jews.
Frank Diamand | 2014 | 65 minutes | Color | English
Looks at the stresses and rewards in the lives of five families who are raising children with disabilities. A realistic look at different family strengths and coping styles.
By Dr. Virginia Cruz & Sharon Thompson | 1997 | 58 minutes | Color | English
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On the outskirts of Beijing, two teenage girls struggle to pay for their brother's schooling.
JI Dan | 2013 | 109 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
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When two American sisters travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history.
Lynne Sachs | 2015 | 33 minutes | Color
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Go behind-the-scenes as the staff at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Musuem strives to diversify their art collection, where 90% of the art was made by white men.
Sarah Vos | 2023 | 90 minutes | Color | Dutch; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Shot in 11 days on borrowed equipment, Cai Chengjie’s deadpan fairy tale takes superstition and the furious chimera of women’s power to conjure an intriguing magic.
Cai Chengjie | 2018 | 120 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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WILD is a strange, dream-like journey of sexual and spiritual liberation, which begins when Ania locks eyes with a feral grey wolf.
Nicolette Krebitz | 2016 | 97 minutes | Color | German | English subtitles
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Modern-day shepards Pascal and Carole bring 800 sheep on a snow-covered odyssey.
Manuel von Sturler | 2014 | 85 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Bored teenagers and disillusioned adults rage at each other and the emptiness of life in frost-bitten northern China.
LI Hongqi | 2010 | 91 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
Narrated by an Olympic gold snowboarder, this documentary tells the story of three young men living with permanent brain damage from head injuries while pursuing extreme sports.
Lionel Goddard | 2009 | 50 minutes | Color | English
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A highly personal portrait of André Gide — a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951.
Marc Allégret | 2019 | 92 minutes | French | English subtitles
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A comprehensive six-hour series treating one of the most important political and cultural stories in contemporary America: the rising power of the Religious Right from 1950 through the 1990s.
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 2005 | 360 minutes | Color | English
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Conservative Christians rise up in Anaheim, California, to launch a nationwide revolt against sex education.
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
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The symbiotic alliance between Billy Graham and Richard Nixon foreshadows the coming union of religion and politics
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
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Carter's election heralds a new era of evangelical engagement in every area of modern life, from broadcasting to basketball. But modern life also means divorce, feminism, and gay rights...
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
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New Right conservative strategists midwife a brood of new Christian political organizations.
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
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Calls for renewed patriotism and fierce attacks on liberalism set the agenda for George H.W. Bush's victory over Michael Dukakis.
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
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The Christian Coalition becomes one of the most politically adept membership organizations ever. Yet many inside the movement question if, in gaining power in the secular world, conservative Christians have lost their evangelical soul.
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
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79 years old and overlooked since the 1970’s, abstract artist Peter Bradley reflects on life and shares his artistic process on the cusp of his rediscovery.
Alex Rappoport | 2024 | 86 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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A portrait of two women activists in the Hezbollah, and an examination of the personal, social and political factors of their commitment to this Islamic movement in Lebanon.
Maher Abi-Samra | 2001 | 49 minutes | Color | English
Looks at the daily lives of six women in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp.
Marilyn Gaunt | 1982 | 26 minutes | Color
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Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., examines the relocation of factories from Western countries to nations like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Turkey, where low wages are the rule and employee rights are nonexistent.
Marie France Collard | 2002 | 53 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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The channel Russia Today was launched in 2005 to bring the Russian perspective on world events to a global audience.
Misja Pekel | 2015 | 40 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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Follows Italian teacher Michele Cortese as he begins an unexpected chapter in his life.
Riccardo Milani | 2025 | 114 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
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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
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A series of dialogues with five of the foremost writers of the twentieth century.
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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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Offers an insight into the Japanese Kabuki star Tamasaburo Bando, one of the last defenders of this ancient and disappearing performing tradition.
Daniel Schmid | 1999 | 89 minutes | Color | English subtitles
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Documents the process of creating Xu Bing's monumental bird sculpture through to its installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
Daniel Traub | 2020 | 17 minutes | Color | English; Mandarin | English subtitles
Chronicles the Yellow Wasps, a Serbian paramilitary unit operating in Bosnia in 1992.
Ilan Ziv | 1996 | 70 minutes | Color
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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
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In this gripping short drama, Domé, a young woman from Gabon who speaks flawless French, is apprehended at the airport on her way into Belgium.
Rosine Mbakam | 2021 | 20 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
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Ayed is a young psychotherapist in Gaza. The film shows his consultations with a variety of patients, and the challenges he and they face.
Pea Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian | 2009 | 58 minutes | Color | Arabic | English subtitles
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Follows two young, talented Black French youth as they make their way through the Paris Opera.
Virginie Plaut, Youcef Khemane | 2025 | 58 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
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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
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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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The first installment of Wang Bing's epic profile of Chinese garment workers.
Wang Bing | 2023 | 215 minutes | Color | Mandarin | English subtitles
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Inviting viewers on a cinematic pilgrimage to her homeland of Morocco, Bitton explores her Jewish roots through the sphere of the Muslim guardians of the nation’s Jewish memory, centered around the tradition of "ziyara".
Simone Bitton | 2021 | 99 minutes | Color | Arabic; French; Hebrew; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
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Five Cuban intellectuals discuss censorship as a historical, political and social phenomenon.
Karel Ducasse | 2013 | 40 minutes | Color | English; Spanish | English subtitles