1971

Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate ...

Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys

In the forests of Finnish Lapland, brothers Aarne and Lasse Aatsinki carry on the generations-old tradition of reindeer herding...

Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution

Kirsty Sword Gusmão went to Timor-Leste to document injustice in an area closed to Western journalists. Over the next decade, s...

Autism in Love

What does it mean to love and be loved? With remarkable compassion, director Matt Fuller examines the reality of autistic adult...

Ballet 422

Justin Peck, wunderkind choreographer of the New York City Ballet, undertakes the Herculean task of creating the company’s 422n...

Ballroom Dancer

In 2000, Slavik Kryklyvyy became the World Latin American Dance Champion. Enduring success seemed assured, but instead Slavik's...

Big Men

For her latest industrial exposé, Rachel Boynton (Our Brand Is Crisis) gained unprecedented access to Africa's oil companies. T...

Bombay Beach

The rusting relic of a failed 1960s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren California landscape and symbol of the failure...

Cinema Komunisto

For 32 years, Leka Konstantinovic was the personal film projectionist for Yugoslavian president and noted film enthusiast Josip...

Democrats

In the wake of Robert Mugabe’s highly criticized 2008 presidential win, a constitutional committee was created in an effort to ...

Despicable Dick and Righteous Richard

Richard has been pissing people off for 50 years. A recovering alcoholic from North Dakota, he finally musters the courage to c...

Dior and I

Frédéric Tcheng’s masterful documentary enters the storied world of the House of Christian Dior, with a privileged, behind-the-...

Downeast

Gouldsboro, Maine. Hit hard by the closure of the sardine canning factory, its laid-off residents—mostly 70-year-olds—just want...

Fame High

Scott Hamilton Kennedy's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Garden captures all the drama, competition, heartbreak, and trium...

Fishtail

The iconic voice and noble philosophies proffered by Harry Dean Stanton punctuate this authentic look at life on the edge of wi...

Garnet's Gold

Twenty years ago, Garnet Frost nearly lost his life hiking near Scotland’s Loch Arkaig. The near-death experience haunts him to...

Give Up Tomorrow

In 1997, Paco Larrañaga was arrested for the murder of two sisters on a provincial island in the Philippines. Over the next 13 ...

Havana Motor Club

Reforms have offered opportunity in Cuba but the children of the Revolution are unsure of the best route forward. For a half-do...

Heineken Audience Award Winner

Give Up Tomorrow won this award: In 1997, Paco Larrañaga was arrested for the murder of two sisters on a provincial island in t...

High Tech, Low Life

As the Chinese government expands its efforts to police the Internet and block websites in the country, and television stations...

Indian Point

Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity t...

In My Father's House

After moving into his childhood home on Chicago’s South Side, Grammy Award–winning rapper Che "Rhymefest" Smith hesitantly sets...

In Transit

The Empire Builder is America’s busiest long-distance train route, running from Chicago to Seattle. Throughout these corridors ...

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

An appetizing documentary in every sense, Jiro Dreams of Sushi follows 85-year-old master sushi chef Jiro Ono, paying lushly ph...

Koran By Heart

The world's preeminent Koran-recitation competition takes place each year in Cairo, drawing Muslim children from as far as Taji...