Chris is a useless boyfriend. Determined to find out why, he consults his ex-girlfriends, medical practitioners, producers, and mother to find out how women really see him. Has this journey made him potential boyfriend material or is he staring a life of loneliness square in the face?

Charles Kiselyak’s A Constant Forge—The Life and Art of John Cassavetes is a detailed journey through the career of one of film’s greatest pioneers and iconoclasts. Assembled from candid interviews with Cassavetes' collaborators and friends, rare photographs, archival footage, and the director's own words, the film paints a revealing portrait of a man whose fierce love, courage, and dedication changed ...

An unforgettable and shocking wake-up call, A CRUDE AWAKENING offers the rock-solid argument that the era of cheap oil is in the past. Relentless and clear-eyed, this intensively-researched film drills deep into the uncomfortable realities of a world that is both addicted to fossil fuels and blissfully unaware of the looming "peak oil" crisis.

Filmed without permission in eight countries, this sensitive documentary captures the lives of gay and lesbian Muslims throughout the world. From Iran to France, Jihad For Love tells the story of individuals torn between their faith and their sexuality. The title, incidentally, is not ironic but instead embraces the true meaning of jihad: "struggle."

“In this whole whirling existence, are we really the only ones who are not part of nature,” asks James Balog at the beginning of A Redwood Grows in Brooklyn. Balog, an award-winning nature photographer, proceeds to explore the multi-layered answers to this question in this short, filmed monologue. Along the way he also offers an examination of how the landscape of ...

Sirio Maccioni, the owner and face of the celebrated New York restaurant Le Cirque, is the star of this delectable documentary, which chronicles the closing of the former Le Cirque 2000 located inside of the New York Palace Hotel, and its reopening in midtown’s Bloomberg Tower. More than just a tale of a world-renowned restaurant, “A Table in Heaven” is ...

After Innocence tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence.

Sensationalist director Nick Broomfield delivers his most personal film with this bracing, powerful sequel. Ten years after making that film, Broomfield returns to the story of America's first female serial killer, who murdered seven truck drivers over the course of 12 months in Florida, requested execution as punishment, and on October 9, 2002 was put to death. Broomfield's film shows ...

Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who and Amazing Journey: Six Quick Ones are two exhilarating feature films about one of the greatest rock bands in the world!

Most people have heard of the voting irregularities that marred the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Some even know of the resulting challenges to the electoral votes by African- American congressional representatives. However, because the mainstream media shies away from reporting cases of imperiled democracy, the public is left to believe these stories are at worst insignificant rumors or ...

It takes a village to make a movie, but when that village is Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and not Hollywood, CA, the results are at times bizarre, comical, and very American. With the help of his mother, his 82-year old uncle, and a local cast of hilarious and lovable characters, filmmaker Mark Borchardt fights his way through internal and external roadblocks ...

This irreverent cinema vérité chronicles four seniors at an Indiana high school and yields a surprising snapshot of Midwestern life.

Uncle Sam really wants you!  A compelling exploration of army recruitment in the United States told through the story of Louisiana Sergeant, First Class Clay Usie, one of the most successful recruiters in the history of the U.S. Army.

As quietly provocative as its thoughtful protagonist, Steve Skrovan and Henriette Mantel's galvanizing documentary, AN UNREASONABLE MAN, examines how one of the 20th century's most admired and indefatigable social activists, Ralph Nader, became a pariah among the same progressive circles he helped champion.

Many college students spend their summers at home, working and getting together with friends. Andrew Jenks, a 19-year-old filmmaker, passed his vacation in a Florida assisted living facility bonding with its elderly residents, playing bingo, watching "Jeopardy" and just hanging out. What began as a lark of an idea - moving in with the elderly to see what he could ...

At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal," influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album ...

Set in the vast snow kingdom at the top of the world, Arctic Tale is a real-life adventure from the people who brought you March of the Penguins. Join narrator Queen Latifah as she follows two very different Arctic creatures, Nanu, a polar bear cub, and Seela, the walrus pup. Armed only with their natural instincts and mothers’ guidance, these ...

A film about children soldiers tragically caught up in the Miskito Indian resistance of Nicaragua.

Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzling and entrancing ode to the revolutionary 20th-century dance troupes that performed under the Ballets Russes banner. Ballets Russes maps the Diaghilev-era beginnings in turn-of-the-century Paris—when artists such as Nijinsky, Balanchine, Picasso, Matisse and Stravinsky united in an unparalleled collaboration—to the halcyon days in ...

An intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, Be Like Others is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.

It has dominated news cycles for the last several years, leading to both criminal and congressional investigations. The people involved are some of the most influential in our culture, and the issue has led to regular tabloid headlines and hours of media attention. With a presidential election on the horizon, two wars raging, and a crumbling economy, one story continued ...

In this probing documentary from director Nick Broomfield, the notoriously abrasive Englishman conducts his own investigation of two separate drive-by shootings that took the lives of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur in the late 1990s. Starting with the original police investigations, Broomfield attempts to knit together pieces of information while establishing the framework of the Los Angeles gangsta rap ...

While many films have portrayed the negative ramifications of war, few will pack the visceral and emotional punch that Body of War delivers. The film puts a human face on the devastating consequences both physical and physiological of conflict.

Born into Brothels, the winner of the 77th Annual Academy Award for Best Documentary, is a tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art. The film is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes. Zana Briski, a New York-based photographer, gives each ...

Bowling for Columbine is an alternately humourous and horrifying film about the United States. It is a film about the state of the Union, about the violent soul of America. Why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence? The talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything from Satan to video games. ...

Theoretical physicist Steven Hawking discusses his ideas on the origins of the universe and its future fate, which he first set forth in his bestseller "A Brief History of Time." Through interviews with friends, relatives, and colleagues of this brilliant man, the filmmaker paints a picture of how a truly ingenious mind works, and how the onset of ALS, the ...

Bus 174 is a careful investigation of the hijack of a bus in Rio, based on an extensive research of stock footage, interviews and official documents. The hijack took place in June 12, 2000 (Valentines day in Brazil) and was broadcast live for 4 and a half hours. The whole country stopped to watch the drama on TV.

The award winning Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? is the inspiring story of a modern-day Mr. Smith's quixotic campaign to win the 2006 Missouri Democratic primary with little more than political savvy, tireless work, and passionate leadership over a committed group of grassroots volunteers that grows from a few friends to more than 500 by election day.

Captain Mike Across America takes us back to the 2004 election, when the polling margin between candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry could have tipped either way. Framed like a concert film, it captures Moore’s activities as he set out on a campaign trip almost as rigorous and far-reaching as the candidates’ own. He targeted young people as the ...

Oscar nominated for Best Documentary 2003 and Winner of the Grand Jury prize in the Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2003. Capturing the Friedmans is a non-fiction feature film that explores the elusive nature of truth through the prism of one of the strangest criminal cases in American history.

An experiential look at Robert Smithson's monumental sculpture, the Spiral Jetty, as it has evolved over 30 years in concert with the ebb and flow of the Great Salt Lake.

Dan Klores' CRAZY LOVE tells the astonishing story of the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the nation during the summer of 1959. Burt, a 32 year-old married attorney and Linda, a beautiful, single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance, which culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions ...

The African nation of Tanzania has a booming business selling fish to Europe, but its citizens live in a state of horrific poverty and degradation. Filmmaker Hubert Sauper uses his documentary Darwin's Nightmare to explore the lives of these people, and those who come from other countries to do business.

De Nadie tells the story of Maria, a Central American immigrant who is forced to leave her home in search of a better life for her family. On her way to the United States, she must cross Mexico were she experiences a nightmare. This documentary profiles the courage of Central American immigrants and the injustice committed to them as they ...

Deep Water is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever, the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.

Our Take: At first glance, Father Ollie is a gentle, soft-spoken man, eloquently attempting to explain and express remorse for his three decades of crimes. But as Berg digs deeper and begins to speak with his victims, a shockingly different picture of this sanctimonious predator--and the Church authorities who protected him—begins to emerge. Harrowing stuff.

Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.

DIG! takes you out on the road for seven years with two of America's most creative and unique rock bands: The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Get in the van!

Harlan Ellison is as well known for his outsize personalty as for his substantial literary output, which includes some of science fiction's greatest works. This fond portrait of the aging enfant terrible looks back at his classic novels and short stories, his days as a screenwriter--producing some of the best-known episodes STAR TREK and THE OUTER LIMITS--his singing career, and ...

Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film.

Directed by Alex Gibney, this is the inside story of one of history’s greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America’s 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. 

This comedic documentary tackles a very serious topic: global warming. Everything's Cool focuses on a group eager to change Americans' attitudes about climate change. With time growing short, these people must defend the earth against people who would unwittingly destroy it. Eco-conscious celebs Salma Hayek and Jake Gyllenhaal even make an appearance to help the cause.

Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free - form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self - described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career - the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of world - renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles ...

A definitive look at the infamous expletive, F**k explores how this oft-used word, still widely seen as obscene, somehow permeates every aspect of our culture - from Hollywood, to the schoolyard, to the Senate floor in Washington D.C., where it is at the very center of the ongoing debate on Free Speech.

In one of the most provative films of its year, Academy Award-winner Michael Moore (2002, Best Documentary, Bowling for Columbine) presents a searing examination of the role played by money and oil in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11. Moore blends captivating and thought-provoking footage with revealing interviews, while balancing it all with his own brand of humor ...

P.O.V. presents FARMINGVILLE, a provocative, complex and emotionally charged look into the ongoing nationwide controversy surrounding a suburban community, its ever-expanding population of illegal immigrants, and the shockingly hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers.

John Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him from undertaking the adventure of a lifetime on Fishing With John. Traveling with his special guests to the most exotic and dangerous places on earth, John Lurie battles sharks with Jim Jarmusch off the tip of Long Island, goes ice fishing with Willem Dafoe at Maine's northernmost point, ...

Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet.  Flow confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.

Wheelchair bound, without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet now lives only (and barely) so he can travel to India to perform free operations in marathon-like surgery sessions where up to 700 children receive treatment for their cleft lips and other deformities.

More people, more engaged, in more ways – that’s the goal of Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, an acclaimed thinker, speaker, and commentator on the role of religion in America. A leader for religious pluralism, he offers a thoughtful yet powerful voice on the contemporary spiritual landscape.Offering a unique perspective on religion in the political, social, and cultural scene, he brings a ...

It's hard to run for office even in high school.And the campaign for student body president at Stuyvesant, perhaps the most prestigious public high school in the country, is almost as sophisticated as any presidential election. Candidates must choose running mates, navigate primaries, write political platforms, perform in televised debates, shake as many hands as possible, and win newspaper endorsements.But ...

In California's Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a "virtual Iraq" - a billion dollar urban warfare simulation - and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role-players.

Independent doc maker Morris (THE THIN BLUE LINE, FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL) interviews pet cemetery proprietors, pet owners, embalmers, as they talk candidly about their feelings for the dear departed and their work dealing with the bereaved. A typically off-center look at American obsessions.

In 1971, the small African nation of Uganda was taken over by self - styled dictator General Idi Amin Dada, beginning an eight - year reign of terror that would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. In this chilling yet darkly comic documentary, director Barbet Schroeder turns his cameras on the infamous tyrant, revealing the dynamic, charming, and ...

This award-winning documentary looks at the life and times of Judith Deim, an artist and musician who gained an international reputation for her expressive paintings and her friendships with the likes of John Steinbeck and Garcia Lorca, and who also influenced many of her children and grandchildren to take up lives in the arts.

Called "the greatest rock film ever made," this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When 300,000 members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hell's Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, direct cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin immortalized on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams ...

Philip Glass has, in his seventies, become one of the world's most well-known avant-garde composers. In this documentary, director Scott Hicks follows Glass as he collaborates with other artists, debuts a new opera, and rides Coney Island's Cyclone roller coaster (a tradition). It all makes for a unique ride with one of American music's true virtuosos.

John, Daniel, and Panther were list. They had no home, no family, no hope. Then they came to America, where they were given three months. Three months to learn how to use electricity, how to live in Western culture, how to support themselves. Three months to start paying back the U.S. State Department for their plane tickets. They are the ...

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance," goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs.  Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale—high-society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.—thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. An impossibly intimate portrait and an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, Albert and David Maysles’s 1976 Grey Gardens quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and ...

A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed, along with his his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, by a rogue bear in October 2003. The films explores their compassionate lives as they found solace among these endangered animals.

In the early 1990s, Paul H-O became a fixture of the New York art scene with his public access show GalleryBeat. Armed with a video camera, he made his way around art openings and exhibitions, alienating some with his candid, witty assessments of their work but winning many fans in the process. Among the latter was Cindy Sherman, the press-shy art ...

In this striking documentary shot in 2003, early on in the US-led war on Iraq, a group of American soldiers in Baghdad who have taken over a bombed-out palace that belonged to Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein, offer the camera a view on their world.

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch combines two of his favorite things in his first non-concert feature documentary: the excitement of street basketball and some slammin' hip-hop tracks. Put them both on the most legendary court in New York, and you get Yauch's super-charged love letter to the game. In Gunnin' for That #1 Spot, Yauch applies his signature stylistic visual flourishes ...

From the New York subways to print ads, the Helvetica typeface has made a sans-serif assault on the world since its creation in 1957. This documentary focuses on the ubiquitous font, exploring its impact on graphic design, communications, and even psychology.

This entertaining documentary by John Walter retraces the path of New York artist Ray Johnson, who worked in collage, mail art, and other Dadaist notions. Here, some of his friends and artistic colleagues, such as Chuck Close, Richard Feigen, James Rosenquist, and Christo tell their stories of the late Johnson, who died unexpectedly in 1995. The film starts and ends ...

The most well-known and controversial animal rights organization, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), is as equally reviled as it is esteemed. It’s the cause célèbre of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and the perpetrator of in-your-face media stunts.

Few are aware that America may be on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. explores the country's shocking current fiscal condition and ways to avoid a national economic disaster.

The chaotic story of Julia Zagar and her husband Isaiah Zagar, a renowned mosaic artist, who for the past 30 years has covered more than 40,000 square feet of Philadelphia top to bottom with tile, mirror, paint, and concrete.

This incredibly powerful documentary was made during the time spend by its director with construction workers building the upper deck onto a major Mexico City thoroughfare, the Periferico freewar. The film's impact lies in the juxtaposition of the workers' everyday thoughts, behaviour, humour, and beliefs alongside the striking images of the behemoth that these ordinary guys (and a lone woman) ...

In the Realms of the Unreal, an innovative feature length documentary, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu and produced by Susan West, explores the parallel lives of legendary outsider artist Henry Darger.

In the Shadow of The Moon is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon. Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the ...

Intimidad is an in-depth portrait of Cecy and Camilo Ramirez, ages 21, whose dream is to buy land and build a house in Reynosa, Mexico so their 2 year-old daughter, Loida can live with them. Loida lives with Cecy's mother in Santa Maria, Puebla. Intimidad slowly unravels, showing how the everyday politics of living on minimum wage Ð without a ...

Nestled deep in the postcard-perfect French Alps, the Grande Chartreuse is considered one of the world’s most ascetic monasteries.

Filmmaker James Longley offers three thumbnail sketches of Iraq as the nation struggles to its feet following the American Invasion in this documentary.

Demme returns to documentary filmmaking for JIMMY CARTER MAN FROM PLAINS, which focuses on the former president's book tour in support of PALESTINE: PEACE NOT APARTHEID. The director and his subject clearly share a taste for unusual career choices, making them the perfect match for each other.

On November 17, 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan traveled to Guyana to investigate the concerns of constituents. Their alarming stories focused on a compound known as Jonestown, a group called the Peoples Temple and its leader, Jim Jones. Within 2 days, Ryan, Jones and over 900 Jonestown settlers were dead, casualties of a mass murder-suicide. This documentary goes beyond the headlines ...

Follows eight kids from around the country who push physical and psychological limits in pursuit of winning the World Championship for jump rope.

Kief Davidson, who won a Special Jury Award at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival for The Devil's Miner, returns with the powerful story of Kassim "The Dream" Ouma. Many will recognize Kassim from when he became boxing's junior middleweight world champion, but before he became a boxer, Kassim lived a life unimaginable to most. Born in Uganda, Kassim was kidnapped ...

A controversial documentary on acclaimed musician Kurt Cobain, one of 1990's most important rock-and-roll figures. Director Broomfield questions his "suicide" and paints a brutal, cold portrait of his wife, Courtney Love, going as far as to pose the scenario that she had him murdered. Love obviously did everything in her power to get this film banned, but it didn't work. ...

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

A collection of two documentaries by Werner Herzog, FATA MORGANA (1971) and LESSONS OF DARKNESS (1992), this program illustrates Herzog's sustained vision, one where nature and man are continually at war with one another. Made more than 20 years apart, these two films are remarkably similar. FATA MORGANA, shot in the Sahara desert, is a mostly silent film, accompanied only ...

As a young boy, Dieter Dengler watched as Allied planes destroyed his village. From that instant, he knew that he wanted to fly.

A searing song cycle about two lovers going to pieces in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, Lou Reed's Berlin was greeted by a chorus of rebuke upon its release in 1973. Crushed, Reed and his producer, Bob Ezrin, left the record to gather dust in the archives. But a funny thing happened on the way to obscurity-Berlin was rediscovered, ...

Diane Hazzard was a loving mother, but like other young, inner city African Americans in the 1980s, she was swept up in the crack cocaine epidemic. Inevitably, her parenting suffered with her addiction, until her own daughter, Love, only eight years old, told a teacher that she and her five siblings were often left home alone and hungry. Love's action ...

With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have led to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles.

On the afternoon of August 6, 1974, an international group of conspirators, disguised as construction workers and armed with fake IDs, snuck into the World Trade Center to perpetrate what would be called "the artistic crime of the century." The following morning, a young French daredevil named Philippe Petit walked on a cable strung between the Twin Towers-not once but ...

Manufactured Landscapes is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. ...

Author and filmmaker James D. Scurlock takes on the powerful financial industry in an insightful and infuriating documentary about credit card debt in America. As he crisscrosses the United States, Scurlock interviews average Americans whose lives have been ruined by predatory financial lenders. His subjects are from all walks of life--everyone from retired widows in the Midwest, to poverty-stricken Southerners, ...

In seven countries across three continents, the family succession saga of Napa Valley power brokers weaves together with the bitter rivalry of two aristocratic Florentine dynasties, and the inter-generational struggle of a Burgundian family trying to preserve its few acres of vineyards. It also connects to the exploits of a gleeful flying winemaker from Bordeaux who preaches the gospel of ...

Muderball features fierce rivalry, stopwatch suspense, dazzling athletic prowess, larger-than-life personalities, and triumph over daunting odds. But "Murderball" the original name of the the full-contact sport now known as "quad rugby", is played by qudriplegics in armored wheelchairs. Murderball is a story like no other, told by men who see the world from a different angel.

In the span of only a few months, 4 year old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown- and sold over $300,000 worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called “a budding Picasso.” And then, five months into Marla's new life as a celebrity and just short of her fifth birthday, a bombshell dropped. ...

Academy-Award winning director Jonathan Demme beautifully captures Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legend, Neil Young as he prepares and presents the performance of a lifetime with the help of his wife Peggi and friends country star Emmylou Harris, steel guitarist Ben Keith and more at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

The epic story of a family forced to emigrate from Laos after the chaos of the secret air war waged by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. Kuras has spent the last 23 years chronicling the family's extraordinary journey in this deeply personal, poetic, and emotional film.

Nerdcore Rising is a documentary that uncovers a new wave of hip-hop called nerdcore. The film follows the godfather of the genre, MC Frontalot, on his first national tour.

Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan's coming of age from 1961 to 1966 as a singer, songwriter, performer, and star.

The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind the Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, No End in Sight is a jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003.

In "Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie," filmmaker Jay Delaney provides a look at the trials and triumphs of friendship and life in the Appalachian foot hills. Through the experiences of two amateur bigfoot researchers in southern Ohio, we see how the power of a dream can bring two men together and provide a source of hope and meaning that transcend ...

On the Ropes is the compelling true story of three aspiring boxers and their venerable trainer, Harry Keitt, one time sparring partner with Muhammad Ali. Delving into the world of boxing at one of its sources- the Brooklyn neighborhood gym that produced superstars Riddick Bowe, Mark Breland, and other champions- the film examines a new generation of boxers training at ...

Married at 16 years old in the small community of Grant Pass, Oregon, Wendy Maldonado looked forward to a long life of wedded bliss with her husband. Instead, the days and years after their wedding turned into an endless cycle of fear, neglect and violence that left Wendy terrified for both her own welfare and that of her children.

Idealism collides with complex realities in this wise and funny documentary. Amid the fallout from the Iraq War, actor Liev Schreiber spots a heart-tugging news story about an Iraqi film student, Muthana Mohmed. His school was bombed and Schreiber decides to give Mohmed a break, inviting him to work on the set of his first feature, Everything ...

For decades, U.S. strategists-for-hire have been quietly molding the opinions of voters and the messages of candidates in elections from the Middle East to the South American jungle. With flabbergasting access to think sessions, media training and the making of smear campaigns, we watch how the consultants’ marketing strategies shape the relationship between a leader and his people. Our Brand ...

An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself.

A Jordanian family man living in the hometown of Muslim leader Al-Zarqawi struggles to support his family and define his identity in a tense political climate.

In the timeless tradition of Winged Migration and Koyaanisqatsi, the theatrical phenomenon Rivers and Tides depicts the magical relationship between art and nature while painting a visually intoxicating portrait of famed artist Andy Goldsworthy. Gorgeously shot and masterfully edited, the film follows the bohemian free spirit Goldsworthy all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his unique ...

Michael Moore's wickedly iconoclastic documentary was inspired by the decline and fall of Flint, Michigan. Once the site of a thriving General Motors plant, Flint went quickly to seed when GM decided to close down and move out. As Moore pokes around what has been described by one magazine as "the worst place to live in America", he finds out ...

Marina Zenovich's new documentary examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

Admist the American hunger for instantaneous news and up-to-date "facts," this unflinching film uncovers the vast, invisible world of government secrecy.

The little-known protest of the Vietnam War staged from within the ranks of the military is explored in director David Zeiger's revealing documentary. Despite the well-documented media coverage of Vietnam War protests that took place on college campuses across the nation, few people but the most ardent history buffs remain aware of the massive protests that flourished in U.S. barracks ...

While America’s image abroad has been battered of late, its music remains a unifying force in global culture. New York filmmaker Jackie Reem Salloum’s first feature documentary on Palestinian rap, is an exuberant mix of live-action and animation. Beginning in Lyd, Israel, where Tamer Nafar heard Tupac Shakur and, influenced by Shakur’s protest lyrics and fierce rhythms, formed DAM, the ...

Spellbound follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.

After winning the Oscar for 2003's The Fog Of War, director Errol Morris turns to Abu Ghraib prison for this documentary. Standard Operating Procedure uses two years of research to explore the horror behind the notorious photographs taken at the prison in Iraq and how the torture depicted wasn't an isolated incident.