A Most Beautiful Thing
A chronicle of the first African American high school rowing team in America made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of Chicago, coming together to row in the same boat.
Dinosaur 13
Two years after the discovery of “Sue,” the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, government officials seize the remains and claim that “Sue” was stolen from…
Black Power: A British Story of Resistance
An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. At the heart of…
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed…
First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series
Superman leaps off the comic page for the first time in this animated series that ran from 1941-1942.
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70’s, Lunch has forged a…
After Parkland
In the aftermath of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman traveled to Parkland and began filming with…
Finding Oscar
Thirty years after a forgotten massacre that occurred during the Guatemalan civil war, a forensic scientist and prosecutor search for Oscar, a young boy who survived the horror.
Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape
The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest and most successful…
Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord
Max S. reveals how he built a drug empire from his childhood bedroom in this story that inspired the series “How to Sell Drugs Online.”
The City
A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
We Were So Beloved
Filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer gained the trust of holocaust survivors living in New York’s Washington Heights who agreed to talk to his cameras. But what they told him went so far…
The Trip
In this honest and deeply personal account of living with addiction, a young man talks about the realities and challenges of living in the Anishinaabe community of Kitcisakik and the…