Documentary

The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of ...

This film is less a typical musical short and more like an educational film. It consists of a narrator describing the music, composition and ...

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse ...

Featuring archival footage from both German and UK sources, this documentary examines the defense of Britain during the early years of World War II.

Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers.

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

A musical study of Los Angeles in the late 90s, where homeless teens roam the streets and profess to live a punk lifestyle of music, drugs, and ...

Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton’s General Guide to the United States, published ...

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.

A look at what it’s like to be gay and black in America.

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des femmes du ...

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to ...

A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle. This ...

Documentary about the pornography industry and the apparent violent anti-woman slant much of it takes.

A tribute to the spirit and humanity of people who are physically different from the average: very tall and very large men and women, a bearded ...

This documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin introduces us to Randy Horne, a high steel worker from the Mohawk community of ...

Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along ...

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the ...

Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from Great Britain to Australia. Mulvey and Wollen’s experimental documentary combines newsreel ...

A true story of four Jewish intellectuals born in New York and educated at City College during the 1930s, and their divergent paths over the next ...

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

An ode to rural France and the simple joys of life, Dominique Benicheti’s glorious masterpiece Cousin Jules captures the daily routine and ...

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in “Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd” (1982).

A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.

A visit with a master of the Oldest Art In The World: tattooing. Disabled by arthritis since the age of four, confined to a wheelchair, his ...

This documentary follows Rick Zakowich as he faces his lifelong struggles with his weight and body image. Child therapist by day and blues singer ...

A documentary about Forbidden City, a San Francisco Chinese-American nightclub open from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee exposes the truth behind Lee’s death and the cover-up that ensued.

The gold medal for the men’s 10,000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.