Dear Mandela
When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three ‘young lions’ of South Africa’s new generation rise from the shacks and take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test.
Is There Anybody Out There?
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely…
King Tut: A Century of Secrets
The world’s leading Egyptologists are on a quest to uncover the secrets of Howard Carter’s history-making discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb on the 100th anniversary of its discovery. Now, as the…
What Killed Maradona?
Interviews with those close to the talented footballer reveal the different factors which may have contributed to his untimely end.
Saxophone Colossus
Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the greatest living jazz…
Cinerama’s Russian Adventure
Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet Union. Highlights include the historic buildings and churches of…
Battle of Britain: The Race for Radar
A historical retrospective documentary revealing the inside story of the trials and tribulations surrounding the development of Britain’s coastal radar network, and how it was ultimately instrumental in the detection…
The Rise and Fall of Timex Dundee
This documentary is looking back at the 1993 protests against proposed layoffs at Timex’s Camperdown Factory that had run for 47 years.
It All Begins with a Song: The Story of the Nashville Songwriter
Everyone knows Elvis Presley’s In the Ghetto and A Little Less Conversation. But who wrote those songs? That was Mac Davis, and almost no one has heard of him. He…
The Other Side of the River
To avoid a forced marriage, 19-year-old Hala finds refuge across the Euphrates River in northeastern Syria at a military academy where, while learning to fight, she vows to fight to…
9/11: Four Flights
American 11, United 175, American 77, and United 93 tells the riveting and emotional human stories of those aboard each doomed jetliner.
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell’s landmark 1976 exhibition, “Two Centuries of Black American Art.”
Shooting the Mafia
Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a brutal murder. Documenting the barbaric rule of the…
