The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous political prisoner,…

Thomas reflects on his Alabama childhood and his identity as an “aging emo kid” in LA through stories and songs on topics like dating, drinking, family and his mom’s legacy.

Part one of a two-part portrait of the great Jazz composer and pianist. In 1968, we had the opportunity to spend time with Thelonious Monk and his musicians, following him…

Kirk Douglas achieved the kind of cinematic stardom that dreams are made of. As the torch was passed to his talented son Michael, it became obvious to everyone that the…

Southern Rites visits Montgomery County, Ga., one year after the town merged its racially segregated proms, and during a historic election campaign that may lead to its first African-American sheriff….

Three Maasai men harvest honey in Kenya’s Mau Forest in this carefully composed portrait of often-invisible labour.

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker…

Through candid interviews, the perpetrators of Argentina’s most notorious bank heist detail how — and why — they carried out the radical 2006 operation.

Killer Sharks is a recreation of the world-famous attacks along the coast of Durban, South Africa, during the summer of 1957/1958. Called “Black December,” these attacks partly inspired Peter Benchley’s…

Driving around the streets of Cuba, Lav Diaz – the famous Filipino director – and Gustavo Flecha – a talkative Cuban taxi driver – find themselves discussing about politics, migration,…

For centuries the idyllic royal estate of Frogmore, nestling in landscaped grounds of Home Park just half a mile from Windsor Castle, has been the private escape for generations of…

The year was 1941, and the world was on the brink of war. In an effort to improve relations between the Americas, the Roosevelt administration called upon one of Hollywood’s…