Beyond Prognosis
This is a story of refusal. Rejecting an inconceivable destiny, fighting against it, and clinging to a dream while forgetting the harsh reality. A universal narrative filled with hope about the power of the human spirit.
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American…
Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies
Films documenting African-American life in Oklahoma during the mid-1920s.
Rodents of Unusual Size
After decades of hurricanes and oil spills, Louisiana faces a new threat – hordes of monstrous 20 pound swamp rats. Known as “nutria”, these invasive South American rodents breed faster…
Overnight
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man’s misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells…
The Man Who Fell From The Sky
The Man Who Fell From The Sky is a Channel 4 documentary. It tells the fascinating story of two men who stowed away on a flight from South Africa to…
When My Time Comes
Spurred on by the death of her husband, Peabody-award winning NPR journalist Diane Rehm crosses the country to investigate the right-to-die movement in America.
I Cut Your Flesh
A documentary that follows a girl within the extreme side of BDSM.
Shameless: The Rise and Fall of Kate Price
One-off Channel 5 (UK) documentary exploring the career of former glamour model and TV personality Katie Price.
The Time of Forests
Symbol in the eyes of urbanites of an authentic nature, the French forest is going through an unprecedented phase of industrialization. Heavy mechanization, monocultures, fertilizers and pesticides, forest management follows…
A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making
A glimpse behind the scenes into the complicated process of recovering and completing Orson Welles’ final film The Other Side of the Wind.
The Mostly Serious History of Wine
Early humans may have discovered wine accidentally, but now it’s grown and sold just about everywhere. Jim Hodgson stops in Egypt, ancient Rome, Spain, France and other locations to trace…
Communion
When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives apart from…
