In Search of Walt Whitman, Part One: The Early Years (1819-1860)
Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in Long Island and Brooklyn to write the masterpiece Leaves of Grass in 1855 that revolutionizes literature. Many of his most famous poems are profiled.
Night on Earth: Shot in the Dark
This look behind the scenes shows how worldwide camera crews climbed, dived and froze to capture the documentary’s groundbreaking night footage.
Kingdom of Us
How does a traumatic event shape a family? How do you sift through the memories to find hidden clues and unlock a collective grief? Kingdom of Us takes a look…
Last Stand of the 300
This is the true and astounding saga of the Spartans at Thermopylae. It is among the greatest tales of war ever recounted. All the glory and grit of these warriors’…
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead
A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanity’s moral survival.
Frontier Sumatra
With 30 football fields of forest lost each minute in the world, we need to know now if we can save nature. This is the story of one conservation project,…
Diana: The Woman Inside
Diana The Woman Inside highlights Diana as a woman and mother, rather than just a tragic icon.
Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana
Florida, 1994. Artist Mike Diana is convicted on an obscenity charge in the wake of an undercover police officer purchasing his limited edition zine Boiled Angel. Here is the very…
Canaletto & the Art of Venice
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN open its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice, an immersive journey into the life and art of Venice’s famous view-painter. No artist better captures…
Deaf President Now!
Discover the story of the greatest civil rights movement most people have never heard about. During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must…
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways when…
And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
From the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity’s unique obsession with the camera’s image and the social…
