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Regret to Inform
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Barbara Sonneborn • 1998 • United States
In this powerful and poetic documentary, the legacy of the Vietnam War is explored from a perspective rarely acknowledged: that of the survivors whose lives continue to be impacted by the loss of their loved ones. Twenty years after her husban...
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Resynator
Movie
Directed by Alison Tavel • 2024 • United States
Winner of the SXSW Audience Award for Documentary Feature, RESYNATOR marks filmmaker Alison Tavel’s directorial debut, chronicling her ten-year journey as she uncovers the revolutionary synthesizer her late father created in the 1970s. What begins ...
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Three Documentaries by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster
1 season
In their urgent and empathetic documentaries, husband-and-wife team Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson explore issues of identity, injustice, and activist resistance in the Black diaspora. From AMERICAN PROMISE, an intimate chronicle of two Black boys (one their own son) navigating the pitfalls ...
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The Decline of Western Civilization
1 season
Before achieving pop-culture immortality with the left-field mainstream hit WAYNE’S WORLD, Penelope Spheeris established her DIY credentials as the foremost chronicler of West Coast counterculture. In her essential trilogy THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, she captured the evolution of Los Ang...
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A Season with Isabella Rossellini
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Directed by Marian Lacombe • 2023 • France
A SEASON WITH ISABELLA ROSSELLINI catches up with the celebrated actor, model, animal-behavior expert, and all-around creative force as she is turning seventy, facing life with the same spirited curiosity and playfulness that have sustained her singular...
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Flipside
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Directed by Christopher Wilcha • 2023 • United States
When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness from his youth slowly falling apart and out of touch with the times. FLIPSIDE documents ...
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Nationtime
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Directed by William Greaves • 1972 • United States
Exclusive streaming premiereBest known for his avant-garde meta-documentary SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM, William Greaves was also the director of over one hundred documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and cult...
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And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead
Movie
Directed by Billy Woodberry • 2015 • United States
Legendary Beat visionary Bob Kaufman considered poetry a key to human survival, an idea made all the more legitimate by the longevity it is granted: the things he saw, heard, tasted, felt, and, most of all, thought were preserved in his work. Em...
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Lynch/Oz
Movie + 2 extras
Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe • 2022 • United States
Starring John Waters, Karyn Kusama, Justin BensonThe themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ continue to haunt David Lynch’s filmography—from his early short THE ALPHABET to his recent television serie...
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The Image You Missed
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Directed by Dónal Foreman • 2018 • Ireland
Starring Arthur MacCaigAn Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over thirty years of ...
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Tonsler Park
Movie
Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson • 2017 • United States
The films of Kevin Jerome Everson are rigorously crafted, thoughtfully illuminating records of Black American working-class life that bring into focus the often invisible routines of work and labor. In Tonsler Park, Everson trains his black...
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Zydeco
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Directed by Nick Spitzer • 1984 • United States
Shot in rural French-speaking Louisiana, this vibrant ethnographic portrait of zydeco’s beloved musical families explores their Creole identities through engaging footage of them at home, in local clubs, at work, and running Mardi Gras. Featuring p...
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Songs of Earth
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Directed by Margreth Olin • 2023 • Norway
Executive produced by Liv Ullmann and Wim Wenders, Songs of Earth is a majestic, awe-inspiring symphony for the big screen. Director Margreth Olin’s eighty-four-year-old father is our guide, bringing us through Norway’s most scenic valley, where he grew ...
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Seven Second Love Affair
Movie
Directed by Robert Abel • 1965 • United States
SEVEN SECOND LOVE AFFAIR marked legendary filmmaker Les Blank’s first documentary photography job shooting drag racers in Long Beach, California. Driving everything from hopped up Mercs to supercharged Rail Dragsters, these daredevil drivers could a...
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Lionel Rogosin’s Dangerous Docufictions
1 season
With his very first film ON THE BOWERY, Lionel Rogosin forever changed the art of nonfiction filmmaking in America, bridging narrative and documentary practices to portray life on New York’s skid row with an unvarnished authenticity and immediacy steeped in the spirit of neorealism. Born one hund...
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Häxan
Movie + 4 extras
Directed by Benjamin Christensen • 1922 • Denmark
Starring Benjamin Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen WintherGrave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that th...
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Bad Press
Movie
Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler • 2023 • United States
A timely, riveting documentary that unfurls with the energy and suspense of a thriller, BAD PRESS—winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression—offers unparalleled in...
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Burden of Dreams
Movie + 4 extras
Directed by Les Blank • 1982 • United States
For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career, FITZCARRALDO, the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. ...
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Pictures of Ghosts
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Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho • 2023 • Brazil
The latest from acclaimed Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU, AQUARIUS) is a multidimensional journey across time, sound, architecture, and filmmaking that explores the rich, complicated history of the filmmaker’s home city of Reci...
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Q
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Directed by Jude Chehab • 2023 • Lebanon
An intimate and haunting portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost, this powerfully personal, compassionate documentary depicts the insidious influence of a secretive matriarchal religious order on three generations of the filmmaker’s famil...
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Documentaries by Les Blank
1 season
From garlic to gap-toothed women, no subject was too esoteric to capture the imagination of Les Blank, an uncompromisingly independent spirit who, for nearly fifty years, disappeared with his camera into subcultures rarely seen on-screen. Seemingly off-the-cuff yet poetically constructed, Blank’s...
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The Universe Is Out There: Josh and Benny Safdie
Movie
Directed by Michael Chaiken • 2017 • United States
Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the frenetic pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, GOOD TIME, along with several of the brothers’ early shorts.
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Loving Highsmith
Movie
Directed by Eva Vitija • 2022 • Germany, Switzerland
Starring Gwendoline Christie, Annina Butterworth, Marijane MeakerThe life and work of celebrated American writer Patricia Highsmith are revealed through her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends, and family...
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Lush: A Far from Home Movie
Movie
Directed by Phil King • 2024 • United Kingdom
Starring Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, Chris AclandOne of the defining bands of the shoegaze wave that washed over the indie-rock world in the 1990s, Lush mesmerized with their otherworldly vocals set against a swirling wall of sound. Assembled by fo...