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  • Regret to Inform
    Movie + 3 extras

    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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • A Season with Isabella Rossellini

    Movie

    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...

  • Flipside

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Nationtime

    Movie

    Directed by William Greaves • 1972 • United States
    Exclusive streaming premiere

    Best 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...

  • 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...

  • Lynch/Oz
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    Lynch/Oz

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe • 2022 • United States
    Starring John Waters, Karyn Kusama, Justin Benson

    The 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...

  • The Image You Missed

    Movie

    Directed by Dónal Foreman • 2018 • Ireland
    Starring Arthur MacCaig

    An 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Zydeco

    Movie

    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...

  • Songs of Earth

    Movie

    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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Häxan
    Movie + 4 extras

    Häxan

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Benjamin Christensen • 1922 • Denmark
    Starring Benjamin Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winther

    Grave 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...

  • 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...

  • Burden of Dreams
    Movie + 4 extras

    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. ...

  • Pictures of Ghosts

    Movie

    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...

  • Q
    Movie

    Q

    Movie

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Loving Highsmith

    Movie

    Directed by Eva Vitija • 2022 • Germany, Switzerland
    Starring Gwendoline Christie, Annina Butterworth, Marijane Meaker

    The 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...

  • Lush: A Far from Home Movie

    Movie

    Directed by Phil King • 2024 • United Kingdom
    Starring Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, Chris Acland

    One 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...