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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Directed by Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper • 1991 • United States

“We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane.” In 1976, director Francis Ford Coppola arrived in the Philippines to...

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...

Directed by Julien Temple • 2007 • Ireland, United Kingdom

Legendary frontman of the Clash Joe Strummer was one of rock’s most magnetic and complex figures—an electrifying performer who brought an explosive political edge to the punk movement. In this visually dynamic documentary, veteran chroni...

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. ...

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...

Directed by Steven-Charles Jaffe • 2013 • United States

Step inside the brilliantly warped imagination of legendary cartoonist Gahan Wilson, whose morbidly witty, subversive illustrations enlivened the pages of magazines like the ”New Yorker,” “Playboy,” and “National Lampoon” for nearly fifty ...

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...

Directed by Xan Cassavetes • 2004 • United States

Catnip for cinephiles, Xan Cassavetes’s richly absorbing documentary traces the euphoric rise and tragic descent of Z Channel, Los Angeles’s first pay-cable service, and its virtuosic film programmer Jerry Harvey. Launched in 1974, Z Channel quic...

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.

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...

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...

Directed by Lizzie Borden • 1976 • United States
Starring Kathryn Bigelow, Ariel Bock, Marion Cajori

While Lizzie Borden’s features BORN IN FAMES and WORKING GIRLS have taken their place as landmarks of feminist cinema, her debut—the fascinating experimental documentary REGROUPING—has gone large...

Directed by Claire Simon • 2023 • France

Timely, intimate, and deeply empathetic, OUR BODY observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, veteran documentarian Claire Simon questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the d...

Directed by Josell Ramos • 2003 • United States
Starring Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Frankie Knuckles

The origins of New York City’s legendary underground dance-club culture are explored in this kinetic cult documentary—a vivid chronicle of a scene that became an oasis for the city’s queer and B...