Wattstax (1973)

O Aleijadinho, a study of the work of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, the architect whose cathedral de Andrade had assisted in the restoration of more than 20 years earlier. de Andrade…

Documentary about the connection between diet and the brain.

Ascension Island lay barren for a million years, until it was ‘terraformed’ by Victorian naturalists into a tropical paradise. Today scientists return in search of answers, as humans begin the…

Documentary about Tomas Young, a 25 year old veteran who got paralyzed in Iraq and became an peace activist.

An illuminating look inside the lives of the Grucci family, whose Long Island-based fireworks business has been lighting up night skies around the world with spectacular displays since the 1800s.

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…

More of a film essay – of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker – than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck’s The Net: The Unabomber, the…

Three intersex individuals overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who…

A film which explores a radical new idea – is there an imbalance between our brain hemispheres that is affecting how we live in our modern society?

Charles Schumann is a bartender par excellence—known the world over for his iconic Munich-based Schumann’s Bar— and best-selling author of a cocktail guide the New York Times called “the drink-mixer’s…

When Khosrow Vaziri became the World Wrestling Federations Iron Sheik and camel-clutched his way to fame in the 1980s, he achieved the American Dream by personifying a foreign villain. Losing…

Investigative journalists, scientists, and citizens trace the fallout of a new American fossil fuel boom. From the oil fields of West Texas to tanker traffic busting the Panama Canal at…