Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy. Among the materials he found in the estate of Robert and Frances Flaherty’s daughter Monica were the film reels and video tapes detailing several years of work on realising her lifelong dream project: a sound version of her parents’ 1926 docu-fiction axiom, Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age.

Still today, people say that during the stormy night from March 31st to April 1st, 1922, the devil h...

Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the i...

On August 15th, 2006, filmmaker Ryan Dacko set out to get a 30-minute meeting with a major Hollywood...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...
A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native polit...

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboard...

An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating ag...

A 13-year-old Indian boy is found unconscious after being attacked in the jungle by the evil spirit ...

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep ...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

A cheerful road movie all about Belgian films at Cannes over the past 70 years. Filmmakers from the ...

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...

Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.

In 1970s California, a serial killer dumps young boys' bodies along the freeways. An L.A. street rep...

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
Tom Hill, a Seneca artist and curator, explores the works of four contemporary Indigenous artists.