An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. The Carthusians finally contacted Gröning 16 years later to say they were now willing to permit Gröning to shoot the movie, if he was still interested.

At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up emp...

An exploration of the intersection between religion and homosexuality in the U.S. and how the religi...

A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her ang...

Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking proce...

A filmmaker's lifelong dream quickly becomes his worst nightmare when he attempts to make a low budg...

Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the ...

Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/...

A Cow at My Table explores Western attitudes towards farm animals and meat, and the intense battle b...

Radios echo across Niger, connecting lives through news, music, and debate. This gripping doc explor...

BROTHERS AT WAR is an intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademac...

In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to...

An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US.

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn do...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

At the far end of the Alaskan peninsula, for filmmaker Roman Droux a childhood dream comes true. He ...

Philippe Savoy head of the choir at Saint Michael's College in Fribourg is preparing to take his fif...