In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university students uncovered new evidence proving the innocence of 13 men on death row. This documentary follows the hearings held by a panel Ryan appointed to study the issue and interviews activists, scholars and prisoners, while examining the history of the American death penalty. As Ryan's time in office comes to an end, he must decide what steps to take to reform the judicial system.

"Plastic Paradise" is an independent documentary film that chronicles Angela Sun's personal journey ...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

A film about the close relationship between two brothers. Markus (10) and Lukas (7) live in an old, ...

Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national ...

In search of the lucrative matsutake mushroom, two former soldiers discover the means to gradually h...

People often think of Vancouver as a new city, when in fact this region has been occupied for 9,000 ...

ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, thr...

The tiny village in the far north of Sweden called Ensamheten (Solitude) has sixteen inhabitants. Th...

This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and ...

Directed and edited by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, this film offers a look behind the...
At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing la...

The story of Manhattan Plaza, the renowned experiment in subsidized housing catering to people in th...

Join filmmaking duo Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob as their cameras follow Franken to book signings, ca...
Another kind of utopia is presented in the films of Naomi Uman, whose search for her family roots in...

A moving account of the experiences of men exonerated after years, and sometimes decades, in prison ...

God's Girls describes life in a Sisters of Mercy convent in country New South Wales from the 1940's ...

A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy...

A live album by American rock band Nirvana, the album features an acoustic performance recorded at S...