When looking for a gift for his kid, Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) is introduced to the world of Grimdark. In that moment he starts down a journey that will take him all over the world and through interviews with prominent Grimdark authors, game developers, and dedicated fans, he delves into the themes that define the genre—all in an effort to find the man who started it all: John Blanche.

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised ...

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, som...

Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the I...

A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship af...

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American p...

Mariam, Asiya, and Anissa were 11, 7, and 5 years old when they were raped. The attackers were their...

When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the cove...

Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film trace...

Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion pictur...

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious...

TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the n...

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle re...

Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in th...

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including All...

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

EXODUS is an intimate, lyrical portrait of Trinity Copeland and Assia Serrano as they struggle to ma...

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great p...