In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they started kindergarten at the prestigious Dalton School just as the private institution was committing to diversify its student body. Their cameras continued to follow both families for another 12 years as the paths of the two boys diverged—one continued private school while the other pursued a very different route through the public education system.

The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a ...

In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington...
Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two ...

To write In Cold Blood (1966), a nonfiction novel that revolutionized world literature, Truman Capot...

A short documentary by Sonny Garrett about the life, work and philosophy of William Blake featuring ...

A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over ...

A unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultur...

Set in New York City, the epicenter of a phenomenon cropping up in communities across the United Sta...

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...

Straight from the front lines in Iraq, THE WAR TAPES is the first war movie filmed by soldiers thems...

McLibel is a documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong for Spanner Films about the McLibel case....

A documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does...

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and...

Star-studded show recorded at the Big Sur Folk Festival, Big Sur, California, September 13th and 14t...
Pearl Gluck travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which...

Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, deta...
In this revealing documentary, burlesque star Immodesty Blaize examines the world of British burlesq...

In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, ...

A short documentary about singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle made by animator Caroline Leaf.

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...