Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. MAESTRA explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.
Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from deali...

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

In Our Mothers' Gardens celebrates the strength and resiliency of Black women and Black families thr...

THE ARYANS is Mo Asumang's personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German...

The first uncensored documentary about the Soviet Union ever made by an outsider. The film takes vie...

The political ad "Peace Little Girl" aired during the 1964 presidential campaign ushered in a new er...

When confronted with their lingerie factory (Starissima) going bankrupt, the employees attempt to ta...

Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak...

Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler f...

At first glance, Matthew VanDyke—a shy Baltimore native with a sheltered upbringing and a tormenting...

Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinemath...

In the Mediterranean, the sea on which our civilization was founded, miles of refugees await Europe ...

A documentary about the outcome of a decision made by a brother and sister in 1945. One missed meeti...

Jazz in Love tells the story of Jazz, a young man from Davao whose dream wedding is within reach: hi...

Five women arrive in Italy from different countries in search of love, work, freedom.

The Hobbit Enigma examines one of the greatest controversies in science today: what did scientists f...

A thirty-minute High Definition documentary which revisits that winter of 1779-80 when Washington’s ...

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...