In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants arriving increasingly from Europe. The story of immigration to the United States from 1892 to 1954, an enthralling polyphonic narrative that embraces both small and great history.

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ne...

When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ig...

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, a powerful secret society that opera...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

1989, New York City's Alphabet City and East Village. A year after the Tompkins Square Park Riot, sq...

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and sh...

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village...

A documentary about a case of police brutality in the 80's NYC, the killing of graffiti artist Micha...

"From Mexico to Vietnam: A Chicano Story" is an inspiring documentary that chronicles the life of Je...

The Freedom of the Sea is a short documentary highlighting the freedom of living in the UK - in cont...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...
Getting out of prison doesn't mean being free. After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution...

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth ...