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.

Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti...

Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad....

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he ca...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

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

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice mar...

On August 15th, 2006, filmmaker Ryan Dacko set out to get a 30-minute meeting with a major Hollywood...

Artistic director of the National Theater Eric de Vroedt writes and directs a performance about his ...

In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated ...
African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slav...

The story behind Blondie's album Parallel Lines, which sold 16 million copies and captured the spiri...