The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities, and bed partners. Blues singers disseminated a Black feminism that celebrated emotional resilience and sexual pleasure, no matter the source.

Two-time Olympian and World Champion, the legendary Randy Gardner, explores his true identity throug...

A conflicted gay man struggles to teach his younger self about the challenges of adult life. Searchi...

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful an...

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...

Three women, three men, all very high level athletes, Olympic medalists, world champions in basketba...

About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in B...

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York a...

Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her lat...

In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyll...

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experi...

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound th...

A documentary about the Swedish rapper and artist Silvana Imam.

The story of the iconic singer's fascinating six-decade career in both music and Black and LGBTQ act...

Chicago blues great Buddy Guy never was the same after he heard John Lee Hooker’s seminal “Boogie Ch...

Jojo, a 17-year-old girl from Bangkok, is about to graduate from high school. After her friend Q rev...

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...

Inspired by the It Gets Better Project this documentary film follows the stories of three real-life ...

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...

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Robert Oppel's documentary about the life and murder of his uncle and namesake, Robert Opel, the man...