On learning that her infant niece, Maya, is dying of a rare disease, newly pregnant Sharon decides she must return home to Buffalo, N.Y., to help out -- but instead, she steps into a hornet's nest of family turmoil. While Maya deteriorates, another crisis erupts when Karen -- Maya's mother -- becomes pregnant with the child of a former gang member in this cinema verité-style portrait of a family on the brink.

Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a F...

Choreographer Daniel Nagrin performs in a studio and in the sun.
The lives of three extraordinary African women from different social levels and origins determined t...

Looking for Lowry is an entertaining documentary film about the life and work of the much loved Brit...

Malegaon, a small town tucked away near the heart of India geographically, is fraught with communal ...

Narrated by himself, by those who knew him and those he rescued, Gilberto Bosques describes the acti...
In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took docum...

This documentary produced by Rare Day and directed by award-winning filmmaker Penny Woolcock charts ...

Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to m...

Inta is a brusque, crusty woman who lives alone on the edge of a picturesque marsh. One day her soli...

In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university studen...

An intimate, hands on encounter with a maximum security juvenile correctional facility in Chino Cali...

Conceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and t...

This gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that li...

The film is a portrayal of Zanele Muholi, a lesbian photographer working in the South African GLBT c...

.Americans have had a long love affair with dogs, with many of us referring to our canine companions...

The film bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer's alchemical creative processes and renders in...

This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii...

An anthology of stories about the indigenous Nenet peoples of the Northern Russian tundra, and how t...

About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of ...