What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.

A 1943 Soviet war propaganda film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It...

To support his mother in Mexico, Angel, a nude dancer, turns the web into his new stage.

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.
Expeditions in the Western Canadian Arctic
Film about the Ethiopian famine of I984/85 and the measures taken to combat it

A 94-year-old Glacier National Park ranger confronts the decline of the park he calls home as he ref...

In 1999, Colorado mother Jessica Gonzales experienced every parent’s worst nightmare when her three ...

As the Syrian war continues to leave entire generations without education, health care, or a state, ...

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human being...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...

A gifted singer, struggling with addiction on the streets of Skid Row, sets out on a journey to tran...

In a motel in Dallas, in 1963, an FBI agent bugged the next room occupied by mobsters. After several...
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But p...
A father takes his two children eating in a public park. While the older sister feels unwanted becau...