In 1956, while living in Chiapas, Mexico, U.S. anthropologist Roberta Montague adopts a baby girl, and asks her colleague, famous Cuban ethnologist Calixta Guiteras, to be the girl’s godmother. Inspired by the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Calixta decides to return to her native island. Parallel to Maite's search, film director Guita Schyfter, born in Costa Rica to European Jewish immigrants, shares with us her own personal story.

The film explores the turbulent lives of homeless persons in Cologne, Germany. Through their persona...

Sir David Attenborough takes us on a journey through the weird and wonderful world of frogs, sheddin...

A staged psychosis and suicide attempt at the Liljeholmsbron in Stockholm, Sweden, in order to initi...

Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from Great Britain to Australia. Mulvey and Wollen’s exp...

In the late 1990s, Moncton's Acadian community was forever marked when death struck an high school. ...

Portraits the crude reality a young and troubled teenage mother faces, while searching for her ident...
On December 12, 1945 Maria Stadler got (as one of the first from the American occupying power) the l...

This documentary tells four stories of Apartheid in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of the Tr...

The Idiot Cycle investigates six major chemical companies—Dow Chemical, BASF, Bayer, Dupont, Astraze...

A doctor's efforts to live a green life near the Appalachian Mountains lead to the development of a ...

Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FD...

In Botswana's Okavango Delta, an ostracized lioness and her two cubs must fight alone to survive - o...

Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set t...

In 2008, Gretchen divided her twerking between the stage and the podium. The singer and dancer – als...

Israeli director Natalie Assouline chronicles the lives of women, mostly young mothers, in prison fo...

Sandra Bland was a bright, energetic activist whose life was cut short when a traffic stop resulted ...

Christmas Island, Australia is home to one of the largest land migrations on earth—that of forty mil...

1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Les...

When US-raised Jaden returns to his birthplace Myanmar, to search for his roots, he discovers a shoc...

Diaries, audiotapes, videotapes and testimonials from friends and colleagues offer insight into the ...