“Ah humanity! reflects on the fragility and folly of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene. Taking the 3/11/11 disaster of Fukushima as its point of departure, it evokes an apocalyptic vision of modernity, and our predilection for historical amnesia and futuristic flights of fancy. Shot on a telephone through a handheld telescope, at once close to and far from its subject, the audio composition combines excerpts from Japanese genbaku film soundtracks, audio recordings from scientific seismic laboratories, and location sound.”—Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor

When seminal documentarian Ed Pincus is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he and collaborator Lucia...

A lyrical and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderne...
A pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It reports on the demons...
Filmed to praise the work of the Spanish Ministry of Housing in solving the problem of shanty towns ...
A documentary about the life and tragic death of abstract artist Jackson Pollock. Features are inter...

Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, only four doctors in the United Stat...

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began fi...

Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top k...

Wisconsin—birthplace of the Republican Party, government unions, cheeseheads and Paul Ryan—becomes a...

Follows three young, committed Public Defenders who are dedicated to working for the people society ...

Progeria is a rare, fatal genetic condition that causes accelerated aging in children; its young vic...

On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classma...
The story begins with an experiment. A filmmaker in the country of Georgia posts an ad inviting yout...

The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democ...

An insider's look at the first year of an activist group known as the Lesbian Avengers.

With over 300 million firearms, the U.S. holds the highest rate of gun ownership per capita in the w...

Documentary film about Czech actress Lida Baarova, who fell in love with Joseph Goebbels in the 30s.

Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian.

From the Sea to the Land Beyond is a film about the British coast made from 100 years of our film he...