On the night of Oct. 2, 2005, Hart and Dana Perry's 15-year-old son Evan jumped to his death from his New York City bedroom window. This moving film is the story, told by his filmmaker parents and others who knew him, of Evan’s life and death, and his life-long struggle with bipolar disorder. It delves into the complexity of Evan's disease, sharing his family's journey through the maze of mental illness. In showing how one family deals with generations of loss and grief, the film defies the stigma related to mental illness and suicide and tells a human story that touches everyone.
Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social jus...
Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown N...
When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she dis...
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common facto...
The third installment of the infamous "is it real or fake?" mondo series sets its sights primarily o...
A Buddhist scientist from Bangkok decides to cryo-preserve his daughter's brain. As scandal swirls a...
Lukas Moodysson's acclaimed film Lilja 4-ever, seen by 100,000's of moviegoers is based on a real li...
The Bridge is a controversial documentary that shows people jumping to their death from the Golden G...
Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, Honorable but Broken highlights the highs and significant lows -- ...
As a teenager in the '90s, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went. She document...
Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghett...
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over h...
In the underground world of diffing, a community finds solace in their passion, as they navigate per...
When Danish filmmakers Mira Jargil and Christian Sønderby Jepsen try to find balance in their stress...
A documentary about the singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt
Based on real near-death experiences, the afterlife is explored with the guidance of New York Times ...
Lies can kill. Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner is an exploration of propaganda, lies, and the ...
In the late 1990s, Moncton's Acadian community was forever marked when death struck an high school. ...
Filmmaker Stephen Hosier takes a journey with Richard Csanyi, his childhood friend, as he investigat...
Imagine Dragons’ Mormon frontman Dan Reynolds is taking on a new mission to explore how the church t...