From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a miniature version of America. Deborah Stratman’s experimental documentary explores how physical landscapes and human politics can each re-interpret historical events. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism, and resistance. Who gets to write history—physical monuments, official news accounts, or personal spoken-word memories?
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A Suitable Girl follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follo...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

Follow punk-cabaret icon Amanda Palmer as she hits the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Since her re...

Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Stre...

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...

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The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marr...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

"Green Day: The Early Years" chronicles the rise of the world's most influential punk band, from the...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

Documentary examining the work of sculptor Richard Lippold, particular his sculpture of the sun at t...
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After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dre...

Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when s...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

During the 1977 World Series, Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke was denied access to the pl...