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?

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

Pensioners, lawyers, married couples and teenagers are all customers at the Angel Love Hotel in Osak...

Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nin...

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war c...

Finding love is never easy. For Ravi Patel, a first generation Indian-American, the odds are slim. H...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star w...

Five acclaimed photographers travel the world to provide detailed insight into the difficult conditi...

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder
Documentary that describes and analyzes the characteristics, themes and central concerns of Roman Po...

This film is an album of Native womanhood, portraying a proud matriarchal society that for centuries...

This riveting music documentary traces the history of Jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson, from his ear...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

From a school band from Essen to an internationally celebrated thrash metal legend: To mark Kreator'...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...
Amarantos is a meditation on history and the shifting relevance of temporal and spiritual values. In...

Ships from Europe brought Christianity to the shores of Japan in 1549. For decades the seeds of fait...

An intimate documentary exploration of heritage and history against the backdrop of a brewing Afro-c...