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?

Boujad: A Nest In the Heat is a personal and anguishing look at issues of separation, independence a...

Tango of Yearning (1998) is the first episode of an autobiographical trilogy on postwar Lebanon, lat...

After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dre...

Jenni has an ordinary life of simple patterns revolving around family and work. Her daily routine is...

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

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard Unive...

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...

Echo of the Mountain takes a look at the life and work of Santos de la Torre, a great Huichol artist...

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g...

The documentary goes through the 23 years of MTV Brazil, taking stock from the avant-garde to the os...

Recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, an...

Zombies are part of pop culture, but what are they? Where do they come from? To find real zombies we...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

On August 8, 1988, the world’s first and largest Satanic rally took place. Ripped from a video featu...

Just one year ago, citizens joined together at Place de la République in Paris to demonstrate agains...

Documentary on Seattle's Pike Place Market, and those who have saved it from destruction over its fi...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...