This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950s she made several influential avant-garde films, such as Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Images from this and her other work are used in this documentary. You can also hear her voice, as well as accounts by contemporaries such as Jean Rouch and Jonas Mekas.

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...

When her mother remarries and her newly blended family moves to Canada, a 9-year-old Tunisia girl's ...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

One of the rooms inside the legendary Barba Azul Cabaret has become a shelter for the girls working ...

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...

The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey throu...

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

Bim Bam Boom Las Luchas Morenas, is about three Mexican sisters, professional wrestlers, whose lives...

Janette Bertrand, 96, is at the time of the balance sheets. Where are the women, where is the fight ...

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

Dovzhenko and Solntseva's documentary about the Bukovina region.

A wartime documentary directed by Alexander Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva, depicting the final camp...

A 1943 Soviet war propaganda film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It...

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

Chapter One of this anthology embarks on a journey into the world of filmmaking, pulling back the cu...

Iverson is the ultimate legacy of NBA legend Allen Iverson, who rose from a childhood of crushing po...