This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Often arriving without money, friends or jobs, a number of them quickly become part of the homeless population. Both dislocated from their traditional values and alienated from the rest of the population, they are torn between staying and returning home.

For half of a millennium, First Nations women have been at the forefront of aboriginal peoples' resi...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

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

The film analyzes the efforts by the families of 9/11 victims to create the 9/11 Commission and what...

A survivor of the Rwandan Genocide struggles to forgive the man who killed her children. A victim’s...
Chuck Close, an astounding portrait of one of the world's leading contemporary painters, was one of ...

Through an intimate and artistic lens, yet investigative and political, Milk brings a universal focu...

Hot Docs will commemorate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of In t...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

Rematriation explores scientific, cultural, economic and sociopolitical perspectives, as citizens fi...

Jesus Camp is a Christian summer camp where children hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled i...

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

In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. ...

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

Waters’ LIFT project, ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ (Meet Me at the Creek), is the fourth of a quartet of films, and focu...
A glimpse into the junkie scene at Dortmund Central Station.

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

“An Untitled Film” by George Alshevskij-Jones is a short documentary/visual essay about the struggle...