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.
A wry look at the effects of sexual repression on lesbian and gays in former Czechoslovakia. After t...

Angels Gather Here’ follows Jacki Trapman’s journey back to her hometown of Brewarrina to celebrate ...

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Gr...

Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American l...

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by he...

Homelessness in the United States takes many forms. For Elizabeth Herrera, David Lima and their four...

This insightful Home Box Office documentary profiles some American children afflicted with Tourette'...

American Experience presents Summer of Love, a striking picture of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury di...

From the remote Australian desert to the opulence of Buckingham Palace - Namatjira Project is the ic...

Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the i...

An inspiring documentary chronicling the rise, fall and resurrection of '80s metal band Quiet Riot. ...

Nearing 100 years old, a national treasure, Bobby Staff whimsically exposes a rare and revealing ins...

Underwater Dreams, narrated by Michael Peña, is an epic story of how the sons of undocumented Mexica...

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...
Re-framing the U.S. gun violence debate from Second Amendment rights to public health prevention.

Olympia Stone presents a cinematic portrait of her father, famed New York City gallery owner and art...

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classma...

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...