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.

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

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...

In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space....

A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they ga...

At age 29, documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm discovered that she was conceived via sperm donor. Using ...

Set mainly in present day Dallas, Texas and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, this film features three main cha...

The space of the junkyard allows various ‘crash’ narratives to unfold, with the stories of actual cr...

A nuanced portrait of a new generation, Dear Thirteen is a cinematic time capsule of coming of age i...

The story of an American hero and the Cherokee Nation's first woman Principal Chief who humbly defie...

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...

After four years away, Huiju returns home to South Korea. Exchanges with her loved ones are awkward ...

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...

A family falls prey to the manipulative charms of a neighbor, who abducts their adolescent daughter....

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...

This documentary features Black women active in politics as well as community, labour and feminist o...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

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

In 1954, before his senior year of high school, Wilt Chamberlain took a summer job that would change...