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.

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

In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing- the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper,...
The Education of Auma Obama is a captivating and intimate portrait of the U.S. president's older hal...

Combining over twelve years of footage and narrated by their twin sons, TWO: The Story of Roman &...

The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappli...

A portrait of the working class musicians and dancers of Buenos Aires's San Telmo neighborhood, who ...
A journey through North Russia and Siberia where people have to cope with one of the world’s harshes...

The Truth Be Told is an epic-scale documentary that follows three and half years in the life of Supi...
A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in t...

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a p...

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of t...

Documentary about the musical and social phenomenon of Brazilian funk (or Carioca Funk), a style der...

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from the letters, ab...

The Continuum Project follows some of the world's best climbing talent around the globe to document ...

Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema is a 2003 documentary by Margarida Cardoso on the National Institut...
A brooding, deceptively rich series of near-static shots of farms, factories, townscapes, and—in dis...

Nebbishy filmmaker Joanna Arnow documents her yearlong relationship with an open-mic poet provocateu...

In Echigo, Japan, the snow often lies several feet deep well into May, covering landscapes and villa...

Andrea and Paula, homosexuals of 23 and 25 years, will show us, through their personal experience, t...

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.