In 1953 the Canadian government relocated Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic, promising an abundance of game and fish and assuring them they could return home after two years if things didn't work out. They would not see their ancestral lands for 30 years. Abandoned in flimsy tents, the Inuit were left to fend for themselves in the desolate settlements of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord, where the sea was nearly always frozen and darkness reigned for months on end.

In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse...

A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the ...

Michael White might just be the most famous person you’ve never heard of. A notorious London theatre...

When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talen...

Taşkafa is a real dog and also a legend on the streets of Istanbul. John Berger begins Taşkafa’s sto...

A documentary on the German Women Football National Team and the 2011 FIFA World Championship in Ger...

The Sea [Morze] is a 1933 Polish short documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska. It was nominat...

Contrasts traditional and modern village life, as changes occur with better transport and as country...

The lives of three generations of women who suffered political persecution during the military dicta...

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

In the familiar surroundings of their everyday lives, they talk about things that matter to them, ab...

In 1921 the Kwakiut'l people of Alert Bay, British Columbia, held their last secret potlatch. In 198...

"Man in the Sand" is a 1999 music documentary that chronicles the collaboration between Billy Bragg ...

Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.

This documentary profiles iconic journalist Helen Thomas who has held a front-row seat at White Hous...

When asked to make a documentary about her friend’s mother—a Parisian astrologer named Juliane—the f...

Documentary about the history of the bateyes, informal settlements surrounding the mills to house wo...

An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activi...

Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more t...

A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voi...