In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders. What unfolded in the following days and weeks was a racially-charged murder case that would make headlines across the nation, enrage Hawai'i's native population, and galvanize the island's law enforcers and the nation's social elite.

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Journey to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians, whose communities are surrounded by expe...

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the m...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...
Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those wh...

Ka Hoʻina documents members of Hui Mālama I Nā Kūpuna O Hawaiʻi Nei's final repatriation of over 140...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...

In personal reflections on her own experiences with sexual violence and in frank conversations with ...

AN OUTRAGE is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. Filmed on-location at lynchin...

There's not a person in the world who wouldn't recognize Mickey Mouse. But until now, not many knew ...
Personal experiences of Northwest Ohio residents during the January 1978 blizzard that disrupted dai...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of ...

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to ...