In a personal quest, filmmaker Shirikiana Aina made this documentary capturing her efforts to learn more about her father, who died when she was a child. A Michigan man descended from slaves, he was labeled a radical by the FBI. Aina traveled to Ghana, documenting an oral history of slavery in Elmina, a port where Africans were warehoused before shipping to the New World. She also filmed African-Americans who have established a colony in Ghana, choosing to raise their families there.

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sud...

In America, size matters. The bigger you are, the more power you have, especially in the business wo...

Life and Debt is a 2001 American documentary film that examines the economic and social situation in...

Four girls living in the lonely vastness of the USA share one passion: The wild world of rodeo. Alth...

Film archivist and former director of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Jenni Olson cr...

A portrait of the masterful author whose novels were adapted into the classics 'The Birds,' 'Jamaica...

Hailed by John Grierson as 'one of the best descriptions of life in the country anybody has yet made...

A homeless musician finds meaning in his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.

This is an animated documentary about FOOD! I interviewed vegetarian, vegan, pescetarian and meat ea...

ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, thr...

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, ...

A documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers,...

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ ...

Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national ...
The Fighting Cholitas is a documentary short about a group of bold and fierce female Bolivian wrestl...

Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most be...

Jon Stewart performs a solo standup routine, telecast live from Miami, Florida.

The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Fl...

Documents the true story of the final weeks of rehearsal for the Young at Heart Chorus in Northampto...

People often think of Vancouver as a new city, when in fact this region has been occupied for 9,000 ...