The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

For half of a millennium, First Nations women have been at the forefront of aboriginal peoples' resi...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The film analyzes the efforts by the families of 9/11 victims to create the 9/11 Commission and what...

A survivor of the Rwandan Genocide struggles to forgive the man who killed her children. A victim’s...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...

Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. ...
Chuck Close, an astounding portrait of one of the world's leading contemporary painters, was one of ...

E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg's endearing movie released in 1982, achieved the tripl...

Through an intimate and artistic lens, yet investigative and political, Milk brings a universal focu...
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas...

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...