With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning cinematographer Daniel B. Gold set out in search of the truth about polyvinyl chloride (PVC), America's most popular plastic. From Long Island to Louisiana to Italy, they unearth the facts about PVC and its effects on human health and the environment.

Robert De Niro, Sr., was a celebrated painter obscured by the pop-art movement. His life and career ...

Before the internet. Before social media. Before breaking news. The victims of Thalidomide had to re...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...

An inspiring documentary chronicling the rise, fall and resurrection of '80s metal band Quiet Riot. ...

Underwater Dreams, narrated by Michael Peña, is an epic story of how the sons of undocumented Mexica...

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

Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for ...

The space of the junkyard allows various ‘crash’ narratives to unfold, with the stories of actual cr...

July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

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

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...

In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space....

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...

Recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, an...

Materia oscura tells the story of a war zone in peacetime. The film location is the Salto di Quirra ...

This film is an album of Native womanhood, portraying a proud matriarchal society that for centuries...

In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters...

Steyerl’s film traces the impact of an influx of transnational companies on the city dwellers of Ber...
For over 30 years, Martin Bisi has been recording music from his studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. He has...