In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family to come to terms with the inevitable death that it faces. Hopelessness and desperation are confronted through the collaborative effort of remembering and recording, a process that inspires unexpected strength and even solace in the face of death.

Filmed across three continents, this documentary shares the story of the founders of the Pan-African...

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncerta...

Keenly aware that his niece is going through a particularly rough time at home, Uncle James teaches ...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

The Bridge is a controversial documentary that shows people jumping to their death from the Golden G...

In Córdoba, far from the Argentine capital, the end of a military regime promises a spring that is a...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushm...

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an ...

Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of ...

In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they c...

A nuanced portrait of a new generation, Dear Thirteen is a cinematic time capsule of coming of age i...
German iconoclast filmmaker and gay-rights activist Rosa vonPraunheim examines his own life and care...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

Over the course of 10 months, a camera travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Hanover, Germany to me...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...