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.

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and t...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

Two elderly sisters share the delicate art of making traditional Hungarian strudel and reveal a deep...

A fascinating compilation tracing the development of British trains throughout the 20th century. Thi...

Shot with stunning elegance and clarity, NAKED SPACES explores the rhythm and ritual of life in the ...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

Stiff Sheets indicts public health officials and politicians for the lack of adequate and humane car...

Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives...

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common facto...

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of...

Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality bega...

In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and th...

Filmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Ab...

Poet, agricultural engineer and revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born in Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verde...