Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now… the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos.
Bill Moyers takes a piercing look at how global economic changes are destroying the lives and liveli...
In the late 1960s, Haddon Salt built a fast-food empire. Then Kentucky Fried Chicken came knocking.
Started as a class project in what was likely the first filmmaking course ever taught at Harvard, Ma...
At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Vard...
There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’...
The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to th...
A descent into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody hist...
A passionate photographer from an early age, Dolorès Marat spent much of her life in photo labs, dev...
Spies of Mississippi tells the story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to pr...
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or...
Rated X, a short documentary about the adult industry, focuses on giving a voice to the porn actress...
A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while tell...
From the turn of the century - as emigrants to a New World - through the twenties and through the th...
Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legen...
Jesus Camp is a Christian summer camp where children hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled i...
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the l...
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
This short documentary is the portrait of an 88-year-old woman who lives alone in a log cabin withou...
Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The wome...
Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront...