In 1916, twenty-year-old Marion Wong wrote and directed The Curse of Quon Gwon, the earliest example of an Asian American film. What initially appears to be a story about a Chinese family cursed for allowing Western influence through the door, proves to be an illuminating examination of cultural diaspora years ahead of its time.Sandwiched between two global pandemics, this documentary follows the Wong family descendents as they secure The Curse of Quon Gwon its place in film history and new revelations rise to the surface.

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

Rare documents and details of the film's story. From its initial option to its critical reception an...

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's o...

Monte Hellman was born in 1932. By 1986 he made eight features, but had not directed for six years. ...

Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix.

Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema v...

The film tells the life story of Roman Romancini, one of the most important Brazilian mountaineers, ...

A documentary about the career of legendary production designer Joe Alves and his four decades in Ho...

EXODUS is an intimate, lyrical portrait of Trinity Copeland and Assia Serrano as they struggle to ma...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He...

Through an intimate conversation, Steph Jane, age 28, shares the struggles and lessons her second di...

Filmmaker Tobias Hermansen, known for Dreamscape and Mentally Unavailable, has battled depression fo...

Smithsonian Magazine once asked the rhetorical question, 'Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico rai...
Short film about the manufacture of bricks.

In rocky Newfoundland, renowned French artist Jean Claude Roy gathers his paints and sets off to fac...

During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed befor...

An excerpt about the troubled, passionate and intriguing relationship of an actor with his own life.

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...