A 1970s American elementary school program encouraging students to figure out for themselves the universal building blocks of human community — family, work, faith, etc. — inflamed political sensitivities so intensely it was shelved and forgotten. Archive footage of the documentary film series at the program's core, classroom exchanges, and the ensuing controversy frames larger issues of education, politics and ideology.

The follow-up film to “Barstow, California” takes us to the mountains of Miyama, a remote forest and...

THE ARYANS is Mo Asumang's personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German...

From practicing barefoot on the streets of Lagos to performing on stage in England, twelve year old ...

One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he und...

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

Dating back to the 1800s, Birmingham’s roller skating scene is a flourishing, diverse community - bu...

Explore miracle research, true supernatural accounts and unexpected answers to prayer. For those wre...

A documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does...

Joyce Jonathan Crone—Mohawk matriarch, retired teacher, activist, humanitarian—reaches forward into ...
This documentary short is the first film made by an all-Aboriginal film crew, training under the NFB...

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practi...

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...

In his debut documentary, Dylan Valley explores the untold Creole history of Afrikaans, using what h...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its ...

Resident Orca tells the unfolding story of a captive whale’s fight for survival and freedom. After d...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert reflects on the social, economic and personal forces that led...

WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the por...