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.
A documentary detailing the murder of Stacey Stites of Bastrop, Texas and the subsequent arrest, con...

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

A short documentary that celebrates Dene cultural reclamation and revitalization, in which a father ...

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

An inside look at the notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where one of the U.S.’s only in-pri...

Documentary about filmmaker Bonnie Ammaaq's memories of life on Baffin Island, where her family move...

An educational film about the nervous system produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an education...

An educational film about frogs produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an educational film produ...

On January 1, 1994, thousands of indigenous people occupied seven towns in the southern Mexican stat...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decoloniza...

Ningwasum follows two time travellers Miksam and Mingsoma, played by Subin Limbu and Shanta Nepali r...

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

An exploration of the 'respectable' and 'immoral' stereotypes of women in Indian society told from t...

Amidst the grand walls of the Forbidden City, the film takes us on a deep journey through the ceremo...

Morgan Spurlock tours the Middle East to discuss the war on terror with Arabic people.

Artificial intelligence is taking on different roles in the filmmaking space. The questions we must ...

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

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...
This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the pe...

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that...