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

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...

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

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

To celebrate the release of a new movie for their 20th anniversary, this documentary offers some beh...

The First Year tells the inside story of Jamie Driscoll’s first 12 months as the new North of Tyne M...

Somi is pregnant with her second child. A girl, she hopes. Together with her husband she prepares fo...
The purpose of Rise Above the Mark, narrated by Peter Coyote, is to educate the general public about...

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

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

When temporary solutions become the status quo, who gets left behind? A Stop Gap Measure follows dis...

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

Marking the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the greatest exhibition ever held of his works too...

An educational film about the life cycles of various types of pond life.

Banksy is the world's most infamous street artist, whose political art, criminal stunts and daring i...
A polemic against Werner Herzog and the making of "Fitzcarraldo", exploring the question of the film...

Quiet towns across rural Australia are in the grip of an Ice epidemic. Major international drug cart...
A movie about the education for nurse told from Bente's perspective. She starts at the preschool at ...