Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.
La otra educación (The Other Education) is about the class action suit Rosa Lydia Velez vs the Depar...
Documents Ku Klux Klan activities in California, Georgia, Chicago, and Ohio.
This documentary analyzes the origins of the Puerto Rican economic development plan of the 1960’s, b...
Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.
An educational documentary spanning two continents, opening up a much-needed debate about traditiona...
In part of the HBO's America Undercover series, this documentary provides an insider's view of menta...
Filmmaker Molly Gandour, in her mid-20s, returns to her childhood home in Indiana to speak with her ...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconven...
Debate Team is a documentary exploring the weird subculture of competitive college debate. Competito...
Yallah! Underground follows some of today’s most influential and progressive artists in Arab undergr...
This feature documentary is an exploration of the concept of dirt and impurity. From the slums of Ko...
The representation of women in contemporary Italian media
Chris Packham presents, mentioning others that didn't quite make the list, his favorite top ten anim...
Hidden in the heart of Russia, there is a Soviet-era city where thousands of people live and work be...
In Japan, a survivor of the 2011 tsunami turns beach debris into gorgeous jewelry.
REAL BOY is the coming-of-age story of Bennett Wallace, a transgender teenager on a journey to find ...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...