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Museum Town

Directed by Jennifer Trainer, a former journalist and one of MASS MoCA's original builders,...

Music from the Big House

In MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE, Rita Chiarelli, Canada's Queen of the Blues, takes a pilgrimage to the...

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Is pornography an acceptable form of expression - and if so, can distinctions be drawn between...

The Mystery of Picasso

Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the twentieth century, is making a painting, just as...

Mystical Brain

Is it possible to shed light on the states of grace experienced by mystics and meditators? Mystical...

NAS: Time Is Illmatic

Twenty years after the release of Nas's groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, Nas: Time is Illmatic...

Nationtime

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves...

Natural Resistance

Four Italian winegrowers live a life we all dream of: Giovanna Tiezzi and Stefano Borsa in their...

NEEDTOBREATHE: Into the Mystery

NEEDTOBREATHE: Into The Mystery chronicles the unique recording of NEEDTOBREATHE’s latest...

The New Public

In fall 2006, former DJ, point guard and teacher turned first-time principal, James O'Brien, opened...

No Dinosaurs in Heaven

This documentary weaves together two strands: an examination of the problem posed by creationists...

No Maps on My Taps

The golden age of tap dancing spanned the first half of the twentieth century, but by the 1950s,...

NoBody's Perfect

In the late 1950s and early 60s, more than 10,000 children were born with deformities due to the...

Nollywood Babylon

NOLLYWOOD BABYLON chronicles the wild world of “Nollywood,” a term coined in the early...

NOTFILM

In 1964, esteemed playwright Samuel Beckett set out on an embattled collaboration with silent-era...

Obit.

It's a shame no one wants to talk to them at parties, because obituary writers are a surprisingly...

Of Fathers and Sons

After his Sundance award-winning documentary Return to Homs, Talal Derki returned to his homeland...

Of Men and War

Shot over five years, Of Men and War gives perhaps the most in-depth look at the recovery efforts...

Off to War: From Rural Arkansas to Iraq

FROM RURAL ARKANSAS TO IRAQ THE COMPLETE TEN-PART SERIES As seen on the Discovery Times...

The Olive Thomas Collection

In the heyday of silent films, a winsome ingénue named Olive Thomas – affectionately...

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of...

ON AND OFF THE RAILS - The British Transport Films Collection

Featuring 14 Classic British Railroading Films Following the nationalization of transport in 1948,...

On Broadway

For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! As audiences...

On Meditation

On Meditation is a compilation of portraits that explore the deeply personal practice of meditation...

On The Adamant

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting, enlightening documentary...

On the Bowery: The Films of Lionel Rogosin Vol. 1

Three films from documentarian Lionel Rogosin's inimitable career come together in this deluxe...

One Hand Don't Clap

ONE HAND DON’T CLAP captures the vibrant story of calypso and the emergence of soca, through...

Ornette: Made in America

Returning in 1983 to his home in Fort Worth, Texas, documentary footage and dramatic scenes recall...

Out of My Head

When a filmmaker investigates the devastating migraine attacks which have her daughter in their...

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

In 1993, artist Anselm Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near...

Pandora's Promise

The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global...

Paul Verhoeven's Tricked

Part behind-the-scenes documentary, part narrative feature, PAUL VERHOEVEN'S TRICKED is the result...

The Pearl Button

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those...

THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA

THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the...

The Phantom

The Phantom tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice....

A Photographic Memory

Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards and a New York...

Pianoforte

The world’s most talented young pianists compete in the International Chopin Piano...

Playing Frisbee in North Korea

Called “The Hermit Kingdom,” North Korea is an enigma wrapped in a quagmire of...

Poisoned by Polonium

"If anything should happen to me, I beg you to show this tape to the whole world." On...

Portrait of Jason

On December 2, 1966, director Shirley Clarke and a miniscule film crew gathered in her apartment at...

Prairie Trilogy

John Hanson and Rob Nilsson, co-directors of Cannes Camera d’Or winner Northern Lights and...

The Price of Everything

Exploring the labyrinth of the contemporary art world, The Price of Everything examines the...

Primary Instinct

Stephen Tobolowsky is a veteran actor with a dazzlingly diverse filmography spanning forty years,...

Protagonist

PROTAGONIST explores extremism through contrasting stories of personal revelation. The film...

Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border

Reyes' provocative essay film re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to...

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege...

Putin's Kiss

Putin's Kiss portrays contemporary life in Russia through the coming-of-age story of Masha, a...

The Queen

More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss...

Queen of the Deuce

The unbelievable true story of Chelly Wilson, who escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema...

Queendom

In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGTBQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life...

Radiant City

Surrealist filmmaker Gary Burns (Waydowntown, A Problem with Fear) joins journalist Jim Brown on an...

Radical Wolfe

From a beat reporter at the Washington Post to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New...

Radio Unnameable

Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves in the 1960s and '70s with his...

Ram Dass Fierce Grace

Harvard professors Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary made countercultural history in 1963...

Ramen Heads

Ramen Heads follows Osamu Tomita, Japan’s reigning king of ramen, as he reveals every single...

Raw Faith

RAW FAITH is an intimate and revealing documentary that follows two years in the private life of...

The Reason I Jump

Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, later translated into English by author...

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news...

The Red Chapel

Combining the muckraking spirit of Michael Moore with the confrontational comedy of Borat, The Red...

Red Lines

The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario - one eerily foretold in 2012...

Reel Injun

ON THE TRAIL OF THE HOLLYWOOD INDIAN An entertaining and provocative look at Hollywood's depiction...

Regina

Diana Groó’s documentary tells the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944)a strong woman,...

Remembering Gene Wilder

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an...

Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan

RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN offers an intimate portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan as she...

Revealing Mr. Maugham

Revealing Mr. Maugham tells the story of one of literature's most influential and misunderstood gay...

The Revisionaries

In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American...

Revival 69: The Concert That Rocked the World

John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Little Richard, The Doors, Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, and other legendary...

Riefenstahl

Filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women...

Rob Epstein - Jeffrey Friedman Collection: Common Threads, Where Are We?

For more than 30 years, Oscar®-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have borne...

Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling

The life and career of experimental artist Robert Irwin, whose installations have radically...

Rockaway: Before and After

A pair of one-hour features on a single disc, Rockaway: Before and After chronicles the...

Romantico

More than just a documentary dispatch from the illegal immigration frontlines, Mark Becker's...

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Filmmakers Stevie Salas, Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana examine the musical contribution...

Safe...Not Sorry

Though the era of 16mm educational cinema has come to a close, those quirky films unspooled in the...

Savior for Sale: Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece?

Salvator Mundi (The Savior of the World) became the world’s most expensive painting when it...

Say Amen, Somebody

One of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time, SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY is a joyous, funny,...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is the deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, a...

Searching for Mr. Rugoff

The feature documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy...

Secrets of the Soul

What is the soul? Is it genetically encoded in our DNA or the product of centuries of religious...

Seeds Of Time

10,000 years ago the biggest revolution in human history occurred: we became agrarians. We ceased...

SEMBENE!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an...

The Sentence

Drawing from hundreds of hours of footage, filmmaker Rudy Valdez shows the aftermath of his...

Sex, Power, and Money: Films by Beth B

After defining the No Wave film movement of the New York underground of the 1970s and ’80s,...

Shari & Lamb Chop

Before Fred Rogers and Jim Henson, there was Shari Lewis, a children’s television pioneer...

Signs Out of Time

SIGNS OUT OF TIME, a film by Donna Read and Starhawk, examines the life and work of world-renowned...

A Sinner in Mecca

For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is...

Sky Line

In 1979, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a novel about an elevator to space. The mind-expanding documentary...

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna....

The Socalled Movie

Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin, is the most supreme klezmer hip-hop funk artist in the world. A pianist,...

Songs from the North

Songs From the North is an essay film which offers an unique look at the enigma of North Korea, a...

The Sorrow and the Pity

From its first release at an underground theater in Paris, this account of France's occupation...

Sorry/Not Sorry

Through candor and surprising humor, SORRY/NOT SORRY sheds new light on the nuanced experiences of...

Sound of the Soul

SOUND OF THE SOUL is a compelling portrait of an Arab country where Muslims, Christians, and Jews...

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. United Nations, 1960: the Global South...

South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition

When Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton set sail into the Antarctic on August 8, 1914, he was already...

A Space Program

In A Space Program, internationally acclaimed artist Tom Sachs takes us on an intricately...

Space: The Longest Goodbye

In the next decade, NASA will send astronauts to Mars for the first time. Separated from Earth, and...

Spiritual Revolution

SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION captures the spiritual revival that is exploding across the United States...

Starring Jerry As Himself

Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for...

State of Control

In the harrowing documentary State of Control, two American filmmakers go undercover in Tibet...