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Come Back, Africa/Black Roots

Drama · History · World Cinema

Working secretly with activists and ordinary Africans, Lionel Rogosin created the first film exposing apartheid. He then took the fight for equality home to the US with the astonishing Black Roots.

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

Art Documentaries · Documentary

DECEPTIVE PRACTICE traces Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age 4 with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller.

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Film Documentaries · Documentary

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy: it is about the deeply gifted and flawed people behind a dark and difficult masterpiece; New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era.

F.T.A.

War · Music · Documentary

In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. Despite being highly controversial, it was a huge success among stationed soldiers. Out of circulation and difficult to see for decades, F.T.A. has now been fully restore…

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Art Documentaries · Film Documentaries · Documentary

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several…

The Gospel of Eureka

Documentary

Love, faith and civil rights collide in a southern town as evangelical Christians and drag queens step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes in this documentary narrated by Mx Justin Vivian Bond.

I Am Chris Farley

Biography · Documentary

Chris Farley lived his life full speed and committed to make everyone around him laugh out loud. His hilarious, touching and wildly entertaining story - from his early days in Madison, Wisconsin, through his work at the legendary Second City to his rapid rise to the top of the comedy world on &ldquo…

Love, Sweat & Tears

Documentary

Death, taxes, and menopause are unavoidable facts of life. Love, Sweat & Tears is a groundbreaking, inspiring, and humorous look at a long-taboo subject that will impact both women and men during their lifetimes.

On the Bowery

Documentary

ON THE BOWERY chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, a part-time railroad worker adrift on New York’s skid row. When the film first opened in 1956, it exploded on the screen, jump-started the post-war American independent scene and shortly won an Oscar nomination. Restored b…

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

Drama · History · Documentary

Lionel Rogosin's portrait of life on New York's skid row remains devastating and powerful more than sixty years later. Also features making-of docs by the filmmaker's son Michael Rogosin.

Radical Wolfe

Documentary

This illuminating look at Tom Wolfe follows his journey from beat reporter at the Washington Post to overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement and author of major works like The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full.

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Art Documentaries · Music & Dance · Documentary

This documentary chronicles the nascent Muslim punk rock movement in America. The film follows The Taqwacores (a term combining the Muslim concept of God consciousness with hardcore punk), and charts their brave, foolish, and often exhilarating attempts to navigate the gap between their cultures and…

Whores' Glory

Documentary

WHORES' GLORY, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following MEGACITIES, WORKINGMAN'S DEATH), is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. Glawogger's latest larger-than-life documentary is an audacious, non-judgmental study of sexuality, politics, hu…