Slavery by Another Name
A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.
Villa Empain
Villa Empain was conceived by a Belgian philanthropist as his private home. After its completion in 1934, Louis Empain donated the property to the state. Since then, the exquisite building…
Swarm Season
In the shadow of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano, a young girl, Manu, and her mother lovingly breed a colony of bees. Meanwhile, as Manu’s activist father protests the construction of…
Russia’s Wild Tiger
Records the battle for the survival of the big cats and reveals intimate details of their lives. The animals they prey on are also in the film: tigers couldn’t survive…
Reopening Night
This documentary follows the cast, crew and staff of the world-famous Public Theater as they prepare to mount an all-black adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives,” at the open-air Delacorte Theater…
The Desert Said Dance
Anyone can enter the Baja 1000, but not everyone finishes it. Some aren’t tough enough. Some don’t have bikes that are tough enough. And some make mistakes that take them…
Michael Palin’s Quest for Artemisia
Michael Palin discovers the story of 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. He unearths not only her paintings, but a complex and difficult life.
Hillsong: Let Hope Rise
Chronicles the unlikely rise to prominence of the Australia-based Christian band, Hillsong United.
6 Weeks to Mother’s Day
150 underprivileged and orphaned students in the remote jungle of Thailand attending the country’s first democratic school prepare a special celebration to honor their remarkable adoptive mother on Mother’s Day.
Phantom Cowboys
Part time capsule, part folk song, Phantom Cowboys follows three teenage boys as they approach adulthood in vastly different parts of the United States. Moving fluidly between the deserts of…
Becoming Santa
The story of one man entering the culture and character of Santa Claus for a single season.
9 Days at Raqqa
Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her battle was Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic State with 300,000 inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war. An…
Extraordinary: The Revelations
Explores the historical significance of ET presence around the world as well as three specific belief paradigms — biblical, ascension and colonization – that attempt to define the alien agenda.