The Third Strike
A deep dive into the 1980’s war on drugs that led directly to the three-strikes laws that locked up even petty offenders for lifetime sentences.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Nicole Jones
The Commandant’s Shadow
While Hans Jurgen Höss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was trying to survive the notorious concentration camp. At the heart of…
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic “The Return of the Living Dead.”
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s production of L’Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents…
Alt-Right: Age of Rage
In the first year of Trump’s Presidency, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, combats the rise of the Alt-Right movement, while Richard Spencer, an Alt-Right leader, fights to gain ground,…
Michelangelo: Love and Death
The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this renaissance genius? Who was this ambitious and passionate man?
Road Trip: Beer Pong
The three-part complementary series features eminent scientists, theologians and conservationists discussing the environmental and conservation issues at stake and asks how much of the world revealed in Planet Earth will…
Ethel
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and politics.
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet – the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Medium
A film portrait of Argentinian pianist Margarita Fernández. Medium makes her visible as a mediator, building bridges between past and present, different generations, scores and music, sounds and images, her…
Chiefs
Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch demonstrations of gruesome anti-riot weapons, sing…
American Drug War: The Last White Hope
Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth delves into a world of deceit and corruption controlled by a drug dealing government who’s only allegiance is to its corporate masters.
Searching for Mr. Rugoff
The feature documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, the mid-century theater chain and film distribution company. Rugoff…