24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946)
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Beby, Jean-Pierre Melville, Louis Maïss
Country: France
Judy Blume Forever (2023)
The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality, and what it meant to grow up,…
Student Athlete (2018)
Unveils the exploitative world of high-revenue college sports through the stories of young men at varying stages in their athletic careers.
You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs You Know… (1986)
Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque, presenting a contrast between the famous stairs from the place along with…
Randy Rhoads: Reflections of a Guitar Icon (2022)
Randy Rhoads’ guitar riffs re-shaped rock ‘n roll and raised the stakes for guitarists around the world. Known primarily as the lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and for his groundbreaking…
A World Without Beethoven? (2020)
“What would the world be like without Beethoven?” That’s the provocative question posed by this music documentary from Deutsche Welle. To answer it, the film explores how Ludwig van Beethoven’s…
Rolling Like Thunder (2021)
This documentary plunges into the secret underground world and history of freight train and graffiti culture, uncovering stories of myth-like artists, remarkable romances, competitive graffiti crews, and battles with the…
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2015)
In 1982, three 11 year-olds in Mississippi set out to remake their favorite film: Raiders of the Lost Ark. It took seven turbulent years that tested the limits of their…
Tongues Untied (1990)
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting…
Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era (2011)
Three girls living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1980s found cult fame when they “accidentally” transitioned from models to B-movie actresses, coinciding with the major direct-to-video horror film boom…
Helen of Troy (2005)
British historian Bettany Hughes tours the eastern Mediterranean in search of facts behind the legends of “the face that launched a thousand ships,” exploring the ways Greeks made love and…
Sharksploitation (2024)
The ultimate deep dive into the world of shark cinema: filmmakers, critics, scholars and conservationists explore the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and audiences’ undying fascination with…
And There Was Israel (2018)
The film returns to the origins of the creation of the State of Israel (from 1896 to 1948) and highlights the responsibility of the Western World.