Gambling on Extinction (2015)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jakob Kneser
Actors: Grace Gabriel, Jeff Douglas, John Hume, Julian Rademeyer, Kobus de Wet, Peter Knights
The Case Against 8 (2014)
A behind-the-scenes look inside the case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Shot over five years, the film follows the unlikely team that took the first federal marriage equality…
Ninan Auassat: We the Children (2024)
Known for her intimate films, director Kim O’Bomsawin (Call Me Human) invites viewers into the lives of Indigenous youth in this absorbing new documentary. Shot over six years, the film…
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…
Killing Lincoln (2013)
April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever…
Salt in My Soul (2022)
Based on Mallory Smith’s posthumously published memoir, Salt In My Soul offers a look inside the mind of a young woman trying to live while dying. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis,…
The Black Candle (2009)
The origins of Kwanzaa and the seven principles upon which the pan-African holiday derives its meaning are explored in this fascinating documentary. Narrated by Maya Angelou.
A Time to Die (2023)
A powerful and thought-provoking feature length documentary that explores the human cost of the current British law on assisted dying, featuring the emotional stories of five people who all want…
Boys of Summer (2010)
On a tiny Caribbean island of Curaçao, they take their Little League® Baseball very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that Manager Vernon Isabella has sent his Little League All-Stars to…
Terror at the Mall (2014)
A documentary detailing an indiscriminate terrorist attack that left 71 dead in Kenya.
Beethoven’s Hair (2005)
Beethoven’s Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven’s corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death. The film begins in modern…
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People’s History of the United States (2006)
An impressive roster of celebrities — including Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson, Sarah Jones, Brian Jones, John Sayles and Wallace Shawn — lend their voices to this performance of readings inspired…
Three Chords and a Lie (2020)
A decade after being ostracized for coming out to his strict, Southern Baptist family, rising country star Brandon Stansell is going home.