Hairat (2017)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jessica Beshir
Actors: Elias Shagiz Adonay Tesfaye, Yussuf Mume Saleh
Country: Ethiopia
The Big Payback (2022)
Funded by a tax on cannabis, Evanston, IL, earmarked $10 million to compensate descendants of enslaved Africans for 400 years of unpaid labor. Alderwoman Simmons leads her constituents through this…
The Found Footage Phenomenon (2021)
The documentary tracks the origins of the found footage technique and how it transformed with technological changes throughout the last few decades.
UnFair: Exposing the IRS (2014)
A documentary shedding light on the certain damage the Income Tax and the IRS have wrought on liberties, businesses, families, and religious, charitable and civic organizations, while empowering a political…
Women of Troy (2020)
Women of Troy is an HBO Sports documentary exploring the transcendent career of the Cheryl Miller-led USC Trojans and their impact on women’s basketball.
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1996)
A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas’ trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth.
Vegucated (2011)
Explores the challenges of converting to a vegan diet. It “follows three meat-and-cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks.
Radical Acts of Love (2019)
Filmed over a three-year period, the film Radical Acts of Love chronicles Linda Folley’s struggle with early-onset Alzheimer’s. The film tells the story of Linda, a master programmer, pilot, scientist,…
Nature’s Journey (2007)
Nature’s Journey genre-bending mix of location filming, subtle computer-generated imagery, musical soundscapes and artistic graphic enhancements that draws you deep into the magical heart of our planet Earth.
The First Boys of Spring (2016)
For parts of five decades, the immortals of America’s National Pastime trained on baseball diamonds and “boiled out the alcoholic microbes” of winter in the thermal baths of Hot Springs,…
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017)
Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. His anti-nuclear activism grew after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, and his career only paused after a…
Into Eternity: A Film for the Future (2010)
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and…
Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking (2013)
Take a look at Tarantino’s career from the beginning, with interviews from co-workers, critics, stars and master filmmakers alike as well as a tribute to his greatest collaborator, Sally Menke….