McKellen: Playing the Part (2018)
Genre: Documentary, History
Director: Joe Stephenson
Actors: Adam Brown, Frances Barber, Ian McKellen, Luke Evans, Milo Parker, Scott Chambers
Country: United Kingdom
The Pirate Tapes (2011)
Exposing piracy in Somalia from the inside out, The Pirates Tapes follows Mohamed Ashareh, a young Somali-Canadian, as he travels to Somalia in hopes of joining an active pirate cell….
Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes (2019)
Garden designer Lynden B. Miller explores the life and career of Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959), America’s first female landscape architect.
Gimme Shelter (1970)
A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on…
Red Trees (2017)
Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi…
Alaskan Summer (2017)
In the ice-gripped environment of Alaska’s Admiralty Island, summer offers the briefest of respites. Year-round residents such as bears and seals turn to the salmon-filled waterways for sustenance. Meanwhile, migrants…
The Speed Cubers (2020)
This documentary captures the extraordinary twists and turns in the journeys of Rubik’s Cube-solving champions Max Park and Feliks Zemdegs.
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
A look at the history of fame in the world through the eyes of pop star impresario, Rodney Bingenheimer
In Search of Bass Reeves (2024)
By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of 3,000 outlaws to…
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman (2023)
Filmmaker Morgan Neville captures Dave Letterman on his first visit to Dublin to hang out with Bono and The Edge in their hometown, experience Dublin, and join the two U2…
My Way in Pyongyang (2015)
Public interest in North Korea, and media reportage on the world’s most insular and secretive state has never been higher. Yet all of us who live outside the country remain…
Me My Selfie and I with Ryan Gander (2019)
Celebrated conceptual artist Ryan Gander investigates the selfie – the icon of a new kind of self-regard that hardly existed just ten years ago. He discovers the roots of the…
Disclosure (2020)
An investigation of how Hollywood’s fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.