The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Kept Secret (2018)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Barry Avrich
Jesus Camp (2006)
Jesus Camp is a Christian summer camp where children hone their “prophetic gifts” and are schooled in how to “take back America for Christ”. The film is a first-ever look…
Time Indefinite (1993)
After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies less than a week later. Shaken by the…
The Unbookables (2012)
The Unbookables is a narrative documentary about stand-up comics who have spent their careers pushing limits–on stage and off. Relegated to small venues and touring in a crappy van through…
Messi (2014)
His teachers, coaches, childhood friends and Barça teammates, together with journalists, writers and prominent figures from the history of football, come together in a restaurant to analyze and pick apart…
WWI Chronicles: Everything Changed (2025)
This gripping documentary unveils the world before the WWI, the tensions simmering beneath empires, and the Sarajevo assassination that ignited the deadliest conflict yet. A clash of nations, a war…
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2019)
Film adaptation of French economist Thomas Piketty’s ground-breaking global bestseller of the same name: an eye-opening journey through wealth and power.
Manchild: The Schea Cotton Story (2016)
Schea Cotton is the subject of one of the biggest mysteries in basketball’s history. Described as “the Lebron before Lebron,” Inglewood-native Cotton dominated the likes of Kevin Garnett and Paul…
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…
I’ve Been Trying to Tell You (2021)
Do you look back on the optimism of the 1997-2001 era as a lost golden age, or do you see it as a period of naïvety, delusion and folly? There’s…
Money Heist: The Phenomenon (2020)
A documentary on why ‘Money Heist’ sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world for a lovable group of thieves and their professor.
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (2024)
A multigenerational story celebrating director Sean Wang’s two grandmothers, one on his father’s side and the other on his mother’s side.
At Berkeley (2013)
Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous debate taking place over tuition hikes, budget cuts,…