Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)
Genre: Documentary, History
Director: Ada Ushpiz
Actors: Aharon Appelfeld, Alison Darcy, Jerome Kohn, Leon Botstein, Richard Bernstein, Steven Asheim
Country: Canada
West of Memphis (2012)
The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers’ unprecedented…
Two Trains Runnin’ (2016)
The search of several young, white men for blues singers who have been missing for decades coincides with the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s.
Hatching Eagles (2024)
The national ski jumping team of China is trained in Finland, starting from scratch three years before the Beijing Winter Olympics, in an unprecedented project where young athletes strive to…
The Seven Five (2015)
Meet the dirtiest cop in NYC history. Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of ’80s Brooklyn.
Bolshoi Babylon (2015)
A behind-the-scenes look at Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi Theatre as it’s rocked by an acid-attack scandal in 2013.
The Second Game (2014)
A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest…
ABC Africa (2001)
Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.
Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive (2017)
In his first special since his serious car accident, Tracy Morgan cracks jokes about life in a coma, his second marriage and his family’s dark side.
The Pain of Others (2018)
Tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, say they have it. But the mainstream medical community says Morgellons is not a disease at all, but a delusion propagated and reinforced…
Never Again Is Now (2019)
Evelyn Markus is a psychologist. She is not a filmmaker by profession. But Evelyn has a story to tell. This documentary is her story of doing her part to prevent…
Homework (1989)
Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.
Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11 (2021)
Follows former top officials and elite operatives inside the CIA as they share accounts of their efforts to stop Osama bin Laden and the catastrophic attack they knew was coming.