American Studies

Abraham Lincoln

Returning to the historic era of his greatest success, Griffith paid homage to the sixteenth Preside...

After Parkland

In the days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 that killed 17 people...

The American Nurse

THE AMERICAN NURSE is a heart-warming film that explores some of the biggest issues facing Ame...

The Atomic Cafe

Armageddon has never been so darkly funny as in The Atomic Cafe. This 1982 cult classic juxtaposes C...

The Automat

The Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which serve...

Bacurau

A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of ...

Before The Nickelodeon

An age of innovation An era of idealism The time when American movies were born BEFORE THE NI...

Behind the Orange Curtain

Not your TV version of Orange County. Born out of the deaths of two Orange County teens, this close-...

The Birth of a Nation

Almost a century after its release, The Birth of a Nation remains one of the most controversial film...

Blood in the Face

Welcome to White Nationalism.A chilling exposé of the beliefs, history, and personalities of ...

The Chambermaid

In her feature debut, theater director Lila Avilés turns the monotonous work day of Eve (Gabr...

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future

A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical real...

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

In this acclaimed three-part documentary, celebrated film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill (...

The Donut King

Everything you thought you knew about the donut begins with Ted Ngoy. The Donut King tells the rags ...

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the ...

Edison: The Invention of the Movies

A comprehensive survey of one of cinema's most influential figures, Edison: The Invention of the Mov...

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY is an intimate and moving portrait of one of the most remarkable women i...

Elvis: Return to Tupelo

Elvis Presley may have been born with the rock 'n roll in his blood but without poverty, southern cu...

The Good Fight

The fight for the freedom of Loyalist Spain during the 1936-39 civil war pitted an International Bri...

The Great Train Robbery and Other Primary Works

The genesis of the motion picture medium is vividly recreated in this unprecedented collection of th...

Gueros

Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra and Santos have been living in angst-rid...

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29A film by Kevin Rafferty An incredible true story that unfolds like "a ripp...

Heartworn Highways

In the mid-70’s, James Szalapski captured lightning in a bottle, a fleeting moment in music hi...

Hofmann's Potion: The Pioneers of LSD

Long before Timothy Leary urged a generation to “tune in, turn on and drop out,” lysergi...

Holes In My Shoes

HOLES IN MY SHOES is the award-winning and profoundly moving story of Jack Beers. As featured on PBS...

How to Change the World

How to Change the World chronicles the adventures of an eclectic group of young pioneers - Canadian ...

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

HOW TO COME ALIVE with Norman Mailer explores the rollercoaster life of America’s most controv...

How to be a Man

VOLUME 1 HOW TO BE A MAN Instructions for Proper Male Behavior from Classroom Films of the 1940s...

How to be a Woman

VOLUME 2 HOW TO BE A WOMAN Instructions for Proper Female Behavior from Classroom Films of th...

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

2017 Academy Award® Nominee for Best Documentary Feature I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is an examination ...

Identifying Features

Middle-aged Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her son after he took off with a fr...

In the Pit

Using state of the art digital filmmaking, "gorgeous time lapse sequences" (NY Newsday), and a "terr...

Intolerance (Griffith Masterworks)

D.W. Griffith had a vision of the movies as the greatest spiritual force the world had ever known. J...

Invisible Valley

Invisible Valley weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snowbird...

Ixcanul

The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fab...

¡Las Sandinistas!

¡Las Sandinistas! reveals the untold stories of Nicaraguan women warriors and social revolutio...

Legacy of a Dream

Legacy of a Dream is a 24 minute film that uses selected footage from the 180 minute Academy Award n...

Liberty Kid

Ilya Chaiken's "tender, wise, and deceptively low key" (New York Times) film Liberty Kid captures wi...

Lucha Mexico

In Mexico, the fight between good and evil has been waged every week for decades, thrilling generati...

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Poet, storyteller, actress, dancer, and passionate activist Maya Angelou gave people the freedom to ...

Museo

Well into their 30s, Juan Nuñez (Gael García Bernal) and Benjamín Wilson (Leona...

Northern Lights

Winner of the 1979 Camera d'Or, Northern Lights, a unique work of political cinema from the late 197...

Off to War: From Rural Arkansas to Iraq

FROM RURAL ARKANSAS TO IRAQ THE COMPLETE TEN-PART SERIES As seen on the Discovery Times Channel F...

PACmen

PACmen is the first film to document the inside workings of a Super-PAC, taking us behind the scenes...

The Pearl Button

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that...

Pioneers of African-American Cinema

This collection of the works of America's legendary first African-American filmmakers is the only on...

Private Desert

“Remember when we talked about being alone in the world?” Sara is a genderfluid blue-col...

Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border

Reyes' provocative essay film re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to D...

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-...

The Red Kimona

THE RED KIMONA Produced by Mrs. Wallace Reid Story by Dorothy Arzner Screenplay by Adela Ro...

Reel Baseball - Baseball Films from the Silent Era

Weekend promo has ended Baseball films from the silent era REEL BASEBALL 1899-1926 2 Features 11...

The Revisionaries

In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American childre...

Romantico

More than just a documentary dispatch from the illegal immigration frontlines, Mark Becker's Rom&aac...

STOP

The feature length documentary STOP follows three years in the life of David Ourlicht, one of the fo...

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites...

Story Ave

South Bronx teen Kadir (Asante Blackk) is a gifted visual artist who loses his way following the dea...

Taking Venice

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government is determined to fight Communism with culture. Th...

The Blood is at the Doorstep

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and kill...

The War Tapes

The war in Iraq has been the most covered conflict in history. 2,700 embedded reporters, instant&nbs...

This Ain't No Mouse Music

Roots music icon Chris Strachwitz is a detective of sounds, an archaeologist of deep American music...

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