The Competition

A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."

Two high school students from very different backgrounds participate in a musical with mentally disabled children, which eventually leads to the reali...

Explores the attempts of the minister of the Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, to persuade his all-white congregation to reach out to "neg...

1974 documentary about symphony conductor Antonia Brico, including her struggle against gender bias in her profession.

Documentary on mainland Chinese life. Directed, produced, written, and narrated by Shirley MacLaine, the film follows her First American Women’s Frien...

Award-winning documentary film tells the story of pediatrician author and activist Dr. Helen Caldicott.

A New Jersey family discovers their drinking water is contaminated with deadly poisons from a nearby landfill.

1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Promises to Keep follows agitator Snyder and the Community for Creative Non-Violence by showing film-fragments, news-bulletin images from records, and...

An account of Black American soldiers in World War II who combated racism in the segregated military and on the home front.

Documentary film about life in the slums of Palermo, Sicily. Revisiting the family featured in a 1961 documentary from Michael Roemer, and Robert Youn...

Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canad...

Intimate documentary about young women who make papier mache fruit and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico. They have a gringo boss, but the facto...

Biographical documentary of the war photographer Don McCullin, with sections on his upbringing, early work for the Observer and extensive war reportin...

One Tree Three Lives, an intimate film on the novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, who has been a major influence on generations of writers in the Chinese Dia...