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In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Snowden

Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lauren Greenfield

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — takes on one of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christian "Chris" Smalls

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Cox

In the competitive world of high school mariachi, the musicians from the South Texas borderlands reign supreme. Under the guidance of coach Abel...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Abel Acuña

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joy Buolamwini

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Farmer

Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actresses and heirs of the wounds of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Li An

Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yance Ford

A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elvis Costello

Fashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison looks back on her journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent, and activist, shining a light on an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bethann Hardison

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Thomas Campanella

A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nyeisha Prince

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gore Vidal

Best friends Silvia and Beba record their lives as they dance, make music, and face an uncertain immigration process in Texas near the Mexican border.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quincy Bryant

Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in television history. From the iconic furry...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joan Ganz Cooney

Monrovia, Indiana explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and...

Genre: Documentary

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In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eugene Jarecki

Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bonnie Raines