Art Documentaries

Beuys

Thirty years after his death, Joseph Beuys still feels like a visionary and is widely considered one...

Blank City

BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (LA Times) when a disparate crew of renegade ...

Derek

Written and NARRATED BY ACADEMY AWARD WINNER TILDA SWINTON A FILM BY ISAAC JULIEN PRODUCED BY...

Finding Fela

Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life, his music, his social and political impo...

FLicKeR

In 1960, poet artist, and beatnik Brion Gysin invented the Dreammachine, a hypnotic device with the ...

Great Directors

SPECIAL 2-DISC SET Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in ...

Hand Gestures

Even today, in order to create a sculpture in bronze, it is necessary to take the same steps taken i...

Hedda Gabler

Set in an anonymous corner of suburbia, this contemporary adaptation of Ibsen’s play is a shat...

Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures...

Flex is Kings

Flex Is Kings takes place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, where high crime rates and ...

Last Impresario

The Last Impresario is a portrait of Michael White, the enfant terrible of London's theater world in...

Louvre City

LOUVRE CITY takes the form of one of the classic symphonies of the 1920s, which begin at daybreak, e...

Marlene

An Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary and winner of the 1986 New York Film Critic¹s Circle...

Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray

Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist E...

Nollywood Babylon

NOLLYWOOD BABYLON chronicles the wild world of “Nollywood,” a term coined in the early &...

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

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

A History of Israeli Cinema

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than...

Art of Faith

Art of Faith is a visually sumptuous series revealing outstanding examples of the art and architectu...

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a revealing look inside the kitchen of renowned Spanish chef Ferran...

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Is pornography an acceptable form of expression - and if so, can distinctions be drawn between diffe...

Radiant City

Surrealist filmmaker Gary Burns (Waydowntown, A Problem with Fear) joins journalist Jim Brown on an ...

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introducti...

La Maison de la Radio

LA MAISON DE LA RADIO is a vibrant portrait of Radio France, that nation's equivalent of NPR or the ...

Revealing Mr. Maugham

Revealing Mr. Maugham tells the story of one of literature's most influential and misunderstood gay ...

Gerhard Richter Painting

GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING offers unprecedented insight into the life and work of one of the greatest ...

An American Journey: In Robert Frank's Footsteps

Robert Frank's The Americans (1958) transformed the landscape of contemporary photography. An exile ...

Landscape Film: Roberto Burle Marx

A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for t...

Rockaway: Before and After

A pair of one-hour features on a single disc, Rockaway: Before and After chronicles the ep...

SEMBENE!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impos...

Dirty Diaries: 12 Shorts of Feminist Porn

Consisting of twelve short films by twelve women artists, DIRTY DIARIES explores the new genre of "f...

Hooligan Sparrow

Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) is labeled a troublemaker by the Chinese government – someo...

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a personal documentary about the iconic actor in his intimate ...

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

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

Lifeline: Clyfford Still

Jackson Pollock said, “he makes the rest of us look academic,” Mark Rothko acknowledged ...

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

A vibrant chronicle of one of today’s most notorious and revered live bands, Gogol Bordello No...

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer...

Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake

No ballet has such deathless appeal as Swan Lake, a haunting fable of a young man’s nai?vete? ...

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

Buirski (The Loving Story) brings to the screen the magnificent and tragic story of Tanaquil Le Cler...

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Taqwacore chronicles the nascent Muslim punk rock movement in America. It was inspired by the work o...

The Last Resort

Before the arrival of Miami Vice and MTV Spring Break, South Beach was home to the largest cluster o...

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Legendary actress Charlotte Rampling (Heading South, Melancholia) is "the perfect confluence of brai...

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor (often a mischievous presence in...

The Dwarvenaut

The Dwarvenaut gives viewers a glimpse into the visionary mind of Brooklyn-based artist and entrepre...

The Gates

In 1979, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude proposed one of the largest artworks in history: a "golde...

The Red Chapel

Combining the muckraking spirit of Michael Moore with the confrontational comedy of Borat, The Red C...

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

Years before the Beats arrived in San Francisco, the city exploded with artistic expressions: painti...

Boneshop of the Heart

This acclaimed and thought-provoking documentary provides a rare and illuminating exploration of the...

Drew: The Man Behind The Poster

DREW: THE MAN BEHIND THE POSTER is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the career of post...

The Price of Everything

Exploring the labyrinth of the contemporary art world, The Price of Everything examines the ro...

Kiki & Herb: Live at the Knitting Factory

Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman are KIKI & HERB, worldwide smash punk rebel entertainers, cabaret ...

Music from the Big House

In MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE, Rita Chiarelli, Canada's Queen of the Blues, takes a pilgrimage to the ...

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

George- The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus is a feature documentary as mercurial as its subject...

The Great Museum

Featuring unprecedented access to an influential and multi-faceted institution, The Great Museum rev...

The Juche Idea

Jim Finn's The Juche Idea is an uproarious and provocative deconstruction of North Korean propaganda...

The Magic of Melies

The MAGIC of MÉLIÈS Fifteen Fantastic Works by the Cinema’s First Special Effec...

This Ain't No Mouse Music

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

From Caligari to Hitler

Using a montage of footage from the highest quality restorations, Suchsland illustrates Siegfried Kr...

Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil

In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch held a special exhibition devoted t...

Museum Town

Directed by Jennifer Trainer, a former journalist and one of MASS MoCA's original builders, and...

Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable...

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