The practice of mindfulness was brought to the west by Zen Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who was on...

Seeking to make another "Nanook of the North", Robert Flaherty chose Samoa for the docu-fiction film...

MOBY DOC is a surrealist biographical documentary narrated by Moby as he reflects on his turbul...

Worlds collide and tempers flare when Mr. Vig, an 82-year-old recluse who has never known love, and ...

Is a dollar worth anything on paper, or is it simply in the eye of the beholder… or the spend...

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk in ...

Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat is Full) tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worl...

With brush, ink, and rice paper, Zen painter Alok Hsu Kwang-han uses the play of light and dark to e...

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

Rita Chiarelli, Canada's Queen of the Blues, takes a pilgrimage to the birthplace. Louisiana State M...

MUTANTES is a documentary about pro-sex feminism, a movement that seeks to redefine how we understan...

Filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot and painter Pablo Picasso used experimental and innovative technique...

Is it possible to shed light on the states of grace experienced by mystics and meditators? Mystical ...

Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 ...

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926&nd...

Four Italian winegrowers live a life we all dream of: Giovanna Tiezzi and Stefano Borsa in their con...

NEEDTOBREATHE: Into The Mystery chronicles the unique recording of NEEDTOBREATHE’s latest albu...

In fall 2006, former DJ, point guard and teacher turned first-time principal, James O'Brien, opened ...

Emmy Award-winning director (Before Stonewall, Paris Was a Woman) and science educator Greta Schille...

Featuring performances by tap legends Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green, and Howard “Sandman” Si...

Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful s...

Tracing one man's attempt to organize a nude photo shoot of 12 prenatal victims of the toxic drug Th...

This documentary chronicles the wild world of "Nollywood," a term coined in the early '90s to descri...

After restoring the short Film, Ross Lipman wanted to explore its surprising history. He ended ...

Every day, editorial obituary writers deposit the details of a handful of extraordinary lives i...

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, Of Fathers and S...

Shot over five years, Of Men and War gives perhaps the most in-depth look at the recovery efforts of...

From the farms and fields of Arkansas to the deadly streets of Baghdad, OFF TO WAR tracks the citize...

Beautiful, talented and charismatic, Olive Thomas reigned as a Hollywood star briefly but magically&...

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, ...

In conjunction with the British Film Institute, Kino releases these digitally remastered films for t...

For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! It takes us behin...

ON MEDITATION explores the deeply personal practice of meditation through an exploration of extraord...

Lionel Rogosin's portrait of life on New York's skid row remains devastating and powerful more than ...

Ground-breaking filmmaker Shirley Clarke combined forces with Ornette Coleman to create this dazzlin...

A filmmaker sets out to investigate the devastating migraine attacks that have her daughter in their...

A masterpiece of the Swedish silent cinema, Victor Sjöström's THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE is a...

In 1993, artist Anselm Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barj...

The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster...

Part behind-the-scenes documentary, part narrative feature, PAUL VERHOEVEN'S TRICKED is the result o...

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

THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the grea...

The Phantom tells the story of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death an...

Calling North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, fat can get you killed in North Korea. Any other complaint...

The Litvinenko File exposes the truth behind a crime that shocked the world and provoked a war of wo...

Shirley Clarke filmed gay actor, hustler, chanteuse Jason Holliday's 12-hour soliloquy, creating a d...

In Prairie Fire, 97-year-old ex-organizer and poet Henry Martinson recounts the 1916 birth of the S...

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

Stephen Tobolowsky is a veteran actor with a dazzlingly diverse filmography spanning forty years, bu...

Critically-acclaimed Protagonist explores extremism through four contrasting stories of personal rev...

Using Purgatory as his filmic metaphor, Director Rodrigo Reyes creates a haunting exploration of tra...

PUTIN'S KISS portrays contemporary life in Russia through the story of Masha, a 19 year-old girl who...

Eisenstein's epic celebration of Mexico's history and people was never completed due to financial pr...

More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss A...

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

Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves in the 1960s and '70s with his f...

Named by NEWSWEEK as one of the Top Five Non-Fiction Films of 2002, RAM DASS FIERCE GRACE is an...

Ramen Heads follows Osamu Tomita, Japan’s reigning king of ramen, as he reveals every single s...

One of the few women to lead a large church of any denomination, Unitarian minister Marilyn Sewell i...

Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump is an immersive cinemat...

Marion Stokes, a civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in ...

In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The...

The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario - one eerily foretold in 2012 ...

Diana Groó’s documentary tells the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944) a strong woma...

RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN offers an intimate portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan as she p...

A new documentary by Michael House tells the story of Somerset Maugham, the novelist, spy, playwrigh...

The theory of evolution and a re-write of US history are caught in the crosshairs when an unabashed ...

For more than 30 years, Oscar®-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have borne pow...

A pair of one-hour features on a single disc, Rockaway: Before and After takes a look at the history...

A documentary portrait of Mexican musician Carmelo Muniz, who returns home to his young daughters af...

Filmmakers Stevie Salas, Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana examine the musical contribution ...

The Russian Woodpecker is a thrilling, award-winning investigation into whether the Chernobyl nuclea...

A modern tale of globalization, Savior for Sale delves into the secrets of the art world and explore...

SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY is a joyous, funny, and deeply emotional celebration of Gospel music from directo...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is the deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, a h...

“Sea Sorrow” marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director and is a very perso...

Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, th...

What is the soul? Is it genetically encoded in our DNA or the product of centuries of religious teac...

A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the futu...

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossi...

Drawing from hundreds of hours of footage, filmmaker Rudy Valdez shows the aftermath of his ...

Signs Out of Time, a film by Donna Read and Starhawk, examines the life and work of world-renowned a...

Parvez Sharma risks death to illegally film his Hajj pilgrimage - an act made more daring by the fac...

In 1979, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a novel about an elevator to space. The mind-expanding documentary S...

If you don't believe in God, but want to, where do you begin? Advertising guru Simon Cole sets out a...

A kaleidoscopic portrait of Josh Dolgin of 18 short films which display his electrifying craft and s...

SONGS FROM THE NORTH is an essay film which offers an unique look at the enigma of North Korea, a co...

What did French people of do during WW II? Marcel Ophüls' Oscar-nominated docume...

In a remote forest, a hunter discovers a mummified corpse and a diary, detailing the man's thoughts ...

Sound of the Soul transports viewers on an exhilarating and inspiring cinematic journey into the hea...

When explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton hired cameraman Frank Hurley to join an expedition across the So...

In A Space Program, a piece of art in its own right and a recording of Sachs’ histor...

This documentary chronicles the evolution of eastern spirituality in America from its popularization...

In 2009, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad launched a plan to demonstrate that his people were...

In the harrowing documentary State of Control, two American filmmakers go undercover in Tibet during...

A spirited celebration of 82-year-old Lena Mae Perry and her legendary North Carolina gospel group T...

A global pursuit (with layovers in Japan, Argentina, Brazil, France, Spain, the U.S. and other count...

Director Philip Haas follows land artist Richard Long on his walk across Algeria’s Hoggar, a v...