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American Grindhouse

The salacious and uproarious AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE explores the hidden history of the exploitation fil...

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Alice Guy-Blaché was a true pioneer who got into the movie business at the very beginning&mda...

Before The Nickelodeon

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

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

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

Billy Wilder Speaks

a film by Volker Schlöndorff BILLY WILDER SPEAKS The wit and wisdom of one of Hollywood's mos...

Blank City

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

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts ...

Brakhage

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of t...

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

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

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

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

Dawson City: Frozen Time

This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizar...

Derek

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

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

A half century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and groundbreakin...

Diva Dolorosa

In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyri...

Double Take

An Official Selection at both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, Johan Grimonprez's Double T...

Drew: The Man Behind The Poster

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

Edison: The Invention of the Movies

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

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Winner of the Audience Award at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival The fall of 2021 marked the 50th a...

Filmworker

Leon Vitali was a rising British television actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for the role of Lo...

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

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

From Caligari to Hitler

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

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

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

Hell's Highway (plus Signal 30, Highways of Agony, Options to Live)

Critically acclaimed upon its 2003 theatrical release, Hell's Highway: the True Story of Highway Saf...

Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque

WITH: CLAUDE BERRI, CLAUDE CHABROL, LOTTE EISNER, PHILIPPE GARREL, JEAN-LUC GODARD,ALFRED HITCHCOCK...

A History of Israeli Cinema

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

Hitler's Hollywood

NARRATED BY UDO KIER. Filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland suggests that the Third Reich was essentially...

The Magic of Melies

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

Marlene

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

The Movies Begin

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

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

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

Swastika

Swastika is the most controversial documentary about Hitler ever made. Utilizing intimate color hom...

Iranian Cinema Before and After the Revolution

Dr. Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian cinema. A former editor of Iranian film magazines, he ha...

Two in the Wave

Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Fran&ccedilois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as memb...

The Village Detective: a song cycle

During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four ...