Zeitgeist Films for Education

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The Unmaking of a College

In The Unmaking of a College, students at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts confront their...

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Hive

Sundance triple award winner Hive is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who h...

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In Balanchine's Classroom

In Balanchine's Classroom takes us back to the glory years of Balanchine’s New York City Balle...

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Acasa, My Home

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, an abandoned water reservoir just outside the bustling met...

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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

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

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Sorry We Missed You

The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed ...

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Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who,...

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The Woman Who Loves Giraffes

In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years befor...

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Studio 54

For 33 months, from 1977 to 1980, the nightclub Studio 54 was the place to be seen in Manh...

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The Doctor from India

The Doctor from India is a meditative and immersive portrait of the life and work of Dr. Vasant...

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Love, Cecil

A photographer, writer, painter, and Oscar®-winning set and costume designer who captured both t...

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

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

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The Divine Order

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Divine Order ...

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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don’t recognize the nam...

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What is Democracy?

Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on...

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Eva Hesse

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

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Act of God

Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fat...

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Afghan Star

In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of T...

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Aimee & Jaguar

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dange...

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Ballets Russes

Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashi...

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Bill Cunningham New York

“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” i...

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Brakhage

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

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Caravaggio

Careful

Cult director Maddin scales new heights of cinematic strangeness in this weird and funny quasi-Freud...

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Chain Camera

Child's Pose

China Heavyweight

Award-winning filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) returns to China for another riveting documentar...

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China: A Century of Revolution

CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION is a six-hour tour de force journey through the country’s most ...

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Chris & Don. A Love Story

CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship bet...

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The Corporation

One hundred and fifty years ago, the Corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is...

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Cowards Bend the Knee

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had ...

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Derrida

One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and fat...

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Diplomacy

In this riveting adaptation of the stage success by Cyril Gély, the great Volker Schlönd...

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Diva Dolorosa

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

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Divan

As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in Brooklyn for secular life in M...

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Dottie Gets Spanked

Another dazzling suburban phantasm from writer-director Todd Haynes, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED (made post-...

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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

The Draughtsman's Contract

Examined Life

In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers...

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Fados

Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Usi...

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Family Viewing

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. The Galapagos Affair: Sat...

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Glitterbox: Derek Jarman x 4

Greenaway: The Early Films

The Falls

Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the uni...

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Greenaway: The Shorts

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

Hannah Arendt

In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von ...

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Harlan – In the Shadow of Jew Süss

With never-before-seen archival footage, unearthed film excerpts, rare home movies and new interview...

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The Horse Boy

I Remember Me

In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

With IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN, documentary filmmaker Martina Kudlácek has fashioned...

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Jellyfish

Last Train Home

Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (19...

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Let My People Go!

Let the Fire Burn

In the astonishingly gripping Let the Fire Burn, director Jason Osder has crafted that rarest of cin...

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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine

Lumumba

Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as Malcolm X and JFK, Rao...

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Manufactured Landscapes

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

Mid-August Lunch

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater

Nowhere in Africa

A love story spanning two continents, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish f...

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One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das

Paris Was a Woman

A film portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors (incl...

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Paul Goodman Changed My Life

Payback

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

Philippe Garrel x 2

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

A Place Called Chiapas

Poison

Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves trio of transgressive tales-&ldquo...

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Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate

Queen to Play

Ram Dass Fierce Grace

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

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Regular Lovers

The Salt of Life

Scared Sacred

Short Cut to Nirvana

Siddharth

Silent Souls

One of the most acclaimed films of 2011, Silent Souls (Ovsyanki) is a breathtakingly beautiful road-...

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Something Ventured

Sophie Scholl-The Final Days

The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the ...

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A Space Program

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

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Speaking Parts

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains

The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom

Three Monkeys

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Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project

A Town Called Panic

Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charm...

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Travellers & Magicians

The Tree

Trouble the Water

Tulpan

Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, acclaimed Kazakh documentaria...

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