Movies genre: Documentary

Six dancers from the acclaimed Battery Dance company travel the world, working with young people who've experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation, and severe trauma as refugees.

Midsummer in Newtown is a testament to the transformative force of artistic expression to pierce through the shadow cast by trauma. In the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, one grieving couple honors their daughter through music, while community children find their voice through a rock-pop version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Camilo is the adopted son of an indigenous couple of the Quillasinga tribe. He is the only black man in his community and has always felt different. That is why he embarks on a journey in search of his origins. With the truth revealed, Camilo manages to find his identity.—Viviana Gómez Echeverry

Following a series of intimate conversations between a former couple who lived through two years of domestic abuse, A Better Man infuses new energy and possibility into the movement to end violence against women.

Short subject about the Francophone poet and politician from Martinique who helped found the Negritude literary movement,and wrote about Shakespeare, colonialism, Toussaint L'Ouverture and Patrice Lumumba.

This funny Puerto Rican comedian keeps it family friendly and talks about his observation about his own Latino family.

EL BOXEO tells the dramatic and timely story of the emergence and dominance of Latinos in what was once considered the traditional all-white sport of boxing. The film illustrates the evolution of the sport as Latino fighters exploded onto the scene. And, reveals how these immigrant pugilists redefined the world of boxing and established the west coast as the new mecca in the sport. EL BOXEO is as much a film about Latinos in boxing as it is about the immigrant stories that reshaped the sport.—Anonymous

Narrated by SNL-Rick and Morty's Chris Parnell Yung Punx follows the Marlborough MA-based, 8-12-year-old punk band Color Killer who recently headlined the Warped Tour music festival while completing their album Generation Z.

Gert van der Graaf, an infamous stalker who reveals how his childhood crush on Abba superstar Agnetha Fältskog turned into an obsession that shaped the rest of his life, thus showing how compulsive fandom can become criminal obsession.

The secret daughter of Louis Armstrong.

The plastic crisis is met head-on with tackling the solutions to deal with the over production of single-use plastics.

Ay Mariposa tells a story of three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall. As the director of the National Butterfly Center, Marianna Trevino Wright has become a leader of wall resistance in the Valley, a position that has resulted in violent threats from pro-wall factions and an emotional odyssey as she tries to navigate the ever-shifting sands of border policy. Zulema Hernandez, a life-long migrant worker, immigrant and great grandmother, has been a dedicated advocate for all migrants, both wild and human-kind. Meanwhile the butterfly, la mariposa, fights its own daily battle for survival in a landscape where more than 95 percent of its habitat is long gone and much of what remains lies directly in the path of the wall. Ay Mariposa documents each characters' fierce commitment to home, justice, wild beauty and the future of the US-Mexico borderlands.

Fruits of Labor follows the day-in-a-life of a young farm and factory worker in California, who dreams of being the first in her family to graduate from high school and go to college.

Invisible Valley weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farm workers, wealthy snowbirds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California's Coachella Valley.

In a country at the end of the world, the highest authority of the Catholic church lands. The Pope comes to bring the word of God, but Chile awaits him with the most important religious crisis in its history.

Tells the hard-to-believe story of the mythical basketball legend from Watts California who was blackballed from the NBA in the early 70's following an ugly contract dispute with the Philadelphia 76ers.

ALL WE'VE GOT is a personal exploration of LGBTQ women's communities, cultures, and social justice work through the lens of the physical spaces they create, from bars to bookstores to arts and political hubs.

Founded in 1966 in California by Anton Szandor LaVey, the Church of Satan has often been surrounded by mysteries, scandals and moral panics. An immersive journey into one the most fascinating phenomena of American religious pluralism.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave young Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps. Since then, more than 200,000 of them have traveled to more than 60 countries to carry out the organization's mission of international cooperation. Nearly 60 years later, Americans-young and old alike-still want to serve their country and understand their place in the world; current volunteers work at the forefront of some of the most pressing issues facing the global community. Yet the agency has struggled to remain relevant amid sociopolitical change. More than once it had to fight for its very existence, and now-between a rise in nationalist sentiment and deep cuts to governmental-agency budgets-the Peace Corps is again confronting a crisis of identity: What role should it play around the world and in the lives of engaged citizens? Directed by Alana DeJoseph and narrated by Annette Benning, A Towering Task is the first feature documentary to chronicle the remarkable history of the Peace Corps while considering its future at a critical juncture.

"Lost at Sea" takes the viewer on an epic journey through the oceanic kingdom of the Atlantic Salmon - in an attempt to unravel the mystery of why as a species they are dying at sea.

SILENT FORESTS takes audiences into the heart of Africa's Congo Basin to meet the men and women trying to save the forest elephant from extinction.

When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day. Nearly a century later, Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost archive and journeys to discover the man behind the machine through his personal and professional struggles.

After five years of study in Paris, Arash hasn't adapted to French life and decides to return home to Iran. Hoping to change his mind, two friends drag him away on a final trip across France.

An eccentric Jewish family is thrown into turmoil when two stolen children reappear after 40 years.

America's paid leave crisis and the cost of doing nothing.

A portrait of New York City and its people in October 2008. The film celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit and the beauty that lies in the rich cultural tapestry of a dynamic metropolis.

The truth behind the AIDS pandemic.

It's a documentary of the painting by "The Bosch", "The garden of early delights".

A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.