Movies genre: Documentary

An 8-year-old girl is adopted by an American family only to discover, years later, that she has a birth family in Korea.

It was the swinging 30s. The big bands of the 40s. It was San Francisco night life Baghdad by the Bay. And the crowds were packing the nation's premiere all-Chinese nightclub, Forbidden City. Like the Cotton Club of Harlem which featured America's finest African American entertainers, Forbidden City gained an international reputation with its unique showcase of Chinese American performers in eye-popping all-American extravaganzas. Part That's Entertainment and part PBS, Forbidden City, U.S.A. captures this little-known chapter of entertainment history and takes it center stage.

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson's look back at the 40 years he spent summering at Oak Bluffs, a black-oriented resort community on Martha's Vineyard.

A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several gay WWII veterans.

Winner of both the Directors and Filmmakers Trophy awards at the Sundance Film Festival, "Licensed to Kill" goes behind the media headlines of recent high-profile anti-gay murders to investigate their causes. Attacked by gay bashers in 1977, filmmaker Arthur Dong probes the hearts and minds of murderers convicted of killing gay men he faces them in one-on-one cell block interviews and asks them directly: "Why did you do it?" Probing on-camera interviews with seven convicted killers behind bars propel the narrative drive of "Licensed To Kill." These inmates include a wide range of distinct profiles: a young man who claims he justifiably killed as protection from his victim's sexual advances - a defense known as "homosexual panic"; a self-loathing, religious gay man who killed because of his own homosexual tendencies; a victim of child abuse who feared losing his manhood; an army sergeant angry over the gays in the military debate; and a self-described homeboy looking for easy prey.

What happens when religiously conservative Christian parents have children who "become homosexual?" FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS is filmmaker Arthur Dong's personal attempt to answer that explosive question.

A sailing family makes 20 ocean voyages over two decades, sometimes following the path of Captain Cook, but more frequently following nothing but their own hearts and the siren call of adventure.

Actress Brandy Burre gave up a recurring role on a TV series to start a family. Years later, her domestic life crumbles when she tries to reclaim her former career.

Soaring above the chaotic spectacle of '80s and '90s Los Angeles, a young couple revolutionized breaking news with their brazen helicopter reporting.

The history of black newspapers in America.

Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his home town after the mysterious death of his two-year-old niece and the arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit.

A group of ordinary people stop playing by the rules, embracing civil disobedience and sounding the alarm for climate breakdown. They are rebellious and they are flawed revealing the human drama at the heart of social change.

Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends. Titled after Hockney's pop-art painting 'A Bigger Splash.'.

Bruno Monsaingeon signs a new masterpiece. He decided to talk about the question of Gould's genius in its totality. Based on dialogues between Gould (through the voice of Mathieu Amalric) and real characters, this documentary forms a polyphony in which the voices answer one another in echoes.

The connections between JK Rowling's mythical Fantastic Beasts creatures and real animals that have roamed Earth.

An overview of the events of the Suffragette Movement for Votes For Women. It follows the individual women who were part of the movement and uses dramatised testimony to tell their stories at key points of their dangerous campaign.

Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, romantic partners from San Francisco, travel primarily to the rural south. They interview folks from gay marines, men in barbershops, plus the down and out about their dreams of the future.

A probing look at a Samoan street gang in a closed community in Long Beach, California with its own rules, rituals, and language.

The American Sector is a film about panels of the Berlin Wall scattered across the United States. It captures how monuments to our country's past resonate into the present.

Live concert performance of Bruce Springsteen singing songs from his album 'Western Stars'.

From King Kong to Avatar, from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, movie creatures have never been more popular as they are today. Yet the art of creating monsters for the big screen is as old as cinema itself.

A mind-boggling coincidence leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class and fifth grade teacher to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident 50 years ago.

While out walking his dog, Jason Morse had a visual sighting of a large bipedal creature in the New Hampshire forest. That day changed his life forever and launched him into a world of Bigfoot investigating. Having seen the brute first hand, Jason is determined to find more evidence of Bigfoot. His quest has led him from Pawtuckaway state park to the rugged mountains of eastern Kentucky. Some call it a myth, some call it a legend but for those who have seen it, it is a reality they can't deny.

The Bridgewater Triangle in Southeastern, Mass. is a place where truly paranormal encounters abound. Sightings of UFOs, bigfoot, ghostly apparitions, giant birds, devil dogs and roaming spirits occur frequently. The triangle features a number of sites said to possess an energy unlike any other area in the state. Researchers have long deemed the triangle a breeding ground for spectral and supernatural activity with perhaps the widest range of phenomenon of any place on Earth. Some call it 200 square miles of hell and will never return after experiencing the unexplainable strangeness that includes orbs, poltergeists, aliens, giant snakes and monster like cryptid creatures. Explore this very real and truly paranormal vortex from another dimension.

In America's backyard, a community held captive by policies targeting gangs and drugs, sacrifices their youth for a false sense of justice, and safety. Forty years later, a true path to justice and healing is led from inside prison walls.

Taking us behind the scenes with NASA's high-stakes Webb Space Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B follows a pioneering group of scientists - many of them women - on their quest to find another Earth among the stars.

Julia tells the story of the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women.

A baby is kidnapped from a hospital, months later, a toddler is abandoned. Could he be the same baby?