Movies genre: Documentary

An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.

A forgotten experiment by a Canadian psychologist from the 1970's called Rat Park shows us that drug addiction is not really about drugs themselves. It's about the cages we live in.

A documentary about the making of Lou Reed's legendary album, "Transformer," the album that took Lou Reed from cult hero of the Velvet Underground to international superstar status as a solo artist.

In the shadow of a De Beers diamond mine, a remote indigenous community lurches from crisis to crisis, as their homeland transforms into a modern frontier. Rosie Koostachin delivers donations to families who live in uninsulated sheds, overgrown with toxic mold. She is determined to raise awareness, believing that if only Canadians knew, her hometown's dire situation would improve. Over five years, filmmaker Victoria Lean follows Attawapiskat's journey from obscurity and into the international spotlight twice - first when the Red Cross intervenes and again during the protest movement, Idle No More. Weaving together great distances, intimate scenes and archive images, the documentary chronicles the First Nation's fight for justice in the face of hardened indifference.

By going back into the cinema of the 1968 era and going forward with present-day interviews of young people who replay excerpts of films jumping out from the past, Our Defeats draw the portrait of our current relations with politics. Our Defeats, or do we keep enough forces to confront ourselves with the chaos of today?

Set in the remote jungle of Thailand, 150 underprivileged and orphaned students attending the country's first democratic school prepare a special celebration to honor their remarkable adoptive Mother on Mother's Day.

On The Line sheds light on the longest running voluntary school desegregation programs in the country, its' historical impact on the city of Boston and those personally involved in the program. Founded in 1966, METCO stands for Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc. On The Line examines the experiences of past and current participants, while assessing the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to school. Also examining the social conditions that helped shape the lives of a select group of METCO and Suburban students when the bus ride ended. Enough has been documented about the continuous plight of race relations in America - It's about time this non-fiction be told, spotlighting the impact of many 'Do-Gooders' and their commitment to positive social change in America

Documentary film that focuses on the period beginning with the birth of Motown in Detroit in 1958 until its relocation to Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

Evidence of Harm follows the lives of three health advocates as they struggle to inform the federal government and public that large amounts of toxic mercury vapors are released from "silver" amalgam dental fillings during routine dental procedures. The film presents a haunting portrait of a dental industry all too willing to turn a blind eye to science while placing profits and politics ahead of dental patient's health.

The Great Postal Heist follows director Jay Galione's father, a 30-year US Post Office clerk, who was harassed, threatened, and fired for standing up for his colleagues. A moving indictment of the toxic culture and push to downsize, the documentary chronicles the journey of postal workers, experts, and advocates who experienced firsthand the abuses in the oldest federal agency in America and stood up against the USPS's notoriously violent work environment, featuring interviews with Ralph Nader and Richard Wolff. The atmosphere was a result of systematic dismantling and privatization of the trillion-dollar mail industry by lobbyists and politicians who seek to make profits at the expense of the mental health, living wages, and working conditions of their employees.

A retired piano tuner from London attempts to deliver a 100-year old piano to a remote Himalayan school, situated in one of the most isolated settlements in the world. If successful, it will be the highest piano delivery in history.

Chronicling the creation of Game of Thrones (2011)'s final season, its most ambitious and complicated one.

The history of the comic book superhero, Superman in his various media incarnations.

Their arrival in Germany is not exactly a warm welcome: Asylum seekers in Brandenburg are first brought to the initial registration center in Eisenhüttenstadt. Also Wasim from Syria, Mathew from Kenya and Gedeon from Cameroon are stranded at this surreal place in the outskirts of nowhere. "The Invisibles" follows the three men on their way through the official proceedings, the mills of detecting and decision making. A snapshot of a life on hold, between hope and uncertainty.

Cheetah are the most fragile cats physically and now there are under 7,000 left in the world. Our story tells of Immani, a sleek female with 4 cubs as they navigate the plains of the Maasai Mara ecosystem. Also living here is also a coalition of 5 cheetah males. To save her cubs, Immani must avoid them. This is a film by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, who have made dozens of big cat films, but never one on cheetahs.

A documentary depicting the life and films of Spain's 'King of Horror' Paul Naschy, aka Jacinto Molina, actor, writer, producer, and director.

THE DIPLOMAT tells the remarkable story of the life and legacy of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, whose singular career spanned fifty years of American foreign policy - from Vietnam to Afghanistan.

A look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.

A probing look into the potential future of "thought policing" through the headline-making case of the NYPD "Cannibal Cop," who was charged with conspiring to kidnap and eat women.

A documentary detailing an indiscriminate terrorist attack that left 71 dead in Kenya.

Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks examines the 2015 terrorist attack on the French satirical weekly newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" where a group of armed Islamic terrorist with rifles and other weapons attack and killed twelve people and injured eleven others in Paris, France.

Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.

A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.

Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.

An intimate portrait of Robin Williams and his invulnerable spirit, Robin's Wish is the story of what really happened to one of the greatest entertainers of all time - and what his mind was fighting.

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

America's death penalty is in crisis. Botched executions, spiralling costs and shrinking public support has put capital punishment under more scrutiny than ever before. The Penalty goes behind the scenes to reveal what the death penalty does to a victims family, an innocent man, and a lawyer who fights and fails to stop a botched execution, all while asking: who does the death penalty serve?

The untold story of the movie mogul who green lit Star Wars. And Blade Runner. And Alien. And Police Academy. And... A film about Alan Ladd Jr., producer and former 20th Century Fox chairman, directed by his daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones.

Where does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home.

DIE UNBUGSAMEN tells the story of women in the Bonn republic who literally had to fight for their participation in the democratic decision-making processes against success-obsessed and officially drunk men like real pioneers. Undaunted, ambitious and with infinite patience, they followed their path and defied prejudice and sexual discrimination. Politicians from back then have their say today. Her memories are funny and bitter at the same time, absurd and at times terrifyingly topical. The documentary filmmaker and journalist Torsten Körner ("Angela Merkel - The Unexpected") has succeeded in creating an emotionally moving chronicle of West German politics from the 1950s to reunification, intertwined with partially unseen archive cuttings. The images he has found unfold a force that allows cinema to be rediscovered as a place of political self-assurance. An insightful contemporary document that makes an unmistakable contribution to the current discussion.