Documentary Movies
Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production (2017)
Up until just over 30 years ago, when the desktop computer debuted, the whole design production process would have been done primarily by hand, and with the aide of analog…
Deathgrip (2017)
For the last two years, Fairclough and Porter have traveled to every inhabited continent on the planet with a simple goal: to show the world a new vision of mountain…
Speak Up (2017)
Raise the voice, speak eloquently, construct and argue a discourse. Tools so necessary in life as exciting to build. In Paris, the date of Eloquentia, an oratory contest where young…
Men in the Arena (2017)
A touching story of friendship, struggle and triumph, the film follows the journey of two Somali national soccer team friends chasing their dreams in the face of impossible odds. After…
Bill Nye: Science Guy (2017)
Bill Nye is retiring his kid show act in a bid to become more like his late professor, astronomer Carl Sagan. Sagan dreamed of launching a spacecraft that could revolutionize…
Forgotten Scares: An In-depth Look at Flemish Horror Cinema (2017)
The feature-length documentary “Forgotten Scares” goes back to the birth of Flemish horror in the ’70s and shines a bright light on the future of horror in Belgium. The viewer…
One October (2017)
Reporter Clay Pigeon interviews New Yorkers in October, 2008.
Fallen (2017)
A humanizing look at line-of-duty police deaths across the country, and how these losses effect those close to the fallen, as well as the communities they serve.
The Long Way Back: The Story of Todd Z-Man Zalkins (2017)
After losing his close friend Bradley Nowell of Sublime to a heroin overdose, Todd Zalkins aka ‘ZMAN’ fights for his life in what will become the worst drug crisis in…
Recruiting for Jihad (2017)
Recruiting for Jihad is an investigative documentary film about Norwegian ISIS recruiter Ubaydullah Hussain.
Mary Magdalene: Art’s Scarlet Woman (2017)
Waldemar Januszczak explores the impact of Mary Magdalene’s myth on art and artists. In art all Christian saints are inventions but Mary Magdalene has been the subject of more invention…
Adele and Everything After (2017)
The moving story of a lonely, isolated woman with a heart condition whose life is transformed by a service dog, and what happens when she has to let go of…
The Paris Opera (2017)
A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissner.
Sikh Musical Heritage: The Untold Story (2017)
Sikh Musical Heritage: The Untold Story is an in-depth look at the history of traditional Sikh instrumentation and its crucial role in performing the devotional singing known as Kirtan of…
Resistance Is Life (2017)
Eight-year-old Evlin characterizes the resilience of Kobane’s resistance against ISIS forces through her experience in a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border.
The Surrounding Game (2017)
Born from the simplest rules, the ancient game of Go is the most complex and elegant game ever discovered. For thousands of years, masters and disciples have passed the game…
RiverBlue (2017)
RiverBlue chronicles an unprecedented around-the-world river adventure, led by renowned paddler and conservationist, Mark Angelo, who ends up uncovering and documenting the dark side of the global fashion industry.
Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution (2017)
At the crossroads of the 2016 presidential race and the fight for civil rights, economic fairness, and a democracy that works for everyone.
Ronaldo vs. Messi: Face Off! (2017)
In the world of football, there seems only two camps when it comes to the greatest player. If you ask 100 soccer fans who that person is, chances are 50…
Hobbyhorse Revolution (2017)
A film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and grooming toy horses.
Dispatches from Cleveland (2017)
Dispatches from Cleveland is a focused on ordinary Clevelanders who have been long shaken by police misconduct, social discrimination, and poverty. Depicting intersecting movements in Cleveland, the series examines how…
White Boy (2017)
“White Boy Rick”, as he was called, was a novelty: A white teenager seemingly running a major inner-city drug operation. In May of 1987, 17-year-old Richard Wershe Jr. was charged…
Gaza Surf Club (2017)
In a country locked between Egypt and Israel, Gaza’s youth are drawn to their beaches. Weary of the daily ‘state of emergency’ they seek meaning and perspective to their lives…
Rocky & Wrighty: From Brockley to the Big Time (2017)
How childhood friends David Rocastle and Ian Wright, one a teenage prodigy and the other a late bloomer, went on to become Arsenal legends.
After Porn Ends 2 (2017)
After Porn Ends 2 picks up where its predecessor left off and not only turns back the clock to meet the oldest living stars in adult film’s history, but goes…
SLAY: The Axell Hodges Story (2017)
TransWorld Motocross’ newest film feature delves into the world of social media moto superstar Axell Hodges. With over 250,000 followers on Instagram alone, the 20-year-old from Encinitas, California, has successfully…
FAR. The Story of a Journey around the World (2017)
Documentary about the journey of Patrick Allgair and Gwendolin Weisser, who travelled over 100,000 kilometres on foot and by hitchhiking. Starting in Freiburg, Germany, they travelled eastwards for three and…
Rock and a Hard Place (2017)
A look at the Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Boot Camp Program, which allows young inmates undergo a strict six-week course in order to learn from their past mistakes and…
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism (2017)
Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a…
Sex Abuse in the Church: Code of Silence (2017)
Secret internal documents reveal how Catholic Church officials protect priests accused of pedophilia and sexual abuse by moving them from country to country, sometimes as far away as Africa. Even…
The Last Buffalo (2017)
For thousands of years, the Great Plains were home to countless numbers of American bison, but in the late 1800s, the number of bison dropped from nearly 30 million to…
Escape from Room 18 (2017)
John Daly, an ex-Neo Nazi, fled to Israel when his gang tried to kill him for being Jewish. An old Skinhead friend finds John 25 years later and suggests they…
Rammstein: Paris (2017)
During the “Made in Germany” tour, Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund filmed two acclaimed Rammstein concerts in March 2012 – each for an audience of 17,000 at the Bercy Arena in…
Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty (2017)
Known for his mournful “Adagio for Strings,” Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration of his music and melancholia. Performance, oral history, musicology, and…
The John Dalli Mystery (2017)
Eight years ago, Mads Brügger and Mikael Bertelsen tried to solve the murder of an EU official in 1993. A project that concluded in a dead end. Hoping to make…
Born to Be Free (2017)
BORN TO BE FREE is a revelatory investigation by three intrepid free-diving journalists, Gaya, Tanya and Julia, into the global trade in wild sea mammals. Their journey takes us to…
Thank You for the Rain (2017)
Five years ago Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, started to use his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent…
Behold the Earth (2017)
The 1960s environmental movement inspired young scientists like E.O. Wilson, Cal DeWitt, and Theo Colborn, some of whom were raised within America’s largest religious group: evangelicals. Today, a new generation…
Death of a Child (2017)
How does one live with the unbearable? When the worst has happened and the one to blame is yourself? Death of a Child is an exploration of the lives of…
The Other Side of the Wall (2017)
Honduran immigrants living in Mexico, teenage siblings Rocío and Ale must take over care of their two younger siblings after their mother is sentenced to prison on dubious grounds. Tensions…