Rise Above: The Journey to College Basketball (2024)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Seth Shapiro
Actors: Cord Stansberry, Jaayden Bush, Marco Kenz, Russell Payne
The Other Side (2015)
In an invisible territory at the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, lives a wounded community that is trying to respond to a threat: of being…
ABC Africa (2001)
Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.
The Great American Lie (2020)
Examines how a US value system built on the extreme masculine ideals of money, power and control has glorified individualism, institutionalized inequality, and undermined the ability of most Americans to…
My Talk with Florence (2015)
A minimalist interview-film, dealing with one of the most disturbing life-stories from the twentieth Century. An oral history about abuse, resistance and survival.
The Paw Project (2013)
This is a David and Goliath story of one veterinarian’s battle to protect her patients (tigers, lions and even house cats) from big corporations, with their big corporate money, that…
2020 Nostradamus (2017)
Born in 1503, the mysterious medieval visionary, Michel de Nostredame (a.k.a. “Nostradamus”) predicted the rise of Hitler, the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, and the 9/11 attacks. Now his quatrains are…
My Old School (2022)
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff…
Crescendo! The Power of Music (2014)
Since its inception in Venezuela in 1976, the El Sistema youth orchestra program has transformed the lives of disadvantaged children worldwide by putting musical instruments in their hands and encouraging…
The Right to Read (2023)
The Right to Read shares the stories of an activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long…
Peter O’Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
Reflecting Peter O’Toole’s theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O’Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.
The Inland Sea (1991)
In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan’s Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional…
Virunga (2014)
Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that…