When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a filmmaking journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.

Howard Brookner's films captured the cultural revolution in New York City. Twenty-five years after his death, his nephew rediscovers his legacy that includes the lost negative of Burroughs: The Movie.

After years of negotiation acclaimed Russian director Vitaly Mansky was invited by the North Korean government to make a film about one girl and her family in the year she prepares to join the Children's Union, on the 'Day of the Shining Star' (Kim Jong-Il's birthday).

In the past few years, a drastic rise in mass shootings has ripped across the United States, most recently in Dallas and Orlando, compounding an epidemic of gun violence.

The latest film from documentary legends, DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Unlocking the Cage follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break...

Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival 2016, Gianfranco Rosi’s incisive, poignant and deeply moving portrait of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa - and the humanitarian crisis occurring in the seas around it...

Niels Stokholm is one of the most idealistic farmers in Denmark. But his unique methods for biodynamic farming is under threat, and with it his way of life.

The deeply disturbing story of 22 Uyghur men who escaped persecution in their homeland only to be sold, imprisoned and tortured at the hands of the Americans. 

As the South African government considers introducing fracking to the Karoo, filmmaker Jolynn Minnaar decides to investigate the effects of this controversial process...

The 2012 Academy Award winning documentary chronicles the sheer determination of a high school football team & its athletes to succeed.

Paul Simon's 'Graceland' sold millions of copies worldwide, uniting cultures and bringing international attention to the music of South Africa. 25 years on, he returns for a reunion tour, celebrating the music and confronting his contentious breaking of the UN's cultural boycott of Apartheid South Africa.

An extraordinary film that captures a golden moment in Cuban history.

Slash and burn farming is an environmental catastrophe. We follow scientist Mark Hands and his struggle to break the devastating cycle in Honduras.

China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the fabled Yangtze River. As the river rises, countless ancient villages will be submerged forcing 2 million people to lose their homes and livelihoods.

Narrated by Peter Coyote, this 50-minute film examines the controversial occurrences in Florida during the 2000 presidential election leading up to the eventual administration of George W. Bush...