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The Messenger

For thousands of years, songbirds were regarded by mankind as messengers from the gods. Today, these...

Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight

For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-foundin...

Mindfulness: Be Happy Now

The practice of mindfulness was brought to the west by Zen Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who was on...

Moana With Sound

Moana With SoundDirected by Robert Flaherty and Frances Flaherty (1926) and Monica Flaherty (1980)2K...

Moby Doc

MOBY DOC is a surrealist biographical documentary narrated by Moby as he reflects on his turbulent p...

The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun

Worlds collide and tempers flare when Mr. Vig, an 82-year-old recluse who has never known love, and ...

Money Man

J.S.G. Boggs was an artist in the medium of money, his currency drawings becoming infamously known a...

Monk With a Camera

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk in ...

More Than Honey

Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat is Full) tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worl...

The Movies Begin

The genesis of the motion picture medium is vividly recreated in this unprecedented collection of th...

Moving from Emptiness: The Life and Art of a Zen Dude

Playful. Profound. Meditative. Deeply healing. Moving from Emptiness: The Life and Art of a Zen Dude...

Museum Town

Directed by Jennifer Trainer, a former journalist and one of MASS MoCA's original builders, and...

Music from the Big House

In MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE, Rita Chiarelli, Canada's Queen of the Blues, takes a pilgrimage to the ...

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Is pornography an acceptable form of expression - and if so, can distinctions be drawn between diffe...

The Mystery of Picasso

Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the twentieth century, is making a painting, just as F...

Mystical Brain

Is it possible to shed light on the states of grace experienced by mystics and meditators? Mystical ...

NAS: Time Is Illmatic

Twenty years after the release of Nas's groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, Nas: Time is Illmatic t...

Nationtime

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926&nd...

Natural Resistance

Four Italian winegrowers live a life we all dream of: Giovanna Tiezzi and Stefano Borsa in their con...

NEEDTOBREATHE: Into the Mystery

NEEDTOBREATHE: Into The Mystery chronicles the unique recording of NEEDTOBREATHE’s latest albu...

The New Public

In fall 2006, former DJ, point guard and teacher turned first-time principal, James O'Brien, opened ...

No Dinosaurs in Heaven

This documentary weaves together two strands: an examination of the problem posed by creationists wh...

No Maps on My Taps

The golden age of tap dancing spanned the first half of the twentieth century, but by the 1950s, the...

Nobody's Business

In Nobody’s Business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject o...

NoBody's Perfect

In the late 1950s and early 60s, more than 10,000 children were born with deformities due to the use...

Nollywood Babylon

NOLLYWOOD BABYLON chronicles the wild world of “Nollywood,” a term coined in the early &...

NOTFILM

In 1964, esteemed playwright Samuel Beckett set out on an embattled collaboration with silent-era ge...

Obit.

It's a shame no one wants to talk to them at parties, because obituary writers are a surprisingly ...

Of Fathers and Sons

After his Sundance award-winning documentary Return to Homs, Talal Derki returned to his homeland wh...

Of Men and War

Shot over five years, Of Men and War gives perhaps the most in-depth look at the recovery efforts of...

Off to War: From Rural Arkansas to Iraq

FROM RURAL ARKANSAS TO IRAQ THE COMPLETE TEN-PART SERIES As seen on the Discovery Times Channel F...

The Olive Thomas Collection

In the heyday of silent films, a winsome ingénue named Olive Thomas – affectionately du...

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of fil...

ON AND OFF THE RAILS - The British Transport Films Collection

Featuring 14 Classic British Railroading Films Following the nationalization of transport in 1948, ...

On Broadway

For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! As audiences prep...

On Meditation

On Meditation is a compilation of portraits that explore the deeply personal practice of meditation ...

On The Adamant

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting, enlightening documentary from...

On the Bowery: The Films of Lionel Rogosin Vol. 1

Three films from documentarian Lionel Rogosin's inimitable career come together in this deluxe colle...

One Hand Don't Clap

ONE HAND DON’T CLAP captures the vibrant story of calypso and the emergence of soca, through t...

Ornette: Made in America

Returning in 1983 to his home in Fort Worth, Texas, documentary footage and dramatic scenes recall l...

Out of My Head

When a filmmaker investigates the devastating migraine attacks which have her daughter in their grip...

The Outlaw and His Wife

A masterpiece of the Swedish silent cinema, Victor Sjöström's THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE is a...

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

In 1993, artist Anselm Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barj...

Pandora's Promise

The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster...

Paul Verhoeven's Tricked

Part behind-the-scenes documentary, part narrative feature, PAUL VERHOEVEN'S TRICKED is the result o...

The Pearl Button

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that...

THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA

THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the grea...

The Phantom

The Phantom tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. ...

Playing Frisbee in North Korea

Called “The Hermit Kingdom,” North Korea is an enigma wrapped in a quagmire of misinform...

Poisoned by Polonium

"If anything should happen to me, I beg you to show this tape to the whole world." On Novemb...

Portrait of Jason

On December 2, 1966, director Shirley Clarke and a miniscule film crew gathered in her apartment at ...

Prairie Trilogy

John Hanson and Rob Nilsson, co-directors of Cannes Camera d’Or winner Northern Lights and fel...

The Price of Everything

Exploring the labyrinth of the contemporary art world, The Price of Everything examines the ro...

Primary Instinct

Stephen Tobolowsky is a veteran actor with a dazzlingly diverse filmography spanning forty years, bu...

Protagonist

PROTAGONIST explores extremism through contrasting stories of personal revelation. The film features...

Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border

Reyes' provocative essay film re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to D...

Putin's Kiss

Putin's Kiss portrays contemporary life in Russia through the coming-of-age story of Masha, a middle...

Que Viva Mexico!

Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Sovie...

The Queen

More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss A...

Radiant City

Surrealist filmmaker Gary Burns (Waydowntown, A Problem with Fear) joins journalist Jim Brown on an ...

Radical Wolfe

From a beat reporter at the Washington Post to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journ...

Radio Unnameable

Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves in the 1960s and '70s with his f...

Ram Dass Fierce Grace

Harvard professors Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary made countercultural history in 1963 when&n...

Ramen Heads

Ramen Heads follows Osamu Tomita, Japan’s reigning king of ramen, as he reveals every single s...

Raw Faith

RAW FAITH is an intimate and revealing documentary that follows two years in the private life of Mar...

The Reason I Jump

Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, later translated into English by author D...

RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-...

The Red Chapel

Combining the muckraking spirit of Michael Moore with the confrontational comedy of Borat, The Red C...

Red Lines

The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario - one eerily foretold in 2012 ...

Regina

Diana Groó’s documentary tells the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944)a strong woman, who...

Remembering Gene Wilder

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extr...

Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan

RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN offers an intimate portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan as she p...

Revealing Mr. Maugham

Revealing Mr. Maugham tells the story of one of literature's most influential and misunderstood gay ...

The Revisionaries

In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American childre...

Rob Epstein - Jeffrey Friedman Collection: Common Threads, Where Are We?

For more than 30 years, Oscar®-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have borne pow...

Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling

The life and career of experimental artist Robert Irwin, whose installations have radically expanded...

Rockaway: Before and After

A pair of one-hour features on a single disc, Rockaway: Before and After chronicles the ep...

Romantico

More than just a documentary dispatch from the illegal immigration frontlines, Mark Becker's Rom&aac...

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Filmmakers Stevie Salas, Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana examine the musical contribution ...

The Russian Woodpecker

The Russian Woodpecker is a thrilling, award-winning investigation into whether the Chernobyl nuclea...

Safe...Not Sorry

Though the era of 16mm educational cinema has come to a close, those quirky films unspooled in the m...

Savior for Sale: Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece?

Salvator Mundi (The Savior of the World) became the world’s most expensive painting when it wa...

Say Amen, Somebody

One of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time, SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY is a joyous, funny, an...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is the deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, a h...

Sea Sorrow

“Sea Sorrow” marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director, with her son, Carl...

Searching for Mr. Rugoff

The feature documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy ge...

Secrets of the Soul

What is the soul? Is it genetically encoded in our DNA or the product of centuries of religious teac...

Seeds Of Time

10,000 years ago the biggest revolution in human history occurred: we became agrarians. We ceased me...

SEMBENE!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impos...

The Sentence

Drawing from hundreds of hours of footage, filmmaker Rudy Valdez shows the aftermath of his ...

Sex, Power, and Money: Films by Beth B

After defining the No Wave film movement of the New York underground of the 1970s and ’80s, Be...

Signs Out of Time

SIGNS OUT OF TIME, a film by Donna Read and Starhawk, examines the life and work of world-renowned a...

A Sinner in Mecca

For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbid...

Sky Line

In 1979, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a novel about an elevator to space. The mind-expanding documentary S...

So Help Me God

Advertising guru Simon Cole loves his job, his car and his wife, but feels spiritually empty and dis...

The Socalled Movie

Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin, is the most supreme klezmer hip-hop funk artist in the world. A pianist, ...

Songs from the North

Songs From the North is an essay film which offers an unique look at the enigma of North Korea, a co...

The Sorrow and the Pity

From its first release at an underground theater in Paris, this account of France's occupation under...

The Sound of Insects

In a remote wintry forest, a hunter discovers the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man. A diary is ...

Sound of the Soul

SOUND OF THE SOUL is a compelling portrait of an Arab country where Muslims, Christians, and Jews ha...