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Man Who Bought Mustique, The
A Film by Joseph Bullman & Vikram Jayanti. A deliciously entertaining look at a Scottish lord who bought the tiny Caribbean island of Mustique in 1956 for a song and turned it into a playground for the rich and famous.
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Marzipan Pig, The
Based on the award-winning book by Russell Hoban, a marzipan pig falls behind a sofa and is lost. In his loneliness, the pig’s feelings of love reach out to an owl, a mouse, and a hibiscus flower. Also featuring Jazztime Tale .
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Matter of Taste, A
A Matter of Taste follows talented young chef Paul Liebrandt for over a decade, revealing his creative process in the kitchen as well as the extreme dedication it takes to be a successful culinary artist in the cutthroat world of haute cuisine.
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Me Without You
Michelle Williams and Anna Friel star as best friends growing up in the London suburbs in the 1970s. Spanning three decades, Marina and Holly's friendship endures drugs, random sex, manipulation and betrayal.
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Merton: A Film Biography
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. An engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and who still has profound impact and relevance today.
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Methadonia
Methadonia is the borderland between high and straight, where recovering heroin addicts on methadone "maintenance" exist. Passing the time on prescription drugs, addicts find themselves in Methadonia for years, or decades.
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Midnight Dancers
Banned in its native Philippines, Midnight Dancers tells the story of three brothers who work as exotic dancers and prostitutes at a gay club in Manila. For mature audiences only.
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Modern Con Man Collection, The
In this 3 DVD set, America’s #1 Con Man Todd Robbins shows you how easy it is to scam, bet, and trick your way to a free drink, a few extra bucks at the poker table, and laughs at the expense of your co-workers.
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Mongolian Ping Pong
A ping pong ball, found floating in a stream, becomes the source of wonderment for three young boys who live in the remote grasslands of Mongolia, a magnificent landscape little changed since the time of Genghis Khan.
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Monseñor: The Last Journey of Óscar Romero
In El Salvador in the late Seventies, Monseñor Óscar Romero was the voice of the poor, the disenfranchised, and the Disappeared – all struggling under the corrupt Salvadoran government.
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Montessori: Let the Child Be the Guide
Curious about the Montessori Method, filmmaker Alexandre Mourot sets his camera up in the oldest Montessori school in France (with kids from 3 to 6) and observes this child-centered educational approach for an entire year.
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Moynihan
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a colossus of ideas and a man of deeds. 16 years after his death, as the nation sinks into hyper-partisanship and social media frenzy, the first documentary about his life captures Moynihan as never before.
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Mugabe and the White African
Widely proclaimed one of the best documentaries of the year, Mugabe and the White African is the story of one family’s astonishing bravery as they fight to protect their property, their livelihood and their country.
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My Führer
The bastard love child of Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator and Mel Brooks’ The Producers , My Führer is a wildly provocative and laugh-out-loud satire about Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
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Mystery of Eva Peron, The
Actress, seductress, political powerhouse and cultural icon of Argentina and the world, the life and legend of María Eva Duarte de Perón, or Evita, as she came to be known, endures to this day.
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Myth of a Colorblind France
A documentary that explores the lives of renowned Black artists who emigrated to Paris to liberate themselves from the racism of the United States, including Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Augusta Savage.
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Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
In 1964, a mob of Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi (the 'Mississippi Burning' murders). Neshoba tells the story of these three American heroes and the long struggle to bring their killers to justice.
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New Medicine, The
Extraordinary changes are taking place in American medicine today. Driven by new scientific evidence, doctors are coming to understand that treating the body alone is not enough – the mind can also play a critical role in the healing process.
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Night of Broken Glass, The
After seizing power, the Nazis began their crusade against Jews with discriminatory laws and the looting of property; they turned to violence openly in what has come to be known as Kristallnacht: the night of broken glass.
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Nuclear Nation
March 11, 2011: A huge tsunami triggered by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake hits Japan, crippling the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, releasing radiation, and turning the residents of Futaba into "nuclear refugees."
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Octav
When a man returns to his childhood villa, a familiar-looking little girl takes him on a wondrous journey back to the innocence of his early years in pre-war Romania.
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Off and Running
With white Jewish lesbians for parents, Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But her curiosity about her African-American roots thrusts her into an exploration of race and identity that threatens to distance her from her family.
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Olancho
In Olancho, the largest state in Honduras, the drug trade has taken its toll in human lives and economic damage. But to some musicians, the cartels provide an opportunity. This award-winning documentary delves into their lives.
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One Cut, One Life
When documentarian Ed Pincus, considered the father of first-person non-fiction film, is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he and collaborator Lucia Small team up to make one last film - much to the chagrin of Jane, Ed's wife of 50 years.
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Our City Dreams
In this lyrical documentary, filmmaker Chiara Clemente shines a light on five women artists- Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer and Swoon- whose inspiration is fueled by living and working in New York City.
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Paralyzing Fear, A: The Story of Polio in America
Seldom has society come full circle in the cycle of a disease - from illness, to epidemic, to cure. Polio is the 20th century's most notable exception. This fascinating story is told here with thousands of photographs, films and interviews. Emmy award winner!
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Patagonia Rising
This documentary captures a heated battle, deep in the heart of Chile's Patagonia region, between those who wish to exploit two of the world's purest rivers and those who wish to preserve the land and the traditional lifestyle of its inhabitants.
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Patrimonio
A billion dollar American development is poised to engulf a small coastal community in Mexico. But local townspeople band together to battle the threat to their water, their beach and their heritage.
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Peach & A Bitter Song
Lucy Lawless, the Amazonian star of Xena: Warrior Princess, is a sexy tow truck driver attracted to a young Maori woman in Peach. And A Bitter Song features Lucy in her first ever film role.
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People Uncounted, A: The Untold Story of the Roma
Visiting 11 countries and interviewing dozens of artists, historians, musicians and Holocaust survivors, this revealing film documents the culturally rich but often difficult lives of the Roma, a people who have endured centuries of intolerance and persecution.
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Plastic Planet
This feisty yet informative documentary takes us on a journey around the globe to reveal the far-flung reach of plastic, and shed light on how it affects our environment, our bodies, and the health of future generations.
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Population Boom
In Population Boom, director Werner Boote traverses the globe to examine the myths and facts about overpopulation. Speaking with everyone from demographic researchers to environmental activists, he comes to a surprising conclusion.
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Pressure Cooker
Wilma Stephenson teaches Culinary Arts at Frankford High School in Philadelphia. Infamously blunt, Mrs. Stephenson runs a “boot camp,” disciplining her students into capable chefs and responsible students.
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Prima Ballerina
A double portrait of two icons of contemporary Russian ballet: Svetlana Zakharova of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and Ulyana Lopatkina from the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg.
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Private Dicks: Men Exposed
Men spend a lot of time thinking about their penises, and even thinking with their
penises. But rarely do we hear men talking honestly about their penises –
until now.
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Prodigal Sons
Returning home for her high school reunion, filmmaker Kimberly Reed hopes for reconciliation with her estranged adopted brother. But along the way she uncovers stunning revelations and twists of plot and gender no one could imagine.
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Proteus
Twenty years in the making, Proteus weaves a tapestry of poetry and myth, biology and oceanography, scientific history and spiritual biography around the story of biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel.
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PS Dance! Dance Education in Public Schools
Step inside the halls of five NYC public schools and celebrate dance! Hosted by Paula Zahn, PS Dance! captures what happens when students have dance in their curriculum. The journey is one of imagination, curiosity, hard work and discipline.
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Quest
Epic in scope yet filmed with vérité intimacy over nearly a decade, the Sundance documentary Quest is a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a testament to love, healing and hope.
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Razzia
In this searing drama, five Moroccans are pushed to the fringe by their extremist government. Spanning three decades, Razzia weaves an intricate tale of lost loves, forbidden desires, and fragile dreams in modern day Morocco.
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Real, The Movie
Five stories illustrating the worldwide passion for Real Madrid are interwoven with exciting action and behind the scenes footage. Featuring David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, Raul, and more.
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Reich Underground, The
Long forgotten after the victorious American Army sealed them off from intruders, the sprawling underground labyrinths built by the Nazis to house armament factories are reopened for the first time in decades by a team of experts.
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Roman de Gare
In Claude Lelouch's tricky thriller, novelist and femme fatale Judith Ralitzer (Fanny Ardant) is seeking characters for her next best-seller. Meanwhile a serial killer has just escaped from a high security prison. Their paths are about to cross.
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Seadrift
In 1979, in the town of Seadrift, TX, what began as a dispute over fishing territory erupts into violence and ignites a maelstrom of boat burnings, KKK intimidation, and other hostilities against Vietnamese refugees along the Gulf Coast.
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Search for Mengele, The
Josef Mengele was the most notorious SS doctor at Auschwitz. After the end of World War II, Mengele was one of the world’s most wanted war criminals – yet for the next forty years he escaped justice.
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Seaside
In a small beach town in France, beautiful young Marie works at a pebble processing plant. Her boyfriend, Paul, a warehouse employee in winter and a lifeguard in summer, doesn’t understand Marie’s dreamy temperament and stifles her with his clumsy love.
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Secundaria
Secundaria quietly follows one high school class on its journey through Cuba's world-famous National Ballet School. In their third year, a student named Mayara takes charge of her destiny in an astonishing way and this simple portrait takes a dramatic turn.
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Seduction: The Cruel Woman
Pina Bausch dancer Mechthilde Grossmann plays Wanda, a dominatrix with an S&M "gallery" on the Hamburg waterfront who leaves her German shoe fetishist lesbian lover for an American trainee.
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Sex Trade, The
A behind-the-scenes look at a modern form of slavery, The Sex Trade is a foray into a brutal world whose key players trivialize the impact of their actions by claiming that prostitution is simply a service like any other.
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Something to Do With the Wall
In 1986, Ross McElwee and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the Berlin Wall. But in 1989, as the original film neared completion, the Wall came down. They returned to Berlin, this time to capture the radically different atmosphere of the city.
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Sons of Tennessee Williams, The
Interweaving archival footage and contemporary interviews, The Sons of Tennessee Williams charts the evolution of the gay Mardi Gras krewe scene in New Orleans over the decades.
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Spark Among the Ashes
In this emotional documentary, a 13-year-old Connecticut boy stands at the center of a complex human drama that attracts world-wide attention when he travels to Cracow to participate in the first bar mitzvah there since the War.
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Spring & Arnaud
Influential photographer Arnaud Maggs, turning 85, embarks on a series of self-portraits that wryly depict his life's work. Spring Hurlbut at 60 is creating haunting works that evoke mortality. Together more than 25 years, each grapples with the nature of an artist's creativity.
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Storm Makers, The
Produced by filmmaker Rithy Panh (S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, Duch: Master of the Forges of Hell), The Storm Makers is an eye-opening look at the cycle of poverty, despair and greed that fuels Cambodia's brutal modern slave trade.
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Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island
As Fogo Island struggles to sustain its unique way of life in the face of a collapse of its fishing industry, architect Todd Saunders and social entrepreneur Zita Cobb's vision results in the building of strikingly original architecture that will become a catalyst for social change.
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Strangers on the Earth
Join Dane Johansen as he walks the Camino de Santiago, cello on his back, performing music for his fellow pilgrims at churches along the way. The film explores the mental and spiritual aspects of his journey.
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Street Fighting Men
Shot over three years in the neighborhoods of Detroit, Street Fighting Men takes a deep, observational dive into the lives of three black men. What emerges is a story of hard work, faith and manhood in a community left to fend for itself.
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Sukkah City
Sukkah City chronicles the architecture and design competition in New York City conceived by best-selling author Joshua Foer that explores the creative potential of the ancient Jewish sukkah.
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Take, The
Filmmakers Avi Lewis and Naomi
Klein take viewers inside the lives of unemployed workers in Buenos Aires, who
must fight for jobs and their dignity by confronting factory owners, politicians
and judges.
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Tales from the Script
Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and other Hollywood screenwriters share insights and anecdotes in the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting.
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Television Under the Swastika
Making use of 285 reels of film discovered in the catacombs of the Berlin Federal Film Archive, this documentary is a fascinating look at the world’s first television broadcast network and the programming the Nazis chose to put on it.
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That Way Madness Lies...
What do you do when your brother descends into a black hole of mental instability - starting with falling for a Nigerian email scam but eventually winding up involuntary committed into the hospital made famous by 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'?
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The Corporate Coup d'État
This investigative documentary exposes how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process, and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin to vast swaths of the country.
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The Second Time Around
Linda Thorson and Stuart Margolin are a revelation in this gently exuberant and inspiring romantic drama that takes place in a home for senior citizens and is centered around their common love of music.
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Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
A story that tears at the heart of America, this critically acclaimed documentary from the director of Bonhoeffer explores Thomas Jefferson and his personal and public dilemma about race and slavery.
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Tiny: A Story About Living Small
Christopher buys a 5-acre plot of land in hopes of fulfilling a dream of building a home in the mountains of Colorado. With the support of his girlfriend, Merete, he sets out to build a Tiny House from scratch despite having no construction experience.
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To Be of Service
From Academy Award nominated Josh Aronson, To Be Of Service is a documentary about veterans suffering from PTSD who are paired with a service dog to help them regain their lives.
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To the Limit
Pepe Danquart follows brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber to locations never before reached by film crew as they set out to break the record in speed climbing the 2,900 foot sheer cliff known as ‘The Nose’ of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
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Top Secret Trial of the Third Reich, The
Through authentic footage of the 1944 trial of the men who conspired to assassinate the Führer, this astonishing film details the various attempts to assassinate Hitler and sheds light on the anti-Nazi resistance.
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Trials of Henry Kissinger, The
A Film by Alex Gibney & Eugene Jarecki. The Trials of Henry Kissinger explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in U.S. history.
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Unknown Soldier, The
The Unknown Soldier documents Germany’s controversial Wehrmacht Exhibition, which for the first time ever revealed the personal letters, photographs and film footage implicating the common foot soldier in horrific acts.
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Unmarked
Throughout the South, vast numbers of African-American gravesites and burial grounds have been lost or are disappearing through neglect. Unmarked explores these untold stories of our forgotten past and the efforts underway to preserve them.
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Venus Boyz
A film by Gabriel Baur. Club Casanova's legendary Drag King Night in New York is the point of departure for an odyssey to the transgender world. It's a world where women become men - some for a night, others for a lifetime.
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Vito
Until his death in 1990, Vito Russo was one of the most outspoken and inspiring activists in the LGBT community’s fight for equal rights. Vito paints a galvanizing portrait of this activist, using period footage and film clips to capture a vibrant era of gay culture.
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Wagner & Me
With the witty and charming English actor and raconteur Stephen Fry as our guide, this
surprising film is a provocative yet enjoyable look
at Richard Wagner‘s life – and his 'stained' legacy.
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Welcome to Leith
Welcome to Leith chronicles the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. As his behavior becomes more threatening, the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor.
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When Justice Isn't Just
Directed by Oscar-nominated David Massey, this dynamic documentary features legal experts, local activists, and law enforcement officers delving into ongoing charges of inequality, unfair practices, and politicized manipulations of America's judicial system.
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When the Drum is Beating
The Haitian band Septentrional has been making passionate, beautiful music for six decades, navigating the ups and downs, the glory and the tragedy that is their nation's history.
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When Two Worlds Collide
In this tense and immersive Sundance award-winner, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire in the clash between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders over indigenous Amazonian land.
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Who is Henry Jaglom?
Hailed by some as a genius, a feminist voice and a maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic, egomaniacal fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art.
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Year in Champagne, A
With renowned wine importer Martine Saunier as our guide, we get a rare glimpse behind the scenes into the real Champagne through six houses, from small independent makers to the illustrious houses of Gosset and Bollinger.
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You Go To My Head
In a desolate stretch of the Sahara, a mysterious car accident leaves a young woman lost and alone. Jake, a reclusive architect, finds her unconscious; intoxicated by the woman's beauty, he takes her to his remote desert home to recuperate.
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