In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle – starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate – accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. As Swinton travels through…
The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region’s…
Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located in Beirut’s “belt of…
What do the United States and Papua New Guinea have in common? They are the only countries in the world without paid family leave. American families are often forced to…
Actor/comedian Jim Breuer, best known from Saturday Night Live and the film Half Baked, set out in 2008 on his first stand-up tour in six years, taking his 84 year-old…
Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.
The definitive look at Betty White’s life and career. As the only authorized documentary on Betty ever made, this film is packed with hilarious clips from her long career. Plus…
The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven…
From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who denounced both the willful inaction of…
