Merchants of Doubt
Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Robert Kenner
Actors: Katharine Heyhoe, Matthew Crawford, Patricia Callahan, Stanton A. Glantz
Religulous
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil’s advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and…
Salesman
This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul “The Badger” Brennan, Charles “The Gipper” McDevitt, James…
Farewell Ferris Wheel
Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the controversial H-2B guestworker visa.
The Inland Sea
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…
Ethnic Notions
This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.
R.I.P. T-Shirts
A small custom T-shirt shop in Washington, DC, sees a generation of Black youth experience gun violence.
Ain’t in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
Starting with the image of a tour bus warming its engine in the stillness of an empty lot, this haunting, personal portrait of music legend Levon Helm evokes the mood…
Mexican Wave
A documentary following a group of London based Mexicans, campaigning for democracy and an end to the forced disappearances of 43 farming students in September 2014 and the routine killings…
Tim’s Vermeer
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years…
The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912
Newly restored and assembled by the International Olympic Committee – the earliest comprehensive moving-image record of the modern Olympic Games that survives today.
Kennedy’s Suicide Bomber
In 1960, a lone assassin planned a deadly attempt on the life of President-Elect John F Kennedy. With a Buick packed with dynamite, nothing was going to stop Kennedy’s Suicide…
Pink Floyd : The Story of Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here, released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful The Dark Side Of The Moon and is cited by many fans, as…