Fat Fiction
Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jennifer Isenhart
Actors: Ancel Keys, Bret Scher, Gary Taubes, Mark Hyman, Nina Teicholz, Robert Lustig, Salim Yusuf, Sarah Hallberg, Tim Noakes, Zoe Harcombe
Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special
In his last comedy special, Norm ponders casinos, cannibals, living wills and more. After his set, Norm’s friends and fellow comics gather to salute him.
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries “It” and its infamous villain Pennywise live on in the minds of horror fans around the world. This documentary captures not…
In a Different Key
A mother tracks down the first person ever diagnosed with autism, now an elderly man in rural Mississippi, to learn if his life story holds promise for her own autistic…
The Last Storm
Mark, a 60 years old fledgling storm chaser recently diagnosed with lung cancer, sets out across the Midwest with his friend’s nephew in search of his first and possibly last…
Chonda Pierce: Unashamed
We shared a small apartment in Hamburg for 10 years. Just finished school and moved out with our parents, we were able to let off steam together in the big…
The Silhouettes
In 1982, when the Russian invasion of Afghanistan was at its peak, more than 1.5 million inhabitants had to move to Iran looking for a new life. Taghi, born in…
Heroin’s Grip
A powerful documentary film that tells stories from the front lines of the opioid crisis. The film features four families whose lives have been impacted and forever changed by addiction,…
Children of the Arctic
Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow – the northernmost community in the United States. As their climate and culture undergo…
Fighting for King and Empire: Britain’s Caribbean Heroes
During the Second World War, thousands of men and women from the Caribbean colonies volunteered to come to Britain to join the fight against Hitler. They risked their lives for…
The Driver Is Red
Argentina, 1960: a true crime story of how secret agent Zvi Aharoni hunts down one of the highest-ranking Nazi war criminals on the run.
Me, My Selfie and I with Ryan Gander
Celebrated conceptual artist Ryan Gander investigates the selfie – the icon of a new kind of self-regard that hardly existed just ten years ago. He discovers the roots of the…
Transcendent Man
The compelling feature-length documentary film, by director Barry Ptolemy, chronicles the life and controversial ideas of luminary Ray Kurzweil. For more than three decades, inventor, futures, and New York Times…