Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
A visionary, innovator, and originator who defied categorization and embodied the word cool—a foray into the life and career of musical and cultural icon Miles Davis.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Stanley Nelson
Actors: Carl Lumbly, Carlos Santana, Flea, Herbie Hancock, Juliette Gréco, Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter
Albert Einstein: Still a Revolutionary
Using a wealth of rarely-seen archival footage, correspondence, and new and illuminating interviews, Julia Newman makes the case that Albert Einstein’s example of social and political activism is as important…
Old Marine Boy
In 2006, Myongho crossed the border with his family with nothing from North Korea. In South, he becomes a deep-sea diver at the border village between South and North Korea….
Rising from the Tsunami
In March 2011, an unprecedented tsunami strikes Japan, leaving in its wake 20,000 dead and a devastated country. The missing come back to haunt the living from the depths of…
Putin’s Kiss
Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia’s popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater…
All Its Name Implies
Highlighted by harrowing first-person footage from Paradise, California residents as they frantically attempt to flee the place they call home during a monumentally destructive wildfire in 2018, this intimate documentary…
Ernie & Joe
Ernie & Joe follows two officers with the San Antonio Police Department mental health unit who are diverting people away from jail and into mental health treatment — one 911…
Joke Man
Jackie Martling just may be America’s last great joke teller. His savant-like ability to remember every joke he’s heard since he was 8 years old, combined with his lightning fast…
Project Home
Can 3D printed houses solve the global housing crisis? Tech entrepreneurs test the limits of this new construction method as families’ futures hang in the balance.
Wild Life
From Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, “Wild Life” follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic, decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she dedicated her life to…
Kedi
A profile of Istanbul and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.
Trouble the Water
“Trouble the Water” takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall–just blocks away from the…
The Endangered Generation?
Our world is at a crossroads of myriad crises, but all too often the solutions to the problems we face – especially climate change – are put in the ‘too…