The Apollo
The history of New York City’s Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Roger Ross Williams
Actors: Angela Bassett, Aretha Franklin, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Jamie Foxx, Patti LaBelle, Pharrell Williams, Redd Foxx, Smokey Robinson
Raymond Lewis: L.A. Legend
A critically acclaimed documentary that tells the incredible story of a basketball phenom from Watts, California whom many believe was blackballed from the NBA in the’70s – and his unlikely…
On the Trail of Bigfoot: The Journey
On the Trail of Bigfoot: The Journey follows cryptid documentarian Seth Breedlove and his crew as they head to the Adirondacks of update New York for an intensive, adventure-filled week…
Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine
A look at the rise and fall of the subversive skateboarding magazine Big Brother, which rose to prominence in the mid-1990s and had a profound effect on the skating subculture…
Pina
Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died…
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo is a 2008 PBS documentary film detailing Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell’s 1993 retracing of Marco Polo’s journey from Venice to Anatolia, Persia, India…
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world’s living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and…
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during…
A Love Song for Latasha
A dreamlike conversation with the past and the present, reimagining of Latasha Harlins’ story by excavating intimate memories shared by those who loved her.
My Big Bollywood Wedding
There are few ceremonies in the world that are as lavish or as vibrant as Indian weddings. And for Indian-Americans, the unions are just as extravagant here in the States,…
Danger Close
Freelance female war reporter Alex Quade covers U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) on highly classified combat missions. Since 2001, she has embedded with elite SOF, including the U.S. Army Special…
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can only be conceived by someone Japanese. His architecture mixes Piranesian drama with contemplative spaces in urban complexes,…