Before Dirk Diggler, there was John C. Holmes, the legendary adult actor who turned “Johnny Wadd” into a franchise and himself into a myth. WADD plunges into the heady 1970s and 1980s LA porn scene – the non-stop sex, the coke-fueled nights, the seedy characters, and the fatal orbit of club kingp...

OBSESSED WITH LIGHT pulls back the curtain on Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), a wildly original performer who pioneered modern dance by combining fabric and movement to develop a completely new kind of spectacle. Creating a dialogue between the past and the present, filmmakers Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva...

Formerly known as The Hermit Kingdom for its desire to remain isolated, North Korea is the last communist country and the largest source of instability in regard to world peace. It also has the most militarized border of any nation, and the flow of impartial information – both in and out – is pra...

Released four years after the Brazilian national team’s 1970 World Cup victory, this documentary follows the goals, glory and life of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to the world as Pelé, the greatest soccer player of the 20th century.

Produced and directed by Luiz Carlos Barreto, the film w...

Manuel Francisco dos Santos, nicknamed Mané Garrincha, but best known as Garrincha ("little bird"), was one of the greatest Brazilian soccer players of all time, and perhaps the sport's most famous dribbler. This acclaimed documentary, produced at the zenith of his career, explores his unique abi...

How is happiness measured? Can satisfaction with one’s life be rated on a scale from one to ten? The Kingdom of Bhutan’s famous – and highly exoticized – government policy measuring its nation’s Gross National Happiness operates on the idea that the basic tenets of fulfillment can and should be q...

Discover shunga, the explicit and exquisite form of Japanese erotic art which reached its height between 1600 and 1900, in this immersive documentary that reveals the beauty, detailed craft, and extraordinary imagination behind these powerful scrolls and prints in addition to their important hist...

A seemingly divine premonition leads Norwegian sisters Kari and May to buy an apartment in the small Swedish town of Gullspång. To their surprise, the seller looks remarkably similar to their older sister Astrid, who committed suicide thirty years earlier. What’s even more odd is that this doppel...

Outspoken, manipulative, independent thinking and oftentimes controversial, Artie Shaw (1910-2004) was one of the most popular stars of the Swing Era, who famously broke the color barrier by hiring the legendary Billie Holiday, Hot Lips Page and Roy Eldridge for his bands. His complex love-hate r...

Considered one of the first true fly-fishing films, TARPON brings together famed American authors Richard Brautigan, Tom McGuane, and Jim Harrison with legendary flats guides Woody Sexton, Gil Drake, and Steve Huff as they muse about life, art, nature, and fishing the majestic tarpon.

Shot in t...

Explore the unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who not only was a director of Italian B-movies but also penned the screenplay for the Sergio Corbucci spaghetti-western Django (which famously provided the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's own Django Unchained). An u...

Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. A member of a historically marginalized and oppressed community, Aaju’s heritage puts her in the unique position of someone who has been “twice colonized” – first by European settlers who arrived in the Arctic...

Does the most widely used weed killer in the world cause cancer? Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson vs. Monsanto Company follows the story of groundskeeper Lee Johnson and his fight for justice against agrichemical giant Monsanto (now Bayer, which bought the company in 2018), the manufacturer ...

Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Ruth Gruber was the world's youngest PhD at age 20. Four years later she became a New York Herald Tribune reporter as well as the first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic. A trusted member of the Roosevelt Administration during WWII, she was chosen to escort Holocaust...

Year after year, talent admission exams are held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague to determine who among the many applicants will earn a coveted spot at the 220-year-old institution. By extension, those chosen will set the tone in the fine arts world for years to come. Professors from each o...

Gyuri Byun's groundbreaking Korean documentary centers on two working class mothers, Nabi and Vivian. Like many in South Korea, where there is a distinct lack of legal protections for queer communities and gay marriage remains illegal, neither women gave much thought to LGBTQ+ rights or its growi...

Journey into the life and work of the defining figure in Scandic design and one of the greatest modern architects, Alvar Aalto. Recounting the intimate yet tragic love story he shared with his architect wife, Aino, the film provides a cinematic tour of their creative process and iconic buildings ...

Since the early 1970s, attorney Lea Tsemel has made a career out of defending Palestinians in Israeli courts: feminists and fundamentalists, non-violent demonstrators and armed militants. As far as most Israelis are concerned, she defends the indefensible. As far as Palestinians are concerned, sh...

This vibrant time capsule reveals the decadent world of ’70s haute couture and the dominant fashion illustrator of the era, Antonio Lopez, whose distinctive drawings graced the pages of Vogue and Elle. A Puerto Rican native raised in the Bronx, Antonio was a seductive arbiter of style and glamour...

Sherenté, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from Rhode Island's Narragansett tribe performs in dance competitions at annual regional powwows of New England tribes. There is no formal rule that prohibits Two Spirit Genderqueer people from competing in a category different from their birth gender. ...

Berlin's historic defunct Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures. Today its massive hangars are used as Germany's largest emergency shelter for asylum seekers, like 18-year-old Syrian refugee Ibrahim. As Ibrahim adjusts to his transitory daily life of social services intervi...

In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded Northwest Vietnamese mountains resides an indigenous Hmong community, home to twelve-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A free spirit, Di happily recounts her experiences to Vietnamese filmmaker Diễm Hà...

From the highest office in the land to Ward 10 at Maasiyahu Prison, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s unexpected rise to power and dramatic fall from grace is explored in this riveting political documentary. Following the incredible events that elevated him to power and set the stage fo...

Operating under a pseudonym which means "no boundaries", North Korean defector Sun Mu doesn't just paint about his troubled life in the world’s most reclusive and repressive state – he paints images of hope. Sun Mu's work is imbued with nuance and heartbreak, political pop art that inverts the pr...