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- DirectorAlison McAlpineStarsRaúl AdriazolaCasiano ArdilesCipriano CastilloA love poem to the night sky, set in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
- DirectorCassie QuarlessUsayd YounisStarsArnie HillGeneration Revolution brings to screen the powerful story of how a new generation of black and brown activists are changing the social and political landscape in London and beyond.
- DirectorJames Der DerianDavid UdrisMichael Udris'Human Terrain' is two stories in one. The first exposes the U.S. effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies. Facing long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military adopts a controversial new program, 'Human Terrain Systems', to make cultural awareness a key element of its counterinsurgency strategy. Designed to embed social scientists with combat troops, the program swiftly comes under attack by academic critics who consider it misguided and unethical to gather intelligence and target potential enemies for the military. Gaining rare access to war-games in the Mojave Desert and training exercises at Quantico and Fort Leavenworth, 'Human Terrain' takes the viewer into the heart of the war machine and the shadowy collaboration between American academics and the armed services. The other story is about a brilliant young scholar who leaves the university to join a Human Terrain team. After working as a humanitarian activist and winning a Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford, Michael Bhatia returned to Brown University to conduct research on military cultural awareness. A year later, he left to embed as a Human Terrain member with the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan. On May 7, 2008, en route to mediate an inter-tribal dispute, his Humvee hit a roadside bomb and Bhatia was killed along with two other soldiers. Asking what happens when war becomes academic and academics go to war, the two stories merge in tragedy.
- DirectorSierra PettengillPacho VelezStarsRonald ReaganNancy ReaganMikhail GorbachevMade up entirely of archival news and White House footage, this documentary captures the pageantry, absurdity, and mastery of the made-for-TV politics of Ronald Reagan.
- DirectorBing LiuStarsKent AbernathyMengyue BolenNina BowgrenFilmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.
- DirectorBartle BullStarsBrian AdamsTeddy AtlasDuquan ChambersThree young people battle to change their lives through a three-month odyssey of the New York Daily News Golden Gloves-the biggest and oldest amateur boxing tournament in the world.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsDiego MaradonaDalma MaradonaPeléConstructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the career of celebrated football player Diego Maradona, who played for S.S.C. Napoli in the 1980s.
- DirectorAlison KlaymanStarsSteve BannonSean BannonRaheem KassamA fly-on-the-wall chronicle of embattled former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon's global mission to spread extreme nationalism.
- DirectorWaad Al-KateabEdward WattsStarsWaad Al-KateabSama Al-KhateabHamza Al-KhateabFOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
- DirectorBrett StoryStarsClare CoulterOrdinary people in New York are asked to talk about their lives and their hopes for the future in a time marked by political division and climate change.
- DirectorHassan FaziliStarsHassan FaziliNargis FaziliZahra FaziliWhen the Taliban puts a bounty on Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two daughters. Capturing the journey, Fazili shows the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
- DirectorAlex GibneyStarsMikhail KhodorkovskyVladimir PutinLeonid NevzlinThe strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
- DirectorRachel GriffithsStarsTeresa PalmerSam NeillBrooke SatchwellThe story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
- DirectorKirby DickAmy ZieringStarsSil Lai AbramsJoe BidenTarana BurkeA former hip hop executive decides whether to make public her rape by one of the most powerful men in the music industry.
- DirectorRubika ShahStarsRed SaundersRoger HuddleKate WebbRock Against Racism was formed in 1976, prompted by Eric Clapton. It blends fresh interviews with archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches.
- DirectorRyan WhiteStarsSiti AisyahHadi AzmiAnna FifieldAn account of the two women convicted of assassinating Kim Jong-un's half-brother, Kim Jong-nam. The film follows the women's trials in an attempt to understand whether they are trained killers or simply pawns.
- DirectorPeter W. KunhardtA look at the final years in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- DirectorSam PollardStarsMartin Luther KingJ. Edgar HooverDavid GarrowBased on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- DirectorJohn PilgerStarsJohn PilgerVeteran filmmaker John Pilger takes us through a history of threats to Britain's National Health Service ,from its 1948 founding by Labor through a privatizing push by Margaret Thatcher's bureaucrats, to challenges by new Conservatives.
- DirectorAssia BoundaouiStarsGamal Abdel-HafizChristina AbrahamAssia BoundaouiWhen journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.
- DirectorAlexander NanauStarsDan Alexandru CondreaLiviu IoluRazvan LutacDirector Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
- DirectorSkye FitzgeraldStarsAida AlsadeeqOmeima Essa Salem AbdullahMekkia MahdiFilmed from inside two of the most active therapeutic feeding centers in Yemen, HUNGER WARD documents two female health care workers fighting to thwart the spread of starvation against the backdrop of a forgotten war. The film provides an unflinching portrait of Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and Nurse Mekkia Mahdi as they try to save the lives of hunger-stricken children within a population on the brink of famine.
- DirectorLance OppenheimStarsDennis DeanLynn HenryAnne KincerBehind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America's largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning.
- DirectorMarc LevinStarsMichael Levine'Freeway' Ricky RossEric SterlingFREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity-more compelling than fiction, it's the real story behind America's longest war. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (SLAM, Mr. Untouchable, Brick City) exposes how the infiltration of crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods across the country. At the center of it all is the rise, fall and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross, a street hustler who became the King of Crack, and journalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA's complicity in the drug war. Featuring exclusive interviews with Freeway Rick Ross, not to be confused with the rapper who took his name Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb, his source Coral Baca, and wife Susan Webb former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Roberto Juarez drug trafficker Julio Zavala and many more. The real Rick Ross is not a rapper. He's an urban legend in South Central LA, a black godfather figure whom most people have never seen, but know by name and reputation. He's 'Freeway' Rick Ross, the man who stood at the center of the crack epidemic, and whose name has been inextricably linked to the CIA-Contra-Cocaine connection. His story defies all odds and stereotypes and proves that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
- 20211h 58mPG-138.0 (14K)96MetascoreDirectorQuestloveStarsDorinda DrakeBarbara Bland-AcostaDarryl LewisDocumentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity.
- DirectorDan ReedStarsGayle KingLarry KingAnderson CooperFollows the story of the so-called Liberty City Seven, a group of young Black men accused of assisting Al Qaeda in a plot to blow up buildings within the USA.
- DirectorJohn HoffmanJanet TobiasStarsBonoGeorge W. BushFrancis CollinsA glimpse into infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci who has led the U.S. fight against every epidemic the country has faced from AIDS to SARS to Ebola, and the ongoing COVID-19.
- DirectorAlan LoweryJohn PilgerStarsJohn PilgerStuart EwenMelvin GoodmanThought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
- DirectorKate DavisDavid HeilbronerThe FBI targets a Muslim community in Newburgh, New York and arrests four men in 2009 during a sting operation, claiming they tried to help a Pakistani business man, who was working with the FBI, with terrorist attacks.
- DirectorJehane NoujaimStarsSamir KhaderJosh RushingGeorge W. BushA documentary on perception of the United States's war with Iraq, with an emphasis on Al Jazeera's coverage.
- DirectorRory KennedyStarsIsrael RiveraMegan Ambuhl GranerJaval DavisAn examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving U.S. soldiers and detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in the fall of 2003.
- DirectorLine HalvorsenStarsAbdullah Al-ArianLaila Al-ArianLama Al-ArianUSA vs AL-ARIAN is a close portrait of an Arab-American family facing terrorism charges leveled by the U.S. Government. The film shows a personal story of a family living in a society where fear of terrorism has resulted in increasing stigmatization and discrimination against Muslims.
- DirectorRobert GreeneStarsJoe EldredMike ForemanEd GavaganA group of survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests battle for justice.
- DirectorJamila WignotStarsAlvin AileyCicely TysonRennie HarrisAn immersive portrait of dance pioneer Alvin Ailey, told through his own words and a new dance inspired by his life.
- StarsAdam CurtisLove, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.
- DirectorMohammed SawwafMichael WinterbottomStarsZoe WaitesA documentary on 11 days of bombing at Palestinian territory of Gaza in May 2021.
- DirectorBarney DouglasStarsBjörn BorgPeter FlemingChrissie HyndeIt follows John McEnroe as he finally tells his side of his storied career and performances on the court.
- DirectorRobert B. WeideDon ArgottStarsLinda BatesJohn IrvingJerome KlinkowitzRecounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it.
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
- DirectorRobert CoeWarwick RossFour Zimbabwean men form their country's first Wine Tasting Olympics team.
- DirectorJono McLeodStarsBrandon LeeAlan CummingDawn SteeleIn 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend.
- DirectorTas BrookerStarsRose McGowanHelen EvansKatharine GunWHEN WE SPEAK follows three incredible stories of women who risked everything to tell the truth. Their stories became worldwide scandals and took a personal toll on each of their lives
- DirectorSonita GaleStarsFarrukh SairHostile is a feature-length documentary focusing on the impact of the evolving 'hostile environment' policies, which are designed to make living conditions so difficult for migrants that they voluntarily leave the country.
- DirectorAlon SchwarzStarsAvigdor FeldmanYoav GelberTeddy KatzIn the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
- DirectorDaniel RoherStarsAlexei NavalnyYulia NavalnayaChristo GrozevFollows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.
- DirectorBecky HutnerStarsChloe MarksAmy PowneyFollows Amy Powney, a daughter of environmental activists, during her trajectory from outsider to industry leader as she sets out to create a fashion collection that's ethical and sustainable at every level.
- DirectorMarie LidénAn intimate window into William's isolated world and a moving and poignant depiction of a family, devoted to finding a way to save their son.
- DirectorEdward LovelaceVoid of any language, communication or true sense of self, Lawand struggles to piece together his surroundings in his new home in Derbyshire, England after a traumatic and turbulent year of seeking asylum through Europe.
- DirectorVinay ShuklaStarsRavish KumarSushil BahugunaDeepak ChaubeyHow independent news reporting in India and beyond is increasingly under threat by budgetary cuts and especially, extremists leveraging alternative platforms to spread misinformation.
- DirectorShaunak SenStarsSalik RehmanMohammad SaudNadeem ShehzadAmidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsJohn C. BarnettClassie CurleyMelvin DavisA Black family in North Carolina has been harassed for decades by land developers attempting to take their waterfront property.
- DirectorLisa HurwitzStarsMel BrooksJohn W. RomasCarl ReinerDocumentary centers on the vending machine popularized in the 20th century that offered fresh cooked meals in a commissary-style eatery.
- DirectorKate StonehillThe revelation of a top-secret British surveillance programme brings down the dominoes in a dark and analytical film about technology, rights and structural racism - and about a man with the courage to speak out.
- DirectorJeanie FinlayStarsAubrey GordonMichael HobbesThe rise of Aubrey Gordon, from anonymous blogger to best selling author. Her aim? A paradigm shift in the way that we view fatness. A film about fat, family, the complexities of change and the deep, messy feelings we hold about our bodies
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsQueen Máxima of the NetherlandsPeter R. de VriesMelanie HyamsThe past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.
- DirectorLorna Tucker25 years after being herself a rough sleeper on the streets of London, Lorna Tucker returns to the places she used to frequent to discover what has or has not changed in the intervening years.