
Citizenfour
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Laura Poitras
Actors: Barack Obama, Edward Snowden, Ewen MacAskill, Glenn Greenwald, Jacob Appelbaum, Jeremy Scahill, Julian Assange, Kevin Bankston, Laura Poitras, William Binney
Beware the Slenderman
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How…
Heaven Can’t Wait
The moving story of Carlo Acutis, a young British-Italian amateur computer programmer who died in 2006, aged 15, as a result of leukemia. However, even though he is no longer…
Russian Gas and the Nenets
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Tokyo Olympiad
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic…
Stand
Raw and unflinching examination of the courageous life of basketball star and social justice activist Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Born Chris Jackson, he overcame tremendous adversity to reach the NBA and found…
I Am Burt Reynolds
Friends and family of the late actor Burt Reynolds remember his life and career, accompanied by clips of his most beloved films.
Orlando, My Political Biography
Woolf’s Orlando follows the centuries-spanning life of a young nobleman who awakens to find that they a woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado claims that fiction…
Ultimate Predator
A never-before-seen collection of insane animal encounters from the creators of “Jackass” and “Wildboyz.” Manny “The Shark Man” Puig engages sharks, alligators, bears, snakes, and more.
Accomplice
It’s a moment time-stamped in our brains. Maybe it was a birthday gift. Or perhaps you saved paycheck after paycheck to finally purchase one. However you met your first bicycle,…
Samsara
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes,…
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as “mommie dearest.” caricature she…
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”), gets the…