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Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth
6.7
2019

Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth

Director Jeanie Finlay charts a transgender man's path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pr...

I Invite You to My Execution
7.0
2019

I Invite You to My Execution

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the ...

The Sex Warriors and the Samurai
3.5
1995

The Sex Warriors and the Samurai

A candid story about a Filipino transvestite who works in Japan’s entertainment center in order to support his family. I...

No Safe Spaces
6.8
2019

No Safe Spaces

Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager examine the reality of life and discourse on college campuses in modern America.

Resistance: Police Against the Wall
2020

Resistance: Police Against the Wall

The new Longueuil police chief, Fady Dagher, is aware of the challenges he faces. Well positioned for the next five year...

Power
7.1
2024

Power

Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. N...

Vi är barn av vår tid - En film om Nationalteatern
7.0
2021

Vi är barn av vår tid - En film om Nationalteatern

50 years ago the Swedish progressive indie group Nationalteatern was founded. They were young, radical and wanted to cha...

Squid Game: Making Season 2
8.4
2025

Squid Game: Making Season 2

From set designs to character arcs, get exclusive cast and director interviews on how Season 2 of the globally most-watc...

Something In The Water: A Kinston Basketball Story
2020

Something In The Water: A Kinston Basketball Story

1 in 52 players from Kinston High make it to the NBA, the most per capita in the world. Where basketball provides a way ...

How to Get Out of the Cage (A year with John Cage)
2012

How to Get Out of the Cage (A year with John Cage)

2012 documentary on John Cage celebrating his 100th birthday in the form of a re-edit of partially unused film material ...

Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022

Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politic...

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
7.2
2020

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenage...

Eye Candy: The Crazy World of David LaChapelle
2006

Eye Candy: The Crazy World of David LaChapelle

Women are squashed by giant hamburgers, half-swallowed by sharks or swing from crystal chandeliers: welcome to David LaC...

A Terra em que Pisar
2019

A Terra em que Pisar

The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
7.7
2018

The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom

Documentary exploring The Advocate's role at the forefront of the LGBT movement in the U.S.

Chaplin vs the FBI
9.2
2019

Chaplin vs the FBI

How FBI followed Charles Chaplin for 50 years. Hoover was convinced that Chaplin is a communist or communist supporter.

Altman on His Own Terms
2000

Altman on His Own Terms

A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director w...

'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
7.3
2001

'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic

A documentary about Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film Rear Window.

A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies
2016

A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies

The piece opens with Steven Spielberg's family history with the real life events and follows with cast and crew examinin...

Shoot First: An Interview with Mark Morris
2020

Shoot First: An Interview with Mark Morris

Mark Morris, cinematographer of the film 'L.A. Wars', discusses the making of the film.