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- A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
- A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
- Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking; tech experts sound the alarm on their own creations.
- An in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.
- Follows 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.
- A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.
- An unusual set of circumstances brings unexpected success to a pop star.
- A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
- Documentarian John Chester and his wife Molly work to develop a sustainable farm on 200 acres outside of Los Angeles.
- A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
- An exploration of various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's horror film, The Shining (1980).
- Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement.
- When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murder and expose a global cover up.
- Filmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.
- Life, works and achievements of opera legend Luciano Pavarotti.
- The story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub.
- Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
- The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
- An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.
- An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.
- An examination of the research by forensic psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis who investigated the psychology of murderers.
- A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.
- A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.
- Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
- A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
- A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.
- The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
- Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.
- Two documentarians exploring the world of online sexual abuse of children succeed in turning an experiment into an act of social intervention.
- Political documentary and personal memoir collide in this exploration into the complex truth behind the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies.
- In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
- A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.
- The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
- Anaïs and Emma have been best friends since childhood. It's a friendship is filmed over the years, during a period when their physical, emotional and intellectual development is dramatic.
- "The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces... and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim." This is the synopsis from the press notes. The film is a sequel of sorts to Costa's "Colossal Youth" with Ventura again playing himself.
- When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
- After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
- A look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called 'The Roaring 20s'.
- A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
- Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.
- Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.
- A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
- Prodigiously talented, Halston reigned over fashion in the 1970s and became a household name. But everything changed in the Wall Street era. With his empire under threat, Halston took the biggest gamble of his life.
- Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.
- WOMAN is a worldwide project giving voice to 2000 women in 50 different countries.
- This intimate portrait for André Leon Tally, a fixture in the world of fashion, takes viewers on a journey from André’s roots growing up to becoming one of the most influential tastemakers and fashion curators of our times.
- Using new archival sources and unprecedented access, master documentarian Barbara Kopple reveals the story behind one of the most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free hostages of the 1979 Iranian revolution.
- The University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system, is also one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world. The film, At Berkeley, shows the major aspects of university life, its intellectual and social mission, its obligation to the state and to larger ideas of higher education, as well as illustrates how decisions are made and implemented by the administration in collaboration with its various constituencies.
- A look at the global culture and appeal of the LEGO building-block toys.
- A look at the life of legendary fashion designer Valentino.