After the Dance

Lily Tomlin

Backstage record of how Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner and their associates put together "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," Miss To

1987

Farmer/Veteran

After three combat tours in Iraq, Alex Sutton attempts a fresh start hatching chickens and raising goats on 43 acres in rural North Carolina. Alex emb

2016

Caprichosos de San Telmo

A portrait of the working class musicians and dancers of Buenos Aires's San Telmo neighborhood, who have channeled the city's many cultural influences

2011

The Things I Cannot Change

"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Program. The film offers in inside look at 3 weeks in t

1967

Isla chatarra

Isla chatarra describes the phenomenon of the ubiquity of automobiles in Puerto Rico. The island measures slightly less than 9,000 square kilometers,

2007

11 Freundinnen

A documentary on the German Women Football National Team and the 2011 FIFA World Championship in Germany.

2013

The Sea

The Sea [Morze] is a 1933 Polish short documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Sub

1933

Migrant Dreams

When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would pro

2016

Girls Don't Fly

An airstrip, a hangar and a classroom somewhere in rural Ghana: This is the place where 18-year-old Lydia and 20-year-old Esther hope to achieve their

2016

The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev

Meet Tajikistan's answer to the Jackson family. Nearly 80, Allo "Papa" Alaev rules his celebrated folk music clan with an iron tambourine. Beginning w

2016

Convinced

Why would intelligent, successful people give up their careers, alienate their friends, and cause havoc in their families...to become Catholic? Donald

2015

The Beginning of Life

One of the greatest neuroscience breakthroughs is having discovered that babies are far more than a genetic load. The development of all human beings

2016

Today the Hawk Takes One Chick

Witnessing the highest rate of HIV infection in the world and the lowest life expectancy on the planet, three grandmothers in Swaziland cope in this c

2008

Gracious Curves

A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and the harshness of contemporary attitudes toward phys

1997

Lena

Follows the story of the beloved and internationally acclaimed Swedish actress Lena Nyman, based on 17 paper bags with diaries that she left behind.

2021

Daughters of the Forest

A small group of girls in one of the most remote forests left on earth attend a radical high school where they learn to protect the threatened forest

2016

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She wou

2023

Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles

The story of famous actor and director Orson Welles is told through his two visits to the Republic of Ireland; first in his youth as a promising young

2021

Wilhemina's War

A Southern grandmother struggles to help her loved ones survive the scourge of HIV - but she may be unable to save the one she loves the most.

2016

Blood

Documentary following a mobile blood donation team travelling through rural Russia, where people sell their blood to make ends meet.

2013