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An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Cox

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Snowden

Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in television history. From the iconic furry...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joan Ganz Cooney

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joy Buolamwini

A hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sarah Jones

In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eugene Jarecki

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Meinhold

Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Thomas Campanella

Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actresses and heirs of the wounds of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Li An

This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Toni Morrison

Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lauren Greenfield

Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shaunette Renée Wilson

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Farmer

In the aftermath of the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a civil lawsuit was filed against white nationalist leaders and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Spencer

The timely biopic focuses on John Lewis’ longstanding prominence as a civil rights champion and his continuing crusade for racial and social...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Lewis

An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

Leonard Peltier, one of the surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in prison for 50 years following a contentious conviction. A...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leonard Peltier

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gore Vidal

A year in the life of an underdog competitive high school mariachi band in the Texas borderlands.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Abel Acuña