Most Viewed From First Run Features

A biographical portrait of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, twentieth century colossus: public intellectual, policy specialist, ambassador, and NY senator.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Documentary film maker Ross McElwee returns to his family home in Charlotte NC. In filming his family, he captures a microcosm of Southern society.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ross McElwee

Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diamanda Galás

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Maxine Fisher

Burk Uzzle's singular vision and dedication to the medium of photography led him from a small, homebuilt darkroom on his father's porch into the...

Genre:

Cast: Burk Uzzle

In January 1961, a new generation in the guise of John F. Kennedy moved into the White House. All of a sudden politics were youthful, dynamic and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Theodore Sorensen

Using a wealth of rarely-seen archival footage, correspondence, and new and illuminating interviews, Julia Newman makes the case that Albert...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Daniel Alexander

These sexy and surreal shorts from innovative gay filmmakers feature party-loving plastic dolls, domineering moms, mad scientists, stuttering...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Ort

Colleagues and relatives reflect on the dynamic life of Irish writer Brendan Behan, beginning with his adolescent years as an activist and his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liam Clancy

Haile Gerima and Ryszard Kapuscinski travel around Ethiopia talking to people about their current situations and what needs to be done for a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Haile Gerima

Documentary about the influence that master cello player Paul Katz has on four gifted cello players over the space of several years. It explores how...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Katz

The titular troublemakers are the New York–based Land (aka Earth) artists of the 1960s and 70s, who walked away from the reproducible and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

The feature-length documentary, 'In Full Bloom... transcending gender,' follows the courageous journey of thirteen transgender and two gay actors as...

Genre:

Cast: David Gaddas

A late-night cable access show goes to hell!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Bernat

What is life like for a dancer when they can no longer dance? Inspired by Merrill Ashley's departure from the New York City Ballet as an acclaimed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Merrill Ashley

A documentary of a young couple and their two children living in a squatter settlement in the Philippine capital, Manila. Rather than just a report...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

When Forgotten Silver — the story of pioneer filmmaker Colin McKenzie — unspooled on 29th October 1995, in a Sunday TV slot normally...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Jackson

A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden was the first film to document the klezmer revival, tracing the efforts of two founding groups, Kapelye and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leon Schwartz

Tens of thousands of dogs are transported every year from areas with high euthanasia rates to parts of the country with fewer unwanted dogs and a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A powerful, 70-minute documentary featuring nine U.S. veterans transitioning from active duty to the unexpected challenges of civilian life

Genre: Documentary

Cast: