Women Who Made the Movies

Contrasts traditional and modern village life, as changes occur with better transport and as country estates are sold off for housing.

The lives of three generations of women who suffered political persecution during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

An extremely rare subject by the famed still photographer. A 1934 short.

A 1980 short about the life and work of 80-year-old practicing psychiatrist Lila Bonner-Miller, who is at once a doctor, a church leader, an artist, a...

A blunt and human encounter between a nurse and an aging man.

Notoriously press and camera-shy, David Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this unflinching portrait of a complex and compelling man. His fa...

Focusing on the work of cartoonists in Egypt, Algeria, Syria, and Palestine, this documentary examines how comic strips and caricatures are becoming a...

Taking inspiration from the collaborative 1967 militant anthology film Far from Vietnam, five of the boldest and most prominent American militant film...

With great wit and insight, New York City filmmaker Nina Davenport documents her quest to have a baby as a single mother over forty. Davenport's film...

An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast...

I'll Find a Way is a 1977 short documentary directed by Beverly Shaffer. It is about nine-year-old Nadia DeFranco who has spina bifida. The film won a...

Tapestries of Hope is the story of filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley who traveled to Zimbabwe to document the work of Betty Makoni and the Girl Chi...

A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious z...

Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends who...

Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors