FILMS
In different parts of the country, two high school girls are assaulted at parties by boys they call their friends. Bullied online and at school in the wake of their assaults, each girl is driven to attempt suicide. AUDRIE & DAISY probes this societal trend of assault and bullying from the perspective of the boys involved.
AUDRIE AND DAISY
Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. For adult learners Greg, Melissa and Shynika, finally earning their high school diplomas could be a life-changing achievement.
NIGHT SCHOOL
Follow 13-year-old Aisholpan, a nomadic Mongolian girl, as she battles to become the first female to hunt with a Golden Eagle in 2,000 years of male-dominated history. Soaring footage from the remote Altai Mountains captures her personal journey while addressing universal themes like female empowerment, the natural world, and coming-of-age.
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS
Thirty years ago, a group of improbable heroes came together on a mission that was both medical and moral, and, by everyone’s estimation other than their own, highly unlikely to succeed. Their goal was simple but daring: to make high quality healthcare available to everyone, even in the world’s poorest countries.
BENDING THE ARC
After routine hip surgery leaves his mother in a coma, comedy director Steve Burrows embarks on an epic, ten-year battle with a deeply flawed healthcare system that’s primed to deny, defend and cover up.
BLEED OUT
The film follows several members of the close knit community as they collaborate with the filmmakers to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation, where 1200 immigrant miners were violently taken from their homes by a deputized force, shipped to the desert on cattle cars and left to die.
BISBEE ‘17
A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued. After the police initially declared the shooting as justified, journalists and activists fought for footage of the event to be released, sending the Chicago Police Department and local Chicago government officials into upheaval as the community demanded justice.
THE BLUE WALL (16 SHOTS)
DREAMCATCHER explores the cycle of neglect, violence and exploitation, which each year leaves thousands upon thousands of girls and women feeling that prostitution is their only option to survive. By following the very charming, charismatic and truly empathic Brenda, we enter the lives of young women and see in vérité footage their realities from their points of view.
DREAMCATCHER
This film is an “origin story”—the story of our current moment in American life—told through the triumph and tragedy of Roger Ailes, founder of Fox News. It’s a chronicle of American cultural and political life from the 1950s up to the present day, and a story of serial abuse—of cruelty, both personal and public.
DIVIDE & CONQUER: THE STORY OF ROGER AILES
After losing sight, John Hull knew that if he did not try to understand blindness it would destroy him. In 1983 he began keeping an audio diary. Over three years John recorded over sixteen hours of material, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness.
NOTES ON BLINDNESS
The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight into the human stories, which are so often ignored in the immigration debate.
WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL?
Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia—many of them alone in nursing homes. A man with a simple idea discovers that songs embedded deep in memory can ease pain and awaken these fading minds. Joy and life are resuscitated, and our cultural fears over aging are confronted.
ALIVE INSIDE: A STORY OF MUSIC AND MEMORY
In EPICENTRO, Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana—particularly its children, who he calls “young prophets" — to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself.
EPICENTRO
OF FATHERS AND SONS is a work of unparalleled intimacy that captures the chilling moment when childhood dies and jihadism is born.
OF FATHERS AND SONS
When Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller involving dirty urine, unexplained death and Olympic Gold—exposing the biggest scandal in sports history.
ICARUS
OUR NEW PRESIDENT is a satire about the Russian media and its take on American politics. Moving between Kremlin-controlled network news and colorful reinterpretations of this news diet by average Russians, the film charts Trump's election using footage produced by Putin’s propaganda machine.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT
A deeply intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma, JACINTA follows a young woman in and out of prison as she attempts to break free from an inherited cycle of addiction, incarceration, and crime.
JACINTA
OUR NIXON is an all-archival documentary presenting those home movies for the first time, along with other rare footage, creating an intimate and complex portrait of the Nixon presidency as never seen before.
OUR NIXON
When human atrocities run rampant, when ruthless dictators hold a nation captive, that’s when the E-Team is called into action. From Academy Award winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman and Emmy Award nominee Katy Chevigny, the latest Netflix Original Documentary brings you behind enemy lines and into the teeth of the world’s most dangerous war zones.
E-TEAM
This intimate documentary follows the 12-year journey of two African-American families pursuing the promise of opportunity through the education of their sons.
AMERICAN PROMISE
A confidence-shattering break up has a strange effect on middle-aged gay director David Thorpe: It resurrects his long-dormant shame about “sounding gay” and he decides to try to change his voice. Determined to overcome this shame, David embarks on a hilarious, poignant, taboo-shattering exploration of the phenomenon of the “gay voice.”
DO I SOUND GAY?
SHOOTING THE MAFIA weaves together Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs, rare archival footage, classic Italian films, and the now 84-year-old’s own memories, to paint a portrait of a remarkable woman whose whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia’s brutal crimes.
SHOOTING THE MAFIA
In 1991, a group of countercultural visionaries built an enormous replica of earth’s ecosystem called Biosphere 2. When eight “biospherians” lived sealed inside, they faced ecological calamities and cult accusations. Their epic adventure is a cautionary tale but also a testament to the power of small groups reimagining the world.
SPACESHIP EARTH
This documentary chronicles the trials and triumphs of the Senior girls on the high school's Step Team as they prepare to be the first in their families to go to college – and the first graduating class of The Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. STEP is more than just a hobby for these girls, it is the outlet that keeps them united and fighting for their goals.
STEP
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.
TROPHY
This film addresses a universal challenge - grasping how vast global issues such as climate change, the refugee crisis and in this case nuclear proliferation affect us personally. We have much to learn from how this television network took a subject so terrifying, so unpalatable and turned it into a prime-time sensation.
TELEVISION EVENT
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s “all in her head.” Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story and that of four other families fighting a disease medicine forgot.
UNREST
An investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that perpetuate and cover up its existence, and its profound personal and social consequences.
THE INVISIBLE WAR
THE WORLD BEFORE HER is a film about India – a country divided by the old and the new – blazing headfirst into the future, yet unsure of what this future will be. In this rapidly changing society, beauty pageants – yawn-inducing in the West – have become a national obsession, and controversial sites of cultural explosions.
THE WORLD BEFORE HER
China is the first country in the world to classify Internet Addiction as a clinical disorder. WEB JUNKIE is a feature documentary, which identifies Internet Addiction and spotlights the revolutionary treatment used in Chinese Rehab Centers. Internet addiction is now a global issue. An increasing number of people, especially young adults, are using the Internet more than ever before.
WEB JUNKIE
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature.Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chesters unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
THE REAGAN SHOW follows the Reagan Administration's attempts to stage manage his presidency. Through an internal archive of taping sessions, public events, summit meetings - and the resulting press coverage - the film tracks the administration's use of political theater to manufacture the public's view of US-USSR relations at the close of the Cold War.
THE REAGAN SHOW
In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers hundreds of pages of declassified FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9-11 – code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.”
THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED
Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother die in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a “new old” single mother at 50. Overnight, she’s pushed to deal with her “stuff”: 63 boxes of her parents’ heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby’s room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half-century older than her daughter.
LOVE AND STUFF
Centered on the indomitable character of Imelda Marcos, THE KINGMAKER examines, with intimate access, the Marcos family’s improbable return to power in the Philippines. The film explores the disturbing legacy of the Marcos regime and chronicles Imelda’s present-day push to help her son, Bongbong, win the vice presidency. To this end, Imelda confidently rewrites her family’s history of corruption, replacing it with a narrative of a matriarch’s extravagant love for her country. In an age when fake news manipulates elections, Imelda’s comeback story serves as a dark fairy tale.
THE KINGMAKER
Fred Rogers led a singular life. He was a puppeteer. A minister. A musician. An educator. A father, a husband, and a neighbor. Fred Rogers spent 50 years on children’s television beseeching us to love and to allow ourselves to be loved. With television as his pulpit, he helped transform the very concept of childhood. He used puppets and play to explore the most complicated issues of the day—race, disability, equality and tragedy. He spoke directly to children and they responded by forging a lifelong bond with him—by the millions. And yet today his impact is unclear.
WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while working with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
ANITA
In THE HUNTING GROUND, many college students who have been raped on campus face retaliation and harassment as they fight for justice.
THE HUNTING GROUND
A cancer epidemic is sweeping the globe, and the rate of cancer diagnoses is outpacing our ability to cure patients. The Center for Disease Control estimates that two thirds of cancers are due to external factors, such as lifestyle and environment, rather than a genetic predisposition. THE C WORD explores this shocking statistic through the story of a man whose life and death were defined by cancer.
THE C WORD
Through a dramatic, insider look at the case of the “Newburgh Four,” THE NEWBURGH STING exposes the FBI’s nationwide practice of targeting Muslim communities, luring unsuspecting believers into traps where they agree to acts of terrorism.
THE NEWBURGH STING
1967. The Six Day War ends with Israel’s decisive victory. The tiny country triples its size, conquering Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank. The streets overflow with victorious celebrations, but behind the euphoria hides other voices — the soldiers’ voices.
CENSORED VOICES
In the tiny town of Williston, North Dakota, tens of thousands of unemployed hopefuls show up with dreams of honest work and a big paycheck under the lure of the oil boom. However, busloads of newcomers chasing a broken American Dream step into the stark reality of slim work prospects and nowhere to sleep.
THE OVERNIGHTERS
A reflection on the life and suicide of Ruth Litoff, a successful artist, a pathological liar, and the filmmaker’s sister. By looking back on Ruth’s incredible highs and lows, bursts of creative genius, depression, secrets, and lies, a vivid portrait will emerge of the brilliant woman the filmmaker is not sure she ever really knew. This is her attempt to understand what happened.
32 PILLS
MIDWAY explores the plight of the Laysan albatross plagued by the ingestion of our plastic trash. Both elegy and warning, the film explores the interconnectedness of species with the albatross on Midway was a mirror of our humanity.
MIDWAY
A debate over healthcare has been raging nationwide, but what’s been lost in the discussion of mandates, payers, pre-existing conditions and deficits are the American citizens who live every day without proper access to healthcare, afraid of injury and suffering through minor illnesses in the hopes that they’ll just get better on their own.
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home – injured physically and psychologically – and build a life anew? HELL AND BACK AGAIN is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve.
HELL AND BACK AGAIN
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD is about a group of friends who set out to change the way the world thinks, and who succeed, but at a cost: sometimes the cost is their friendships and, at times, their sanity. This film tells the story of the pioneers who established Greenpeace.
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
A fearless sea captain sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.
VESSEL
There’s a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by a group of exonerated men with decades in prison served between them.
TRUE CONVICTION
ATHLETE A is a feature-length documentary about the search for truth in the aftermath of one of the greatest scandals in the history of sports.
ATHLETE A
Comedy writer Steve Young’s assignment to scour bargain-bin vinyl for a Late Night segment becomes an unexpected, decades-spanning obsession when he stumbles upon the strange and hilarious world of industrial musicals.
BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY
DEAR MICHAEL BRODY
DEAR MICHAEL BRODY is a documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace.
DEAR MICHAEL BRODY
62 DAYS
62 DAYS is a documentary film about Marlise Muñoz, a brain-dead pregnant woman whose family was forced to keep her on life support against her wishes. This film shows the human story behind the headlines, and shines a light on a controversial law.
62 DAYS
RADICAL GRACE
When the Vatican reprimands U.S. nuns, citing their "radical feminism," three fearless nuns risk their place in the Church to follow another higher calling: social justice.