We Dare to Dream
Unprecedented access to the IOC Refugee Olympic Team before, during and after the 2020 Games, which saw 29 athletes competing in Tokyo, originating from 11 countries, and residing in 13 host nations.
Genre: Documentary, Sport
Director: Waad al-Kateab
Actors: Kimia Alizadeh, Saeid Fazloula, Wael Fawaz Al-Farraj
Death in Gaza
Death In Gaza is an Emmy-award winning 2004 documentary film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, opening in the West Bank but then moving to Gaza and eventually settling in Rafah where…
On the Run Tour: Beyonce and Jay Z
Beyoncé and Jay Z perform live in Paris at Stade de France during their 2014 “On the Run Tour.”
There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
Chronicles the history of Negro Leagues baseball by using rare historical footage and interviews with black baseball greats.
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples…
Flannery
A feature documentary directed by Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco about American writer Flannery O’Connor.
Black Wax
Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap’s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently reissued on video. Interspliced between performance footage of Scott-Heron…
Justin Bieber: Our World
After a three-year hiatus from a full performance, and with concert venues shut down due to the pandemic, Bieber delivers an electrifying show to close out 2020 on the rooftop…
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a…
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
“In 1946, my great-grandfather murdered a black man named Bill Spann and got away with it.” So begins Travis Wilkerson’s critically acclaimed documentary, DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN?,…
1970
Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist government organizes a crisis team. Soon after, the police use their truncheons and then their…
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s “American Pie”
With a narrative running deeper than a catchy tune and cryptic verses, “American Pie” is a musical phenomenon woven deep into the history of American culture, entertaining audiences around the…
Life in the Snow
In a seasonal special, Gordon Buchanan meets the animals who live in nature’s winter wonderlands. He reveals their survival secrets, from the polar bear mother who gives her cubs the…