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- A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
- A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
- Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking; tech experts sound the alarm on their own creations.
- An unusual set of circumstances brings unexpected success to a pop star.
- Documentarian John Chester and his wife Molly work to develop a sustainable farm on 200 acres outside of Los Angeles.
- An in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.
- Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.
- A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.
- Filmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.
- A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
- A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
- Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement.
- When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murder and expose a global cover up.
- An exploration of various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's horror film, The Shining (1980).
- The story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub.
- An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.
- After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
- A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.
- Life, works and achievements of opera legend Luciano Pavarotti.
- A look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called 'The Roaring 20s'.
- Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
- A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.
- An examination of the research by forensic psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis who investigated the psychology of murderers.
- An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.
- When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
- The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
- A look at the life of legendary fashion designer Valentino.
- The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
- Two documentarians exploring the world of online sexual abuse of children succeed in turning an experiment into an act of social intervention.
- A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.
- The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
- WOMAN is a worldwide project giving voice to 2000 women in 50 different countries.
- Political documentary and personal memoir collide in this exploration into the complex truth behind the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies.
- A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
- A group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.
- Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.
- A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
- Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
- Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.
- A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
- An exploration of the history and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their actual process of creation and discovery.
- Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.
- Prodigiously talented, Halston reigned over fashion in the 1970s and became a household name. But everything changed in the Wall Street era. With his empire under threat, Halston took the biggest gamble of his life.
- "The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces... and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim." This is the synopsis from the press notes. The film is a sequel of sorts to Costa's "Colossal Youth" with Ventura again playing himself.
- The vaquita, the world's smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the "cocaine of the sea." Environmental activists, Mexican navy and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multi-million-dollar business.
- Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.
- A look at the global culture and appeal of the LEGO building-block toys.
- A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions.
- Anaïs and Emma have been best friends since childhood. It's a friendship is filmed over the years, during a period when their physical, emotional and intellectual development is dramatic.
- In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.