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Top Fifteen Documentaries
1. Modernism, Inc.
A look at Eliot Noyes, one of the leading pioneers of modern design during the mid-century, post-war boom in America.
2. Cat City
What's the right way to care for feral cats? Here's the story of some outdoor cats and the communities who look after them.
3. The Professor
This documentary explores Tai Chi as both a martial art and spiritual practice and tells the story of one of its greatest masters, Cheng Man-Ching.
4. For the Bible Tells Me So
This provocative Sundance doc brilliantly explores and reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture.
5. Welcome to Leith
Welcome to Leith chronicles the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb.
6. Scrap
Discover the strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap.
7. Quest
Epic in scope yet filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, this acclaimed doc is a vivid illumination of race and class in America.
8. Without Arrows
Filmed over 13 years, Without Arrows chronicles three generations of a Lakota family. From the director of Quest.
9. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
A "deep, rich and moving" portrait of one of America’s greatest poets, author of Howl and other groundbreaking poems.
 
10. 56 UP
In 1964 a group of seven year-olds were interviewed for Seven Up. Michael Apted has been back to film them every seven years since. Now they are 56.
11. The Book Keepers
A husband keeps his late wife's dream alive by embarking on a book tour for her memoir about cancer, friendship, and cultivating an open heart.
12. Trinity
The Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test: the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. In an instant, the world forever changed.
13. A Towering Task
In 1961 JFK gave young Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps.
14. Roots of Fire
Award-winning musical artists deliver electrifying performances while honoring the rich history and cultural legacy of Cajun music.
15. Through a Lens Darkly
Explores the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.

 
New and Notable

The Making of a Japanese
From the director of the Oscar-nominated "Instruments of a Beating Heart" this new documentary follows students and their teachers for one year at a public school in Tokyo to reveal how they interact and shape one another.

The Cinema Within
Why does the uniquely cinematic language of film editing work? Using a wide array of fascinating clips, famed editor Walter Murch and others confront the mystery behind the naturalness of film editing.

Much Ado About Dying
When filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle – "I think I may be dying!" – he takes it as a summons.



Final Vows
A deep journey into the life of a cloistered order of nuns at a Cistercian monastery in the high desert of Arizona. Made from small moments of daily life, the film serves as a meditation on aging and caring for others.
In The News

The Quiet Epidemic
After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl and a scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not exist: Chronic Lyme disease. The film follows their search for answers.


Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
The movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many find harmful, demeaning, and offensive.
Performing Arts

Paul Taylor: Creative Domain
Among the most acclaimed choreographers in American history, Paul Taylor reinvented the roles of music and movement in dance. Here is an in-depth look into his creative process.

Dusty & Stones
Intimately chronicles the remarkable ride of cousins “Dusty” Simelane and “Stones” Msibi, a determined duo of struggling country singers from the tiny African Kingdom of Swaziland who long for their big break.
History Lessons

Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island
The fight to expose what really happened during the Three Mile Island meltdown.



Touristic Intents
The film investigates a never-completed Nazi resort on Germany's Baltic Sea, a mammoth project started in 1936 by the Nazis to house 20,000 vacationing workers.
Short Films

True New York
In a city with 8 million people, there's bound to be a few good stories. True New York is a feature-length compilation anthology film featuring five award-winning short documentaries.
Coming Soon

Octav

Coming to VOD & DVD 10/22
When a man returns to his childhood villa following decades of absence, a little girl takes him on a wondrous journey back to the innocence of his early years in pre-war Romania.