Naomi seems like a typical nine-year-old girl, until her passion for powerlifting transforms her life with world record-breaking championships and...

Every Wednesday at noon, women who were kidnapped for sexual purpose by the Japanese army during its imperialism and their supporters demonstrate...

Portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.

Tibetan Buddhist nuns from the Thupten Choling monastery in the Himalayan foothills discuss their mentruation practices.

A fascinating documentary focusing on backstage realities of art and business during the British synthesizer band's 1988 American tour.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George...

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.

First Edition is a 1977 American short documentary film about the Baltimore Sun directed by Helen Whitney. It was nominated for an Academy Award for...

“In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous...

Margaret Mee and the Moonflower is a documentary about the life and work of the botanical illustrator, Margaret Mee, a pioneer and a visionary, one...

Margherita is a 14 year old living in Milano, who shares everything with her friends. They discuss clothes, music, school and that first kiss. A...

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to...

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

A documentary about some of the thousands of inventions that did things we never thought needed doing, or in ways we never considered doing them. A...

A woman on the brink of adulthood has a conversation with a world-weary older man during the course of one night.

A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as...

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison,...