A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Survivors, witnesses, and experts tell the story of the tragic fire that engulfed a residential tower block in London — and the investigation that ensued.

Ken Burns’ portrait of Louisiana governor and U.S. senator Huey Long.

A face-to-face confrontation with Guerrilla death squads in El Salvador, napalm bombings in Vietnam, the drugging of a monkey, a dolphin slaughter, a train disaster in India, Cambodian lepers, a…

A film by Séverine Barde, adapted from Dorian Rossel’s play, based on Ingmar Bergman’s fictional autobiography. A powerful self-portrait, at the crossroads of theater and cinema, from the collection De…

A celebration of the culture and the ancient traditions in Badacsony.

Two legends contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender history; and Amanda Lear, who…

History often contains secrets that are not written in chronicles or scrolls; today, as yesterday, they remain undocumented, as they are the fruit of a secret passed down by word…

Shot on the island of Fårö, this documentary presents interviews with local inhabitants as they discuss work, family life, and the conditions of living in a sparsely populated rural community….

A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.

Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin’ is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This film was filmed in…

A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.