Kirby Dick’s provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization’s underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions…

For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.

Collage film about the history of trains set to music.

A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992 general election.

The last in Camille Billops’ family trilogy in which she turns the camera to four generations of men in her family and considers why their fathers died so young.

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.

Sir! No Sir! is a documentary film about the anti-war movement within the ranks of the United States Military during the Vietnam War. It consists in part of interviews with…

This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit share the last days of their lives and deaths with a film crew.

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…

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait,…

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: “Deep Throat,” starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved…