Risk
Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.
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Genre: Documentary
Director: Laura Poitras
Actors: Ana Alban, Christine Assange, Erinn Clark, Jacob Appelbaum, Jennifer Robinson, Joseph Farrell, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, Louis Bladel, Renata Avila, Sarah Harrison
Closed for Storm
Bright Sun Films’ Jake Williams makes his feature debut with this documentary about the infamous Six Flags New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and has become a holy…
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
Exhibition on Screen’s latest release celebrates the life and masterpieces of Hieronymus bosch brought together from around the world to his hometown in the Netherlands as a one-off exhibition. With…
Barbecue
Barbecue is about more than grilling a piece of meat. It’s a ritual performed religiously across the world. For some it’s a path to salvation. It is the pride of…
Audrey
An intimate look at Audrey Hepburn’s life, with access to exclusive never-before-seen footage from her family’s personal collection, providing an unprecedented and insightful view on Audrey, her life and her…
Pokazatelnyy protsess: Istoriya Pussy Riot
In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country…
Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests
A documentary exploring the history and growing dangers surrounding the seemingly innocuous Myers–Briggs personality test.
Art of Conflict
The murals of Northern Ireland are an expression of the region’s violent Troubles. ‘The Art of Conflict’ examines these murals through their painters and the people who live there, exploring…
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Brash boxer Cassius Clay burst into the American consciousness in the early 1960s, just ahead of the Civil Rights movement. His transformation into the spiritually enlightened heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali…
A Leaf of Faith
Documentary exploring a plant-based alternative to Opioid painkillers, which are responsible for the deaths of 30,000 Americans a year. It comes from a tree named Kratom, and it is able…
One Day in Auschwitz
Auschwitz-Birkenau was designed to kill. Four gas chambers murdered thousands at a time, belching out smoke and human ashes. Starvation, thirst, disease, and hard labor reduced the average lifespan to…
Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special
In his last comedy special, Norm ponders casinos, cannibals, living wills and more. After his set, Norm’s friends and fellow comics gather to salute him.
McLibel
McLibel is a documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong for Spanner Films about the McLibel case. The film was first completed, as a 52 minute television version, in 1997, after…
The Cove
The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free divers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate the hidden cove in…
Shake!: Otis at Monterey
Renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captures Otis Redding in his ascendancy, singing at the historic Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. Comedian Tom Smothers introduces Redding to a crowd…
Of Dolls and Murder
Before forensics, DNA, and CSI we had dollhouses – an unimaginable collection of miniature crime scenes, known as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Created in the 1930s and 1940s…
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank
The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they’re one in the same, and the vast amount of territory he’s covered, from The…
King in the Wilderness
A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.