761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
The riveting story of the first all-Black tank battalion to fight in US military history. Under General George Patten’s command, the 761st fought heroically throughout WWII and were the furthest east of all US troops in the European theater of war.
The Painter and the Thief
When two of artist Barbora Kysilkova’s most valuable paintings are stolen from a gallery at Frogner in Oslo, the police are able to find the thief after a few days,…
Vince Giordano: There’s a Future in the Past
Bandleader Vince Giordano keeps the Jazz Age alive with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, vintage musical instruments, and a collection of more than 60,000 original arrangements from the 1920s and…
Nanking
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of…
Dolores
Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country’s first farm worker’s union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice,…
The Man from Mo’Wax
James Lavelle played his first DJ set at 14, launched pioneering record label Mo’Wax at 18 and released the genre defining UNKLE album Psyence Fiction at 22. His phenomenally rapid…
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
A glowing, prismatic portrait of the rise and fall of America’s first celebrity designer—Halston—the man who was synonymous with fashion in the 1970s, and became the emperor of NYC nightlife….
The Second Act of Elliott Murphy
Elliott Murphy, born in New York in 1949 and living in Paris since 1989, has published over thirty albums and plays almost one hundred shows a year. The films follows…
Dean Smith
Coach, mentor, social activist …the life and legacy of Dean Smith, North Carolina’s legendary basketball coach – who went to 11 Finals Fours and won two National Championships, with players…
Sing, Dance, Act: Kabuki featuring Toma Ikuta
Drama, heritage, soul; Actor Toma Ikuta trains for his first kabuki theater performance with his long-time friend, kabuki actor Matsuya Onoe.
Asia’s Deadliest Snakes
Asia is home to the world’s most lethal serpents, but which of its scores of slithering predators is the deadliest? Join venom expert Bryan Fry on his cross-continental quest to…
The Blueberry Farmer
A documentary about everyone’s favorite felon, Bernie Ellis, medical cannabis and his fight to save his beloved Tennessee farm.
Grey Gardens
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be…