The King of Wuxia
The life of the epoch-making master of martial arts cinema, King Hu.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Lin Jing-Jie
Actors: Ann Hui, Cheng Pei-Pei, Hsu Feng, John Woo, King Hu, Ling Chung, Peter Wang, Sammo Hung, Shih Chun, Shu Kei
The Stroll
The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade,…
Our Children
From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as goths, skinheads, anti-skins, punks…
Gloria: In Her Own Words
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem is interviewed by Peter Kunhardt as she discusses her childhood, her career, the women’s movement, and her personal life
Untold: Breaking Point
Under pressure to continue a winning tradition in American tennis, Mardy Fish faced mental health challenges that changed his life on and off the court.
That Guy… Who Was in That Thing
Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They’ve played cops, lawyers, bosses, best friends, psychopaths, politicians and everything in…
Sweetgrass
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer…
Where Are We? Our Trip Through America
Accomplished documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeff Friedman take a trip across the American South and Southwest, asking people about their hopes and fears.
Free Burma Rangers
Free Burma Rangers is a documentary film exploring the extraordinary 20-year journey of missionaries Dave and Karen Eubank. The film follows Dave, Karen, and their three young children, as they…
Truly Texas Mexican
Over time and during conquest, “comida casera,” home cooking of Texas Mexican families sustained indigenous identity and memory. Cooking deer, cactus and tortillas, women led the cultural resistance against colonization….
Come and See
The controversial Thai Buddhist temple “Dhammakaya” is in crisis as its abbot was charged with money-laundering and receiving stolen property. The film reflects the clash between politics and faith in…
We Are X
As glam rock’s most flamboyant survivors, X Japan ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late ’80s with their melodic metal. Twenty years after their tragic dissolution, X Japan’s…
The Women and the Murderer
This documentary traces the capture of serial killer Guy Georges through the tireless work of two women: a police chief and a victim’s mother.