How well do we truly understand the sustenance we purchase at the grocery store and share with our loved ones? Though a tomato still presents itself as a tomato, the food of today has undergone a profound metamorphosis. In the Academy Award…

*Disturbing the Universe* explores the life of William Kunstler from an unexpected perspective. His two daughters from his second marriage were initially captivated by a father already renowned for his pivotal civil rights and anti-war work…

Agnès Varda's 2008 documentary, *The Beaches of Agnès*, is an autobiographical meditation. In it, the filmmaker revisits locations significant to her history, reflecting on a life lived and marking her 80th birthday before the camera. Varda…

Despite the formal end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994, economic disparities between Black and White populations persist. Yoruba Richen’s compelling documentary, *Promised Land*, illuminates the most volatile element of this ongoing st…

*Good Fortune* offers a compelling examination of how large-scale international poverty reduction initiatives in Africa may inadvertently harm the communities they seek to assist. In Kenya’s rural heartland, Jackson’s farm faces inundation …

Award-winning filmmaker Natalia Almada (known for *Al Otro Lado* and *POV 2006*) weaves together past and present, drawing upon audio recordings passed down from her grandmother, who was the daughter of Plutarco Elias Calles. Calles, a revo…

Toño Zúñiga was abruptly plucked from his life in Mexico City in December 2005, accused of a murder he couldn't fathom and subsequently condemned to twenty years of imprisonment. He was one of thousands wrongly convicted. This is the accoun…

Award-winning photographer Murray Fredericks sought a place where his camera could capture pure expanse, and so embarked on annual solitary camping expeditions to the remote Lake Eyre and its salt flats in South Australia. These journeys ha…

Filmmaker Amy Hardie, known for her scientifically grounded documentaries, often approaches the world with a pragmatic mind. A dream of her horse's demise, followed by the reality of its death, she initially attributed to chance. Yet, a sub…

To be wrenched from a Chinese family, transported on an airplane with unfamiliar faces, and awaken in a foreign land, surrounded by new people and customs—what is that experience like? *Wo Ai Ni* (I Love You) Mommy tells the story of Fang S…

*Off and Running* follows Avery, a gifted track star from Brooklyn poised for a promising future. Raised by her white Jewish lesbian adoptive mothers, Avery is the only African-American child in a family also encompassing two brothers of Bl…

The passport identified her as Cha Jung Hee, a name she knew was a falsehood. Thus began a forty-year deception for a Korean adoptee who arrived in the United States in 1966. Instructed to conceal her origins from her new American family, t…

Shot in Yemen and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, *The Oath* weaves together the narratives of Abu Jandal, once a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo facing charges of war crimes. Directed by Laura Poitras, whose …

Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith directed *The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers*, a 2009 documentary film. The film chronicles the life of Daniel Ellsberg and examines the sequence of events that culmi…