A mix of animation and archival footage, Director Brett Morgen's Chicago 10 explores the buildup to as well as the unraveling of the protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the 1969 ...

In King Corn, two recent college graduates plant a single acre of corn and set out to follow it on its journey from the seed to the dinner plate.

We Believe in Dinosaurs is an exploration of the scientific and historical veracity of the Bible and the construction of an authentic likeness of Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky. Known as “The ...

An Israeli soccer club's fans waged a racist campaign after their team, Beitar, added two Muslim players from Chechnya.

We count on indie filmmakers to sniff out the conspicuous absences in mainstream media. Journalist and investigative reporter Amy Goodman once said, “The role of independent media is to go to where ...

What do Pepe the Frog, the Spanish Inquisition, the blinking guy, the French Revolution, concern for the environment, and the Third Reich all have in common? These are all ideas that spread until they ...

The United States locks up a lot of people. Our prison population rate of roughly 700 per 100,000 is the second-highest of 222 countries tracked by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research. Nearly ...

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness examines the life and work of the Jewish-American anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, whose writings challenged prevailing notions of race and culture.

The Atom Smashers tells the story of the quest of a group of scientists to find the most elusive sub-atomic particles ever theorized: the Higgs boson.

“We were in a place where we just needed an outlet, where we just needed something to make a day normal.” That’s how Melle Mel—legendary MC, founding member of the Furious Five, lead vocalist on the ...

"The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything." ...

The ancient sport of sumo traces its history back more than two thousand years. But as more and more Americans enter professional sumo rings both home and abroad, Sumo East and West asks if sumo will ...