The Keepers
This docuseries examines the decades-old murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik and its suspected link to a priest accused of abuse. (Netflix)
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)
A girl learning to skateboard in Kabul seems impossible. The challenge, not just for her but for the society around her, seems insurmountable. But, with every training session, the girls get better: their confidence in their own bodies and abilities grows. Suddenly, for two sisters, getting an education doesn’t seem like such an absurd idea.
Leaving Neverland
Leaving Neverland is a two-part documentary exploring the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James Safechuck, at age 10, and Wade Robson, at age 7, both of whom were befriended by Michael Jackson. Through gut-wrenching interviews with Safechuck, now 40, and Robson, now 36, as well as their mothers, wives and siblings, the […]
Making a Murderer
Filmed over a 10-year period, Making a Murderer is an unprecedented real-life thriller about Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime. Set in America’s heartland, the series takes viewers inside a high-stakes criminal case where […]
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Groundbreaking, taboo flaunting, uber talented and tirelessly ambitious, Robert Mapplethorpe remains hugely influential in the world of photography. Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato deliver a rich portrait of the artist with the help of his family, ex-lovers and audio interviews of Mapplethorpe himself before his untimely death in 1989. Ahead of his time, Mapplethorpe […]
My Beautiful Broken Brain
My Beautiful Broken Brain is a profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain, after Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alien world, bereft of language and logic. This feature documentary takes us on a genre-twisting tale that is by turns excruciating […]
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
A companion piece to No Direction Home, Rolling Thunder Revue adds a lightly fabulist spin to its portrait of the legendary 1975 tour that featured Bob Dylan and a revolving cast of friends and special guests hitting the road for a series of small-venue concerts, which Dylan conceived of as a kind of rock-music commedia […]
Sea of Shadows
The Sea of Cortez is facing total collapse because of a war at sea. Mexican drug cartels have discovered the “cocaine of the sea,” a valuable fish called the totoaba—which is at the center of a multimillion-dollar business with the Chinese Mafia. To find the fish, these cartels are destroying the ecosystem with illegal gill […]
The Sentence
First-time filmmaker Rudy Valdez’s The Sentence tells the story of his sister Cindy Shank, a mother of three who received a 15-year mandatory sentence for conspiracy charges related to her deceased ex-boyfriend’s crimes. The documentary offers a searing look at the consequences of mandatory minimum sentencing and received critical acclaim when it premiered at the […]