Participant Movies

Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing. His passion for ope...

A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global com...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic Natio...

Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient...

With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, Nuclear Now explores the possibility for the global commun...

A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and...

Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commission...

Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercen...

History exists beyond what is written. The Africatown residents in Mobile, Alabama, have shared stories about their origins for generations. Their com...

Filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at our efficien...

Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are sh...

A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez t...

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.

As tuition spirals upward and student debt passes a trillion dollars, students and parents ask, "Is college worth it?" From the halls of Harvard to pu...

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and th...

This documentary puts a spotlight on the White House’s failed response to the global pandemic and how it could have been prevented. Featuring damning...

Two young boys, best friends Malik and Eric, discover the joys and hardships of growing up in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex in 19...

Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and oppor...

More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement sin...