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Convinced his thesis will have him graduate with honors from Harvard University, a stuffy student finds himself at the mercy of a homeless man's demands when he holds the papers hostage.

In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.

The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight boxing champion.

Victoria Cruz investigates the mysterious 1992 death of black gay rights activist and Stonewall veteran, Marsha P. Johnson. Using archival interviews with Johnson, and new interviews with Johnson's family, friends and fellow activists.

In the personal and inspiring stories of four patients urgently searching for answers to mysterious symptoms, Below the Belt exposes widespread problems in our health care systems.

On his book tour, Michael Moore exposes wrongdoing by big greedy businesses and callous politicians around America.

The mother of the most infamous school shooter in history tells what she wishes she'd done differently. Discussions around stopping mass shootings are usually bifurcated by politics: Gun control on the left and Mental health on the right. But the issues are interconnected and inform each other. Most gun deaths are suicide. This moving story of a mother coming to terms with her own son gives us all a unique chance to step back and then step forward.

Jabberwocky featured real actors and puppets and various interstitial cartoons.

Critically acclaimed documentary about the 1968 football game played by two undefeated teams from Harvard and Yale.

Does America's future depend on its past? An exploration of a mysterious woman's influence on George Washington, his vision for America, and its independence - a vision that could deeply influence the nation's need for healing and unity.

This film follows the hunting of a giraffe by four members of the Ju/'hoansi (a !Kung Bushmen tribe) over a 13-day period in the Kalahari desert. The film consists of footage shot in 1952-53 on a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody expedition.

Position among the Stars, the final part of a trilogy, follows the award- winning documentaries Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon (Joris Ivens Award IDFA 2004 - World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize Sundance 2005). Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of Indonesia and the influence of globalization reflected in the life of her juvenile granddaughter Tari and her sons Bakti and Dwi. Director and DOP Leonard Retel Helmrich follows this family in a unique way with his breathtaking Single Shot Cinema-technique. Without interviews and voice-overs, Leonard will bring you closer to Indonesia than you will ever get.

Haunted by a painting of his grandparents seated in their living room, director Joseph Koerner unearths in Vienna the remarkable story behind a vanished interior.

In 2012, French fashion house Dior launched a web documentary on the latest Lady Dior campaigns starring Marion Cotillard.

Traces the rise of life on earth from primordial ooze to the present.

Anthropologist Jill Pruetz follows the chimpanzees of the Fongoli, a woodland area in Senegal, West Africa, to study their behavior. It is their unique behavior, in this unique place, that is leading scientists to new insights into the understanding of the earliest evolutionary steps taken by the human race.

Harvard's sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination. In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships between American higher education and slavery. Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a short documentary film that accompanies a report written by leading researchers from across the university, adds Harvard to the long list of institutions, in the North and the South, entangled with slavery and its aftermath.

Anselmo, a writer who lives off a woman he does not love, is commissioned to rewrite Shakespeare's lost version of Cervantes' novel when a vagabond bursts into his life claiming to be the real Don Quixote.