How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys...

The end of the Indian Wars in the US concluded with the horrific events at Wounded Knee in December, 1890. After Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn...

There are 100,000 US citizens in solitary confinement across the country, a staggering number prompting comment from both President Obama and the...

In 1994, four women were accused, tried, and convicted of the heinous sexual assault of two young girls—as one newscaster puts it, “the...

This tribute to the dynamic artist Elizabeth Murray, an intrinsic figure in New York's contemporary art landscape from the 1970s until the early...

An art world upstart, provocative and elusive artist Maurizio Cattelan made his career on playful and subversive works that send up the artistic...

America Undercover goes to the Madison Hotel in the skid-row section of downtown Los Angeles and talks to some of the desperate people living there....

The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.

A thought-provoking look at the subject of abortion today, told through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies, abortion...

Some think an in vitro fertilization contest sounds crazy, but countless Americans desperate to start a family believe this social media experiment...

On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite after a long time to rip off a rich industrialist in a game of poker, but old grudges get in the...

With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her...

The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

The film looks again at recent events from a female point of view, through the first-hand accounts provided by the diaries of three women. Rather...

A short anthropological documentary from 1954. Director De Seta was fortunate enough to document swordfish fishing; by 1956 it no longer existed.

Ghosts from the past and the present inhabit the old neighborhood of San Berillo, in Catania. It is 1958: while brothels are being shut down all over...

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder...

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous...

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the...

King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However,...