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...

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows...

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm....

A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails.

The film has three stories. First is about local village idiot Paletta, who can not afford the services of a whore and so steals a locket from a holy...

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their...

In mid '90s, 3 female high school-grad office workers take up English classes together to get promotions and they team up to uncover corruption...

Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body, in an attempt to ease the...

After a car accident leaves one man dead and another in a coma, it's believed that the dead man was at fault. Guilt-ridden, his wife, Hee-ju,...

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

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...