Beethoven’s Hair
Beethoven’s Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven’s corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death. The film begins in modern…
Life’s a Beach
A documentary film about Mungo and the way he began living when he was forced ashore after his boat had rudder problems and consequently sank at Folkestone Warren. He built…
Tales of Masked Men
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Carlos Avila, this documentary program profiles three legendary wrestlers in a creative and imaginative exploration of the colorful, fascinating and mysterious world of lucha libre Mexican…
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Driven by their mutual admiration of classical architecture, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown have worked together to create a space of unique post-Modernist construction. Filmed during the design and realization…
One Note at a Time
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, music can save the soul of the city, but can the musicians save themselves?
The Last 24 Hours: Michael Jackson
The ultimate king of pop Michael Jackson spent his last hours battling insomnia and pleading with his personal physician. We explore the truth behind this and discover the real facts,…
Micky Flanagan: Peeping Behind the Curtain
A backstage pass to Micky Flanagan’s career, from early raw material in the East End to staging the world’s biggest comedy tour in 2017.
Collective
In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move…
Gather
A portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty over their ancestral food systems, while battling against the historical trauma…
Agents Unknown
Vietnam 1967: Military intelligence has collapsed, Viet Cong have infiltrated the clandestine American spy network, and the U.S. can’t rely on the South Vietnamese. John Murphy, then an elite adviser,…
Love & Saucers
David Huggins, a 72 year-old New Jersey man, claims to have had a lifetime of encounters with otherworldly beings—including an interspecies romance with an extra-terrestrial woman (who he lost his…
An Unknown Compelling Force
The truth of Russia’s greatest unsolved mystery, the Dyatlov Pass Incident, is uncovered in this compelling documentary.
Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies
In Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies, Chiller investigates the terrifying factual stories that inspired some of the scariest horror movies of all time, including Silent Hill, The Amityville…
Real Fear 2: The Truth Behind More Movies
Paranormal investigators Katrina Weidman, Richard Dolan, John McGarry, Chris Holt and Becky Weingrad travel across the country in search of America’s darkest mysteries — a road trip into the unknown….
Revolution Rent
A Cuban-American director travels to his exiled parents’ homeland to mount a stage production of the musical, RENT, where he discovers an inspiring artistic family and embarks on a personal…
House of Cardin
The life and design of Pierre Cardin, including exclusive access to his archives and unprecedented interviews from Mr. Cardin.
The Housewife and the Hustler
Go inside the real-life legal scandal facing the husband of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” cast member Erika Jayne.
The Wisdom of Trauma
1 in 5 Americans are diagnosed with mental illness every year. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24, and kills over…
L’île aux Cannibales (Cannibal Island)
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 “unwanted” citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island – with…
Lemebel
Pedro Lemebel, the writer and visual artist, defeated a marginal childhood to become one of the first to shake up Chile’s conservative society during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Dressed in feather boas,…
P.S. Burn This Letter Please
A box found in an abandoned storage unit unearths a time capsule of correspondences from a forgotten era: the underground drag scene in 1950s New York City. Firsthand accounts and…
Mondo Bizarro
A faux travelogue that mixes documentary and mockumentary footage. The camera looks through a one-way glass into the women’s dressing room at a lingerie shop, visits a Kyoto massage parlor,…
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to…
The Weight of Water
Erik is totally blind and is solo kayaking the length of the Grand Canyon. In Lava Falls, a large dangerous rapid, he discovers that despite what people might say, barriers…
Putin: The New Empire
Since Russia was brought to its knees in the 1990s by crippling debt and the grip of the oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin has made…
Children of the Tsunami
One year on: the Japanese tsunami through the eyes of its youngest survivors. On March 11, 2011 Japan was hit by the greatest tsunami in a thousand years. Through compelling…
America’s Longest War
AMERICA’S LONGEST WAR is a documentary about the extraordinary costs of the US government’s 40-year war on drugs. Drug prohibition has failed. Drug usage rates have not declined, and illegal…
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
Fifty years after its release, the special effects makeup team behind Planet of the Apes reflect on making the iconic film.
Going Nuts – Tales from the Squirrel World
Squirrels are among the most widely known and recognized mammals. In many parts of the world they gladly join us for our lunches in city parks, amaze us with their…
The Fabulous Ice Age
For decades, American touring ice shows dominated family entertainment with their dazzling production and variety acts. This documentary honors them through interviews and archival footage, and depicts one skater’s quest…
Nate Bargatze: The Greatest Average American
Tennessee-born comedian, actor, and podcast host Nate Bargatze is back with his second hour-long Netflix original comedy special, Nate Bargatze: The Greatest Average American. Nate reflects on being part of…
Groomed
Gwen van de Pas returns to her hometown in search of answers about the man who sexually abused her as a child.
Have You Seen Andy?
Have You Seen Andy? is a personal story of a childhood friendship abruptly ended by the tragic abduction of a young boy, Andy Puglisi. With special access and a unique…
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country…
Shoot To Marry
A heartbroken documentary filmmaker focuses his camera on interesting women with hopes of meeting the love of his life.
El Sicario, Room 164
The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Dope Is Death
The story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first…
Pride and Protest
In the wake of the Birmingham protests against LGBTQ+ relationship education in primary schools, a team of queer community reporters of colour challenge homophobia and call out racism in LGBTQ+…
JFK: The Making of a President
A documentary of the life leading up to the election of John F. Kennedy as president and the controversial life prior that created the legend.
Narcissister Organ Player
This hybrid performance/documentary film explores how the artist’s complex family history, in particular her relationship with her mother, compelled her to create the masked, erotic performance character Narcissister.