A documentary on Michael Haneke, director of Caché and The Piano Teacher, one of the most provocative and important filmmaker working today.

A stylish, erotically charged thriller, À Tout de Suite is the highly anticipated new film from acclaimed director Benoit Jacquot, a mesmerizing account of one woman’s breathtaking journey of self-discovery.

The first ever comprehensive history of animation worldwide, introducing clips from 160 films from 26 countries, and discussing the most significant animated films of the past 100 years.

What does it mean to be exiled in your own country? In the aftermath of Katrina, two filmmakers embark on a road trip to meet displaced evacuees. An important American documentary, The Axe in the Attic tackles questions of race, class, and the breakdown of trust between a government and its citizens.

Bad Girl gets down and dirty with women who, from Hollywood to Paris, from Cannes to Las Vegas, from Montreal to San Francisco, are giving pornography a new name.

Set in the fast-paced, ruthless world of high finance, The Bank, starring Anthony LaPaglia, is an exciting suspense thriller that takes a hard look at morality in the corporate world.

This biographical video traces the career of one of Hollywood's most successful composers of film and television scores, including "Conan the Barbarian," "The Blue Lagoon," "Free Willy," "Robocop," "Starship Troopers" and "Lonesome Dove."

Traces the colorful life and filmmaking career of one of Hollywood's most distinctive talents, who directed three classic bullfighting films, several crime thrillers and a series of low-budget Westerns that earned him a cult critical reputation. An outspoken interview with Boetticher is interspersed with clips from many of his films.

Several years ago, a New York City man made headlines when it was discovered he was sharing his apartment with over 1,200 endangered turtles - a veritable Noah's ark. This is an extraordinary story about one man's unbelievable mission to save hundreds of species from extinction.

This stylish, in-depth, six-part documentary series explores the early developments in filmmaking and the enormous contributions of the European film industry's pioneers.

In October 1947, screenwriter Gordon Kahn was one of those subpoenaed to appear before the House on Un-American Activities Committee which was investigating `communist subversion' of the film industry.

Traces the career of one of America's best-loved but least-seen actors. During his fifty year career, Daws Butler (1916-1988) provided the voices for such beloved animated characters as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Chilly Willy, Elroy Jetson, and dozens of others.

This video is based on the travel films of Caroline Wagner, a New York amateur filmmaker, whose peripatetic travels took her on over a hundred voyages around the world, her hand-cranked 16mm movie camera always in hand, from 1939 until the mid- Sixties.

A meticulous study of a steel and clay factory in the Urals, Sergei Loznitsa's Factory is an artfully composed meditation on man and machine.

Celebrates the universal and almost magical appeal of motion pictures by showing a Cuban Film Institute mobile film unit traveling deep into the Cuban countryside to show peasants their first movie.

This documentary investigates the pop-culture phenomenon generated by George Lucas’s Star Wars films, one which reached new peaks of excitement in the Spring of 1999, when the date for the theatrical premiere of the series prequel,The Phantom Menace, was announced.

This video, hosted and narrated by author Edward Said, profiles the acclaimed Italian film director, blending clips from his films-The Battle of Algiers, Burn!, Kapo and Operation Ogro-with an interview in which he discusses his wartime experiences in the Resistance, the influence of Italian neo-realism, his philosophy of filmmaking (pursuing what he calls "the dictatorship of truth"), his working relationships with screenwriter Franco Solinas and Marlon Brando, his use of music in film, why he's made so few films, and his many unrealized projects.

This video features interviews with retired artists' film and theater actors and actresses, set designers, cinematographers, casting directors, script supervisors, and so on—who reside in the Motion Picture Country Home in Los Angeles or in the Performing Arts Lodge in Toronto.

This striking documentary reveals the incredible story behind the greatest bank robbery that ever occurred in a Communist state - a tale of disillusionment, resistance, government propaganda, and Jewish life behind the iron curtain.

Before The Ring and The Grudge, there was Suspiria. Hanging Shadows offers a critical appreciation of Italian horror cinema, pioneered by directors such as Dario Argento and Maria Bava, a genre that influenced filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Takashi Miike.

Profiles the career of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Howard Koch (1901-1995), best know for such classic films as The Sea Hawk (1940), The Letter (1940), Sergeant York (1941), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) and Casablanca (1942).

This video is about women in the film business and how they balance children, love lives and career—or how they don’t. When a female filmmaker discovers she is unexpectedly pregnant, her life is turned upside down, as she struggles to balance family and career.

Selected by Time Magazine as one of the ten top films of 2004, Per Fly’s The Inheritance is a powerful and timely drama about a man torn between family and business.

A fascinating and brilliantly executed psychological thriller, starring Hugo Weaving from The Matrix, The Interview is an intense cat-and-mouse game centering on one man's guilt or innocence.

Examines both sides of the controversy surrounding the death penalty, providing a cross- cultural survey, explaining which countries use the death penalty, how often, for what reasons, and the various methods used.

The founding of Israel - specifically the 1948 war for Jerusalem - is seen through the work of two photographers, British and Palestinian, in this compelling documentary that examines how pictures shape the way history is remembered and taught. Includes remarkable never-before-seen photos.

At the age of 90, cinematographer Karl Brown discusses his early work with D.W. Griffith, in particular the making of The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.

This two-part video-including "1911-1940" and "1940-1990s"-chronicles Latino participation in the American film industry, profiling major performers and other creative personnel and examining issues of typecasting and stereotypes.

This documentary, hosted and narrated by Burt Lancaster, examines the effects of the highly publicized investigation of the motion picture industry by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), which began in 1947.

Based on a true story, A Love Divided is the dramatic tale of a marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant in 1950's Ireland, a marriage that divided a nation.

Examines the career of a traveling exhibitor who brought motion pictures to America's towns and cities when movies were in their infancy, from the early 1880s through the early 1920s.

This fascinating and entertaining documentary celebrates the work of Reynold Brown, one of the most acclaimed movie poster artists of the Fifties and early Sixties, whose work colorfully encapsulated the nation's postwar social climate.

Examines Puerto Rico's 'Operation Bootstrap,' the highly vaunted economic development plan undertaken in the 1950s to provide a role model for economic development throughout Latin America.

This video profiles artists throughout the world, especially those working outside mainstream culture, who have committed their lives to opposing war and barbarism through their art.

Features provocative interviews with some of the world's foremost independent filmmakers, interspersed with excerpts from their films, including Chantal Akerman, Emile de Antonio, Les Blank, Robert Frank, Wim Wenders and Robert Young, among many others.

This two-part documentary examines the social and artistic roots of the national cinemas of Latin America, tracing the evolution of its theoretical and esthetic positions, the development of new forms of representation, repression against filmmakers, and the emergence of a new women's cinema.

Explores the movement's origins, traces the evolution of its theoretical and esthetic positions, and focuses on the development of cinema in Cuba and Nicaragua.

Examines the development of new forms of representation, repression against filmmakers, variations of strategy in response to different circumstances in different countries, and the emergence of a new women's cinema.

Profiles the life and work of the controversial, Academy Award-winning filmmaker through comments by friends, associates and family members, as well as in-depth interviews with Stone himself, on the set of JFK and at his L.A. home, and clips from many of his films.

Filmed along Australia’s breathtakingly beautiful Hawkesbury River, Anna Reeves’ deliciously surprising film is a comedy about love, community and freshly shucked oysters.

An epic, visual meditation on the progressive history of the United States, from colonial times to the present, as seen through its cemeteries, historical plaques, and markers. 2008 National Society of Film Critics Award winner.

An award-winning film from Russian documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, Portrait is an evocative snapshot of a disappearing way of life, a meditation on old and new Russia.

Narrated by Academy Award winning actor Chris Cooper, Primo Levi's Journey is a picaresque road trip through history.

This video chronicles the life and work of Carmen d'Avino-filmmaker, painter, sculptor, and photographer.

Offers a fascinating overview of artistic activity in Croatia during the recent war in the former Yugoslavia, revealing the diversity and vitality of its artists as well as how their work was profoundly influenced by the conflict.

A story of love and murder in a remote Icelandic fishing village, The Seagull’s Laughter is a delicious dark comedy about a woman’s place in the days before feminism.

This video chronicles a crucial period in the life of the great Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), when he left Moscow during WWII for the Kazakhstan capital to film Ivan the Terrible (1943).

A critically-acclaimed, visually arresting documentary about a strange community in the Russian countryside, from renowned documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa.

In 1993, Mieko Ouchi, a half-white, half-Japanese actress, began researching a documentary about her Japanese immigrant grandfather.

This video profiles actor, comedian, impersonator and variety performer Sid Raymond, in the process challenging the assumption that celebrity defines success.

This video contrasts the past and present life of the five tribes--the Seminoles, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Cherokee--in the southeast U.S.

For anyone considering or currently pursuing a career as an actor, this video provides a reality check of just how brutal a business it can be.

Traces the history of surrealism, the art movement that derived its inspiration from dreams and other illogical and fantastic expressions of the unconscious mind, featuring archival footage and photos, interviews with scholars, historians and biographers, dramatic reenactments of key moments in the development of surrealism and excerpts from contemporary surrealist films.

In 1985, Monica Frota, an independent Brazilian filmmaker, collaborated with the Kayapo people of the Brazilian rain forest to develop Mekaron Opoi D'joi (He Who Creates Images), the first Kayapo media project.

Set inside an isolated train depot deep, The Train Station is one of Sergei Loznitsa's most haunting films. It is also one of his most pointed social critiques of contemporary Russia.

This classic supernatural short, filmed in Ireland, features Orson Welles, starring as himself, who, while driving home from the studio on a foggy evening, offers a ride to an Irishman whose car has broken down.

A profile of Fernando Birri, 'Father' of the New Latin American Cinema.

An urgent, beautifully crafted examination of urban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is a critically-acclaimed, award-winning documentary from director Laura Dunn and executive producers Terrence Malick and Robert Redford.

This video features candid interviews with the filmmakers-including Vera Chytilova, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec, Ivan Passer, and Jan Sverak, among many others-who created the Czech New Wave.

A documentary portrait of American silent screen star Viola Dana who began her career with the Edison Company in 1910 and starred in more than 100 productions before her retirement in 1929.

A documentary film about the life and career of noted photographer, Walter Rosenblum, covering his work with the Photo League, described by The New York Times as suffused with "formal beauty and expressive power and tenderness."

After the U.S. and India, the world's third largest producer of feature films is Nigeria. Barely a decade old and already generating over $286 million for the Nigerian economy, Welcome to Nollywood explores this burgeoning film industry, from its unique challenges to its diverse array of films that both mirror and comment upon the social ills of the continent.

Profiles a variety of women active in independent-feminist film and video, including production, distribution and education, whose work expresses a variety of political and esthetic viewpoints.

Is manual labor disappearing in the 21st century or is it just becoming invisible? Michael Glawogger's stunningly photographed Workingman's Death showcases five of the most dangerous and grueling professions in the world, offering a ground-level lesson on globalization, humanity, and the environment.