Jenny Raskin

Follows members of the Zulu Club, New Orleans’ first Black Mardi Gras, as they work to bring the Zulu parade back to the streets for Mardi Gras Day 2022, in the face of a global pandemic, hurricane Ida and the loss of members due to COVID and gun violence.

With his signature gospel sound on the Hammond B3, Billy Preston doublehandedly elevated the greatest artists of his time – from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, from Aretha Franklin to Eric Clapton, from Ray Charles to Barbra Streisand to Sly and the Family Stone. In our film, we explore Billy's career and influence on generations of musicians, as he scored several number one hits of his own and became one of the most sought-after musicians in the world. He did all of this as a soul divided -- by his deep roots in the church, in constant conflict with his identity as a gay Black man, searching for a family of his own that would accept him for who he was.

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.

A college student searches for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.

Experiencing violence is commonplace for Syrian women but they do not discuss the prevalence of – often sexual – exploitation for fear of revenge. A collective of young women want to break the taboo with a theatre project. But how free are they themselves?

In the competitive world of high school mariachi, the musicians from the South Texas borderlands reign supreme. Under the guidance of coach Abel Acuña, the teenage captains of Edinburg North High School’s acclaimed team must turn a shoestring budget and diverse crew of inexperienced musicians into state champions.

An intimate look into the lives of one of the most iconic folk-rock bands in America - the Indigo Girls. With never-before-seen archival and intimate vérité the film dives into the songwriting and storytelling of the music that transformed a generation.

The world is in crisis as it misses target after target to stop climate change. The Green New Deal has captured the imagination of millions with its visionary promise for systemic economic and environmental change that will build a better and more just world. In this moment of political upheaval with clashes in the streets and the halls of Congress, climate policy is taking center stage for the first time in American history, and the fight is on.

A lendária e pioneira cantora Tanya Tucker desafiou todas as normas de como uma mulher deveria se comportar no mundo da música country. Décadas depois que Tanya saiu dos holofotes, a estrela em ascensão da música americana Brandi Carlile decidiu escrever um álbum inteiro dedicado à sua heroína, com base na vida extraordinária de Tanya – estimulando a maior volta por cima da história da música country.

An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert land grabs by some of the world’s most powerful countries.

Doris Muñoz e Jacks Haupt são duas filhas de imigrantes indocumentados do México que estão navegando em suas carreiras na indústria da música. Buscando sustentar suas famílias enquanto alcançam seus sonhos, Doris e Jacks se unem pela culpa sempre presente de serem os primeiros membros nascidos nos Estados Unidos de suas famílias indocumentadas e os riscos financeiros de perseguir seus sonhos.

This stirring and visually immersive documentary brings us inside the spirited pursuits of David Hanson, a restless inventor aiming to perfect the world’s most life-like A.I. With freewheeling energy and storytelling gusto, Jon Kasbe and Crystal M...

Uma corrida global com um único objetivo: as vacinas contra a COVID-19.

A documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace.

Após a morte de mulheres negras por complicações no parto, suas famílias estão mobilizando ativistas, parteiras e médicos para enfrentar uma crescente crise dos Estados Unidos: a da saúde materna.

Homens que sofreram abusos sexuais por membros da igreja católica buscam a cura para seus traumas.

Usando telas inesperadas, o artista JR pretende dar uma voz global às pessoas comuns através de uma combinação dos gêneros arte pública, fotografia e espetáculo de grande escala.

Três adolescentes adotadas se conhecem online e descobrem que são primas. Inspiradas por essa descoberta, elas confrontam questões emocionais complicadas e embarcam em uma viagem à China em busca de respostas, conexões e da história de suas vidas.

An astonishing record of the hereditary nature of trauma, Jacinta follows the lives of three generations of women struggling to find stability amid years of dependency. Jacinta leaves the Maine Correctional Center, leaving her mother behind to complete her own sentence, and attempts to rebuild her relationship with Caylynn, her preternaturally wise pre-teen daughter who craves time and attention from the mother she adores. But as the pressures of shaping a life in a world she has hardly known sober proves increasingly challenging, she brings the viewer into her emotional, day-to-day battle to find peace with herself and earn the trust of her family.

Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and through the creation of a dance inspired by his life, this immersive portrait follows a man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, determined to build one that would.

Construído com material de arquivo, o documentário revê a Guerra Fria de Ronald Reagan pela perspectiva de uma emissora de TV aberta que consegue, a duras penas, exibir o telefilme mais visto e mais polêmico da história: O Dia Seguinte (1983), sobre os efeitos devastadores de uma guerra nuclear entre EUA e União Soviética.

Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter.

Cuba is well known as a so-called time capsule. The place where the New World was discovered has become both a romantic vision and a warning. With ongoing global cultural and financial upheavals, large parts of the world could face a similar kind of existence.

Este documentário acompanha as ginastas que sofreram abusos de Larry Nassar, médico da equipe de ginástica dos EUA, e os repórteres que denunciaram os casos.

A executiva musical Drew Dixon revela o quanto a carreira e a vida pessoal foram profundamente afetadas após ser sexualmente abusada por um dos homens mais poderosos do ramo.

Determined to turn unfathomable tragedy into action, the teenage survivors of Parkland, Florida catalyze a powerful, unprecedented youth movement that spreads with lightning speed across the country, as a generation of mobilized youth take back democracy in this powerful coming-of-age story.

A siciliana Letizia Battaglia começou uma batalha ao longo da vida com a máfia quando apontou pela primeira vez sua câmera para uma vítima brutalmente morta. Documentando o domínio bárbaro da Cosa Nostra, ela deu testemunho inabalável de seus crimes. Suas fotografias, arte e bravura ajudaram a dar um fim a um chocante reinado de matança.

Alexis Bloom charts the rise and fall of the late Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.

After a routine partial hip replacement operation leaves his mother in a coma with permanent brain damage, what starts as a son's video diary becomes a citizen's investigation into the future of American health care.

It’s 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town just miles from the Mexican border. The town’s close-knit community prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bisbee’s darkest hour: the infamous Bisbee Deportation of 1917, during which 1,200 striking miners were violently taken from their homes, banished to the middle of the desert, and left to die. Townspeople confront this violent, misunderstood past by staging dramatic recreations of the escalating strike. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and “directed,” in a sense, by residents with conflicting views of the event. Deeply personal segments torn from family history build toward a massive restaging of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary.

Por mais de trinta anos, e através de seu programa de televisão, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), apresentador, produtor, escritor e pianista, acompanhado de seus bonecos e seus muitos amigos, falou diretamente com crianças pequenas sobre alguns dos assuntos mais importantes da vida.

Acompanhe três famílias em crise, com crianças com algum tipo de doença mental grave. Elas tentam, desesperadamente, conseguir tratamento, mesmo contando com recursos e apoio limitados. Revela as falhas de um sistema que deixou muitas famílias sem perspectivas e com consequências devastadoras para os jovens.

Documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.

After international withdrawal from Afghanistan, two remarkable Afghan women working within the government and media struggle to maintain their hard-won rights while balancing what’s best for their families.

Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored by the FBI.

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.

The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of Russian meddling in the 2016 election that reveals an empire of fake news and the tactics of modern day information warfare.

Talal Derki retorna para sua terra natal, onde ele ganha a confiança de uma família radical islâmica, compartilhando sua vida diária por mais de dois anos. Sua câmera foca em Osama e seu irmão mais novo Ayman, fornecendo uma visão extremamente rara sobre o que significa crescer em um califado islâmico.

Neste documentário emocionante, uma estudante de 28 anos cursando o doutorado em Harvard registra sua própria luta contra a síndrome de fadiga crônica.

Dina, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge. Scott freezes when it comes to physical intimacy, and Dina, a Kardashians fanatic, wants nothing more than to share with Scott all she’s learned about sensual desire from books, TV shows, and her previous marriage. Her increasingly creative forays to draw Scott close keep hitting roadblocks—exposing anxieties, insecurities, and communication snafus while they strive to reconcile their conflicting approaches to romance and intimacy.

O documentário acompanha a trajetória de um grupo de alunas prestes a se formar em um colégio de Baltimore. Formando um time de dança de Step, elas batalham diariamente para conseguir um lugar na faculdade enquanto lidam com os problemas raciais que estão estourando em sua cidade.

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.

Aisholpan viajou da remota Mongólia até Park City para apresentar ao mundo a sua história. Aos 13 anos, ela quebrou uma tradição de dois mil anos para se tornar a primeira mulher capaz de caçar com águias reais.

Em duas cidades de locais diferentes dos Estados Unidos, duas adolescentes são vítimas de estupro em uma festa em que são dopadas por garotos que consideravam seus amigos. Após a violência, elas são assediadas virtualmente, e a depressão e a vergonha as encaminham para o suícidio, e tragicamente, uma delas morre. Audrie & Daisy explora a perspectiva dos adolescentes e suas familias, incluindo os meninos envolvidos e as garotas dispostas a falar publicamente pela primeira vez.

De forma a tirar o curso de equivalência ao secundário, Teddy Walker inscreve-se no ensino nocturno para adultos no liceu onde, há várias décadas, tinha iniciado os estudos. Ali vai conhecer uma série de colegas que, tal como ele, desejam mudar o rumo das suas vidas. Mas o desafio transforma-se em algo bastante mais complexo do que ele estava à espera, muito devido às exigências de uma professora absolutamente determinada a fazê-los sair dali graduados.

Na Romênia dos anos 1980, milhares de filmes ocidentais atravessaram a Cortina de Ferro e abriram uma janela para o mundo livre para quem se atrevesse a olhar. Um escroque de fitas VHS do mercado negro e uma corajosa tradutora trouxeram a magia dos filmes para as pessoas e provocaram uma revolução.

David Thorpe é um escritor que não gosta da própria voz. Ele decide buscar ajuda profissional para mudá-la enquanto investiga a origem do jeito de falar estereotipado dos homossexuais e o preconceito com quem fala assim.

An idealistic collective launches a TV channel in the very early days of portable video cameras. This wonderful lesson in journalism makes it clear just how perilous it is to promote your own view of society via autonomous media. From the tumultuous period of Woodstock, the Black Panthers, women’s lib and anti-Vietnam demonstrations.

An idealistic collective launches a TV channel in the very early days of portable video cameras. This wonderful lesson in journalism makes it clear just how perilous it is to promote your own view of society via autonomous media. From the tumultuous period of Woodstock, the Black Panthers, women’s lib and anti-Vietnam demonstrations.

The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking - a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David to Goliath. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing the kibbutzniks to publish only a fragment of the conversations. 'Censored Voices' reveals the original recordings for the first time.

A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

A descent into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man's place in nature.

Este documentário acompanha 15 anos da vida dos amigos de infância Shaun White e Kevin Pearce, lendas do snowboard.

Amid the nation’s ongoing debate over health care reform, this bracing new documentary examines the everyday realities of Americans who lack access to affordable medical treatment. Filmed during three days in the operation of a “no-cost” clinic set up annually at Bristol, Tennessee’s NASCAR speedway, Remote Area Medical documents the range of medical care the eponymous organization provides to low-income patients in the heart of Appalachia.

The film MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.

Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in this thought-provoking documentary filmed in the wake of the United States' invasion of the region. In a country where one in seven women dies during childbirth, many women are willing to travel for days to receive adequate care from a trained professional.

On October 23, 1998, a sniper carrying a high-powered rifle assassinated Dr. Barnett Slepian in his home, altering forever a family, a community, and the bounds of our imaginings about anti-abortion violence. This horrific act punctuated a decade of escalating harassment and violence against women’s heath care providers – a decade marred by murders, assaults, death threats, stalking, clinic blockades, arsons, bombings, and chemical attacks. How do these events affect the personal and professional lives of abortion providers? What motivates them to continue their work in the face of such terrorism?

Teacher Wang works as a 'mistress dispeller' in China, hired to break up affairs by any means necessary. Through one of her cases, we explore the ways class, capital, and culture collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.

A documentary film following the rise of Ebony and Jet and their growth into a brand with a readership base in the millions which has had an undeniable effect on American culture.