Magic Medicine
In 2012 a team of medical researchers asked themselves, “what would happen if we gave psilocybin (magic mushrooms) to people suffering from severe depression”? It took them three years to get the necessary permissions to find out.
Genre: Documentary
Actors: Robin Carhart-Harris, Rosalind Watts
Out of Many, One
The U.S. has long offered a promise of opportunity to immigrants, but currently immigration has become a divisive issue. This documentary illustrates how an understanding of our history and democracy…
Inside Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
A look behind the scenes of Christopher Nolan’s film “Oppenheimer” about an American scientist and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
My Name Is Salt
Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months…
Death of a Nation
Parallels are drawn between Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump. Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused to accept the result of a free election….
The Unspeakable
Their loved ones were murdered on 9/11. Twenty years later, they are still fighting for the truth.
In the Footsteps of Elephant
Follow filmmakers as they capture the epic journey of African elephants across the Kalahari desert. The team faces extreme weather, inaccessible terrain, crocodile-infested waters and close encounters with lions in…
The Last Day of World War One
Telling the stories of the last soldiers to die in the Great War.
Socorro Nobre
When the inmate Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg in Veja magazine, she decides to write a letter to him. Socorro was sentenced…
Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone By
Inheriting a film collection of home movies after the death of a relative, a film director recounts his life and the women he loved while investigating some family secrets hidden…
Gloria: In Her Own Words
Despite decades of opposition from the right, and recent personal setbacks, Gloria Steinem remains one of the most outspoken and visible symbols of the women’s movement today. This film blends…
The Blockchain and Us
When the Wright brothers invented the airplane in 1903, it was hard to imagine there would be over 500,000 people traveling in the air at any point in time today….
Cropsey
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.