Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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Genre: Documentary
Director: Ken Burns
Actors: Adam Arkin, Brian Cox, Ed Harris, Jack Johnson, John Cullum, Keith David, Kevin Conway, Murphy Guyer, Philip Bosco, Samuel L. Jackson
An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th
This documentary looks at the surge in political violence through the story of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, showing the roots of anti-government sentiment and its reverberations today, along with…
The Cult of JT LeRoy
A feature documentary about the writer JT LeRoy – Ethically charged, controversial, and confusing, JT’s life and death sprang open a Pandora’s box of powerful questions about literature and culture,…
Fashion Reimagined
Fashion designer Amy Powney is at the peak of her career, but she’s troubled by her industry’s wasteful practices. Fashion Reimagined follows her transformative global journey to create a collection…
Bending the Arc
About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global…
Once There Was Brasília
In 1959, disgraced intergalactic agent WA4 receives a mission: to come to the Earth and kill the president Juscelino Kubitschek on the day of Brasília’s inauguration. But his ship is…
Sell by Dates: The Surprising Truth
Demystifying the dates and small print on food packaging, journalist Harry Wallop, restaurant critic Jimi Famurewa and other experts investigate if food date labels are in fact a con.
Our Last Tango
María Nieves Rego (80) and Juan Carlos Copes (83) met when they were 14 and 17, and they danced together for nearly fifty years. In all those years they loved…
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
In 1948, Lenny Bruce was just another comic who couldn’t get arrested. By 1961, all that would change.
Outside In
A personal diary of an eerily empty and haunting metropolis captured while running through city streets, embalmed in a state of suspended animation.
Free the Mind
Brain scientist Professor Richard Davidson sets up his mind to conduct an unusual experiment: He will teach American war veterans and children meditation and yoga. Can veterans through meditation and…
Barrymore: The Body in the Pool
A film following the events of March 2001 when 31-year-old Stuart Lubbock was found dead in the pool at TV presenter, Micheal Barrymore’s, home in Roydon, Essex.
The Prince of Nothingwood
French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star who produced more than 110 low-budget movies in a country devastated by war.