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Arts, Music & Culture

Dive into an in-depth exploration of art, music, film, literature, and humanities with documentaries that celebrate the power of creative and cultural expression.

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The Music of Strangers
The only way to change the world is to make a little noise: The extraordinary story of The Silk Road Ensemble, an international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 96 min.
Year of production: 2015
Life, Animated
A documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams based on a book by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ron Suskind.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 89 min.
Year of production: 2016
Louder than a Bomb
A mic. A stage. A pen. A page. The story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare to compete in the world's largest youth slam
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 99 min.
Year of production: 2010
Butterfly in the Sky
BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY tells the story of the beloved PBS children’s series “Reading Rainbow,” its iconic host LeVar Burton, and the challenges its creators faced in cultivating a love of reading through television.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 87 min.
Year of production: 2022
32 Sounds
Discover the immersive power of sound with 32 Sounds, a captivating documentary exploring how it bends time, crosses borders, and shapes our perception
Director: Sam Green
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 97 min.
Year of production: 2023
Unseen Skies
Yaara Bou Melhem’s documentary "Unseen Skies" explores state and corporate surveillance evolution through Trevor Paglen's audacious launch of artwork in space.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 98 min.
Year of production: 2021
Romeo Is Bleeding
Richmond, CA is a community struggling with gun violence, stemming from a turf war which spans multiple generations. A local arts organization recruits young people to take part in an urban adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.
Director: Jason Zeldes
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 93 min.
Year of production: 2015
¡Viva Maestro!
Superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel faces the test of a lifetime when social unrest in his Venezuelan homeland challenges his conviction that music has the power to unite
Director: Ted Braun
Language: English, Spanish (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 99 min.
Year of production: 2022
Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend
A film charting the rise of Bob Marley and The Wailers to international stardom - made from footage shot in the early 1970s and lost for 30 years
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 96 min.
Year of production: 2011
Biography Music
The Students of Umberto Primo
In April 1941, when Nazi forces descend on Thessaloniki, Greece, nine young Jewish students of the Italian school, Umberto Primo, must put their hopes and dreams on hold and focus only on how they will survive.
Language: Greek, Italian (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 83 min.
Year of production: 2022
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies
Glimpse into the contemporary music scene of Kinshasa featuring Brigade Sarbati Orchestra
Language: French, Lingala (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 107 min.
Year of production: 2020
Dark Blossoms
The deep friendship between three young outsider goths is threatened when one of them falls in love and eyes a possible escape from the Danish province.
Director: Frigge Fri
Language: Danish, English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 80 min.
Year of production: 2021
Youth
The Cemetery of Cinema
A delightful and modern Don Quixote tale
Language: French, Maninka, Pular (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 95 min.
Year of production: 2023
The Arc of Oblivion
In a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. What can be saved?
Director: Ian Cheney
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 98 min.
Year of production: 2024
The Torch
Guitar icon Buddy Guy reflects on his legacy.
Director: Jim Farrell
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 109 min.
Year of production: 2019
Mr. SOUL!
Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL!  Ellis Haizlip ensures the Revolution will be televised with SOUL!,  America’s first “Black Tonight Show.”
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 104 min.
Year of production: 2018
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States
Language: English, Swedish (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 92 min.
Year of production: 2011
Gurrumul
GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 96 min.
Year of production: 2017
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
The life and insights of author Kurt Vonnegut
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 126 min.
Year of production: 2021
The Art of Making It
Who gets seen, who gets left behind, and why does it matter who is anointed to tell the stories of our time?
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 94 min.
Year of production: 2021
Fouad Elkoury by Fouad
Fouad Elkoury, a renowned Lebanese photographer since the 70s, captures Middle Eastern life amid war-torn Lebanon and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A new documentary offers an intimate look at his work, showcasing an emotional odyssey through exile, war, and resilience.
Director: Kamy Pakdel
Language: French (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 55 min.
Year of production: 2023
Side by Side: The Science, Art, and Impact of Digital Cinema
Investigating the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation, revealing what artists and filmmakers have accomplished with both film and digital and what the future may bring.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 98/52 min.
Year of production: 2012
Hong Kong Symphony: Heaven-Earth-Mankind
Tan Dun's "Symphony 1997" premieres as Hong Kong switches from British to Chinese rule.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 57 min.
Year of production: 1997
Cathedrals of Culture
"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 6 x 26 min.
Year of production: 2014
The Art of Museums (series)
Blurring the boundaries between entertainment and high culture, this series takes the viewer into a fine selection of world’s most renowned museums.
Language: English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 8x52 min.
Year of production: 2018
Arts and Culture
Sabine Weiss, One Century of Photography
Sabine Weiss (1924-2021) created a monumental body of work: thousands of faces, top fashion collections, and global photo reports. As a 20th-century witness focusing on society's margins, she was a Humanist photography icon. This film captures her final words and legacy.
Language: French (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 58 min.
Year of production: 2022
Voices: Our Stories before Roe v. Wade
Every movement starts with the gathering of stories.
Director: Randy Field
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 27 min.
Year of production: 2024