Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the…

A short exploring what the term ‘Vanilla Sex’ means in black and queer communities through Polaroid photographs.

A musical portrait of New Orleans’ street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo in 1977: second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features live music from Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the…

This special program, hosted by renowned magician Lance Burton, explores the life and magic of the great escape artist through his most prized possessions–the Chinese Water Torture Cell, the Milkcan,…

Behind the scenes of the TV movie Sharpe’s Peril

A portrait of an abandoned Soviet military settlement that was neglected when the army personnel and their families left.

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready…

More than 10 years after the release of Green Day’s American Idiot, the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees present this time capsule rock doc that takes us…

Tells the story of a revolutionary school in Rhode Island that gives inner-city youths who are at risk of dropping out a second chance by accelerating their studies. At the…

An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s look back at the 40 years he spent summering at Oak Bluffs, a black-oriented resort community on Martha’s Vineyard.

A sex documentary examining the varieties of sexual activity in San Francisco. It includes explicit footage from live sex shows and behind the scenes of a pornographic movie. A highlight…