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.

In Manhattan’s Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It’s a confrontation between a couple: he demands to…

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy,…

Explores contemporary Australian hip hop through intimate and candid observations of some of the nations most potent and compelling artists.

In the remote and forgotten wilderness of Lake Natron, in northern Tanzania, one of nature’s last great mysteries unfolds: the birth, life and death of a million crimson-winged flamingos.

Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the…

An experimental meditation on Times Square’s marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York’s Great White Way.

Nicolas Entel’s searing documentary tells the story of Pablo Escobar — Colombian drug kingpin, murderer and family man — through the eyes of his son Sebastian as well as the…

The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations.

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the…

An unlikely team of activists and innovators hatches a bold mission to save endangered species.

A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands in search of people with stories to…