This Academy Award-winning documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, narrated by Sidney Poitier, traces the career of Paul Robeson through his activism and his socially charged performances of…

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

Outtakes to the once lost Edward D. Wood Jr. film from 1970. For nearly two decades these outtakes were all that was known to survive.

Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 “newsdrama,” narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR (Bataan), and photographed in zones of combat by the U.S. Navy. The film follows one of…

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Emanuelle hosts this peculiar sexploitation Mondo film that looks at several examples of bizarre sexual behavior.

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth’s surface, we see how natural forces – volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes – affect our world, and how a powerful new…

The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as “part genius and part charlatan”.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Jimi Hendrix’s debut American set at 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the…

Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing…

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.