From a man nearly destroyed by crime, drugs, and poverty to an admired media icon, Petey Greene defied labeling. With his patois of street talk, Bible citations, rhyming rap, and quotes from his grandmother, he was America’s original shock-jock. Read More
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, Objectified documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. Read More
Following their escape from communist Hungary in 1956, Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond would reinvent Hollywood moviemaking for an entire generation — and maintain an iron-clad friendship along the way. Read More
Refusing to let a failing kidney deter him, indie rock drummer Pat Spurgeon goes on tour with his band while searching for a donor and administering his own dialysis. Read More
He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With modest means, this couple managed to build one of the most important modern art collections in history. Meet Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, who redefined what it means to be an art collector. Read More
The first Mardi Gras in America was held in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. Three hundred and five years later, the city’s annual Carnival is split down the middle, with separate but not quite equal celebrations — one for whites and one for blacks. Read More
A film about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture, Helvetica looks at the proliferation of a single typeface. Ostensibly a film about a typeface, takes a deeper look into the role of the graphic designer since World War II. Read More
Operation Filmmaker is the story of how well-intentioned American filmmakers bend over backwards to help an aspiring film student in war-torn Iraq achieve his dream of working on a real Hollywood movie. But nothing goes as planned. Read More
How did two women living in unimaginable squalor and total isolation become legendary icons? And how did their gothic story end up as, of all things, a Broadway musical? Read More
Drawing upon recently declassified documents, archival footage and behind-the-scenes interviews, Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic chronicles the creation of the monumental opera based on the mysterious and paradoxical career of the “father of the atomic bomb,” Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. Read More
The adventures of novelist and Paris Review founder Harold Louis “Doc” Humes — featuring a paper house, the Hip Messiah, Don Peyote, Leary, Mailer, Auster, and the FBI. A story about ideas, drugs, literature, protest, and paranoia, that sheds light on American cultural history as well as an original mind. Read More
Follow the true crime story of Josh Osborne, a sheltered Maine farm boy who attempts to save the family farm by plotting to kill his mother, in this satiric study of rural American values wrapped in an attempted murder mystery. Read More