Directed by R.J. Cutler, the Netflix documentary Martha pulls back the curtain on one of America’s greatest self-made icons.
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Directed by R.J. Cutler, the Netflix documentary Martha pulls back the curtain on one of America’s greatest self-made icons.
In 2013, Katie Griggs, a millennial YouTube astrologer, rose to fame as the face of Kundalini yoga. Breath of Fire explores her evolution while chronicling the shocking secret history of Kundalini.
Filmmaker Jen Muranetz chronicles the 2020-2021 Canada’s Fairy Creek old-growth protests in the documentary film Fairy Creek.
Hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr, Great Migrations: A People on the Move docuseries tells the story of African American movement over the 20th and 21st centuries.
Follow Amber Gurung, a Bhutanese ‘Happiness Agent’ tasked by the government to collect data on the citizens’ happiness, in Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó’s documentary Agent of Happiness.
Filmmaker Joy Haskell explores the spiritual and cultural relationship between wild salmon and Indigenous people that has lasted centuries in her new documentary The Salmon’s Call.
Stranded in Norway, Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly attempts to capture the beauty of Gaza in the documentary Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza.
In 2018, 56-year-old Lois Riess kills her husband David and goes on the run from the authorities. Filmmaker Erin Lee Carr explores the case in the HBO documentary I’m Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders.
Investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback explores the origin and the anonymous creator of the digital currency bitcoin in the HBO documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery.
Music By John Williams is a documentary on the life and career of the legendary award-winning composer.
Directed by Sarah Sharkey Pearce and Simon Schneider, Resident Orca tells the unfolding story of a captive whale’s fight for survival and freedom.
Co-directed by Elton John’s husband David Furnish, ‘Elton John: Never Too Late’ is a documentary exploring the life and career of the legendary singer/songwriter.