In a polarized society, Sweden's Dialogue Police are united by humor and a shared calling: defending democracy with dialogue as their weapon.
Susanna Edwards | 2025 | 90 minutes | Color | Swedish; English; Farsi; Turkish | English subtitles
Explores the revolution of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel masterpiece, Maus, with humor and finesse.
Pauline Horovitz | 2025 | 52 minutes | Color | French; English; German | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Explores one of the world's longest conflicts through archival Swedish TV footage, challenging conventions of history-writing and how media perceived the issue.
Göran Hugo Olsson | 2025 | 206 minutes | Color | Swedish; English; Arabic; Hebrew | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
The story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world – what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become.
Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland | 2024 | 79 minutes | Color | Arabic; Hebrew | English subtitles
A provincial builder falls in love with an alluring shopgirl, oblivious to her crowded romantic past or that she’s waiting for a local politician’s wife to die so she can marry rich.
Georges Lacombe | 2022 | 108 minutes | French | English subtitles
PERSONALE is set at a four-star hotel in northeastern Italy where guests come to ski, swim, and relax. But instead of the scenery, the film focuses on the unseen: the housekeeping staff who are at the bottom of the hotel hierarchy, and whose work is absolutely essential.
Carmen Trocker | 2024 | 93 minutes | Color | Italian | English subtitles
The rise and fall of Dutch filmmaker Jan Teunissen (1898-1975). As head of the Department of Film of the Dutch Nazi Party and SS, he became the most powerful man in the Dutch film industry during World War II.
Luuk Bouwman | 2025 | 108 minutes | Color | Dutch | English subtitles
New on Blu-ray! A journey along Route 1, from Maine to Miami, yields a rich tapestry of American life.
Robert Kramer | 1990 | 254 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
Exposes the French scandal of Nicolas Sarkozy's special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi.
Yannick Kergoat | 2025 | 104 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Through rare and long-forgotten footage, this documentary uncovers the hidden machinery of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay—one of history's longest-running regimes.
Juanjo Pereira | 2025 | 92 minutes | Color | Guarani; Spanish; German; French; English; Portuguese | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Forty years after her arranged marriage as a child, Hawa finally begins an independent life and learns to read. However, with the return of the Taliban to power, her dreams, along with those of her daughter and granddaughter, are cut short.
Najiba Noori and Rasul Noori | 2024 | 84 minutes | Color | Farsi | English subtitles
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Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Che, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left.
Chris Marker | 2001 | 178 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
A devout Muslim immigrant faces possible death from stomach cancer but cultural and linguistic confusions complicate his treatment in an American hospital.
Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. and Julia Haslett | 2006 | 58 minutes | Color | English
Based on a thorough historical research into the Paris Commune of 1871, this film leads to an inevitable reflection about the present.
Peter Watkins | 2002 | 345 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Renowned architect Rem Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City explore Lagos, Nigeria, interpreting the chaotic city in an innovative, surprising way.
Bregtje van der Haak | 2003 | 55 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles
Exposes the French scandal of Nicolas Sarkozy's special relationship with Muammar Gaddafi.
Yannick Kergoat | 2025 | 104 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
Is there an alternative to run-of-the-mill TV? The film introduces us to Peter Watkins, who for the last three decades has proven that quality TV may be made without compromise.
Geoff Bowie | 2002 | 52 minutes | Color | English
A series on cross-cultural healthcare. Four films raise awareness about how cultural barriers affect patient-provider communication and other aspects of care for patients of diverse backgrounds.
Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. and Julia Haslett | 2003 | 47 minutes | Color | English
