American Promise

Sight, like other senses, is as much a matter of personal experience as of the absence of possible comparisons. How can we know what others see and...

Located on the île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine, the Paris Law Court looks like an impenetrable fortress. Like Kafka’s...

Martin Scorsese is the unchallenged master of the cinematic quest for Italian-American identity. He has etched the cinematic image of the Sicilian...

In Our Mothers' Gardens celebrates the strength and resiliency of Black women and Black families through the complex, and often times humorous,...

How to combine modernity and fundamentalist Islam. "Saudi Solutions" is a unique and revealing documentary about the lifestyles and attitudes of...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls...

Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from dealing with grief and loss. Five real people share...

The film follows teenage girls Mairéad Mc Ilkenny and Christine Savage. The two young women live in the same city but at the same time in two...

The story of Pixar's early short films illuminates not only the evolution of the company but also the early days of computer animation, when a small...