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Criterion Channel
83
7.5
/3604/
75
/189/
67
/88/
4.1
/18525/
100
/105/
69
/20/
89
/21/

Cameraperson (2016)
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
poster
Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel
81
7.4
/4022/
75
/246/
80
/85/
3.9
/27862/
92
/74/
93
/13/
85
/19/

The Eternal Memory (2023)
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.3
/1831/
73
/63/
74
/32/
3.7
/4992/
100
/52/
80
/10/
84
/13/
cc age 11+

Writing with Fire (2021)
In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines of their own homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.
poster
79
7.1
/1264/
70
/39/
76
/18/
3.7
/1418/
96
/102/
78
/27/
81
/27/
cc age 10+

Step (2017)
The senior year of a girls’ high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try to become the first in their families to attend college. The girls strive to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in their troubled city.
poster
79
7.5
/3285/
72
/181/
69
/49/
3.6
/2072/
100
/33/
93
/47/
80
/7/

Unrest (2017)
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.
poster
78
7.4
/385/
81
/15/
68
/13/
3.6
/328/
100
/23/
69
/3/
88
/8/

Democrats (2014)
An intriguing look at an authoritarian state on the verge of democratization: how Zimbabwe got a new constitution. Two political enemies are forced on a joint mission to write Zimbabwe's new constitution. The ultimate test that will either take the country a decisive step closer to democracy and away from President Mugabe's dictatorship, or toward renewed repression. In a country with little respect for human rights, impeded by economic sanctions and hyperinflation running rampant, failure is not an option.
poster
Netflix
77
7.7
/327/
83
/25/
85
/6/
3.7
/1238/
93
/29/
85
/12/
71
/9/

Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All (2024)
An intimate look into the lives of one of the most iconic folk-rock bands in America - the Indigo Girls. With never-before-seen archival and intimate vérité the film dives into the songwriting and storytelling of the music that transformed a generation.
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Fandor
77
7.5
/1155/
81
/47/
65
/17/
3.7
/1045/
92
/61/
85
/33/
74
/20/

After Tiller (2013)
Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, only four doctors in the United States continue to perform third-trimester abortions. These physicians, all colleagues of Dr. Tiller, sacrifice their safety and personal lives in the name of their fierce, unwavering conviction to help women.
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Amazon Prime Video
76
7.1
/2784/
71
/144/
69
/62/
3.5
/3293/
100
/34/
76
/12/
83
/9/
cc age 15+

Roll Red Roll (2019)
At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved high school football team. The aftermath exposed an entire culture of complicity—and Roll Red Roll maps out the roles that peer pressure, denial, sports machismo, and social media each played in the tragedy.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.8
/2911/
69
/284/
69
/63/
3.4
/4866/
100
/49/
60
/10/
73
/7/
cc age 11+

Coded Bias (2020)
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
7.0
/299/
71
/26/
65
/10/
3.5
/205/
92
/12/
87
/4/
69
/5/

Private Violence (2014)
One in four women experience violence in their homes. Have you ever asked, “Why doesn't she just leave?” Private Violence shatters the brutality of our logic and intimately reveals the stories of two women: Deanna Walters, who transforms from victim to survivor, and Kit Gruelle, who advocates for justice.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.0
/1444/
67
/54/
58
/20/
3.8
/1767/
98
/86/
72
/10/
79
/26/
cc age 16+

Whose Streets? (2017)
A nonfiction account of the Ferguson uprising told by the people who lived it, this is an unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown inspired a community to fight back—and sparked a global movement.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
7.1
/3661/
73
/184/
69
/52/
3.5
/2908/
87
/54/
76
/79/
70
/18/
cc age 12+

Meet the Patels (2014)
Finding love is never easy. For Ravi Patel, a first generation Indian-American, the odds are slim. His ideal bride is beautiful, smart, funny, family-oriented, kind and—in keeping with tradition—Indian (though hopefully raised in the US). Oh, and her last name should be Patel because in India, Patels usually marry other Patels. And so at 30, Ravi decides to break up with his American girlfriend (the one who by all accounts is perfect for him except for her red hair and American name) and embark on a worldwide search for another Patel longing to be loved. He enlists the help of his matchmaker mother, attends a convention of Patels living in the US and travels to wedding season in India. Witty, honest and heartfelt, this comedy explores the questions with which we all struggle: What is love? What is happiness? And how in the world do we go about finding them?
poster
Netflix
74
6.4
/4318/
65
/278/
64
/94/
3.5
/5875/
100
/47/
57
/37/
86
/16/
cc age 13+

Strong Island (2017)
Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging us to change.
poster
Paramount+ Amazon Channel
73
7.0
/4427/
69
/297/
69
/75/
3.6
/10244/
98
/49/
60
/16/

Ascension (2021)
The film explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes humorous—imagery, this observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.
poster
73
6.6
/826/
66
/47/
61
/42/
3.5
/791/
91
/34/
74
/7/
73
/12/

(T)ERROR (2015)
This real-life look at FBI counterterrorism operations features access to both sides of a sting: the government informant and the radicalized target.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
72
5.5
/663/
59
/58/
57
/17/
3.2
/3792/
91
/55/
79
/18/

Look Into My Eyes (2024)
A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and healing.
poster
Netflix
71
6.5
/3838/
67
/282/
66
/101/
3.3
/11456/
92
/49/
78
/15/
76
/11/
cc age 15+

Pray Away (2021)
In the 1970s, five men struggling with being gay in their Evangelical church started a bible study to help each other leave the "homosexual lifestyle." They quickly received over 25,000 letters from people asking for help and formalized as Exodus International, the largest and most controversial conversion therapy organization in the world. But leaders struggled with a secret: their own “same-sex attractions” never went away. After years as Christian superstars in the religious right, many of these men and women have come out as LGBTQ, disavowing the very movement they helped start. Focusing on the dramatic journeys of former conversion therapy leaders, current members, and a survivor, PRAY AWAY chronicles the “ex gay" movement’s rise to power, persistent influence, and the profound harm it causes.
poster
91
67
7.3
/457/
80
/29/
80
/36/
3.9
/1220/
95
/21/
80
/4/

Once Upon a Time in Venezuela (2020)
Once upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and poets. Now it is decaying and disintegrating—a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself.
poster
Kanopy
58
6.0
/847/
63
/96/
60
/20/
3.0
/1429/
76
/42/
27
/6/
74
/13/

Enemies of the State (2021)
From the outside, the DeHart’s were an All-American family. Parents Paul and Leann were U.S. Military members, and son Matt was obsessed with computers from an early age. As a military family, they moved around during Matt’s adolescence, and Matt really grew up online. When Matt’s work with the hacker collective Anonymous rouses the suspicions of the U.S. government, the family is drawn into a bizarre web of secrets and espionage.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
42
7.9
/934/
75
/85/
75
/20/
3.9
/1179/
100
/5/
92
/6/

The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015)
Some 200 women defiantly cling to their ancestral homeland in Chernobyl’s radioactive “Exclusion Zone.”
poster
74
37
6.4
/415/
85
/22/
86
/9/
3.5
/354/
100
/6/
48
/31/
71
/4/

32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide (2017)
Traces the life and mental illness of New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and her sister's struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide.
poster
77
36
6.9
/169/
70
/6/
80
/6/
3.6
/578/
100
/14/
74
/6/

Midwives (2022)
Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya (a Muslim minority community) are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice midwife who acts as an assistant and translator at the clinic. Her family has lived in the area for generations, yet they are still considered intruders. Encouraged and challenged by Hla, who risks her own safety daily by helping Muslim patients, Nyo Nyo is determined to become a steady health care provider for her community.
poster
Kanopy
63
36
5.8
/643/
60
/54/
53
/16/
3.2
/416/
86
/22/
56
/25/
64
/12/

Orgasm Inc. (2009)
Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women - and offers a humorous but sobering look inside the cash-fueled pharmaceutical industry.
poster
Kanopy
76
36
7.5
/679/
68
/26/
70
/20/
3.5
/299/
95
/19/
81
/4/
74
/10/

Among the Believers (2015)
An unsettling and eye opening exploration into the spread of the radical Islamic school Red Mosque, which trains legions of children to devote their lives to jihad, or holy war, from a very young age. With incredible access and chilling footage, Among the Believers is a timely and relevant look into the causes that have led to the growth of radical Islam in Pakistan and around the world.
poster
71
33
7.3
/82/
40
/5/
70
/21/
3.6
/509/
100
/7/

Q (2023)
An intimate portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost, Q depicts the influence of a secretive matriarchal religious order on filmmaker Jude Chehab’s family and the unspoken ties and consequences of loyalty that have bonded her mother, grandmother, and herself to the mysterious organization. A love story of a different kind, Q is a multigenerational tale of the eternal search for meaning.
poster
71
33
6.3
/102/
50
/2/
80
/1/
3.4
/767/
90
/20/
77
/6/

The Tuba Thieves (2024)
A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.
poster
Kanopy
65
31
6.9
/272/
67
/8/
43
/17/
3.5
/393/
84
/25/
58
/12/
70
/11/

!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution (2010)
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
poster
79
27
7.4
/293/
68
/22/
77
/9/
3.5
/714/
100
/12/
90
/1/

9to5: The Story of a Movement (2020)
In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a movement to force changes in their workplaces. This movement became national, and is a largely forgotten story of U.S. twentieth century history. It encapsulates a unique intersection of the women’s movement with the labor movement. The awareness these secretaries brought to bear on women’s work reverberates even today. Clericals were the low-wage workers of their era. America now confronts the growing reality of deep income inequality. The stories and strategies of these bold, creative women resonates in contemporary America.
poster
Kanopy
67
25
7.1
/293/
66
/10/
63
/14/
3.7
/475/
93
/14/
40
/1/

Motherland (2017)
The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face devastating consequences as their country struggles with reproductive health policy and the politics of conservative Catholic ideologies.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
25
7.5
/281/
75
/14/
76
/14/
3.6
/379/
68
/4/

Vessel (2014)
A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.
poster
Kanopy
63
25
6.4
/663/
60
/40/
65
/17/
3.3
/446/
74
/23/
49
/4/
cc age 14+

Web Junkie (2014)
China is the first country in the world to classify Internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Caught in the Net features a Beijing treatment center where Chinese teenagers are being "deprogrammed," and follows the story of three boys from the day they arrive at the center, to their three-month treatment period, and their long awaited return home. The film provides a microcosm of modern Chinese life and investigates one of the symptoms of the Internet age. It examines inter-generational pressures and the disregard of the human rights of minors who get caught in the net.
poster
Kanopy
64
22
7.0
/252/
54
/5/
59
/13/
3.6
/340/
65
/8/
cc age 11+

Speed Sisters (2015)
The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, SPEED SISTERS takes you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought you could.
poster
?
6.9
/21/

Uvalde Mom (2025)
When a school shooting shakes a Texas town, a mom becomes a hero and speaks against a faulty system. The community confronts those who failed its kids.
poster
Kanopy
81
?
7.4
/77/
100
/1/
3.6
/406/

A Photographic Memory (2024)
A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they leave behind.
poster
?
5.8
/28/

The In Between (2024)
Following the death of her brother, filmmaker Robie Flores returns to her hometown Eagle Pass on the Texas/Mexico border, wanting to turn back time. She collides with unruly experiences of adolescence – quinceañeras, Rio Grande river excursions, teen makeovers and beyond – that invite her to soak up the details of the home her brother adored and she ignored. What emerges is a playful dance between a personal and collective coming-of-age portrait of kids on the border and Robie herself as she rediscovers the possibilities of joy in the aftermath of grief.
poster
83
?
7.5
/52/
100
/1/
3.7
/293/

My Dear Theo (2025)
In a series of letters to her young son, a mother, soldier and filmmaker documents her thoughts from the Ukrainian frontline.
poster
?
7.3
/48/
10
/2/

Razing Liberty Square (2023)
Eight miles inland of Miami’s beaches, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land, sitting on a ridge, becomes real estate gold.
poster
Criterion Channel
?
80
/1/

The Script (2023)
A quiet, piercing and intelligent look at what it means to navigate the gender identity clinic.
poster
?
6.7
/23/
100
/1/

How to Have an American Baby (2023)
An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.
poster
Kanopy
61
?
7.2
/63/
68
/5/
35
/2/
3.5
/254/

PLAN C (2023)
A hidden grassroots organization doggedly fights to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v. Wade.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
?
7.4
/57/
75
/2/
3.6
/497/

Milisuthando (2024)
Set in past, present, and future South Africa — an invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging by the filmmaker, who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.
poster
GuideDoc
60
?
7.2
/93/
16
/3/
80
/1/
3.6
/280/

The Hamlet Syndrome (2022)
Five young Ukrainians discuss life following the Maidan Revolution of 2014. Not all fought in the Russian-Ukrainian war, but it, regardless, shattered their life plans. Representing 'Generation Maidan', they face the question of how to cope with experiences of violence, how to go on. A local theatre director produces Hamlet, wherein they can use Shakespeare’s tragic character as a mirror and face their traumas onstage. For them, 'to be or not to be' is not simply text but an existential dilemma with no clear answer.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
60
/1/

A High School Rape Goes Viral: Roll Red Roll (2019)
This film is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled “boys will be boys” culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America. Like many small towns across the country, Steubenville, nestled in a valley in eastern Ohio, lives and dies by its high school football team. So when a teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a pre-season football party in 2012, no one came forward with information. True-crime blogger Alex Goddard set out to uncover the truth, piecing together the details of the crime through cell phone footage and photos that made their way to YouTube, as well as a nearly minute-by-minute account of events on social media. In the process, she uncovered both the perpetrators and the entire culture of complicity that enabled them. The ensuing trial, which made national headlines, cut to the very heart of nationwide debates about rape culture.
poster
Netflix
?
7.8
/22/
15
/4/
10
/1/

For Our Children (2022)
FOR OUR CHILDREN unites maternal voices of resilience and solidarity in a poignant cinematic journey. Directed, produced and co-written by Débora Souza Silva, this emotional documentary chronicles the powerful convergence of two mothers, Reverend Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, whose lives were forever altered by the scourge of police brutality against their Black sons.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.2
/24/
30
/3/

An Act of Worship (2022)
An Act of Worship is Pakistani-American filmmaker Nausheen Dadabhoy’s lyrical portrait of the last 20 years of Muslim Life in America as told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States.
poster
68
?
7.2
/78/
63
/3/
60
/2/
3.5
/408/
73
/9/
cc age 13+

Mija (2022)
Doris Muñoz is a young, ambitious music manager whose undocumented family depends on her ability to launch pop stars. When she loses her biggest client, Doris hustles to discover new talent and finds Jacks, another daughter of immigrants for whom "making it" isn't just a dream: it's a necessity.
poster
?
8.4
/86/
75
/2/
20
/1/

Boycott (2021)
As a wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.


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