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poster
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7.8
/5806/
73
/191/
71
/88/
3.7
/5089/
79
/20/

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
poster
Paramount+ Amazon Channel
73
7.0
/4428/
69
/299/
68
/76/
3.6
/10260/
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
59
7.5
/1703/
75
/198/
71
/93/
3.7
/11343/
Popcorn
71

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
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
Amazon Prime Video
71
32
6.5
/232/
73
/16/
54
/14/
3.6
/621/
100
/13/
78
/2/
61
/6/

Call Her Ganda (2018)
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
21
5.9
/178/
62
/22/
65
/4/
3.3
/723/
78
/9/
80
/2/

Who Is Arthur Chu? (2017)
Documentary feature about 11-time Jeopardy! champion and Internet iconoclast, Arthur Chu.
poster
?
7.6
/12/
60
/1/

True North (2025)
Centers on the 1969 student protests against racism at Montreal’s Concordia University and their contribution to the story of Black liberation.
poster
?
100
/1/

Sarah Thankam Mathews: After All This (2024)
Following the success of her debut novel, All This Could Be Different, author Sarah Thankam Mathews embarks on her second novel, drawing from her adolescence between India and Oman. As Sarah excavates lost place and time, she must contend with the weight of truthful representation and the contradictions within her childhood memories.
poster
?
7.8
/26/

The Strike (2024)
A generation of California men endure decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launch a protest to regain their freedom.
poster
?
8.1
/12/

Mighty Penguins (2023)
Meet Special K, Peanut, Charlie, and the rest of The Brentford Penguins, a soccer team with a difference: all the young players have Down’s Syndrome. Mighty Penguins follows Coach Allan, the players, and their families as they prepare to be the guard of honor for a premiership match.
poster
Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel
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7.3
/51/
43
/3/
65
/2/

Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney (2023)
Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney explores the story of forced reproduction in the antebellum South and reveals the agency of Mary Gaffney, an enslaved woman who takes control of her body and fertility.
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
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6.4
/65/
63
/3/

Words from a Bear (2019)
A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history.
poster
?
7.9
/20/
80
/1/

Storming Caesars Palace (2022)
This inspiring documentary chronicles the extraordinary life of Ruby Duncan, an activist who fights the welfare system and becomes a White House advisor.
poster
Netflix
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7.8
/22/
17
/5/
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
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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
Kanopy
67
?
6.6
/56/
65
/2/
3.5
/249/

After Sherman (2022)
Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. The filmmaker follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.
poster
?
6.9
/53/
30
/3/

Hazing (2022)
Explores a variety of underground hazing rituals that are abusive and sometimes deadly. The journey to understand hazing culture reveals a world of toxic masculinity, violence, humiliation, binge drinking, denial, and institutional coverups.
poster
DOCSVILLE
74
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8.1
/131/
55
/4/
60
/1/
3.7
/459/
100
/15/

The Neutral Ground (2021)
With sharp humor and a critical sense of curiosity, comedian CJ Hunt documents the fraught removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans. As the scope of his film expands, Hunt investigates the origins of a romanticized Confederacy and confronts hard truths much of America has yet to face.
poster
?
7.8
/68/

A Place of Our Own (2004)
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson's look back at the 40 years he spent summering at Oak Bluffs, a black-oriented resort community on Martha's Vineyard.
poster
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6.9
/97/
73
/3/
81
/16/
cc age 13+

A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem (2019)
Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.
poster
71
?
7.4
/202/
69
/15/

Family Affair (2010)
Chico Colvard interviews family members 30 years after a dirty family secret is revealed. He finds out how his three sisters survived severe abuse at the hands of their father and how they cope as adults.
poster
?
8.0
/52/

Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2001)
Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant, who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history. It explores Garvey’s dramatic successes and failures before his fall into obscurity. Among the film’s most powerful sequences are interviews with people who were part of the Garvey movement decades ago. These interviews communicate the appeal of Garvey’s revolutionary ideas to a generation of African Americans, and reveal how he invested hundreds and thousands of black men and women with a newfound sense of pride.
poster
?

Waters of Puʻuloa (2025)
Chronicles the transformation of the ʻEwa District on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, and the waterways of Puʻuloa, now known as Pearl Harbor - from a vibrant estuary to a polluted industrial zone.
poster
?

Dear Aloha (2024)
Dear Aloha is a short documentary profiling Diasporic Hawaiians living thousands of miles away from home. Dear Aloha shows how aloha sustains our people amidst distance, loss, and longing.
poster
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Bulls and Saints (2023)
After 20 years of living in the United States, an undocumented family decides to return home. Little do they know it will be the most difficult journey of their lives. Set between the backdrop of the rodeo rings of North Carolina and the spellbinding Mexican hometown they long for, Bulls and Saints is a love story of reverse migration, rebellion, and redemption.
poster
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Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance (2020)
Exploration of how the reality and resistance of Native Americans inspires the work of Pawnee artist Bunky Echo-Hawk, igniting discussions about environmentalism and Native American rights, among other topics.


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