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Kanopy
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60
8.4
/4385/
73
/24/
72
/31/
3.7
/952/
89
/27/
83
/31/
75
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The Clay Bird (2002)
A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
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Netflix
75
39
7.4
/837/
74
/86/
62
/10/
3.7
/2658/
100
/10/
71
/3/
cc age 15+

Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (2024)
This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in America. The film combines rare archival materials, stand-up performances, and interviews with a show-stopping lineup to present a definitive history of queer comedy.
poster
57
19
5.5
/1551/
52
/12/
60
/15/
3.1
/621/

Berlin in Berlin (1993)
A young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally kills the husband.
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60
9
6.7
/295/
50
/6/
54
/12/
3.5
/295/

Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
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?
9.5
/34/

The Oath of Cyriac (2021)
As war rages around them, a small group of archaeologists, museum curators and attendants struggle to save the monumental collections of the Museum of Aleppo during the Syrian conflict.
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?
7.3
/21/
60
/1/

Black & Gold (2001)
In 1994, the Latin Kings became the Latin King and Queen Nation. They claimed to have abandoned their criminal past and to be following in the footsteps of the Black Panthers and the Young Lords.
poster
55
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5.7
/331/
50
/3/
60
/2/
53
/11/

ABCD (1999)
The only goal of an ageing Indian-American widow is to see her son and rebellious daughter (described as an American Born Confused Desi or ABCD) married off to respectable Indian families.
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The Roku Channel
84
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7.7
/49/
100
/1/
3.6
/399/
88
/8/

Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts (2025)
A couple in a long-distance relationship reunite for a road trip through Sri Lanka. Things go awry.
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Amazon Prime Video
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6.2
/25/
10
/1/

Raja 420 (2024)
Raja, a hard-working immigrant from India, has just started a new job working as a driver for his distant uncle Nish's transportation company. It's his first day and things turn for the worse when he finds out his client is not an "ordinary" client. Raja, who has seen rough days in life, will have to take help from a stranger named 420 to survive this crazy night.
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?
7.0
/9/

A Clown's Recovery (2013)
Jelly Boy The Clown, a world-renowned side show performer conquered all the obstacles in a miraculous recovery as a burn survivor and as an uninsured American. Follow his experience from being trapped in an apartment fire in New York City and his battle to return to the stage as a circus sideshow performer.
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10
/1/

Distress Signals (1991)
American television programming dominates around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.
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?
6.9
/87/
40
/1/
58
/4/

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation (2005)
It was a time when a generation rebelled and lost its innocence. From the Vietnam War to the struggle for racial equality to the birth of a counter-culture explosion, the 1960s was a decade of change, experimentation and hope that transformed an entire nation. The two-hour documentary features revealing interviews with the prominent figures of the era including: Barbara Ehrenreich, Daniel Ellsberg, Jesse Jackson, Tom Hayden, Arlo Guthrie, Henry Kissinger, Norman Mailer, Robert McNamara, Ed Meese III and Bobby Seale. Also released as a one-hour documentary called "1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation."
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51
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7.2
/63/
10
/2/
3.6
/318/

Dipped in Black (2023)
A multi disciplinary film and photographic art project created by Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch and Australian artist Matthew Thorne that explores (in dream and memory) Derik's childhood growing up in the heart of central Australia. The story follows his road trip from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide back to country - Aputula - to perform Drag on sacred Inma ground, while memories from his youth return. Inma is a 60,000+ year old form of storytelling using the visual, verbal and physical. As a place of storytelling it is also the place where the history and stories of the past are written and shared in the present.
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Kanopy
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6.3
/26/
30
/3/
10
/1/

Senses of Cinema (2022)
As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.
poster
?
7.0
/28/
40
/2/
26
/3/

Paradise Bent: Boys Will Be Girls in Samoa (1999)
An exploration of the Samoan faafafine, boys who are raised as girls, who fulfill a traditional role in Samoan culture. In the past they have shared women's traditional work but today are becoming more westernized and look more like drag queens. Several anthropologists comment on the phenomenon examining issues of culture and gender and the complexities of sexual identity.
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The Roku Channel
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8.1
/32/

Crushed Wings (2022)
Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is mutilated by an unqualified cutter, who completes the cultural FGM-ritual that ensures she will one day be taken as a wife. The child, once old enough, goes on to be forcibly married and moved away from her family to the England. Eventually, Ria seeks help in escaping the life she is trapped in, but the life of her two younger sisters hang in the balance. Can she change her elders' minds and prevent them from being led down the same path? Or will they become three more of 200 million women across the globe whose wings have been crushed by FGM?
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Amazon Prime Video
58
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6.4
/225/
51
/21/
54
/9/
3.4
/377/
55
/4/

The Other Fellow (2023)
Meet a diverse group of men, real men across the globe all sharing the same name: James Bond. Australian director Matthew Bauer's energetic exploration of masculine identity features a gay New York theatre director, a Swedish 007 super-fan with a Nazi past, an African American Bond accused of murder, the ornithologist whose name was stolen by author Ian Fleming to name his fictional secret agent, and two resilient women caught up in it all.
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?
3.8
/94/
72
/7/

Alien Artifacts: The Lost World (2019)
The shocking existence and unexplained origins of artefacts that are so technologically advanced they have mystified scientists and researchers for decades as they defy comprehension and contradict all we have been told about the ancient world.
poster
51
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7.1
/69/
10
/1/
3.6
/394/

Bontoc Eulogy (1995)
Marlon E. Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy is a haunting, personal exploration into the filmmaker's complex relationship with his Filipino heritage as explored through the almost unbelievable story of the 1,100 Filipino tribal natives brought to the U.S. to be a "living exhibit" at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. For those who associate the famous fair with Judy Garland, clanging trolleys, and creampuff victoriana, Bontoc Eulogy offers a disturbing look at the cultural arrogance that went hand-in-hand with the Fair's glorification of progress. The Fair was the site of the world's largest ever "ethnological display rack," in which hundreds of so-called primitive and savage men and women from all over the globe were exhibited in contrast to the achievements of Western civilization.
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6.6
/24/
20
/1/
50
/1/

Amerasians (1998)
On the lives of the children of Vietnamese mothers and American soldiers, who have been allowed to emigrate to the U.S. since 1988.
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?
7.8
/59/
20
/1/
60
/3/

Banaue: Stairway to the Sky (1975)
Amidst the background of the rice terraces, the story of an Igorota and daughter of a chieftain is told as she underwent trials to keep another tribe from conquering her own.
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10
/1/

The Mystery of El Rocio (1995)
The pilgrimage of Rocio forms a focal point of the worship of the Holy Mary and at the same time is a tremendous mirror-reflection showing the life and vivacity of the Andalusians in a strange spectacle incorporating all social levels.
poster
57
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6.3
/312/
55
/5/
43
/3/
3.5
/386/

Cosmic Slop (1994)
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world's minorities: Part I: A conservative African American politician must choose between his people's survival and appeasing his white colleagues when space aliens propose to share their profound knowledge in exchange for all black people on earth. Part II: The Virgin Mary's appearance in an inner-city housing project forces a Hispanic priest to face the hidden cultural origins of Western religion. Part III: On the dawn of the "Black Revolution," an African American couple discovers who the "real" enemy is.
poster
66
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6.6
/260/
60
/4/
70
/6/
3.7
/340/
63
/8/
67
/5/
62
/10/

Cuba Feliz (2002)
This documentary follows 76-year-old nomadic musician Miguel Del Morales during his travels throughout Cuba, Guantanamo and Trinidad. Amid his journey, he meets up with some long-lost friends and makes brand-new ones. This engaging film was shot with just one hand-held camera and was a Director's Fortnight feature at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. French filmmaker Karim Dridi directs and co-writes.
poster
?
6.8
/32/
20
/1/
52
/2/

Land of the Singing Dog (2002)
Japanese Yann Dedet's Land of the Singing Dog concerns a musicologist, Toyo Mahiru (Gen Shimaoka), and his wife, Yoshiko (Katsuo Nakamura), who travel to a remote French village because Toyo has heard there is a citizen of the village that owns a singing dog. As the childless pair humorously adjust to their new surroundings, they soon spend more time concentrating on conceiving than in searching for the talented canine. The subdued, reflective Land of the Singing Dog was screened as part of the Director's Fortnight at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
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6.6
/7/
67
/4/
90
/2/

Shadows of Light (2020)
Shadows of Light combines the loud and soft tones of life. The centerpiece is an Austrian mountain pasture where the summer solstice is celebrated with international artists and where tradition and zeitgeist are not contradictory.
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Kanopy
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7.5
/35/
10
/2/

Maralinga Tjarutja (2020)
The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
poster
?
7.3
/32/
5
/2/
63
/3/

Dress Rehearsal (1980)
An exhilarating, essayistic documentary about the 1980 festival of experimental theatre in the French city of Nancy. Werner Schroeter's favourite of his own films.
poster
The Roku Channel
65
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7.3
/138/
73
/3/
60
/2/
69
/13/
65
/6/
53
/7/

Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010)
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of Jewish Americans to the most American sport of them all: baseball. Highlights include a rare interview with legendary pitcher Sandy Koufax.
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Treasure of the Rice Terraces (2025)
Filipino Canadian filmmaker Kent Donguines travels back to the Philippines to reconnect with his roots. In a nation with over 134,000 years of history and centuries of colonization — under Spanish, American, and Japanese rule — Donguines notes a shared feeling of weakened traditional identity among many Filipinos he knows and meets. A vital part of their heritage, the centuries-old practice of tattooing, was banned by colonizers and even shunned by Filipinos. Donguines travels to Buscalan, a secluded mountain community, to discover more about the revival of Indigenous Kalinga tattoos. Guided by 107-year-old master artist Apo Whang-od, Donguines learns the deep history and symbolism behind the tattoos. The revival of this Indigenous body art tradition offers a powerful way to preserve culture, spark pride, and strengthen identity, and Treasure of the Rice Terraces shows how traditions can survive, evolve, and inspire both local communities and cultural identity worldwide.
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A Piece of the Rock
The tiny island of Bermuda. A paradise on earth. Plagued by a deadly, unspoken epidemic on its roads.
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In the Heat of the Cold Years (2022)
In Havana in the nineteen sixties, there were 140 movie theaters. Only a dozen remain today. For ten years, the cinema industry was a pillar of the Cuban Revolution, but the regime’s hardening and the economic recession precipitated its decline. Fifty years later, only a dozen movie theaters are still running in Havana, while a new generation of bold filmmakers struggles for the very existence of Cuban cinema. In the Heat of the Cold Years tells the story of Revolutionary Cuban cinema through the memories of a choral of elder filmmakers, such as Luciano Castillo, the director of the national film archives, as he scrambles for the preservation of this crumbling cultural legacy, and through a group of young Cuban filmmakers struggling to make their first feature film.
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Round Up (2010)
This short film traces Pete Standing Alone's personal journey from cultural alienation to pride and belonging. As a spiritual elder, teacher and community leader of the Blood Indians of Southern Alberta, Pete works with youth to repair the cultural and spiritual destruction wrought by residential schools. At age 81, he has come full-circle in his dedication to preserving the traditional ways of his people.
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Hummus & Chips (2021)
A cultural encounter between a British lady and her Arab neighbour during lockdown.
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D.T.R. (2021)
A couple navigates their cross-cultural relationship.
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Tales of Sand and Snow (2004)
In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal band, the Atikamekw of northern Quebec. The resulting documentary is a dialogue between those who divine the future in the sand with those who use snow-encased sweat lodges to reconnect with the spiritual world.


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