Notable Films for Adults
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| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Missing in Brooks County
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| Mr.Soul!
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| Orchestrating Change
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| Sisters Rising
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| Stray
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| Alice Street
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| The Reason I Jump
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| Belly of the Beast
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| Colectiv (Collective)
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| How It Feels To Be Free
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) | |
| The Donut King
2022 - Winner(s) |
2022 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| For Sama
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| Honeyland
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| John Lewis: Good Trouble
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| N. Scott Momaday: Words From A Bear
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| Beyond the Bolex
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| Who Will Write Our History
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| Buddy
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| Feels Good Man
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| Float
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| Grit
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) | |
| Creem: America’s Only Rock N Roll Magazine
2021 - Winner(s) |
2021 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Roll Red Roll
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Always In Season
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| The River and the Wall
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Crime + Punishment
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| They Shall Not Grow Old
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Dawnland: A Documentary about Cultural Survival and Stolen Children
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Hail Satan?
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Untouchable
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| It Must Schwing!
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Kusama Infinity
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Maiden
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Personal Statement
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) | |
| Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins
2020 - Winner(s) |
2020 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Finding Kukan
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| Hale County This Morning, This Evening.
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| Jackson
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes and Feeling
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| McQueen
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| My Love Affair With the Brain
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| Quest
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| After Auschwitz
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| RBG
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| Deej
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| Rebels on Pointe
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| The Departure
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| Rumble: The Indians That Rocked the World
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| Dolores
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) | |
| Won’t You Be My Neighbor
2019 - Winner(s) |
2019 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| The Pearl Button
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Political Animals
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| David Lynch: The Art Life
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| The Talk: Race in America
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Dawson City Frozen Time
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Tower
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Gleason
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Whose Streets?
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| I Am Not Your Negro
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Dewey the Cat’s Favorite: Kedi
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| I Called Him Morgan
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Heaven is a Traffic Jam
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| The Pearl Button
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Last Man in Aleppo
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Last Man in Aleppo
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Newtown
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
| Abacus, Small Enough to Jail
2018 - Winner(s) |
2018 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| How to Change the World
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| Last Day of Freedom
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| Matt Shepard Is A Friend of Mine
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| OJ: Made in America
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| Sembene!
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| Under the Sun
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| 3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| Welcome to Leith
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| What Happened, Miss Simone?
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare)
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| The First Monday in May
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| Long Story Short
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
| Heart of a Dog
2017 - Winner(s) |
2017 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Punk Singer
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Salt of the Earth
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Alive Inside
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| The Square
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Call Me Lucky
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Watchers of the Sky
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| E-Team
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Web: Connecting Is Just the Beginning
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Freedom Summer
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Whole Gritty City
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| God Loves Uganda
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Great Invisible
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| India’s Daughter
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Kill Team
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) | |
| Missing Picture
2016 - Winner(s) |
2016 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Five Broken Cameras
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Gideon’s Army
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Harvest of Empire
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Inequality for All
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Internet’s Own Boy
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Let the Fire Burn
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Los Angeles Plays Itself
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| The Act of Killing
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| After Tiller
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Particle Fever
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Anita: Speaking Truth to Power
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Who is Dayani Cristal?
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Dirty Wars
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) | |
| Los Angeles Plays Itself
2015 - Selection(s) |
2015 - Selection(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Jiro Dreams of Sushi
2014 - Selection(s) An aging sushi chef demonstrates that mastery comes from lifelong dedication to improving one's craft. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| Kumare
2014 - Selection(s) By posing as a guru, the filmmaker explores the common longing for spiritual guidance. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| Leviathan
2014 - Selection(s) An Immersive experience using experimental techniques to explore the lives of commercial fisherman. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry
2014 - Selection(s) Profiles Chinese dissident artist Ai WeiWei and his mission to draw attention to political oppression in China. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| A Place at the Table
2014 - Selection(s) An exploration of America’s food insecurity and its negative impact on the nation’s most vulnerable |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| Brooklyn Castle
2014 - Selection(s) Public school kids and educators overcome economic challenges to compete in national chess championships. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| Project Nim
2014 - Selection(s) A chimpanzee is raised as a human, taught sign language, and later abandoned by those he trusted. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| The Central Park Five
2014 - Selection(s) An indictment of the press and the criminal justice system's mishandling of the Central Park jogger case from the perspective of the five young men... |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| Soul Food Junkies
2014 - Selection(s) A film that celebrates the soul food tradition while advocating for modifications to minimize its negative health effects on the community. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| The Gatekeepers
2014 - Selection(s) A glimpse into machinations of Israel's counterterrorism operations through unprecedented interviews with six former leaders of Shin Bet. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| Where Heaven Meets Hell
2014 - Selection(s) Beautifully crafted film that reveals the difficult lives of sulfur miners in east Java. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| The House I live in
2014 - Selection(s) Lays bare the social consequences of America's failed war on drugs. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| How to Survive a Plague
2014 - Selection(s) Members of ACT UP fight to provide lifesaving drugs to their community and raise awareness during the outbreak of HIV/AIDS. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| The Imposter
2014 - Selection(s) Well executed high-tension thriller about a trickster who manipulates his way into a family grieving for their missing child. |
2014 - Selection(s) | |
| Invisible War
2014 - Selection(s) An expose about sexual assault in the military and the system that perpetuates it. |
2014 - Selection(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Into Eternity
2013 - Selection(s) High-level radioactive waste will be stored underground in Finland for millennia. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| Where Soldiers Come From
2013 - Selection(s) High school graduates travel full circle from their small town in Michigan, to serving in Afghanistan, to their homecoming as changed men and war veterans. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| The Light in Her Eyes
2013 - Selection(s) In Syria, a female Muslim preacher mentors young women on the teachings of Islam. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| How Does It Feel
2013 - Selection(s) man reveals his life with cerebral palsy through his singing. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| The Loving Story
2013 - Selection(s) An interracial couple fight a landmark case against miscegenation laws in segregated Virginia. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| Pink Ribbons, Inc.
2013 - Selection(s) The commercialization of pink ribbons influences how we think about breast cancer. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
2013 - Selection(s) Examines the contributing factors which led to the demise of one of America’s largest public housing projects. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| Scenes of a Crime
2013 - Selection(s) Aggressive and manipulative interrogation may have led to a false confession. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| Scenes of a Crime
2013 - Selection(s) Aggressive and manipulative interrogation may have led to a false confession. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| Benda Bilili! [look beyond appearances]
2013 - Selection(s) Despite severe disabilities, a group of musicians from Kinshasa go from playing on the streets to international stages. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| Semper Fi: Always Faithful
2013 - Selection(s) An expose about the contaminated water at Camp Lejeune and how it affected former Marines and their families. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| Girl Model
2013 - Selection(s) Cinema vérité look at the link between young Russian girls and the Japanese modeling industry |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| Sing Your Song
2013 - Selection(s) A biography of Harry Belafonte focuses on his contributions to the civil rights movement and beyond. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| How Does It Feel
2013 - Selection(s) man reveals his life with cerebral palsy through his singing. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| You’ve Been Trumped
2013 - Selection(s) A Donald Trump real estate venture threatens the Scottish countryside and homes of its residents. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| Inocente
2013 - Selection(s) A homeless teenager is uplifted by her art. |
2013 - Selection(s) | |
| We Were Here: The AIDS Years in San Francisco
2013 - Selection(s) The San Francisco gay community recounts the early 1980s and the AIDS epidemic. |
2013 - Selection(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| A Small Act
2012 - Selection(s) The small gift from a Swedish schoolteacher has a life-long impact on a young Kenyan boy. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Catfish
2012 - Selection(s) Online woman of your dreams may not be what she appears. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Better This World
2012 - Selection(s) Follows the lives of two political protesters accused of domestic terrorism during the 2008 Republican National Convention. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Neshoba: the price of freedom
2012 - Selection(s) Chronicles the long-awaited trial of Edgar Ray Killen and the slow healing process in the 1964 murder of three Civil Rights activists. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Bonecrusher
2012 - Selection(s) An Appalachian coal miner follows in his father’s footsteps. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| The Labyrinth: The testimony of Marian Kolodziej
2012 - Selection(s) Nearly fifty years after his internment in Auschwitz, Mariam Kolodziej crafts a series of haunting art. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| A Film Unfinished
2012 - Selection(s) Recently discovered footage sheds a new light on Nazi propaganda |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| The Flaw
2012 - Selection(s) Traces how a major “flaw” in Greenspan’s economic philosophy lead to the 2008 economic meltdown. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Freedom Riders
2012 - Selection(s) A group of white and black Civil Rights activists who traveled by bus together to challenge the segregated south through non-violent tactics. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Iraq: War, Love, God and Madness
2012 - Selection(s) Iraqi filmmaker tries to create the first feature film made in his homeland in years. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Mugabe and the White African
2012 - Selection(s) A family of African farmers confront the Mugabe regime. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Jaffa: the orange's clockwork
2012 - Selection(s) Explores the history of Palestinians and Israelis using the symbol of the orange. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Battle for Brooklyn
2012 - Selection(s) Chronicles the fight against the Atlantic Yards Project which attempted to displace local residents for new development. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| The Price of Sex
2012 - Selection(s) Eastern European women are drawn into sex trafficking and abused. |
2012 - Selection(s) | |
| Hot Coffee
2012 - Selection(s) A notorious cup of spilt coffee is pivotal to tort reform laws. |
2012 - Selection(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Operation Filmmaker
2010 - Selection(s) www.homevideo.icarusfilms.com. When a Hollywood film production invites an Iraqi film student to the set the documentary filmmaker observing the event becomes personally involved... |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| Sita Sings the Blues
2010 - Selection(s) A colorfully animated musical tells of the turbulent love life of a Hindu goddess named Sita, whose story shares similarities with that of a modern... |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
2010 - Selection(s) Seven-part series exploring the relationship between class, race, and health in the Unites States. www.newsreel.org |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| Malls R Us
2010 - Selection(s) A contemplative exploration of malls and their cultural significance; includes commentary from architects, shoppers, friends and foes. |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| Lake of Fire
2010 - Selection(s) A probing look at the subject of abortion where equal time is given to all sides of the debate. www.image-entertainment.com |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| American Outrage
2010 - Selection(s) Documents the Shoshone Nation and Dann Sisters 40 year fight against the U.S Bureau of Land Management and mining interests for land rights in Nevada. |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| In Search of Memory
2010 - Selection(s) A co-biography of Nobel prizewinner Eric Kandel and his study of the science of memory. www.icarusfilms.com |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| Trouble the Waters
2010 - Selection(s) A harrowing but uplifting perspective of Hurricane Katrina through the eyes of a young Ninth Ward New Orleans couple. www.zeitgeistfilms.com |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| Who Does She Think She Is?
2010 - Selection(s) A telling portrait of 5 talented women artists who refuse to choose between creativity and family responsibility, self-expression and mothering. www.emergingpictures.com |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| At the Death House Door
2010 - Selection(s) The case of inmate Carlos De Luna causes longtime death penalty supporter Carroll Pickett, a minister who accompanied De Luna and many others to their... |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| Flow: For the Love of Water
2010 - Selection(s) Documentary investigation into the world's water crisis, including the privatization of the fresh water supply. |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| I.O.U.S.A.
2010 - Selection(s) Two concerned citizens explore how the United States got itself into such staggering debt and how to stem the tide of mounting debt. www.pbs.org |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| The World According to Monsanto
2010 - Selection(s) Monsanto Corporation's domination of the world's agricultural industry. www.nfb.ca |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| Waltz with Bashir
2010 - Selection(s) An Israeli soldier explores his memory of the 1982 Lebanese War using a combination of animation and narrative. |
2010 - Selection(s) | |
| Walk to Beautiful
2010 - Selection(s) Five Ethiopian women reclaim their lives when they are treated at the Addis Abba Fistula Hospital. http://www.walktobeautiful.com |
2010 - Selection(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Cats of Mirikitani
2009 - Selection(s) Arts Alliance America |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| War Dance
2009 - Selection(s) THINKfilm |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| Deep Water
2009 - Selection(s) IFC Films |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
2009 - Selection(s) Zeitgest Films |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| Fat Chance
2009 - Selection(s) Icarus Films |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| How I Am
2009 - Selection(s) Fanlight Productions |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| Miss Navajo
2009 - Selection(s) The Cinema Guild (with PPR) |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| No End in Sight
2009 - Selection(s) Magnolia Home Entertainment |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| The Order of Myths
2009 - Selection(s) The Cinema Guild (with PPR) |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| Price of Sugar
2009 - Selection(s) New Yorker Films |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| Sharkwater
2009 - Selection(s) Warner Home Videos |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| Steal a Pencil for Me
2009 - Selection(s) Westlake Entertainment |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| The Business of Being Born
2009 - Selection(s) Arts Alliance America. |
2009 - Selection(s) | |
| To See If I'm Smiling
2009 - Selection(s) Women Make Movies |
2009 - Selection(s) |
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