Movies

5 Broken Cameras(2011)

dir. Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi

Five cameras destroyed. Every one kept filming.

A Clockwork Orange(1971)

dir. Stanley Kubrick

State violence dressed up as your rehabilitation.

A Room with a View(1985)

dir. James Ivory

Choosing passion over propriety.

American Factory(2019)

dir. Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert

No villain speech. Just what actually happens.

An Inconvenient Truth(2006)

dir. Davis Guggenheim

The slideshow that made climate change unavoidable.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe(2023)

dir. Aitch Alberto

One summer, secrets neither boy knew he had.

Bacurau(2019)

dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles

A town disappears from the map. Then the hunt begins.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress(2002)

dir. Dai Sijie

Banned books, secret readings, and one crush.

Best in Show(2000)

dir. Christopher Guest

Dog show devotion, played entirely straight-faced.

Blackfish(2013)

dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite

What a captive orca's violence was telling us.

Blade Runner(1982)

dir. Ridley Scott

What makes one human when the answer keeps changing?

Bowling for Columbine(2002)

dir. Michael Moore

Fear, guns, and the culture that connects them.

Capernaum(2018)

dir. Nadine Labaki

A kid sues his parents for giving him this life.

Citizenfour(2014)

dir. Laura Poitras

Filmed in the room where the leak actually happened.

City of God(2002)

dir. Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund

Crime starts with having nowhere else to go.

Cry, the Beloved Country(1995)

dir. Darrell James Roodt

Two fathers, one tragedy, and an unlikely bond.

Disgrace(2008)

dir. Steve Jacobs

Reckoning with power, in a changing country.

Don't Look Up(2021)

dir. Adam McKay

A planet-killer comet, and nobody looks up.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964)

dir. Stanley Kubrick

Laughing so you don't scream, since 1964.

Earth(1998)

dir. Deepa Mehta

A child's-eye view of a nation splitting apart.

Even the Rain(2010)

dir. Icíar Bollaín

A Columbus movie collides with a real water revolt.

Everything is Illuminated(2005)

dir. Liev Schreiber

Digging up a family's buried history.

Fahrenheit 451(1966)

dir. François Truffaut

Burning books to keep everyone happy.

Funny Boy(2020)

dir. Deepa Mehta

Coming of age while a country comes apart.

Hail Satan?(2019)

dir. Penny Lane

Satirists using the First Amendment as a scalpel.

Half of a Yellow Sun(2013)

dir. Biyi Bandele

Twin sisters, one war, two impossible choices.

Harlan County, U.S.A.(1976)

dir. Barbara Kopple

Shot from inside the picket line, not above it.

He Named Me Malala(2015)

dir. Davis Guggenheim

Shot for speaking up. She spoke up again.

Icarus(2017)

dir. Bryan Fogel

A doping experiment turns into a defection story.

Idiocracy(2006)

dir. Mike Judge

Anti-intellectualism, played out five centuries ahead.

Indian Horse(2017)

dir. Stephen S. Campanelli

Hockey couldn't save him from what came before.

Is God Is(2026)

dir. Aleshea Harris

Two sisters. One mission from God: kill their father.

It Was Just an Accident(2025)

dir. Jafar Panahi

Is this the man who tortured him? He has to know.

Killers of the Flower Moon(2023)

dir. Martin Scorsese

Murder for money, disguised as marriage.

Last Exit to Brooklyn(1989)

dir. Uli Edel

The American Dream's discarded people.

Like Water for Chocolate(1992)

dir. Alfonso Arau

Forbidden love, served through food.

Love, Simon(2018)

dir. Greg Berlanti

Everyone deserves a great love story.

Malcolm X(1992)

dir. Spike Lee

One man, three names, one refusal to stay quiet.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom(2013)

dir. Justin Chadwick

27 years in prison. A lifetime of forgiveness.

Miss Representation(2011)

dir. Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Media's role in shrinking what power looks like.

Most Likely to Succeed(2015)

dir. Greg Whiteley

The best case for project-based learning, with caveats.

Network(1976)

dir. Sidney Lumet

An anchor's breakdown, monetized live on air.

Never Let Me Go(2010)

dir. Mark Romanek

Raised for a purpose they never chose.

Once Were Warriors(1994)

dir. Lee Tamahori

A warrior culture severed and how to reclaim it.

One Battle After Another(2025)

dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

A washed-up radical, his daughter, and old enemies.

Origin(2023)

dir. Ava DuVernay

Racism is the symptom. Caste is the disease.

Paris Is Burning(1990)

dir. Jennie Livingston

Found family and voguing, before the words existed.

Pedro Páramo(2024)

dir. Rodrigo Prieto

A ghost town where the dead won't stop talking.

Persepolis(2007)

dir. Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud

Her own memoir, animated — testimony, not reportage.

Picnic at Hanging Rock(1975)

dir. Peter Weir

The girls who vanished, and the silence that followed.

RBG(2018)

dir. Betsy West & Julie Cohen

A quiet dissenter who reshaped the law from within.

Red, White & Royal Blue(2023)

dir. Matthew López

A prince, a president's son, and one truce.

Roll Red Roll(2018)

dir. Nancy Schwartzman

A phone in every hand. A hand over every mouth.

Salt of the Earth(1954)

dir. Herbert J. Biberman

The labor film blacklisted filmmakers made anyway.

Silence(2016)

dir. Martin Scorsese

What does God's silence sound like?

Sorry to Bother You(2018)

dir. Boots Riley

A satire sharp enough to double as a labor argument.

The Act of Killing(2012)

dir. Joshua Oppenheimer

Killers reenact their crimes. Nothing is hidden.

The Battle of Algiers(1966)

dir. Gillo Pontecorvo

Studied by insurgents and the Pentagon alike.

The Corporation(2003)

dir. Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott

The 150-year rise of a legal 'person' with no soul.

The Death of Stalin(2017)

dir. Armando Iannucci

Succession played as the farce it basically was.

The End(2024)

dir. Joshua Oppenheimer

The last family on Earth won't face what they did.

The Family(2019)

dir. Jesse Moss

A secret Christian network, wielding real power.

The Importance of Being Earnest(2002)

dir. Oliver Parker

Two men, two lies, one name: Ernest.

The Look of Silence(2014)

dir. Joshua Oppenheimer

He asks the men who killed his brother to face it.

The Motorcycle Diaries(2004)

dir. Walter Salles

A road trip that radicalized a continent's conscience.

The Picture of Dorian Gray(1945)

dir. Albert Lewin

The portrait ages. He doesn't. His soul does.

The Secret Agent(2025)

dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho

Hiding in plain sight, under a watching state.

The Square(2013)

dir. Jehane Noujaim

Eighteen days in Tahrir Square, then the years after.

The Swallows of Kabul(2019)

dir. Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec

Love and hope, under Taliban rule.

The Tin Drum(1979)

dir. Volker Schlöndorff

A boy who refuses to grow up in a country that won't.

The True Cost(2015)

dir. Andrew Morgan

Who actually pays for a five-dollar shirt.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988)

dir. Philip Kaufman

Freedom, love, and the impossible weight of choosing.

The White Tiger(2021)

dir. Ramin Bahrani

The rooster coop only holds you if you believe in it.

This Is Spinal Tap(1984)

dir. Rob Reiner

The mockumentary that invented the entire genre.

To Live(1994)

dir. Zhang Yimou

Survival as its own kind of victory.

Turtles All the Way Down(2024)

dir. Hannah Marks

Living inside a mind that won't quiet down.

What We Do in the Shadows(2014)

dir. Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi

Immortal vampires, undone by chore wheels and rent.

Wild Wild Country(2018)

dir. Chapman Way & Maclain Way

No narrator. Just charisma curdling into control.

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom(2015)

dir. Evgeny Afineevsky

93 days that turned a protest into a revolution.

Won't You Be My Neighbor?(2018)

dir. Morgan Neville

Fred Rogers is already in our lineage. Now the film.

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin(2018)

dir. Arwen Curry

Le Guin explains her own ideas, in her own words.

Xala(1975)

dir. Ousmane Sembène

Impotent in more ways than one.