Documentaries in Watchlist

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France was not involved in any war.

Musicians, fans, and band members discuss the history and influence of Edmonton based metal band The Smalls, from their formation in Edmonton in 1989 to their break up in 2001 and subsequent reunion tour in 2014.

After 500 years of exploitation and repression, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of socialist leaders has come to power.Can they satisfy their peoples' hunger for change.

A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.

Made entirely of Scottish film archive, 'From Scotland With Love' is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role. Brilliantly edited together, these silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by King Creosote's poetic music and lyrics.

A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.

Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.

This is the story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish spy who infiltrated the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

This documentary series focuses on the events that occurred during World War II in Poland and will uncover tales of heroism and sacrifice from unsung heroes. Featuring interviews with experts and the few remaining eyewitnesses, along with access to newly-released documents, re-enactments and archival footage, we reveal the true and, until now, untold stories of Polish heroism during wartime.

David Huggins lost his virginity to an alien woman -among 100 other extra-terrestrial encounters -and chronicled it all in surreal paintings, few of which have ever been seen. Love & Saucers is his story.

Mark Cousins takes his imaginary companion Sergei Eisenstein on a walking tour of Mexico City.

Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.

A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.

Bill Evans Time Remembered is a 90-minute documentary film, produced by Bruce Spiegel which tells the story of Bill Evans' turbulent life and his contribution to jazz music.

Art, obsession and anxiety permeate a dilapidated Manhattan loft building in Mid-century: The first movie to use photographer W. Eugene Smith's massive, fly-on-the-wall archive of photos and audio tapes documenting the likes of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Giuffre, Hall Overton and others at work and play in the Sixth Avenue wreck that was Smith's home and studio from 1957 through the '60s.

A look at the cinematic art of the film musical score, and the artists who create them.

An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.

Director Jon Brewer profiles the life of the musician using private journals.