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- [Vysotskiĭ concert]. A voice from Russia : the world of Vysotsky
- 12 years a slave
- A Duke named Ellington
- A Mulatto song
- A Portrait of Elie Wiesel : in the shadow of flames
- A Shamanic medium of Tugaru
- A Woman called Moses
- A beautiful mind
- A bigger splash
- A brief history of time
- A constant forge
- A finished life : the goodbye and no regrets tour
- A litany for survival : the life and work of Audre Lorde
- A man for all seasons
- A midwife's tale
- A poet in New York
- A portrait of Katherine Mansfield, a woman and writer
- A song to remember
- A time there was ... : a profile of Benjamin Britten
- A transsexual journey : Katherine Elizabeth Cohen
- A woman like that
- A woman like that : Artemisia
- A. Einstein
- A. Philip Randolph : for jobs & freedom
- A. Philip Randolph : for jobs & freedom
- Aby Warburg : metamorphosis and memory
- Addiction Incorporated
- Adrienne Rich
- Adventures in the gender trade
- African art and women artists
- African leaders : une vie, un combat, une œuvre, Frantz Fanon
- After Tiller
- Ai Weiwei : The fake case
- Aimé Césaire : a voice for history = une voix pour l'histoire
- Alan Bush : a life
- Alberta Hunter : my castle's rockin'
- Alcaldessa
- Alexander
- Alfred Brendel in portrait
- All about Ann : Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
- All about Bette
- All that jazz
- All the way
- American fabulous : a portrait of Jeffrey Strouth
- American revolutionary : the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
- American splendor
- American splendor
- Among good Christian peoples
- An angel at my table : a trilogy
- Andrei Serban at work
- Andres Serrano
- Andreĭ Rubli︠o︡v : strasti po Andrei︠u︡
- Andy Warhol
- Anita : speaking truth to power
- Anita, Tänze des Lasters : Anita, dances of vice
- Anna Boleyn
- Anna Sokolow, choreographer
- Anna and Vincent
- Anne Frank remembered
- Anton Chekhov : : a writer's life
- Apparition : Elegiac songs and vocalises
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Artemisia
- As I remember it : a portrait of Dorothy West
- Audubon
- Augustine : Late have I loved thee
- Ava Zifferblatt
- Baby Peggy : The Elephant in the Room
- Badass beauty queen : the story of Anastasia Lin
- Bananas!*
- Barry Harris : the spirit of bebop
- Bayou Maharajah
- Beautiful boxer
- Beethoven lives upstairs
- Beethoven's nephew
- Before night falls
- Behind the Brush, Series 2, Episode 6, Te Tai Rawhiti
- Behind the brush, Series 1, Episode 1
- Behind the brush, Series 1, Episode 2
- Behind the brush, Series 1, Episode 3
- Behind the brush, Series 1, Episode 4
- Behind the brush, Series 1, Episode 5
- Behind the brush, Series 1, Episode 6
- Behind the brush, Series 1, Episode 7
- Behind the brush, Series 2, Episode 1, Te Tai Tokerau
- Behind the brush, Series 2, Episode 2, Politicians
- Behind the brush, Series 2, Episode 3, Waimarama
- Behind the brush, Series 2, Episode 4, Hauraki
- Behind the brush, Series 2, Episode 5, Private collections
- Behind the brush, Series 2, Episode 7, Whanganui
- Being with John F. Kennedy
- Belle
- Belle
- Ben Nicholson : 1894-1982
- Ben Webster : the brute and the beautiful
- Benazir Bhutto
- Benjamin E. Mays : a four part series
- Benjamin Mays
- Bertolt Brecht
- Bertolt Brecht's Galileo
- Betsy Kalau
- Bhutto : democracy was her greatest revenge
- Bill Evans : time remembered
- Bill Robinson : Mr. Bojangles
- Bill T. Jones : Still/Here
- Bill W.
- Bird
- Bird by bird with Annie
- BlacKkKlansman
- Black like me
- Bobby
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Bonhoeffer
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Bookmark, Daughters of de Beauvoir
- Books of James
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Born to film
- Boys Town
- Boys don't cry
- Break of dawn
- Breath made visible
- Bright leaves
- Bright star
- Broken noses
- Brother outsider : the life of Bayard Rustin
- Brother sun, sister moon
- Buffalo Bill
- Burroughs
- Buster Keaton : a hard act to follow
- Bụ̣i đời : life like dust
- Caligula
- Camila
- Camille Claudel
- Capote
- Captured on film : the true story of Marion Davies
- Caravaggio
- Carlo Scarpa
- Catch me if you can
- Cervantes : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Cesar Chavez
- Charles Pathé
- Chasing portraits
- Child of the dark : from the diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
- Children of Srikandi
- Children of the light
- Chocolat
- Choreographer James Clouser dances to his own music, 1965
- Christiane F.
- Claudio Abbado : the silence that follows the music
- Claudio Arrau, the Emperor
- Clouds of glory-- William and Dorothy : the love story of the poet Wordsworth and his sister
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
- Coco avant Chanel
- Coming through
- Constantine and the cross
- Contrasts : the spectacle of light, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-1797
- Conversations with Roy DeCarava
- Copenhagen
- Cornelius Cardew : 1936-1981
- Corpus : a home movie for Selena
- Counting from infinity : Yitang Zhang and the twin prime conjecture
- Crumb
- Cry freedom
- Cuéntame de Bia
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Dancing for Mr. B : six Balanchine ballerinas
- Dancing in the sky
- Dangal : Daṅgala
- Daniel K. Inouye : an American story
- Daniel Reeves video retrospective, Vol. 1
- Danton
- Daughters of de Beauvoir
- Daughters of the New Republic : Harriet Tubman and Sarah Bradford
- David Hockney : a bigger picture
- Deej
- Deep blues
- Denishawn : the contributions of American dance pioneers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
- Denishawn dances on!
- Design is one : Lella & Massimo Vignelli
- Detour ahead : an afternoon with Herb Ellis
- Detstvo Gorʹkogo
- Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky : The Skladanowsky brothers
- Dignity and defiance : a portrait of Mary Church Terrell
- Directed by John Ford
- Disraeli
- Dmitry Shostakovich : a man of many faces
- Dolores
- Don't look back : the story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
- Doon School Chronicles, Part 1
- Doon School Project, 4, The New Boys
- Doon School Project, 5, The Age of Reason
- Dorothea Lange : a visual life
- Downfall
- Dr. Rudolph Haas
- Dragon : the Bruce Lee story
- Drawing the line : a portrait of Keith Haring
- Dread beat and blood
- Dreaming rivers
- Dressing up for the carnival : a portrait of Carol Shields
- Dziga and his brothers
- Ed Wood
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Abbey : a voice in the wilderness/
- Eielson des-nudo
- Eight films by Jean Rouch
- Eine Kleine Mitternachmusik for amplified piano based on Thelonioius Monk 'Round Midnight'
- El Balcon Abierto
- El Cid
- El Dorado
- El General
- El abrazo de la serpiente
- Eleni
- Elizabeth
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn : the rebel girl
- Elizabeth Maconchy
- Elizabeth at 90 : a family tribute
- Elvis '56
- Elvis, the great performances
- Emil Landau
- Erin Brockovich
- Ernesto Che Guevara : le journal de Bolivie
- Erosu + purasu gyakusatsu : Yoshida Yoshishige kantoku sakuhin
- Etgar Keret : what animal are you?
- Eugene Atget : photographer
- Evelyn Fox Keller : science and gender
- Every little step
- Everything is photograph : profile of Andre Kertesz
- Evita : the woman behind the myth
- Expanding pictures, The link
- Extraordinary women, 10, Amelia Earhart
- Extraordinary women, 2, Coco Chanel
- Extraordinary women, 3, Wallis Simpson
- Extraordinary women, 5, Audrey Hepburn
- Extraordinary women, 6, Grace Kelly
- Extraordinary women, 7, Martha Gelhorn
- Extraordinary women, 9, Indira Ghandi
- Extraordinary women, Season 1, Episode 12, Ruth Westheimer
- Extraordinary women, Season 1, Episode 13, Maria Montessori
- Extraordinary women, Season 1, Episode 8, Hedy Lamarr
- Eye on the sixties : the iconic photography of Rowland Scherman
- FDR
- Faith Ringgold : the last story quilt
- Fantaisies
- Far end of the Garden : a profile of choreographer Jonathan Burrows
- Fast, cheap & out of control
- Fear strikes out
- Federico Fellini : sono un gran bugiardo = I'm a big liar
- Federico García Lorca : a murder in Granada
- Felix Austria!
- Fidel
- Film Adventurer Karel Zeman
- Film stars don't die in Liverpool
- Filmmakers on film : pioneers of the cinema, 1896 to the present, 10, Reel women
- Finding Vivian Maier
- Fiore : in love with clay
- First impressions ; Eyewitness of war
- Five women painters : not nailed down, Winifred Nicholson
- Flying high : the Nicholas Brothers
- Flávio Rangel : o teatro na palma da mão
- For No Good Reason
- Forbidden passion : Oscar Wilde, the movie /ca Consolidated production in association with BBC Television ; producer, Carol Robertson ; directed by Henry Herbert
- Frances
- Francesco, giullare di Dio : The flowers of St. Francis
- Frantz Fanon : une vie, un combat, une œuvre
- Frederick Douglass : when the lion wrote history
- Free Angela, and all political prisoners
- Free solo
- Frida
- Frida : naturaleza vida
- Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
- Frida Kahlo (1910-1954)
- Frida Kahlo, portrait of a woman
- Fritzi, from Mundus canis
- Frog dance : solos and indulgences '80-'84 : Lol Coxhill
- From zero
- From zero : the documentary
- Frost/Nixon
- Fruitvale Station
- Gabriel García Márquez : the witch writing
- Gabriela Mistral : poema de Chile
- Gainsbourg : vie héroïque
- Gandhi
- George Crumb : Bad dog!
- George Méliès, cinema magician
- George Tice : seeing beyond the moment
- Gerald Vizenor
- Gerda Haas
- Gerhard Richter painting
- Girl model
- Girl, interrupted
- Give us this day
- Glenn Gould : a portrait
- Glenn Gould : au delà du temps
- Going where I've never been : photography of Diane Arbus
- Good night, and good luck
- Grace Kelly : destiny of a princess
- Graham Sutherland
- Grey Gardens
- Grey Gardens
- Grierson
- Gypsy heart
- Half slave, half free
- Hank Aaron : chasing the dream
- Happy
- Happy birthday, Mrs. Craig
- Harold Clurman : a life of theatre
- Harriet
- Harry Blumenthal
- Harry Partch : Enclosure one
- Hawaii's last queen
- Heart beat
- Heaven & earth
- Held in trust : the story of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper
- Hidden figures
- High energy : physicist Melissa Franklin
- High heels and ground glass
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : from Wellesley to the White House
- Hillary, Episode 1, Standing tall
- Hillary, Episode 2, Louise
- Hillary, Episode 3, Everest
- Hillary, Episode 4, Home
- Hillary, Episode 5, Race to the pole
- Hillary, Episode 6, Heartbreak
- Hogarth
- Hua hun : A soul haunted by painting
- Huey Long
- I build my time : the last years of Kurt Schwitters
- I don't belong anywhere : le cinéma de Chantal Akerman
- I have nothing to say and I am saying it
- I know why the caged bird sings
- I shot Andy Warhol
- I'm not there
- I, Tonya
- If a tree falls : a story of the Earth Liberation Front
- Ike Eisenhower
- Imaginary landscapes : a film on Brian Eno
- Immortal beloved
- In and out of Africa
- In motion : Amiri Baraka
- In search of the great composers, In search of Beethoven
- In search of the great composers, In search of Chopin
- In search of the great composers, In search of Haydn
- In search of the great composers, In search of Mozart
- Informant
- Inocente
- Intimate portrait, Bella Abzug
- Invictus
- Iris
- Iron jawed angels
- Isaac Pope : the spirit of an American century
- Isadora
- JFK
- Jacob Epstein : rebel-angel
- Jacques Roumain : La Passion d'un Pays
- James Fitzgerald : a painter's journey
- James Joyce's Nora
- Jane's journey
- Janine
- Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
- Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle : The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser : ein Film
- Jefferson in Paris
- Jeni LeGon : living in a great big way
- Jerry Lewis : the man behind the clown
- Jessye Norman : singer
- Jessye Norman, singer
- Jesus : a revolutionary biography
- Jim Brown : All-American
- Jim loves Jack : the James Egan story
- Jimmy's Hall
- Jinnah
- Jiro dreams of sushi
- Joan Báez : cantactriz Mexico-Americana de la música del pueblo
- Joan of Arc
- Joe Louis, for all time
- John Cage
- John Cage : "Man & myth" : a video documentation
- John Hammond : from Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen
- Joseph Emidy : the lost composer
- José Martí : un hombré sincero
- Judith Isaacson
- Judith Isaacson | Judith Magyar Isaacson
- Julia Robinson and Hilbert's tenth problem
- Julie & Julia
- Julie & Julia
- Kasthuri : a documentary
- Kathe Kollwitz
- Kenyatta
- Kill Your Darlings
- Killing Me Softly : The Roberta Flack Story
- Kim Dotcom : caught in the web
- Kim's story : the road from Vietnam
- Kongzi : Confucius
- Kundun
- Kurt Jooss : a commitment to dance
- Kurt Messerschmidt
- L'altro Fellini
- L'anglaise et le duc
- L'enfant noir
- La Americana
- La Bamba
- La gloire de mon père : My father's glory
- La reine Margot : Queen Margot
- Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming--
- Lady day : the many faces of Billie Holiday
- Lady sings the blues
- Lady sings the blues
- Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit : aus dem Leben der taubblinder Fini Straubinder = Land of silence and darkness : from the life of deaf-blind Fini Straubinger
- Land of little rain
- Late spring
- Le Théâtre de Tadeusz Kantor
- Le grand blanc de Lambaréné : The great white man of Lambaréné
- Le scaphandre et le papillon : The diving bell and the butterfly
- Le théâtre de Tadeusz Kantor
- Lembranças do futuro, Modernismo e habitação social
- Lembranças do futuro, Urbanismo e arquitetura
- Lenny Bruce
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leonor Fini
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Lessons from Mister Rogers' neighborhood
- Let it come down
- Let's get lost
- Life and loves of Mozart
- Lightning over Braddock : a rustbowl fantasy
- Lightning over water
- Lincoln
- Lincoln
- Little Dieter needs to fly
- Little Dieter needs to fly
- Living music for golden mountains
- Ljuset håller mig sällskap
- Locura de amor
- Lonely boy / Satan's choice
- Long distance revolutionary : a journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Look & see : a portrait of Wendell Berry
- Looking for Langston
- Lorraine Hansberry : the Black experience in the creation of drama
- Lou Harrison and his music : "cherish, conserve, consider, create."-- a motto
- Lt. Watada : a matter of conscience
- Luisa Capetillo : pasión de justicia
- Lumumba
- Madame Curie
- Madame Satã
- Mahalia Jackson
- Mahalia Jackson
- Mahler
- Malcolm X
- Malcolm X : make it plain
- Man on a mission : Richard Garriott's road to the Stars
- Manfred Kelman
- Margot Fonteyn
- Maria
- Maria's story
- Marian Anderson
- Marion Stoddart : the work of 1000
- Mark Gertler : fragments of a biography
- Markova, la legende
- Marlene
- Marley
- Martha Graham : the dancer revealed
- Mary Silliman's war
- Mary Wigman, 1886-1973 : "when the fire dances between two poles"
- María Sabina : mujer espíritu
- Max Manus : man of war
- Maya Lin : a strong clear vision
- Me facing life : Cyntoia's story
- Meet the oldest female BMX racer in the U.S. (she's 69)
- Memphis dreams : searching for the promised land
- Merce Cunningham : a lifetime of dance
- Mercedes Sosa : the voice of Latin America
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
- Mesrine : public enemy #1
- Messages from Bhupen Khakhar
- Mi In. : día sereno
- Milk
- Million dollar mermaid
- Mishima : a life in four chapters
- Mission to Lars
- Monsenor : the last journey of Oscar Romero
- Monsieur Mayonnaise
- More Maurice stuff
- Mr. Turner
- Mr. Turner
- Mud and water man
- My America : --or honk if you love Buddha
- My architect
- My land Zion : a film
- My name is Abbie : orphan of America
- My own man
- N. Scott Momaday
- Nelson Mandela : free at last
- Nelson Mandela : the freedom fighter
- Never give up : Imogen Cunningham
- Never give up : the 20th century odyssey of Herbert Zipper
- Never turn back-- : the life of Fannie Lou Hamer
- New York in the 50's
- News from nowhere
- Nixon
- Nixon
- No asylum : the untold chapter of Anne Frank's story
- No direction home : Bob Dylan
- No home movie
- Norman McLaren, the master's edition : [Norman McLaren, l'intaegrale, DVD 07 | DVD 07]
- Nureyev
- Nureyev : a portrait
- Nyamakuta : the one who receives
- Nṛan guyně
- Oberst Redl : Colonel Redl
- Olga
- Olive Thomas : everybody's sweetheart
- On borrowed time
- On her shoulders
- On her shoulders
- Once my mother
- Once upon a time when we were colored
- One hundred eggs a minute
- Orchids : my intersex adventure
- Ornette : made in America
- Osceola Mays : stories, songs and poems
- Otomo
- Out late
- Paco de Lucia : light and shade
- Padre padrone
- Paterno
- Patsy Mink : ahead of the majority
- Paul Goodman changed my life
- Paul Robeson
- Paul Robeson : here I stand
- Persepolis
- Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
- Piel Adentro : under the skin
- Plisetskaya dances
- Porto da minha infância
- Portrait of Jason
- Portrait of Jason
- Portrait of a muckraker : the stories of Jessica Mitford
- Portrait of an artist : Elimo Njau, the antelope-man
- Prick up your ears
- Prison terminal : the last days of Private Jack Hall
- Proceed and be bold!
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
- Puedo hablar? : retrato de un movimiento = May I speak? : portrait of a movement
- Quayle season
- Queen Christina
- Queen of Katwe
- Quem matou Pixote?
- Quitting
- Rage & desire
- Ralph Ellison : the self-taught writer
- Ralph Nader : up close
- Rebirth
- Recollections of my life as a woman
- Red army
- Reed, Mexico insurgenté
- Reel herstory : The REAL story of reel women with Jodie Foster, Contemporary reel women
- Reel herstory : The REAL story of reel women with Jodie Foster, The silent era
- Reel herstory : The REAL story of reel women with Jodie Foster, The talkies
- Regarding Susan Sontag
- Reidy : a construção da Utopia
- Remembering Wei Yi-fang, remembering myself-- : an autobiography
- Renascence : Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
- Reversal of fortune
- Rhapsody in blue : the story of George Gershwin
- Rhodes
- Rivers and tides : Andy Goldsworthy working with time
- Robert Irwin : the beauty of questions
- Rochelle Slivka
- Rock Hudson's home movies
- Romero
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Round eyes in the Middle Kingdom
- Ruan Lingyu : Center stage
- Saint Cuthbert
- Saint Laurent
- Samuel Beckett : silence to silence
- Satchmo
- Satiesfictions : promenades with Erik Satie
- Say amen, somebody
- Schama On Rembrandt : Masterpieces Of The Late Years
- Schiele in prison
- Schindler's list
- Scott Joplin : king of ragtime composers
- Scott Walker : 30th Century Man
- Scott Walker : 30th Century Man, Hugh Burns, Guitars
- Scott Walker : 30th Century Man, In the Studio, Making of 'Buzzers'
- Scott Walker : 30th Century Man, Walkermania
- Scott Walker : 30th century man : extended interviews
- Seamus Heaney
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Sebastiane
- Seed money : the Chuck Holmes story
- Selena
- Selena : the final notes
- Selena remembered
- Sergei Paradjanov's The color of pomegranates
- Serpico
- Sewing woman
- Sewing woman
- She's not fat, she's my mom
- Shepard & Dark
- Sherman's march : a meditation on the possibility of romantic love in the South during an era of nuclear weapons proliferation