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- [Vysotskiĭ concert]. A voice from Russia : the world of Vysotsky
- #chicagoGirl : the social network takes on a dictator
- 12 years a slave
- A Duke named Ellington
- 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 litany for survival : the life and work of Audre Lorde
- A litany for survival : the life and work of Audre Lorde [90 min]
- A man for all seasons
- A midwife's tale
- A place to stand
- 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
- Agustina de Aragón
- Ai Weiwei : The fake case
- Aimé Césaire : a voice for history = une voix pour l'histoire
- 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 Jihadist
- American fabulous : a portrait of Jeffrey Strouth
- American masters : street art boy, Keith Haring
- American revolutionary : the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
- American splendor
- American splendor
- Among good Christian peoples
- An Irish story : this is my home
- An angel at my table : a trilogy
- Andrei Serban at work
- Andres Serrano
- Andreĭ Rubli︠o︡v : strasti po Andrei︠u︡
- Andy Warhol
- Angelo unwritten
- Angels in the dust
- Anita : speaking truth to power
- Anita, Tänze des Lasters : Anita, dances of vice
- Anna Boleyn
- Anna Sokolow, choreographer
- Anna and Vincent
- Anne Frank remembered
- Another brother
- Anton Chekhov : : a writer's life
- Apparition : Elegiac songs and vocalises
- Architecture must blaze
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Artemisia
- As I remember it : a portrait of Dorothy West
- Audre Lorde : the Berlin Years, 1984 to 1992
- Audubon
- Augustine : Late have I loved thee
- Ava Zifferblatt
- Awake : the life of Yogananda
- Baadasssss!
- Baby Peggy : The Elephant in the Room
- Bananas!*
- Banksy and the rise of outlaw art
- Barry Harris : the spirit of bebop
- Bayou Maharajah
- Be like an ant
- Beatles : how the Beatles changed the world
- Beautiful boxer
- Becoming nobody
- 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 Webster : the brute and the beautiful
- Benazir Bhutto
- Benjamin E. Mays : a four part series
- Benjamin E. Mays : his power, his drive, his skills
- Benjamin Mays
- Bertolt Brecht
- Bertolt Brecht's Galileo
- Betsy Kalau
- Bicycle, spoon, apple
- Big voice
- Bill Evans : time remembered
- Bill Robinson : Mr. Bojangles
- Bill T. Jones : Still/Here
- Bill Traylor : chasing ghosts
- Bill W.
- Billie
- Bird
- Bird by bird with Annie
- Bixa Travesty
- BlacKkKlansman
- Black artists in America : parts one through four
- Black like me
- Bob Fosse : its showtime
- Bobby
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Books of James
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Born to film
- Bowie : the man who changed the world
- 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
- Burroughs : the movie
- 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
- Carmen & Geoffrey
- Catch me if you can
- Cervantes : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Cesaire, le prix de la liberté
- Cesar Chavez
- Charles Pathé
- Chasing portraits
- Che
- 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.
- Chuck Berry : brown eyed handsome man
- Claude Lanzmann : Spectres of the Shoah
- 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 home again
- Coming through
- Constantine and the cross
- Conversations with Roy DeCarava
- Copenhagen
- 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
- Dancing with my father
- Dangal : Daṅgala
- Daniel K. Inouye : an American story
- Daniel Reeves video retrospective, Vol. 1
- Danton
- Dark waters
- Daughters of de Beauvoir
- Daughters of the New Republic : Harriet Tubman and Sarah Bradford
- David Crosby : remember my name
- David Hockney : a bigger picture
- Deej
- Deep blues
- Denial
- 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
- Detour ahead : an afternoon with Herb Ellis
- Detstvo Gorʹkogo
- Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky : The Skladanowsky brothers
- Die Vermessung der Welt : Measuring the world
- Dignity and defiance : a portrait of Mary Church Terrell
- Directed by John Ford
- Disraeli
- Dmitry Shostakovich : a man of many faces
- Documented : a film by an undocumented American
- Dolores
- Dolores
- Don't blink, Robert Frank
- 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
- Dr. Rudolph Haas
- Dragon : the Bruce Lee story
- Drawing the line : a portrait of Keith Haring
- Dreaming rivers
- 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
- El perdón
- Eleni
- Elizabeth
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn : the rebel girl
- Elizabeth at 90 : a family tribute
- Ella es el matador
- 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?
- Evelyn Fox Keller : science and gender
- Every little step
- Every night's a Saturday night : the Bobby Keys story
- Everything is photograph : profile of Andre Kertesz
- Evita : the woman behind the myth
- 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
- Family matters : Girsa deyankuta
- Fantaisies
- Fast, cheap & out of control
- Father Roy : inside the school of assassins
- Fear strikes out
- Federico Fellini : sono un gran bugiardo = I'm a big liar
- Federico García Lorca : a murder in Granada
- Felix Austria!
- Fengming : a Chinese memoir
- Fidel
- 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
- 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
- Forgotten warriors
- Fortunate son : a film with my family
- Frances
- Francesco, giullare di Dio : The flowers of St. Francis
- Frantz Fanon : une vie, un combat, une œuvre
- Frantz Fanon, his life, his struggle, his work
- Frederick Douglass : when the lion wrote history
- Free Angela, and all political prisoners
- Free CeCe!
- Free solo
- Frida
- Frida : naturaleza vida
- Frida Kahlo (1910-1954)
- Frida Kahlo, portrait of a woman
- Fritzi, from Mundus canis
- From zero
- From zero : the documentary
- Frontline, Season 2019, Episode 17, For Sama
- Frost/Nixon
- Fruitvale Station
- Gabriel García Márquez : the witch writing
- Gabriela Mistral : poema de Chile
- Gainsbourg : vie héroïque
- Gandhi
- Garwin
- George Crumb : Bad dog!
- George Méliès, cinema magician
- George Tice : seeing beyond the moment
- Gerald Vizenor
- Geraldine Ferraro : paving the way
- Gerda Haas
- Gerhard Richter painting
- Girl model
- Girl, interrupted
- 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
- Grandmother's flower
- Grey Gardens
- Grey Gardens
- Grierson
- Gurrumul
- Gypsy heart
- Half slave, half free
- Hank Aaron : chasing the dream
- 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
- Heavenly creatures
- Held in trust : the story of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper
- Henry Miller : prophet of desire
- 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
- Hired gun
- How I got over
- Hua hun : A soul haunted by painting
- Huey Long
- I am a woman now
- 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
- Idi Amin
- If a tree falls : a story of the Earth Liberation Front
- Ike Eisenhower
- Il risveglio di un gigante : vita di santa Veronica Giuliani = The awakening of a giant
- Imaginary landscapes : a film on Brian Eno
- Immortal beloved
- In and out of Africa
- In motion : Amiri Baraka
- In search of Walt Whitman, Part one, The early years (1819-1855)
- In search of Walt Whitman, Part three, The Civil War and beyond (1865-1892)
- In search of Walt Whitman, Part two, Becoming a poet (1855-1864)
- 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
- Jacques Roumain : La Passion d'un Pays
- James Baldwin : the price of the ticket
- James Fitzgerald : a painter's journey
- James Joyce's Nora
- Janine
- Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
- Jefferson in Paris
- Jeni LeGon : living in a great big way
- Jens Jensen : the living green
- 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
- John Lewis : good trouble
- Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat
- José Martí : un hombré sincero
- Judith Isaacson
- Judith Isaacson | Judith Magyar Isaacson
- Juggling gender : politics, sex and identity
- Julia Robinson and Hilbert's tenth problem
- Julie & Julia
- Julie & Julia
- Kasthuri : a documentary
- Kate plays Christine
- Kenyatta
- Kids on the Silk Road, Episode 1, Horse fever (Kyrgyzstan)
- Kids on the Silk Road, Episode 2, Girl against gravity (Mongolia)
- Kids on the Silk Road, Episode 3, Music in my blood (India)
- Kids on the Silk Road, Episode 4, Poonam's fortune (Nepal)
- Kids on the Silk Road, Episode 5, Life is a beach (Bangladesh)
- Kill Your Darlings
- Killing Me Softly : The Roberta Flack Story
- Kim Dotcom : caught in the web
- Kim's story : the road from Vietnam
- King Bibi : the life and performances of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Kiran over Mongolia
- 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 in the van
- 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
- Leila Khaled : hijacker
- Lenny Bruce
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leonor Fini
- Les Blank : always for pleasure
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Lessons from Mister Rogers' neighborhood
- Let it come down
- Let's get lost
- Life and loves of Mozart
- Life interrupted : telling breast cancer stories
- Life is sacred
- Life sentences
- Life, animated
- 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
- Living the light : Robby Muller
- Ljuset håller mig sällskap
- Locura de amor
- Lone twin
- Lonely boy / Satan's choice
- 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
- Mad as hell : Peter Finch
- Madame Curie
- Madame Satã
- Mahalia Jackson
- Mahalia Jackson
- Mahler
- Making Montgomery Clift
- Malcolm X
- Malcolm X : make it plain
- Mamacita
- Man on a mission : Richard Garriott's road to the Stars
- Manfred Kelman
- Margot Fonteyn
- Maria
- Maria by Callas
- Maria's story
- Marian Anderson
- Marighella
- Marion Stoddart : the work of 1000
- 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 Beau Dick : maker of monsters
- 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
- Mi In. : día sereno
- Milk
- Million dollar mermaid
- Mishima : a life in four chapters
- Miss Austen regrets
- Mission to Lars
- More Maurice stuff
- Mr. Turner
- Mr. Turner
- My America : --or honk if you love Buddha
- My architect
- My brilliant career
- My land Zion : a film
- My life : Isabella Rosellini
- 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 tur