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Popular Documentaries

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail - 2018 Best Documentary Oscar Nominee 91 mins From acclaimed director Steve James (The Interrupters), Academy Award-nominated (Best Documentary Feature, 2018) ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant…
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail - 2018 Best Documentary Oscar Nominee
The Work - Group Therapy with Folsom Prison Inmates 90 mins Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, THE WORK follows three men from outside as they participate in a four-day group therapy retreat with…
The Work - Group Therapy with Folsom Prison Inmates
I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin and Race in America 95 mins An Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism. In 1979, James…
I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin and Race in America
Dior and I 91 mins This beautiful documentary brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of…
Dior and I
Copwatch - An Organization Dedicated to Filming the Police 100 mins This acclaimed documentary follows "WeCopwatch", an organization dedicated to filming the police. Its members captured the original videos of the deaths of Eric Garner in…
Copwatch - An Organization Dedicated to Filming the Police
Whose Streets? - An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising 102 mins Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When…
Whose Streets? - An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising
Hooligan Sparrow - A Champion for Girls' and Women's Rights in China 81 mins The danger is palpable as maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues travel to Hainan Province in southern China to…
Hooligan Sparrow - A Champion for Girls' and Women's Rights in China
Tomorrow - Grassroots Solutions to Human Extinction 120 mins Faced with a sense of powerlessness in the face of growing evidence of a coming mass human extinction, Melanie Laurent (Inglorious Bastards) and activist Cyril…
Tomorrow - Grassroots Solutions to Human Extinction
Check It - A Gang of LGBT Youth in Washington D.C. 92 mins This film festival favorite follows a group of African-American gay and transgender youth in one of Washington D.C.'s most violent neighborhoods. After being subjected to…
Check It - A Gang of LGBT Youth in Washington D.C.

Popular World Cinema

The Battle of Algiers 123 mins One of the most influential political films in history, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian…
The Battle of Algiers
Breathless 91 mins There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage…
Breathless
Neruda 108 mins Directed by the award-winning filmmaker Pablo Larrain ("Jackie"), this Golden Globe-nominated film features international star Gael Garcia Bernal as a policeman chasing Pablo Neruda, perhaps…
Neruda
The 400 Blows - Les quatre cents coups 101 mins Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud), THE 400 BLOWS sensitively…
The 400 Blows - Les quatre cents coups
Rashomon 90 mins A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever…
Rashomon
Bicycle Thieves 91 mins Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award-winning BICYCLE THIEVES, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era…
Bicycle Thieves
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 102 mins Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks…
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Seven Samurai 2 videos One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants…
Seven Samurai
Pure - Till det som är vackert 98 mins Young Katarina (Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl, Ex Machina) hates her job and worries that she may end up like her mother, Birgitta, who…
Pure - Till det som är vackert

New to Kanopy - Movies

The Silent Child 20 mins Inspired by real-life events, this Oscar-winning short follows Libby, a profoundly deaf child nearing her first day at school. Her emotionally distant, overwhelmed mother and…
The Silent Child
The Secret of Kells 76 mins Young Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator…
The Secret of Kells
Hick 99 mins A pistol-packing teen (Chloe Grace Moretz) meets an unstable rebel (Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne) and a dangerous drifter (Blake Lively) as she hitchhikes her way out…
Hick
The Fencer - Miekkailija 99 mins Fleeing police, an Estonian fencer finds work as a teacher and introduces his students to the sport. The children now wish to compete in a…
The Fencer - Miekkailija
Junction 48 97 mins Kareem leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed city of Lyd.…
Junction 48
Ploy 107 mins Wit and Daeng, a married couple, find their love on the rocks as they fly to Thailand for a funeral. When Wit meets Ploy at…
Ploy
Zarafa 2 videos Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, ZARAFA is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a…
Zarafa
It Takes From Within 96 mins Inspired by arthouse films of the 1960s, IT TAKES FROM WITHIN presents a menacing world of dread, isolation, and unease. An ominous, bleak atmosphere permeates…
It Takes From Within
A Cat in Paris - Une vie de chat 2 videos The Academy Award nominated A CAT IN PARIS is a beautifully hand-drawn caper set in the shadow-drenched alleyways of Paris. Dino is a cat that…
A Cat in Paris - Une vie de chat

New to Kanopy - Documentaries

Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City 79 mins Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an…
Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City
Helvetica - Typography, Graphic Design and Global Visual Culture 81 mins An independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. HELVETICA looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in…
Helvetica - Typography, Graphic Design and Global Visual Culture
Cartel Land - Vigilante Groups Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels 101 mins In this Sundance award-winning film, Director Matthew Heineman and Executive Producer Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) gain unprecedented, on-the-ground access to the…
Cartel Land - Vigilante Groups Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels
Mavis! - Gospel Music Legend and Civil Rights Activist Mavis Staples 81 mins An award-winning documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers. From the freedom songs of…
Mavis! - Gospel Music Legend and Civil Rights Activist Mavis Staples
Elstree 1976 - Reminiscing with Actors and Extras of Star Wars 102 mins In this fascinating documentary, go behind the scenes of one of the most iconic film series of all time: Star Wars. The actors and extras…
Elstree 1976 - Reminiscing with Actors and Extras of Star Wars
Objectified - Manufactured Objects and their Designers 76 mins Explore our complex relationship with manufactured objects and the people who design them. OBJECTIFIED is a look at the creativity at work behind everything from…
Objectified - Manufactured Objects and their Designers
Red Light, Green Light - Prostitution & Sex Trafficking 2 videos As nations around the globe attempt to fight sex trafficking, many consider legalizing prostitution. Two filmmakers travel across ten countries to explore the issue, attempting…
Red Light, Green Light - Prostitution & Sex Trafficking
Getting to the Nutcracker - The Making of a Christmas Classic 101 mins Every Christmas The Nutcracker is performed in cities around the world. What does it take to produce this timeless ballet? Witness the passion of young…
Getting to the Nutcracker - The Making of a Christmas Classic
Urbanized - The Issues and Strategies Behind Urban Design 86 mins Over half the world's population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are…
Urbanized - The Issues and Strategies Behind Urban Design

Criterion Collection

In the Mood for Love 100 mins Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are…
In the Mood for Love
Pather Panchali 127 mins With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray's debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world.…
Pather Panchali
Wings of Desire 128 mins Wings of Desire is one of cinema's loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear…
Wings of Desire
Seven Samurai 2 videos One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants…
Seven Samurai
Alice in the Cities 113 mins A German photographer visiting the United States finds an unexpected new chapter in his life opened through his chance meeting with a mother and her…
Alice in the Cities
La strada 109 mins There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La strada,…
La strada
Persona 85 mins By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema's most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new…
Persona
The Lord of the Flies 91 mins In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as…
The Lord of the Flies
Revanche 123 mins A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revancheis the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Gotz Spielmann. In a ragged…
Revanche

Frederick Wiseman: American Documentarian

At Berkeley - Life At UC Berkeley 245 mins The University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system, is also one of the finest…
At Berkeley - Life At UC Berkeley
National Gallery - Behind the Scenes of a London Institution 174 mins Frederick Wiseman's NATIONAL GALLERY takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by…
National Gallery - Behind the Scenes of a London Institution
In Jackson Heights - One of America's Most Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods 190 mins Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. There are…
In Jackson Heights - One of America's Most Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods
Titicut Follies - The Massachusetts State Prison for the Criminally Insane 84 mins This important film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts.…
Titicut Follies - The Massachusetts State Prison for the Criminally Insane
Crazy Horse - The Rehersals and Performances at a French Burlesque 129 mins CRAZY HORSE follows the rehearsals and performances of the Crazy Horse Paris for a new show, DESIRS, staged by Philippe Decoufle, a celebrated French choreographer,…
Crazy Horse - The Rehersals and Performances at a French Burlesque
Central Park - A Look at the Famous New York Landmark 177 mins CENTRAL PARK is a film about the famous New York City landmark and the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running,…
Central Park - A Look at the Famous New York Landmark
High School - Documenting a Philadelphia High School 75 mins HIGH SCHOOL was filmed at a large urban high school in Philadelphia. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on…
High School - Documenting a Philadelphia High School
La Danse - The Paris Opera Ballet 153 mins The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world's great ballet companies. The film follows the rehearsals and performances of seven ballets: Genus by Wayne…
La Danse - The Paris Opera Ballet
Public Housing - A Look at Poverty in Chicago 196 mins PUBLIC HOUSING documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living…
Public Housing - A Look at Poverty in Chicago

Women Make Movies

Salma - Portrait of a South Asian poet 91 mins When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her…
Salma - Portrait of a South Asian poet
Regarding Susan Sontag - Portrait of a Feminist Icon 101 mins An intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Endlessly curious, passionate and…
Regarding Susan Sontag - Portrait of a Feminist Icon
Orchids - My Intersex Adventure 57 mins Questioning rigidly defined constructs of gender, sexuality, and normality, often with lively good humor, ORCHIDS is the first film to look at intersex from a…
Orchids - My Intersex Adventure
Living Thinkers - An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower 75 mins This documentary examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities today. Through their…
Living Thinkers - An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower
Life After Manson - An Intimate Portrait of a Manson Clan Member 26 mins An intimate portrait of one of the world's most infamous crimes and notorious killers. At 21 years old, Patricia Krenwinkel callously murdered three people at…
Life After Manson - An Intimate Portrait of a Manson Clan Member
Wilhemina's War - Fighting HIV and AIDS in the South 54 mins In much of America, progress in HIV/AIDS treatment suggests the worst is behind us, but every year 50,000 Americans are still diagnosed with the virus…
Wilhemina's War - Fighting HIV and AIDS in the South
Too Black to be French - Racism in France 54 mins In this documentary film, Isabelle Boni-Claverie explores the role of race and the persistence of racism in France, as well as the impact of the…
Too Black to be French - Racism in France
Sonita - An Afghan Feminst Rapper 92 mins Two-time Sundance Film Festival award winner SONITA tells the inspiring story of Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran, who thinks of Michael Jackson…
Sonita - An Afghan Feminst Rapper
Sin By Silence - Women Who Killed their Abusers 50 mins From behind prison walls, a group of extraordinary women are shattering misconceptions of domestic violence. SIN BY SILENCE profiles Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA), the…
Sin By Silence - Women Who Killed their Abusers

Top Picks From the Cannes Film Festival

I Killed My Mother 101 mins Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I KILLED…
I Killed My Mother
The Wonders 113 mins A family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside are disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenaged boy taken…
The Wonders
Ploy 107 mins Wit and Daeng, a married couple, find their love on the rocks as they fly to Thailand for a funeral. When Wit meets Ploy at…
Ploy
XXY 88 mins For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing…
XXY
Ernest & Celestine 2 videos Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live…
Ernest & Celestine
When the Day Breaks 10 mins After witnessing the accidental death of a stranger, Ruby seeks affirmation in the city around her, and finds it in surprising places. With deft humour…
When the Day Breaks
The Girl Without Hands - La jeune fille sans mains 76 mins In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes from the Devil who, in revenge, deprives her…
The Girl Without Hands - La jeune fille sans mains
The Ceiling - Katto 15 mins In the midst of divorce, Olavi retreats to his summer cottage only to find that the ceiling has mysteriously come down in this Finnish Short…
The Ceiling - Katto
Mimosas 97 mins Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe's stunning new film, MIMOSAS, is a breathtakingly-shot Western that follows a…
Mimosas
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