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- #chicagoGirl : the social network takes on a dictator
- 12 O'Clock Boys
- 12 years a slave
- 127 Hours
- 24 Hour Party People
- 49 Up
- 5 classic war films
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- A Bigger Splash
- A Brave Heart : The Lizzie Velasquez Story
- A Good dissonance like a man
- A Huey P. Newton Story
- A Matter of Taste : Serving Up Paul Liebrandt
- A Mighty Heart
- A Night to Remember
- A Song to Remember
- A Street Cat Named Bob
- A Tale of Love and Darkness
- A United Kingdom
- A Walk in the Woods
- A brief history of time
- A finished life : the goodbye and no regrets tour
- A girl like her
- A hidden life
- 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 man for all seasons
- A place to stand
- A poet in New York
- A private war
- A quiet passion
- A river runs through it
- A sense of wonder : two interviews with Rachel Carson
- A soldier's dream : The Milt Feldman story
- A time there was... : a profile of Benjamin Britten
- A transsexual journey : Katherine Elizabeth Cohen
- A woman like that : Artemisia
- A. Philip Randolph : for jobs & freedom
- A. Philip Randolph : for jobs & freedom
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Abel Raises Cain
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer
- Aby Warburg : metamorphosis and memory
- Accidental Courtesy : Daryl Davis, Race & America
- Advanced Style
- After Stonewall
- After Tiller
- After Tiller
- After the storm : the American exile of Béla Bartók
- Afternoon of a faun : Tanaquil Le Clercq
- Ai no korîda
- Ain't in It for My Health : A Film About Levon Helm
- Air Guitar Nation
- Albert Fish : In Sin He Found Salvation
- Albert Schweitzer
- Alexander
- Alexander Blok
- Alexander Korda's Private lives
- Alexander the Great
- Ali's comeback : the untold story
- Alice : at home with Alice Parker
- Alice Walker : beauty in truth
- All about Ann : Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
- All is true
- All that jazz
- All the money in the world
- Alpha Dog
- Amadeus, director's cut
- Amazing Grace
- Amelia
- American : The Bill Hicks Story
- American Experience : Guerrilla - The Taking of Patty Hearst
- American Experience : Troublesome Creek - A Midwestern
- American Gangster
- American Jihadist
- American Masters : Andy Warhol - A Documentary
- American Masters : Bob Marley - Rebel Music
- American Masters : Garrison Keillor - The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
- American Masters : Good Rockin' Tonight - The Legacy of Sun Records
- American Masters : James Brown - Soul Survivor
- American Masters : Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train a Comin'
- American Masters : LennoNYC
- American Masters : No Direction Home - Bob Dylan
- American Masters : Sketches of Frank Gehry
- American Masters : The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
- American Radical : The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
- American Sniper
- American Teacher
- American masters : street art boy, Keith Haring
- American revolutionary : the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
- Among the Believers
- Amy
- Amy
- An Honest Liar
- An Irish story : this is my home
- An Unreasonable Man
- An angel at my table
- Anastasia
- Andrea Bocelli : the making of a dream ... : Concerto : one night in Central Park
- Andreĭ Rubli︠o︡v : strasti po Andrei︠u︡
- Angelo unwritten
- Angels in the dust
- Anita : speaking truth to power
- Anna May Wong : frosted yellow willows : her life, times, and legend
- Anna May Wong : in her own words
- Anna and Vincent
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Anne Braden : southern patriot (1924-2006)
- Anne Frank remembered
- Anne of the thousand days ; : Mary, Queen of Scots
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Annie Oakley
- Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin
- Another brother
- Antarctica : A Year on Ice
- Anton Chekhov
- Antonio guerriero di Dio
- Antwone Fisher
- Anvil : The Story of Anvil
- Apparition : Elegiac songs and vocalises
- Arakimentari
- Architecture must blaze
- Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul
- Art Bastard
- Artemisia
- Arthur Ashe : Citizen of the World
- Asoka
- Aspects of Stravinsky : Once, at a border...
- At eternity's gate
- At the haunted end of the day ... : a profile of William Walton
- Audubon
- Author : The JT LeRoy Story
- Auto Focus
- Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu
- Awake : the life of Yogananda
- Awakenings
- Ayn Rand : A Sense of Life
- Baby Peggy : The Elephant in the Room
- Bananas!*
- Banksy and the rise of outlaw art
- Batkid Begins
- Bayou Maharajah
- Be Here to Love Me : A Film About Townes Van Zandt
- Be like an ant
- Be natural : the untold story of Alice Guy-Blaché
- Beatles : how the Beatles changed the world
- Beauty Is Embarrassing
- Becoming John Ford
- Becoming nobody
- Beethoven's Eroica
- Before You Know It
- Before night falls
- Behind the Brush, Series 2, Episode 6, Te Tai Rawhiti
- Behind the Candelabra
- 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
- Belle
- Ben Lee : catch my disease
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bernie
- Bertolt Brecht
- Betye and Alison Saar : conjure women of the arts
- Beyond the Mat
- Beyond the Sea
- Bhutto
- Bicycle, spoon, apple
- Bidder 70
- Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
- Big Eyes
- Big voice
- Biggie and Tupac
- Bill Cunningham New York
- Bill Evans : time remembered
- Bill W.
- Bird
- Bird by bird with Annie
- Birdman of Alcatraz
- BlacKkKlansman
- Black Mass
- Black White + Gray : A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
- Black fiddlers
- Blow
- Bob Fosse : its showtime
- Bobby Fischer Against the World
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Bombshell : the Hedy Lamarr story
- Bonhoeffer
- Booker T. Washington : the life & the legacy
- Books of James
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Bowie : the man who changed the world
- Boys Town
- Brand : A Second Coming
- Braveheart
- Breaking a Monster
- Breath made visible
- Brian's Song
- Bride of the Wind
- Bridge of spies
- Bright star
- Bronson
- Bruce Weber, the film collection
- Budrus
- Bukowski : Born into This
- Bunny
- Burroughs : The Movie
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Cabeza de Vaca
- Call Me Lucky
- Camila
- Camilo, el cura guerrillero
- Can you ever forgive me?
- Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
- Cantinflas
- Capone
- Capote
- Captain Phillips
- Captured on film : the true story of Marion Davies
- Captured on film : the true story of Marion Davies
- Capturing the Friedmans
- Carl Th. Dreyer : Min metier
- Carmen Miranda : Bananas Is My Business
- Carol Channing : Larger Than Life
- Carrington
- Castles in the sky
- Cesaire, le prix de la liberté
- Cesar Chavez
- Champs
- Changeling
- Chapaev : Chapayev
- Chaplin
- Chaplin
- Chaplin's Goliath
- Chariots of fire
- Charles Lloyd : arrows into infinity
- Charles Manson Superstar
- Charlie : The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
- Charlie Wilson's War
- Chasing Ice
- Chasing Trane : The John Coltrane Documentary
- Che
- Children of the light
- Choreographer James Clouser dances to his own music, 1965
- Chris & Don : a love story--
- Chuck Berry : brown eyed handsome man
- Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
- Churchill
- Ciao Manhattan
- City of Gold
- Claude Lanzmann : Spectres of the Shoah
- Coal Miner's Daughter
- Cobain : Montage of Heck
- Coco Chanel
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
- Coco avant Chanel
- Colette
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- Constantine's Sword
- Copenhagen
- Copland and the American sound
- Copying Beethoven
- Crime After Crime
- Crocodile Gennadiy
- Crossfire Hurricane
- Crumb
- Crumb
- Cry freedom
- Crónica de una fuga : Chronicle of an escape
- Cuba feliz
- Cutie and the boxer
- Cuéntame de Bia
- Cóndores no entierran todos los días : Les Condors ne meurent pas tous les jours
- D.W. Griffith : father of film
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Damn!
- Dance with a Stranger
- Dancer
- Dancing in the sky
- Dancing with my father
- Dangerous Intimacy : The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years
- Daniel K. Inouye : an American story
- Danny Says
- Danton
- Dark Star : HR Gigers Welt
- Dark waters
- Das Goebbels-Experiment
- Das wilde Leben
- Daughters of the New Republic : Harriet Tubman and Sarah Bradford
- David Crosby : remember my name
- De Palma
- De-Lovely
- Dead man walking
- Death in the bunker : the true story of Hitler's downfall
- Defiance
- Defying the Nazis : The Sharps' War
- Denial
- Der Einstein des sex
- Der Kreis
- Der Räuber
- Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer
- Derby
- Derek
- Detstvo Gorkogo
- Diana Vreeland : The Eye Has to Travel
- Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky
- Difret
- Dignity and defiance : a portrait of Mary Church Terrell
- Dillinger
- Dmitry Shostakovich : a man of many faces
- Documented : a film by an undocumented American
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Dolores
- Don't Blink - Robert Frank
- Don't You Forget About Me
- Don't blink, Robert Frank
- Donna Haraway : story telling for earthly survival
- Doon School Chronicles, Part 1
- Doon School Project, 4, The New Boys
- Doon School Project, 5, The Age of Reason
- Downfall : Der Untergang
- Dreams of a Life
- Drew : The Man Behind the Poster
- Dziga and his brothers
- E Agora? Lembra-me
- Eames : The Architect & The Painter
- Ed Wood
- Eden
- Effie Gray
- Eielson des-nudo
- Eight films by Jean Rouch
- Eine Kleine Mitternachmusik for amplified piano based on Thelonioius Monk 'Round Midnight'
- Eisenstein in Guanajuato
- El Chacal de Nahueltoro
- El Cid
- El Lute (camina o revienta)
- El padre medico
- El perdón
- Elizabeth
- Elizabeth : The Golden Age
- Elizabeth at 90 : a family tribute
- Ella es el matador
- Elser
- End of the Century
- Erin Brockovich
- Ernst Thälmann : Sohn seiner Klasse, Führer seiner Klasse
- Eva Hesse
- Every night's a Saturday night : the Bobby Keys story
- Everyone stares : Crotale Inc. ; Universal Music Enterprises ; the Police inside out
- Evita
- Exit through the gift shop
- 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
- Facing Ali
- Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch!
- Family matters : Girsa deyankuta
- Fanon hier, aujourd'hui : Fanon yesterday, today
- Fantaisies
- Faraon
- Federico Fellini : sono un gran bugiardo = I'm a big liar
- Felix Austria!
- Fellini : Je suis un grand menteur
- Fellini : a director's notebook
- Fengming : a Chinese memoir
- Film stars don't die in Liverpool
- Filmmakers on film : pioneers of the cinema, 1896 to the present, 10, Reel women
- Final portrait
- Finding Fela!
- Finding Neverland
- Finding Tatanka
- Finding Vivian Maier
- Fiore : in love with clay
- First man
- First person plural
- Flee
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- For No Good Reason
- For no good reason
- For the Bible tells me so
- For the Love of Spock
- Forever Ella
- Forgotten warriors
- Fortunate son : a film with my family
- Foxcatcher
- Frances
- Francesco, giullare di Dio
- Frank Hurley : the man who made history
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Fratello sole, sorella luna
- Free Angela, and all political prisoners
- Free state of Jones
- Frida, naturaleza viva
- Fritzi, from Mundus canis
- From the Journals of Jean Seberg
- Frontline, Season 2019, Episode 17, For Sama
- Frost/Nixon
- Gabriela Mistral
- Gainsbourg : vie héroïque
- Gandhi
- Gandhi
- Garbo : El espía
- Garwin
- Gender benders ...from the 1970's
- Genius Within : The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
- Gentleman Jim
- George Crumb : Bad dog!
- George Harrison : Living in the Material World
- George Stevens : A Filmmaker's Journey
- George Stevens : D-Day to Berlin
- Geraldine Ferraro : paving the way
- Get On Up
- Girl 27
- Girl model
- Glass : A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
- Glen Campbell : I'll Be Me
- Glenn Gould : au delà du temps
- Glitterbox
- Goethe!
- Going Upriver : The Long War of John Kerry
- Gonzo : The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Good Morning, Vietnam
- Good Night, and Good Luck
- Good Ol' Freda
- Good thoughts, good words, good deeds : the conductor Zubin Mehta
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Gore Vidal : The United States of Amnesia
- Gorillas in the Mist : The Story of Dian Fossey
- Goya : oder, Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis
- Grace Jones : bloodlight & bami
- Grace Kelly : destiny of a princess
- Grace of Monaco
- Grandmother's flower
- Great Performances : La bohème
- Great circle
- Green fire : Aldo Leopold and a land ethic for our time
- Gregory Crewdson : Brief Encounters
- Grey Gardens
- Grey Gardens
- Grounded
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- Gurrumul
- Général Idi Amin Dada : Autoportrait
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Hadashi no Gen
- Hannah Arendt
- Harlan : in the shadow of Jew Süss
- Harold and Lillian : A Hollywood Love Story
- Harriet
- Harry & Snowman
- Harry Dean Stanton : Partly Fiction
- Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
- Hated : GG Allin & the Murder Junkies
- Heart Like a Wheel
- Heartworn Highways
- Heaven & Earth
- Heaven Adores You
- Heavenly Creatures
- Hedy Lamarr : the invention of a star
- Hellfire : a journey from Hiroshima
- Helmut Newton : frames from the edge
- Henry & June
- Henry Miller : prophet of desire
- Henry Purcell : England, my England
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Herb and Dorothy
- Herge : in the shadow of Tintin
- Herskovits at the heart of blackness
- Hey, Boo : Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
- Hidden figures
- Hilary and Jackie
- 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
- Hit So Hard
- Hitchcock
- Hitlerjunge Salomon
- Hoffa
- Hollywood to Dollywood
- Hollywoodland
- Holy man
- Honor & sacrifice : the Roy Matsumoto story
- House of Gucci
- How I got over
- How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?
- How to Change the World
- How to draw a bunny
- Howl
- Hua hun : A soul haunted by painting
- Huang feihong zhi yingxiong you meng
- Huey Long
- Hugh Hefner : Playboy, Activist and Rebel