Pluto

From Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams comes the story of Owen Suskind, a young man who couldn't speak as a child until he discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing himself in the world of Disney animated films.

Life, Animated

A motion picture essay which takes a revealing and shocking look at modern life and its imbalances. The first film in a trilogy which was followed by Powaqatsi.

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Former table tennis champion Marty Reisman (the real-life inspiration for "Marty Supreme") faces mortality while pursuing fame in his final years, as documented through observations, archives, and interviews, while dealing with his wife's health and his fading glory.

Fact or Fiction: The Life & Times of Ping Pong Hustler Marty Reisman

In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career.

Love, Gilda

From legendary late 88-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles (GREY GARDENS, GIMME SHELTER), comes IRIS. Iris Apfel, is the 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades.

Iris

This is the classic Academy-Award winning documentary film of an astonishing adventure, a journey spanning 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft.

Kon Tiki

When two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbors, they accidentally created one of the world's first "viral" pop-culture sensations.

Shut Up Little Man!: An Audio Misadventure

Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most impactful children's series in TV history. From the iconic furry characters to the songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed our world.

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

The bizarre true story of some 533 silent film reels, buried for almost 50 years in a sub-arctic swimming pool, deep in the Yukon permafrost.

Dawson City: Frozen Time

A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story follows the inspiring journey of 26-year-old, 58-pound Lizzie from cyber-bullying victim to anti-bullying activist.

A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story

Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together.

Buena Vista Social Club

From executive producer Denis Leary, BURN is an action-packed documentary about Detroit told through the eyes of firefighters charged with the  task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.

Burn

Drawn from an archive of 16mm film, Tom Petty works on his 1994 album Wildflowers.

Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free

Artist and filmmaker David Lynch discusses his early life and the events that shaped his outlook on art and the creative process.

David Lynch: The Art Life

An affectionate portrait of Caroll Spinney, the beloved puppeteer responsible for creating worldwide icons out of Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for the last 45 years.

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

Artist Yayoi Kusama battles sexism and racism while rising to fame in America during the 1960s, from a conservative upbringing in Japan to her eventual placement in a Tokyo mental institution.

KUSAMA - INFINITY

Filmmaker Patrick Creadon pays tribute to crossword puzzles with this in-depth look at The New York Times' long-time crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and his loyal fan base.

Wordplay

LIVING WITH CHUCKY takes an in-depth look at the groundbreaking CHILD'S PLAY franchise from the perspective of a filmmaker who grew up within it.

Living with Chucky

From Oscar nominated director Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") comes this revealing documentary about the concussion crisis in sports.

Head Games

Academy Award-winning director Daniel Junge and producer Johnny Knoxville take a candid look at daredevil Evel Knievel, while reflecting on our voracious public appetite for heroes and spectacle.

Being Evel

On August 7, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York.

Man On Wire

Gilbert Gottfried rose to fame in the 1980's thanks to his brash stand-up act and personality. Now, after decades of flying solo in both his work and in his personal life, Gilbert has shockingly reinvented himself as a family man.

Gilbert

A middle-aged man, Tim McVey, attempts to reclaim his 1984 world record on Nibbler, the first billion-point video game.

Man vs Snake

Driven by a constant need to create, Phish frontman Trey Anastasio takes on new projects, including some of his most personal music to date as well as Phish's ambitious New Year's Eve show at Madison Square Garden.

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