Film Library

A World War II-era poet and diarist resistance fighter. She joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary and parachuted behind enemy lines. Shockingly, it was the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust.

A happily-married housewife organizes a surprise birthday party for her husband’s birthday, without knowing her dentist partner is actually going through a sudden mid-life crisis.

Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, directed by Alice Elliott, is a 2007 documentary film that focuses on the symbiotic relationship between Diana Braun, who has Down Syndrome, and Kathy Conour, who has cerebral palsy.

BODY PARTS traces the evolution of “sex” on-screen from a woman’s perspective, uncovering the uncomfortable realities behind some of the most iconic scenes in cinema history and celebrating the bold creators leading the way for change.

Filmmakers Alexandra Shiva, Sean MacDonald and Michelle Gucovsky profile castrated men who live in urban squalor.  

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a secure radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during WWII. Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life—from her beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre to her scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film Ecstasy to her glittering Hollywood life to her ground-breaking, but completely uncredited inventions to her latter years when she became a recluse, impoverished and almost forgotten—BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY brings to light the story of an unusual and accomplished woman, spurned as too beautiful to be smart, but a role model to this day.

Without any dialogue, volumes are spoken by this short but poignant film featuring the music of John Lennon. We are proud to present this film by Annette Solakoglu and her timely message of universal concern.

Determined not to become another statistic of the Black maternal health crisis, one couple chooses the rare option of hiring an experienced midwife and doula and planning to give birth at home, away from the hospital and all of its interventions. But the baby has other plans, and despite all of the team’s efforts, they end up transferring to the hospital at the eleventh hour. This is the story of the birth of one baby, with its family caught between two very different approaches to childbirth.

This film exemplifies a once-in-a-lifetime chance the filmmaker had to change the course of the lives of the children of prostitutes in India by teaching them to make photographs. Winner for the best full length documentary at the Academy Awards in 2005.

Arsenic-laced water has poisoned a 15 year old Cambodian boy who dreams of karaoke stardom.

Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity takes us on an exhilarating journey with choreographer Elizabeth Streb – pushing the boundaries between action and art and daring us to join Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight.