The Bertha Foundation Popular Movie

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Snowden

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mads Brügger

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kirsten Johnson

After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John M. Hull

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quincy Bryant

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tim Black

This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing out the power of huge supermarket chains to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Forest Whitaker

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Meera Devi

Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nelson Chamisa

The remarkable story of Naila Ayesh, who played a key role in the Palestinian uprising known as the First Intifada (1987).

Genre: Documentary

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A turbulent newsroom drama that intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiraling world of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ravish Kumar

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Naomi Fontanos

Boniface Mwangi is daring and audacious, and recognized as Kenya’s most provocative photojournalist. But as a father of three young children,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Boniface Mwangi

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Gcina Mhlophe

Documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.

Genre: Documentary

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The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Pilger

An intimate character study of the complex figure Ittetsu Nemoto, an aimless and rebellious former punk rocker-turned-Buddhist priest. He is renowned...

Genre: Documentary

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Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli lawyer, defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from nonviolent demonstrators to armed militants. As...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lea Tsemel

Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Judith Helfand

American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering...

Genre: Documentary

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