What Is a Woman?

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What Is a Woman? (2022)

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2016 ★ 7.5

When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men’s Rights Movement, she begins to question her own beliefs. Chronicling Cassie Jaye’s journey exploring an alternate perspective on gender equality, power and privilege.

Disclosure

Disclosure

2020 ★ 7.8

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

2018 ★ 7.1

Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – and she’s done it all in the public eye. An intimate look at one woman’s singular journey.

Miss Representation

Miss Representation

2011 ★ 6.9

The film MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.

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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

2013 ★ 6.9

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

2018 ★ 7.5

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.

Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame

2018 ★ 6.8

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.

Fuck

Fuck

2006 ★ 6.4

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

2012 ★ 7.3

A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj ĆœiĆŸek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

2006 ★ 7.0

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

This Changes Everything

This Changes Everything

2019 ★ 6.2

An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.

The Corporation

The Corporation

2003 ★ 7.6

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

2016 ★ 6.9

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet.

Directed by John Ford

Directed by John Ford

1971 ★ 6.9

A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.

A Plastic Ocean

A Plastic Ocean

2016 ★ 7.5

A documentary focused on plastic pollution in the world's oceans.

The War Room

The War Room

1993 ★ 6.8

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George Stephanopoulos.

Public Speaking

Public Speaking

2011 ★ 7.0

Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp wit and observations on modern life. Filmed at New York’s Waverly Inn and intercut with archival footage and interviews, the documentary captures Lebowitz’s distinctive worldview through her spontaneous monologues and public appearances.

RBG

RBG

2018 ★ 7.5

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

Powaqqatsi

Powaqqatsi

1988 ★ 7.3

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars

Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars

2012 ★ 6.4

In 1997, Louis Theroux made a documentary about the world of male porn performers in Los Angeles. 15 years later, he returns to find a business struggling with the deluge of free porn on the internet. Louis revisits some of the original programme's contributors as well as meeting the latest crop of porn performers dreaming of porn stardom.

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