The Volunteers
Filmmaker River Hagg travels to war-torn Syria, in hopes of documenting the war between the YPG and ISIS. He eventually finds himself in a volunteer unit, the only medics on the battlefield.
Genre: Documentary, War
Director: River O'Mahoney Hagg
Actors: Agir, Anthony Bagok Burton, Levi Jonathan Shirley, Patrick Kasprik, Patrick Krasprik, Porter Goodman, River O'Mahoney Hagg
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of…
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democratic societies deal with privacy, secrecy, and the…
Last Call at the Oasis
Participant Media’s Last Call at the Oasis is a new documentary from Jessica Yu & Elise Pearlstein. Think water is an infinite resource? Think again.
I Am or How Jack Became Black
After his son is denied enrollment by the local elementary school for not identifying his “primary race,” a multiracial father journeys through America’s maze of Identity Politics to better understand…
Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles
Fresh off the heels of her brand-new album, “Happier Than Ever,” this cinematic concert experience features an intimate performance of every song in the album’s sequential order – for the…
Juvenile Court
JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues…
Desert Coffee
In the Californian part of the Sonoran desert, in the close vicinity of military bases, there is a “wild” town called Slab City inhabited by the refugees from the American…
American Tragedy
Sue Klebold attempts to reconcile how the son she affectionately referred to as “Sunshine Boy” became a school shooter. “If love could have stopped Columbine,” she says, “Columbine would never…
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
The origin story behind one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when “tradition” was on the wane as…
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic combines stories of people and communities impacted by this epidemic along with information from experts and those at the frontlines of dealing with the epidemic. The…
All in My Family
After starting a family of his very own in the United States, a gay filmmaker documents his loving, traditional Chinese family’s process of acceptance.