New Documentary Movies on Kanopy - Page 6

Merchant Ivory

2024

Merchant Ivory

2024
7.7
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins. Footage from more than fifty interviews, clips, and archival material gives voice to the family of actors and technicians who helped define Merchant Ivory’s Academy Award-winning work of consummate quality and intelligence. With six Oscar winners among the notable artists participating, these close and often long-term collaborators intimately detail the transformational cinematic creativity and personal and professional drama of the wandering company that left an indelible impact on film culture.
Seeking Mavis Beacon

2024

Seeking Mavis Beacon

2024
2
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for the model while posing questions about identity and artificial intelligence.
Concussed: The American Dream

2024

Concussed: The American Dream

2024
Tyler Sash was drafted by the New York Giants and became a part of the 2012 Super Bowl winning team. Concussions would cut Sash's career short and the film is paralleled by NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre's CTE experience.
*smiles and kisses you*

2024

*smiles and kisses you*

2024
The relationship between a man and his life-size AI-animated doll is explored in this moving documentary. A clear eyed and open hearted take on machine learning and loneliness, in an age of algorithmic dating apps.
A Boston (R)evolution

2024

A Boston (R)evolution

2024
A BOSTON (R)EVOLUTION tracks the 2021 Boston mayoral election which featured the most gender and racially diverse field ever. Using the drama of election season as its spine, the film explores race and gender in politics in a city like Boston with an centuries-long external demographic perception that defies the realities of its present day citizenry.
To Be Destroyed

2024

To Be Destroyed

2024
A 30-minute documentary on book banning and censorship that follows author Dave Eggers as he investigates why a Rapid City, SD school board wanted to ban his book.
Sometime, Somewhere

2024

Sometime, Somewhere

2024
Sometime, Somewhere sheds light on the challenges faced by Latino communities in Charlottesville, Virginia against the backdrop of immigration driven by factors like climate change, poverty, and drug-related violence.
Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads and Hallucinations

2024

Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads and Hallucinations

2024
A look at the life and influential work of pioneering abstract painter Mary Heilmann, who emerged from the minimalist and Beat Generation scenes in California.
Two American Families: 1991-2024

2024

Two American Families: 1991-2024

2024
8
It’s a central premise of the American dream: If you’re willing to work hard, you’ll be able to make a living and build a better life for your children. But what if working hard isn’t enough to get ahead — or even to ensure your family’s basic financial stability? Two American Families: 1991-2024, a special, two-hour documentary filmed over more than 30 years, is a portrait of perseverance from FRONTLINE, Bill Moyers, and filmmakers Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes that raises unsettling questions about the changing nature of the American economy and the impact on people struggling to make a living. This is the saga of two families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — one Black, the Stanleys, and one white, the Neumanns — who have spent the past 34 years battling to keep from sliding into poverty, and who refuse to give up despite the economic challenges that their stories reveal.
Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story

2024

Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story

2024
The life and work of influential mid-century architect and designer Eliot Noyes, who is best remembered as the man behind IBM's landmark design program in the 1950s and 1960s.
Ice Maiden

2024

Ice Maiden

2024
Ice Maiden charts the uncompromising determination of Australian Lisa Blair, who became the first woman in history to sail solo around Antarctica.
Agent of Happiness

2024

Agent of Happiness

2024
8
The documentary team follows two happiness agents in their forties who spend a month and a half on the road twice a year, going door-to-door with their questionnaires in isolated villages in the Himalayas. The filmmakers undertake to provide an intimate insight into the daily lives and desires of Bhutanese people, and also seek the answer to the universal question of whether happiness can really be measured. Gross National Happiness promises a heart-warming journey into a mysterious, fairytale-like world, which is the exact opposite of the social order dominated by consumption and desires.
Sorry/Not Sorry

2024

Sorry/Not Sorry

2024
3.2
An inside look at Louis C.K.’s public downfall and surprising return to the stage. Featuring interviews with three women -- Jen Kirkman, Abby Schachner, and Megan Koester -- who spoke up about his sexual misconduct, New York Times journalists who broke the story, and fellow comedians and writers such as Michael Ian Black, Michael Schur, and Aida Rodriguez. Invites viewers to question whose stories and whose art we value, and at what cost. A New York Times production.
Sk8face

2024

Sk8face

2024
8.7
Tells the history of skateboard art and its evolution through the decades, as iconic and rebellious skateboarders and artists give firsthand experiences and stories about their art that challenged the establishment.
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

2024

The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

2024
4.5
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.
El Caballo Español; El Origen

2024

El Caballo Español; El Origen

2024
Eternal You

2024

Eternal You

2024
6.1
Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.
Quem é Essa Mulher?

2024

Quem é Essa Mulher?

2024
The Grab

2024

The Grab

2024
7.9
An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert land grabs by some of the world’s most powerful countries.
It's Not Me

2024

It's Not Me

2024
7
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.