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Criterion Channel
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6.8
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69
/179/
63
/94/
3.9
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92
/76/
65
/173/
78
/31/

Mississippi Masala (1991)
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
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The Roku Channel
74
7.7
/1944/
70
/101/
60
/41/
3.7
/4592/
88
/24/
100
/3/
63
/8/
cc age 13+

This Changes Everything (2019)
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
poster
63
6.0
/2577/
65
/46/
60
/40/
3.2
/939/
60
/20/
58
/42/

The Perez Family (1995)
In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.
poster
71
31
6.3
/55/
67
/4/
64
/7/
3.4
/224/
85
/238/
81
/1050705/

Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior (2024)
A portrait of American actress Uma Thurman, muse of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and courageous voice for the many victims of despotic producer Harvey Weinstein.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
14
7.2
/199/
77
/4/
61
/6/
3.8
/861/

India Cabaret (1985)
A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a cabaret house in Bombay.
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33
10
6.6
/55/
20
/6/
33
/3/
9
/22/
41
/149/

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem (2016)
Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.
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Criterion Channel
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7.5
/33/
100
/1/

The Many Miracles of Household Saints (2024)
In keeping with the intergenerational magic of 'Household Saints', filmmaker Martina Savoca-Guay has crafted a compelling new documentary, 'The Many Miracles of Household Saints', revealing the improbable story behind the making of the film.
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6.3
/100/
70
/1/
100
/1/

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers (2004)
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .
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Amazon Prime Video
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7.3
/18/
10
/1/

Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded (2011)
A sequel to the 1988 award winning documentary, "Slaying the Dragon," this film looks at the past 25 years of representation of Asian and Asian American women in U.S. visual media -- from blockbuster films and network television to Asian American cinema and YouTube -- to explore what's changed, what's been recycled, and what we can hope for in the future.
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6.6
/43/
100
/1/
80
/1/

Restoring the Apu Trilogy (2015)
In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though there were no technologies available at the time capable of fully restoring such badly damaged film elements, the Academy Film Archive held on to them. And now times have changed.
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Kanopy
65
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7.1
/166/
70
/2/
52
/5/
70
/10/
65
/4/

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017)
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moments of cinema, from Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen.
poster
Kanopy
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6.3
/67/
70
/2/
83
/6/

Femme (2013)
A documentary featuring interviews with 100 influential women from around the world.
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6.5
/73/
70
/1/

Lights, Action, Music (2007)
A wonderful journey through the meaning and relevance of film music composition. Featuring great, albeit brief, insights from some of the modern greats.
poster
47
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6.4
/412/
35
/9/
35
/3/
55
/3/

Bollywood Calling (2001)
An alcoholic, cancer-ridden American film-maker decides to produce a Bollywood movie.
poster
60
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6.7
/400/
36
/3/
34
/5/
100
/3/

My Own Country (1998)
An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.
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Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses (2016)
Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad, María Novaro but also the names of the less visible directors of the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
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Solace in the Dark (2011)
A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.


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