Genre: Political

Ava DuVernay investigates the 14th Amendment, exploring its many facets, from who gets to belong in America to the rights they’re entitled to.

True crime junkie Ana cleans the homes of Chicago’s elite. When one of her clients’ wives suddenly disappears, Ana believes she’s uncovered a murder.

In 1977, disability rights activist Judy Heumann leads a historic 28-day occupation, uniting protesters in a fight for accessibility laws and equal rights.

In this stunning, intimate portrait of defiance and forgiveness, a Rwandan genocide survivor’s convictions are tested by her daughter’s unexpected pregnancy.

After deciding to end it all, Arash spends a final day with his family in this moving expression of life’s mysterious beauty and its ability to puncture despair.

In this raw and affecting portrait of resilience, a Gazan photographer captures the devastation while protecting his newborn son and older parents.

After Atlanta officials move to destroy an urban forest to make way for a massive police training facility—aka “Cop City”—the people fight back.

Parallel timelines weave together a contemporary French wedding and an ancestral funeral in Guinea-Bissau for a West African diasporic family.

This fascinating portrait traces the life of charismatic Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, celebrated as a prophet and vilified as a terrorist.

In this bold, empathic drama, a couple is pushed to the brink when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upends their lives, throwing their partnership into confusion.

An introspective German exchange student searches for meaning and kinship over a transformative year in newly post-9/11 New Mexico.

A 17th century Spanish priest brutally colonizing the Philippines orders his converts to transport a cartload of marble through a marauder-filled jungle.

Spanning a decade, this sprawling yet intimate war-time epic follows several youth as their world is upended and they adapt to the crushing reality of life in Ukraine.

A Russian businessman’s comfortable life is thrown into chaos when he begins to suspect his wife of infidelity in this dark, sardonic moral fable.

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney delivers the definitive portrait of one of the most controversial and unchecked figures of our time: Elon Musk.

Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani traces over 40 years of her country’s tumultuous history through five personal portraits of resistance.

Three stories connect across the Pan-African flag as an injured athlete, an evicted mother, and a sitcom star fight to survive modern Black America.

This electrifying film essay tracks the short life of film critic Michèle Firk and the anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s that she joined.