Velvet Film

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

Release : 2017.02.03
Popularity : 18.154

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Release : 2005.02.17
Popularity : 9.318

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son,...

Release : 2017.03.02
Popularity : 5.817

The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary,...

Release : 2023.10.13
Popularity : 5.576

Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in...

Release : 2013.05.06
Popularity : 2.822

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice...

Release : 2000.05.13
Popularity : 2.353

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these...

Release : 2024.12.25
Popularity : 2.385

Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.

Release : 1991.11.01
Popularity : 1.885

A road trip, over ten years, across the so-called Amexican border, a mythical boundary, both physical and cultural, that separates the United States...

Release : 2021.03.30
Popularity : 2.008

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when...

Release : 2014.09.05
Popularity : 1.729

Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.

Release : 1993.08.25
Popularity : 0.985

In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the...

Release : 2009.09.12
Popularity : 1.309

Definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell.

Release : 1970.01.01
Popularity : 0.15