In less than four years, Frederik Willem de Klerk went from being Nelson Mandela's jailor to his Deputy President.
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Since 1998, IDA's fiscal sponsorship program has been helping independent documentary projects of all types get funded, finished and seen.
Released in 1981, the original film, The Park That Kids Built is a transformative documentary of urban renewal.
Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. The thirty-fifth President of the United States is gunned down.
A group of mariners' lives are changed when they find adventure, danger, and belonging on the high seas as they pursue their ultimate dream: navigating the western coast of the United States on an
State Trooper Jessie Osborn is called to check out a suspicious sedan on a remote Alaskan Highway. The brief encounter leaves one man dead and turns Jessie’s life into a nightmare.
In a fresh twist on traditional perceptions, host and producer Jane Turville travels across America to explore the underlying impacts of population growth on human ability to thrive in a modern wor
At a time when a decades old ethnic war split the country in two, an unconventional team of diverse players led Sri Lanka to one of the finest and most unforgettable World Cup performances in crick
From opposite sides of the world, farmers, journalists and activists fight Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. Together, they expose a human cost behind feeding Canadians.
The Only Film Ever Made to Change the AUTISM Epidemic.
Howard Suber is one of the foremost minds in cinema that you’ve never heard of.
Discover an invention from the 1870s that has outlasted technological innovations — the almost random arrangement of the typewriter keyboard – through the revealing personal journeys of three entre
The Race to Save the World is a feature documentary film that follows the inspiring stories of everyday people who are devoting their lives to fighting climate change.
In the summer of 1973, five men and six women embarked on a 101-day scientific sea-adventure, drifting on a small raft named ‘Acali’ across the Atlantic.
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives.
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The story of how an American treasure hunter and a Mexican artist transformed a dying desert village into a flourishing home for world-class art.
The S Word will give voice to those who have not only survived, but have courageously transformed their personal struggles into strength, action and even humor - providing a window into the lives o
"You must see Sable Island - it is a non-verbal place. It is in the eye that you must know it" --Roberto Dutesco, photographer
At Standing Rock, a two-spirit Jicarilla Apache/Navajo youth leader, a Lakota matriarch, and a non-binary Appalachian join the resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Four years ago I finished my documentary, Ending Disease, about the first generation of clinical trials using regenerative medicine to create one-time cures for diseases.
Israel has an amazing cutting edge food scene. This is the first film to bring the richness and variety of Israeli cuisine to Americans.
How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr.
The Sewing Girl’s Tale presents a gripping documentary recounting America’s first published rape trial.
After decades of violence, the stakes at the Afghanistan peace talks are high for everyone. For women, they are immeasurable.
The Silent Goldens gives a rare and raw look a family’s first conversations about a suicide 30 years after it happened.
A brush with death propels filmmaker Broderick Fox on a transnational journey which yields an extraordinary collaboration between himself and two other artists: Kwakwaka'wakw first-nations artist R
A century after her grandfather claimed his freedom from slavery and the family land, Elsie Herring and her North Carolina community fight the world's largest pork corporation for their freedom to
A diplomat, a teacher, and a musician declare war on poverty, ignorance, and crime, using an unorthodox weapon: classical music education.
A feature-length documentary that details the story of the unseen heroes of silent films: the musicians and composers, especially prominent women and Black voices, whose innovative use of music and
Edgar Mitchell's return to Earth in 1971 was a revelation, setting the course for a lifetime of ceaseless exploration.
In March of 1976, General Jorge Videla toppled Argentina’s democracy and embarked on a brutal campaign of repression.
May 21, 2013 was the worst day of my life. My small intestine perforated due to a long undiagnosed case of Crohn’s Disease.
This film will be the definitive documentary on the life of novelist-poet-outdoorsman-raconteur Jim Harrison.
Zak Ebrahim has spent his life trying to understand what drew his father to terrorism, and struggled with the knowledge that he has his blood in his veins.