Documentary Films on The D-Word

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Happy Animals (2018)

Produced by Emmy Gyori

A journey to the end of the world for one perfect shot at happiness.


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TXAI Macedo (1992)


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The S Word (2019)

Directed by Lisa Klein

One Word. Many Lives.


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Of Two Minds (2013)

Directed by Douglas Blush & Lisa Klein

Take your best day...and your darkest moment...and multiply by a million.


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Foreign Puzzle (2019)

Directed by chithra jeyaram

Suspended between life and death, a mother explores her uncertainty and fear of death through dance.


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Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (2017)

Directed by Tracy Heather Strain

If you only know "A Raisin in the Sun," then you don't know Lorraine Hansberry


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Undeniably Young: Nora Young and the Six-Day Race (2020)

Directed by Julia Morgan


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Driving with Selvi (2016)

The story of a former child bride who goes on to become South India's first female taxi driver.


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Transfixed (2015)

Produced by Julia Morgan

What happens when two people are so unique, so different, that they break every possible convention?


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The Passion of Scrooge (2018)

Directed by H. Paul Moon

Film adaptation of operatic version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" composed by Jon Deak


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Quartet for the End of Time (2016)

Directed by H. Paul Moon

A music documentary about Olivier Messiaen's transcendent World War II masterpiece


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Wrestle (2018)


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The Turkeys of Atwood Avenue (2015)

Directed by Gretta Wing Miller

Wild turkeys spent a year in our neighborhood, and then they were gone.


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Back To The Land...Again (2006)

Organic agriculture in Wisconsin


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Three Days on the River (2017)

Directed by Gretta Wing Miller

Spend 3 days in the community of women fly anglers.


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A Place Called Los Pereyra (2009)

Directed by Andrés Livov


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Gaza (2019)

Produced by Brendan J. Byrne

GAZA depicts a people plagued by conflict but not defined by it.


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Paws For Life (2017)

Directed by Mike Plewa

Short subject on ground-breaking dog rescue program at California State Prison - Los Angeles