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Economic exploitation, climate change, entrenched corruption: These acclaimed films find fascination in catastrophe.

Ian McShane stars as an assassin killing time in the Canary Islands.

This documentary tells the story of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit Earth’s highest mountain.

A newly preserved Andy Warhol film documents a combative artist couple the playwright knew. The movie is premiering in MoMA’s To Save and Project.

Another movie tackles the story of the Uruguayan rugby players who survived a plane crash and turned to cannibalism.

This month’s selections include Jean-Luc Godard’s look at the Rolling Stones, an interview with a Holocaust survivor and a behind-the-scenes look at “Sesame Street.”

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis probably never met. What the stage-based film presupposes is: Maybe they did?

This documentary looks at the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who sought with each new work to confound assumptions about how movies could look and sound.

This documentary by Jennifer Baichwal recounts a legal battle in which a groundskeeper in California took on a multibillion-dollar company.

This month’s picks include two disturbing looks at domestic dysfunction, and — on a brighter note — a portrait of a brilliant Leonard Bernstein protégée.