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A new Netflix documentary explores what led to the release of Black Barbie in 1980, both celebrating her existence and recognizing her limitations.

The experimental documentary is punctuated by Giovanni’s poetry, read both by her and the actress Taraji P. Henson. But the film offers only what the...

In a new documentary, a filmmaker turns his lens on his grandparents during a pivotal moment in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This enlightening, troubling documentary chronicles life (and death) among residents in a long-term care facility during the heights of the pandemic.

In this biopic, a boy from a family of migrant farm workers watches the moon landing in 1969, which ignites his desire to be an...

In Oz Rodriguez’s coming-of-age film, a martial arts-obsessed teenager is determined to throw his first punch.

In 1980, the Lakota were offered money for their stolen Black Hills land. They refused to accept the settlement and continue to fight today.

In this film a young woman searching for her missing sister infiltrates a gang, but the focus is diffuse and the promised thriller never materializes.

A docudrama follows a family fighting to stay together and avoid exile to a leprosy colony, but fails to carry an emotional punch.

Monument Valley embodies the Old West. But the fantasies presented in Westerns obscure its darker history and the lives of the Navajo people who inhabit...