Films Directed by Women

Like a road movie, the film accompanies a water delivery truck through the Brazilian landscapes of the Sertão region, plagued by drought. Between fiction and documentary, the driver’s trip bears witness to a determined population endeavouring to live out their daily lives, while the sterile words of politicians seem to soar over the arid lands. A collective portrait that respects the right distance.

In the early-morning hours of July 23, 2007, in Cheshire, Conn., ex-convicts Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky broke into the family home of William Petit, his wife, Jennifer, and their daughters, Michaela, 11, and Hayley, 17. Dr. Petit was beaten and tied to a pole in the basement. The three women were bound in their bedrooms while the men ransacked the house. The brutal ordeal continued throughout the morning, ending with rape, arson and a horrific triple homicide.

Against the narrative of Robert, a transgender female-to-male responding to the irony of ovarian cancer, the director creates a deeply moving portrayal of love and determination in the face of prejudice.
Robert lives in rural Georgia, which he describes as "Bubba country" and the "home of the KKK." Nonetheless most of Robert's encounters with the heterosexual community are recounted as upbeat examples of surprising tolerance. Without any pretense, artifice, or apology, he is magnetically compelling in speech and movement. His complete lack of bitterness sets aside the distractions of his cancer, enabling the viewer share his satisfaction in life as a man and his joy in his relationships.
In spite of challenging subject matter, this documentary of Robert's self-selected "family" of transgendered men and women (and one heterosexual partner) is unerring in its ability to humanize without condescension. By not politicizing or sensationalizing her subjects' gender issues, the director has achieved a profoundly affecting emotional depth.
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Pucker Up takes a look at the little-known world of championship caliber whistling. The movie offers a wealth of footage from the International Whistling Convention and Competition in North Carolina, giving a history of whistling as well as offering a look at several of the competitors. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

America's 50-million strong Evangelical community is convinced that the world's future is foretold in Biblical prophecy - from the Rapture to the Battle of Armageddon. This astonishing documentary explores their world - in their homes, at conferences, and on a wide-ranging tour of Israel. By interweaving Christian, Zionist, Jewish and critical perspectives along with telling archival materials, the filmmakers probe the politically powerful - and potentially explosive - alliance between Evangelical Christians and Israel...an alliance that may set the stage for what one prominent Evangelical leader calls "World War III."

Just 60 miles north of New York City sits the poverty-stricken town of Newburgh, where, in 2009, four men were arrested for a plan to bomb two Jewish centers in the Bronx. But their leader, a suspicious Pakistani businessman planted by the government as an informant, led these men straight into the hands of the authorities. With endless footage gathered from hidden cameras, directors David Heilbroner and Kate Davis investigate just what homegrown terrorism truly means in this shocking and galvanizing exposé.

传奇女喜剧家、电视人Joan Rivers生平纪录片

A documentary that showcases baseball's most unpredictable pitch.

HBO制作，根据2013年波士顿马拉松爆炸案真实事件改编，由J·K·西蒙斯和马克·沃尔伯格（变形金刚4和泰迪熊的男主）将饰演两名参与追捕的波士顿警察，完整记录了波士顿马拉松恐怖袭击后，受难者的经历，袭击者的下场。

IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE explores identity and legacy in the African-American family, as Grammy award-winning rapper Che 'Rhymefest' Smith and his long-lost father reconnect and try to build a new future in Chicago's turbulent South Side. Himself a child of a broken home, Che hasn't seen his father, Brian, in over 20 years, and presumes him dead. But after buying his father's childhood home, Che sets out to find him, and learns that his is now a homeless alcoholic living only several blocks away/ The film offers a probing take on memory and identity in a family two generations removed from slavery as it tracks Che and Brian's shared journey to create a new legacy for themselves, their community and the next generation of family.

During the 1977 World Series, Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke was denied access to the players' locker room. After a very public fight, the door was opened, but the debate about female journalists in the male sanctum of the clubhouse remained. Through interviews with pioneering female sports writers, Let Them Wear Towels captures the raw behavior, humorous retaliation, angry lawsuits and remarkable resolve that went into the struggle for equal access for women reporters.

讲述退役美国海军陆战队上尉布莱恩·斯泰德尔无意发现苏丹达尔富尔一直在发生严重的种族屠杀，一支叫作“马背上的恶魔”的武装部队，枪杀平民，强暴妇女
。上尉拍摄了大量照片，交给美国政府，希望他们介入。但是达尔富尔早就签署过停火协议，暴行照片被疑作假。他一怒之下决定拍摄纪录片，用真实的惨烈画面去刺激美国人。

不明飞行物，从科学的角度而言又称“未确认飞行物”，英文全称为“Unidentified flying object”。而其缩写——UFO，则是全世界人都知道的一个标识着神奇的代名词。
自人类文明开端以来，关于不明飞行物的记载和传说就屡见不鲜。20世纪以前较完整的不明飞行物目击报告有300件以上。而从20世纪40年代末起，不明飞行物目击事件急剧增多，引起了科学界的争论。持否定态度的科学家认为很多目击报告不可信，不明飞行物并不存在，只不过是人们的幻觉或是目击者对自然现象的一种曲解。肯定者则认为不明飞行物是一种真实现象，正在被越来越多的事实所证实。到80年代为止，全世界共有目击报告约10万件。在现实中，无论是通古斯大爆炸，还是诺斯维尔事件，都让众多UFO发烧友和各路科学家不断探求事件真相。
于是，在人们的口耳相传中，神秘的UFO也成为了不可解释的超自然现象的同义词。在这样的背景下，人类展现出了强大的智慧与想象力。从ET到“X档案”，从纳粹飞碟到星球大战，从星际迷航到时空穿梭……人类世界的科幻作品因为UFO的出现大幅加快了前进的脚步。
我们肉眼看到的UFO真都是来自星星的都教授们的座驾吗？还是其中另有隐情？

The story of Myo Myint, a political prisoner, who made the transformation from being a soldier in Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist.

A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.

疯狂的智慧是期待已久的纪录片，探索生命，教导，和曲嘉仲巴仁波切，在把藏传佛教与西方的关键人物的“疯狂智慧”。称为天才，流氓和社会有远见; “20世纪最伟大的精神导师之一，”和“坏孩子佛教，”仲巴违抗分类。提出并严格藏族寺院传统的训练，仲巴来到西和粉碎了我们对一个开明的老师应该如何表现的先入为主的观念 - 他公然抽烟，喝酒，并与学生们亲密关系 - 但他的教诲被认为是真实的，广阔和有影响力。他的死亡，以前所未有的访问和独特的档案资料20年后，疯狂的智慧着眼于人，关于他的神话，并试图以正视听。

Star-studded show recorded at the Big Sur Folk Festival, Big Sur, California, September 13th and 14th, 1969. Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian, and others. This film captures a remarkable moment in folk, rock, and pop history - the famous folk festival that brought traditional acts like Dorothy Morrison & The Combs Sisters and Carol Ann Cisneros together with the psychedelic rockers of the day who were most deeply rooted in the folk revival. Older songs like ‘Oh Happy Day,’ ‘Rise And Shine,’ ‘All God’s Children,’ and ‘Swing Down, Sweet Chariot’ meet Joni Mitchell’s ‘Woodstock,’ Joan Baez’s ‘Sweet Sir Galahad,’ ‘Bob Dylan’s ‘I Shall Be Released,’ CSNY’s ‘Down By The River,’ and many more of the now-classic songs of what was then called the ‘new rock.’ The scene is notably intimate and - aside from one fan’s dustup with Stephen Stills - mellow, with many rare, close-up moments with the stars.

Henry, a hitman hired to take out a socialite, finds himself falling for Jenny, a parole officer, instead.

上映。故事讲述了越南战争的最后几天，北越军队节节胜利南越军队则面临崩溃，美国方面的只能面对这样的道德困境——到底是服从白宫的命令只带美国公民撤离，还是冒着被指控叛国罪的风险尽可能多的保留南越盟友的故事。
在越南战争的最后几天，北越军队节节胜利南越军队则面临崩溃，共产主义的胜利不可避免，美国方面的外交和军事人员接到指示准备撤退，然而他们也意识到，当他们离开后曾帮助并投靠他们的南越盟友将面临生命的威胁。此时他们只能面对这样的道德困境——到底是服从白宫的命令只带美国公民撤离，还是冒着被指控叛国罪的风险尽可能多的保留南越盟友。

影片全方位的记录了美国顶级卓越的冲浪运动员莱尔德·汉密尔顿的一生。莱尔德汉密尔顿的一生，记录了冲浪运动员莱尔德汉密尔顿的非凡生活和传奇生涯。尽管冲浪行业经常被鄙视或忽略其重要性，但莱尔德是一个独特的体育偶像——一个拒绝在专业领域参与一切竞争比赛的运动员，但在历史上从未有过其他的人物。
莱尔德的传记故事是在考艾岛冬季冲浪季节的背景下讲述的，厄尔尼诺的风暴系统威胁着几十年来最大的海浪。在加州南部、百慕大群岛和考艾岛拍摄的当代垂直场景中，每一波海浪都将过去和现在的场景交织在一起，形成了一幅亲密而引人注目的超级明星运动员的肖像。贯穿始终的是对莱尔德的一次深度的个人访谈，以及与家人、朋友、合作者和最了解他的诋毁者的谈话。