Our interview with interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome, co-director and protagonist of Assembly and creator of Being the ...

From a 1960s barbershop doo-wop group to 1970s masters of funk, through pitfalls, comebacks, to becoming the world's most sampled band, Parliament Funkadelic continues to perform, record, and funk on ...

We Believe in Dinosaurs is an exploration of the scientific and historical veracity of the Bible and the construction of an authentic likeness of Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky. Known as “The ...

The $100+ billion video game industry is big. So big, in fact, that it dwarfs both the film and music industry combined. Gaming as a hobby has become much more popular every year since the 1990s, ...

The ancient sport of sumo traces its history back more than two thousand years. But as more and more Americans enter professional sumo rings both home and abroad, Sumo East and West asks if sumo will ...

We count on indie filmmakers to sniff out the conspicuous absences in mainstream media. Journalist and investigative reporter Amy Goodman once said, “The role of independent media is to go to where ...

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness examines the life and work of the Jewish-American anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, whose writings challenged prevailing notions of race and culture.

An Israeli soccer club's fans waged a racist campaign after their team, Beitar, added two Muslim players from Chechnya.

The Atom Smashers tells the story of the quest of a group of scientists to find the most elusive sub-atomic particles ever theorized: the Higgs boson.

Filmmaker Doug Pray has directed a number of highly acclaimed feature-length documentary films about American subcultures and maverick characters. His best-known film, Surfwise, premiered at the ...

This piece is part of an ongoing Independent Lens series exploring documentary film history. Check out the previous entry, Silent Real-Life Adventure Films, and stay tuned for more installments. The ...