Zeitgeist Films

A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well...

Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. Millions across occupied Europe saw his films, the most infamous of which was the horrific anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Suss, which was required viewing for all SS members. Harlan was also the only artist from the Nazi era to be charged with war crimes. Included are never-before-seen archival footage, unearthed film excerpts, rare home movies, and new...

Germany's Third Reich made 1,200 feature films. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. More than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix interviews German film historians, archivists and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Moeller shows how contentious these films remain, and how propaganda can retain its punch when presented...

Bill Cunningham has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirees for the New York Times Style section in his columns On the Street and Evening Hours for decades. Presented is a delicate, funny, and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

Critically acclaimed, this is the award winning true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.

A mean-spirited, self-absorbed, destructive Canadian-Armenian photographer is hired to take twelve pictures of Armenian historic churches for a calendar. He takes his wife along as a translator, and as they traverse the twelve sites chosen for the calendar with their Armenian guide, their relationship begins to unravel. The photographer returns to Canada with his twelve images, but without his wife, who has gradually felt drawn to her ethnic roots...

A collection of classic short films, plus a collection of "footnotes" that includes commentaries, interviews, alternative version, and unrealized projects.

Following the death of her husband in a car crash, a grieving widow in the Australian countryside struggles to help her children deal with their loss.

Former Mayor Ed Koch was the quintessential New Yorker. Ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989. His three terms included a competitive 1977 election; the 1980 transit strike; the AIDS epidemic; housing renewal initiatives; and a municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews and rare archival footage, it chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world's most wondrous city in a...

Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration--an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Director Lixin Fan draws us into the fractured lives of a single migrant family caught up in this desperate annual migration. Sixteen years ago, the...