documentary film

Michele Fornasero’s freature film tells a true story of two Italian brothers who decided to challenge the tobacco industry with their business at the edge of legality, putting under the spotlight the system’s interest and hypocrisy. The documentary is now...

Antonino D'Ambrosio's new documentary reveals the man behind the myth more than 40 years after the maverick cop exposed massive corruption in the NYPD. "Frank Serpico" explores the performative aspects of its protagonist's character, while highlighting the Italian-America side of...

Afro-Italian filmmaker Fred Kuwornu's new documentary "Blaxploitalian" explores the social issues and complexities of Italy's contemporary society, and criticizes the Italian entertainment industry for being oblivious of non-white Italians

From Naples to New York: ArteCinema 2016, the international film festival of documentaries on contemporary art, challenges the audience at Casa Italiana with its stimulating selection of movies on Italian master artists.

An environmental technician from Paraguay invited local kids to take music lessons. They began to create instruments out of whatever could be salvaged from the mounds of trash around them. Eventually the orchestra came to life, Landfill Harmonic. This award-winning...

"Abortion: Stories Women Tell” by Missouri native Tracy Droz Tragos is an even-handed documentary that focuses on the people. We hear personal stories from the women it effects most: young and poor women, abortion providers, nurses, guards who watch over...

The bad boy of German filmmaking, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, was only 37 years old when he died in 1982. Yet he left behind a legacy of over 44 films and tv shows; and friends and colleagues who still remember his...

An unprecedented look behind the scenes of the Met exhibition, “China: Through The Looking Glass,” and the star-studded fundraiser that celebrated it. But "The First Monday in May" is more than a vanity piece. The film also looks at the...