Fast Break

Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes from extinction.

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.

Two formidable Native American women, both chief judges in their tribe's courts, strive to reduce incarceration rates and heal their people by...

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although scoffed at and ultimately banned by the medical...

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival footage of the band, and interviews with former...

A documentary about the Synthwave scene, nostalgia and the universe of creating sounds. A love letter to human fascination and the collective...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform one man into a national sensation and iconic...

In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and becomes famous in 1973 when director Sidney Lumet tells...

For how long have we been laughing? Are human beings the only ones to laugh? In the past, scientists tended to neglect such questions of laughter,...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the...