DOCUMENTARIES

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. 122 min. Neon. 2022. DVD UPC 1551529361. $29.99.

Art and activism collide in this powerful documentary about photographer Nan Goldin and her attempts to remove the names of opioid-linked pharmaceutical billionaires, such as the Sacklers, from the walls of art museums around the globe.

A Brief History of the Future. 360 min. PBS. 2024. DVD UPC 4188704803. $34.99.

Who says the future has to be a dystopian nightmare? This PBS TV series delivers philosophical and thought-provoking positive glimpses into what the future might entail, with one cool idea after another.

Copa 71. 90 min. Greenwich Entertainment. In Spanish, Italian, French & English w/English subtitles. 2023. DVD UPC 3832926675. $19.99.

A lost piece of sports history gets recognized in a lively and emotional underdog story about the Women’s World Cup for soccer in 1971.

Ennio. 156 min. Music Box Films. In Italian, English, French, Portuguese & Chinese w/English subtitles. 2023. DVD UPC 5177895202. $29.99.

A phenomenal celebration of beautiful music and images as one of the most influential film score composers, Ennio Morricone, gets an entertaining and engrossing tribute to his life and music.

Four Daughters. 107 min. Kino Lorber. In Arabic w/English subtitles. 2023. DVD UPC 3832926502. $19.99.

Oscar-nominated, this is a powerful, disturbing, and complicated look at a family’s implosion in Tunisia after two of the children join ISIS.

Nazi Town, USA. 55 min. PBS. 2023. DVD UPC 4188704874. $29.99.

Chilling details of how fascist ideology took hold in the U.S. in the 1930s, resembling a sci-fi alternate history while also presciently linking to frightening current events.

Pianoforte. 93 min. Greenwich Entertainment. In English, Polish, Mandarin, Russian & Italian w/English subtitles. 2023. DVD UPC 3832926526. $19.99.

Intense competition sequences are combined with classical music as young pianists attempt to win a thrilling 21-day competition that could change the winner’s life and career.

Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy of Love Canal. 115 min. PBS. 2024. DVD UPC 4188704883. $29.99.

Nearly five decades after the Love Canal chemical spill in Western New York, this PBS film will shock and infuriate anew, playing like an ecological thriller while telling of an environmental catastrophe.

Rookies. 115 min. Icarus Films. In French w/English subtitles. 2021. DVD UPC 5456500413. $26.99.

An extremely tender portrait of youth reflected through hip-hop dance as a group of working-class students attends a challenging dance school in Paris, where some will flourish and others will fail.