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Film Studies Featured Film
Peter Davis's landmark documentary unflinchingly confronts the United States' involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources--from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad--Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war.
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FEATURE AND DOCUMENTARY CONTENT, INTERNATIONAL
Start here to locate film titles. These cover international, historical, award winning, canonical titles. Titles purchased from these vendors are licensed yearly (sometimes 3 yrs, perpetuity); fee runs from $150-$350.
- Kanopy International, Documentary, Independent, Award Winners, Experimental
- SWANK Digital Campus Feature Films, especially older titles
- Docuseek Features and docs, social justice POV
- AVON, Sony Pictures Classics
AVON AND FILMS ON DEMAND INCLUDE FEATURES AND DOCS; some distributors and titles are listed below. AVON and FOD have tons of content ranging from Feature films to Training vids, Documentaries, News, History.
Featured Collections by Distributor
Below are some to the top distributors of feature films and documentaries, a few film suggestions from each distributor have been added to peek your curiosity. We don't have everything, but we have a lot of good stuff from a lot of good distributors and filmmakers.
- California Newsreel Karmen Gei, Brother Outsider, Strange Fruit
- Cinema Guild Off the Rez, Inocente, Sari's Mother
- Criterion Collection (we currently license 28 titles) 7 Samurai, Cleo 5 to 7, Le Hahne, Mon Oncle
- Film Platform - Girl Rising, RBG, Human Flow
- First Run Features - docs/features
- Grasshopper Films - Herb & Dorothy, Sweetgrass, Behemoth
- Music Box Films - Ida, Monsieur Lazhar, Betty Page Reveals All
- Oscilloscope Pictures Meeks Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy, Howl
- Ro*co Films - RBG, Human Flow, Life, Animated
- Silent Film Online L'Inhumaine, Flicker Alley titles, Broken Blossoms, Strike
- Sony Pictures Classics Feature Films Call Me by Your Name, Celluloid Closet, Wajda, Persepolis
- Sundance Films - Performance Artist, The Square, Madeline's Madeline
- The Video Project - Minimalism, Babushkas of Chernobyl, The Barber of Birmingham