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A married woman visits three friends in the city, and we are inspired to consider what is the nature of happiness for women in a “man’s world.”
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:19
The Harlem Cultural Festival was a music festival taking place in the same summer of 1969 as Woodstock, and its amazing line-up, and insight into h...
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- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
Wes Anderson’s playful new film is presented as an issue of a Paris-based American magazine, with three stories about the eternal appeal of non-con...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:20
A film from Norway about a young woman seeking fulfillment in relationships takes the conventions of romantic comedy and turns them over to reveal ...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:27
This week on On Story we’ll join Breaking Bad creator & showrunner Vince Gilligan for a retrospective look at the 1971 cult-classic The French Conn...
- Added: May 05, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Mike Leigh’s 1988 breakthrough film already contains what makes him great: working class issues, funny believable characters, and a fine sensitivit...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 03:56
A brother and sister, their addict mother in jail, try to get by under the poverty line in a depressed southern Ohio town, and end up hanging out w...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 03:50
A tragic love story with echoes from a German fairy tale shows director Christian Petzold exploring the heavy influence of the past on relationship...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:58
A new film from the West African nation of Ivory Coast presents an intriguing allegory about power and its misuse. Night of the Kings, the second n...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:00
Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film portrays the difficult yet tender world of runaways.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 03:25
A veteran of Soviet cinema presents a powerful drama about an incident in 1962, when factory workers in a Don Region city go on strike, and a true ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:38
Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 03:20
The true story of the 2018 effort to rescue thirteen boys trapped in a huge flooded cave in Thailand is more exciting than most fiction.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:45
This week, web series creator-turned cable TV sensation Issa Rae on her journey from YouTube to HBO, her desire for diversity on television and her...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 54:00
This week on On Story we’re joined by The Terror writer, Dave Kajganich discussing the elements of scare. And later, we’ll hear from screenwriting ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2021
- Length: 54:00
Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:42
Thomas Vinterburg’s Oscar-winning comedy tells of four men who decide to use a small amount of alcohol to reinvigorate their jobs and personal live...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:24
The traditional way of beekeeping preserved by a Macedonian woman runs up against the modern motive for profit at all costs, in this gorgeous docum...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:24
Ken Loach and Paul Laverty present another great film about working class life: a portrait of an English family having to find a way to support the...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:23
The latest film by the darkly absurdist Swedish director Roy Andersson tackles the vexing subject of religion.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:22
Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:23
Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaugh...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:21
A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 03:36
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her rela...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:33
