The nearly forgotten story of one of pop music’s first black trans performers is told in Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. In the 1960s Jackie Shane was a groundbreaking R&B star, before disappearing from the public eye in 1971. After her nieces Andrenee Majors and Vonnie Moore inherit her belongings and find her…
The provocative electro-punk artist goes on tour for the 20th anniversary of her debut album in Teaches of Peaches. Toronto-born Merrill Nisker, better known by her stage name Peaches, is preparing to go on tour to mark the 20th anniversary of her 2000 debut album “The Teaches of Peaches.” Featuring songs created using beats from…
The life and career of Luther Vandross are looked back upon in Luther: Never Too Much. Luther Vandross grew up in the Brox with a love of music and in his younger years became part of the Apollo Theatre house band Listen to My Brother, which would go on to appear on the first episodes…
A family copes with the generational trauma of being residential school survivors in WaaPaKe (Tomorrow). Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin is a member of the Attawapiskat First Nation, whose mother Rita is a residential school survivor. Jules interviews Rita and her eldest son Asivak, along with Joseph of the Kwantlen First Nation and Maisie of the…
William Shatner reflects on his life and career in William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill. Now in his 90s, William Shatner sits down to reflect on his life growing up in Montreal and his career as an actor, most famously as Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek. Shatner also reflects on what type…
Ukrainian members of the associated press find themselves besieged in the city of Mariupol during the first month of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 20 Days in Mariupol. Pulitzer Prize-winning video journalist Mstyslav Chernov filmed the devastation in the Southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol during Russia’s invasion of the country in February and March 2022….
The Oscar-nominated short Films in the documentary category tackle a wide range of subjects, all with an average running time of about half an hour. This year’s nominees tackle everything from economic justice to censorship in schools to an appreciation of music. There’s even a personal interest doc about two grandmothers. Nǎi Nai and Wài…
A musician turned politician runs against Uganda’s decades-long president in Bobi Wine: The People’s President. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine, is a popular Ugandan musician and activist. Bobi Wine is an MP when the Ugandan government votes to remove age limits from the constitution, allowing President Yoweri Museveni to continue holding an…
A Tunisian woman and her two youngest daughters tell their story with the help of actors playing the two eldest daughters in Four Daughters. Olfa Hamrouni is a Tunisian woman, whose two eldest daughters Ghofrane and Rahma disappeared in 2015 when they were 16 and 15 years old respectively. With her youngest daughters Eya and…
A farmer seeks justice for the gang rape of his 13-year-old daughter in To Kill a Tiger. One night in Jharkhand, India, a 13-year-old girl is raped by three men. However, when her rice farmer father Ranjit reported the incident to police, they instead suggested that his daughter just marry one of the rapists. Ranjit…
