An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Casts Laverne Cox, Bianca Leigh, Jen Richards, Alexandra Billings, Susan Stryker, Yance Ford, Lilly Wachowski, Brian Michael Smith, Tiq Milan, Nick Adams
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The Madness of Boy George
Florent raconte Pagny
Julia's Stepping Stones
The Birth of Television
Intransitivo
In The Room: Leigh Sales with Lin-Manuel Miranda
Guru, A Hijra Family
Mifune: The Last Samurai
A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
State of Pride
Kamasutra for Gay Men
Stolen
The Wages of Sin
Something to Do with Death
Letter from Tokyo
In Search of Avery Willard
Dressed in Blue
Cinema Red: Natives & Horror
Democracy for $ale
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The Madness of Boy George
IMDB 3.5 | Oct , 2006
Documenting the days and weeks preceding Boy George's appearance in a New York courtroom in June 2006 for cocaine possession and his subsequent sentencing to 5 days community service as a street cleaner by order of the US justice department.Florent raconte Pagny
IMDB 8.3 | Mar , 2024
Julia's Stepping Stones
IMDB 6 | Jul , 2024
Oscar-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert reflects on the social, economic and personal forces that led to her career as a pioneering documentarian.The Birth of Television
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1976
In this feature-length documentary from 1976, Leslie Mitchell and special guests recall the birth of BBC Television forty years before.Intransitivo
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2021
A documentary about the lives of eight trans people from different parts of Rio Grande do Sul, based on two narrative lines; the first, and main one, is composed of in-depth interviews that seek a multiplicity of experiences, addressing issues related to transition and also to other identity and intersectional crossings, such as class, race, age, sexuality, and body.In The Room: Leigh Sales with Lin-Manuel Miranda
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2023
Leigh Sales interviews Hamilton creator and Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda in front of 2000 Australian super fans.Guru, A Hijra Family
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2016
Set in a small town in the region of Tamil Nadu, in southern India, the film follows the days and works of a hijra family. Silky, Mahima, Trisha, Durga, Kuyili, Priyanka, Vasundhara and Yamuna, under the firm protection of their guru Lakshmi Ma, deliver snippets of their marginal but sovereign existence. From a millenia-old sacred tradition to getting by every second, "Guru" composes with them a poem of intertwined voices in which the world is a tough playground, where the third gender is primarily the resistance force of a life shared.Mifune: The Last Samurai
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 2016
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square
IMDB 1 | Jul , 2008
A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square chronicles the journey of seven brave individuals as they attempt to secure a home in Triangle Square, Hollywood, the nation's first affordable housing facility for LGBT seniors. Since demand far exceeds the number of available apartments, a lottery system was set up to determine who would be selected. This film is a moving exploration of the applicants' personal stories and the journey that brought them to the lottery and what the future might hold.Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2016
This film from acclaimed theater director Lonny Price charts the journey of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" in the 30-plus years since the musical debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in 1981.State of Pride
IMDB 5 | Mar , 2019
Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising, Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman travel to three diverse communities – Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama – for an unflinching look at LGBTQ Pride, from the perspective of a younger generation for whom it still has personal urgency.Kamasutra for Gay Men
IMDB 9.8 | Feb , 2009
Learn all the positions.Stolen
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2023
Government inquiry revealed a pattern of neglect, high child mortality rates and lack of burial records among mother and baby homes once run by Ireland's religious orders. Mothers recount the shame and secrecy attached to pregnancy outside marriage and their long struggle to be reunited with the children that many claim were illegally adopted, while adoptees reveal how they were thwarted from accessing birth records.The Wages of Sin
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 2003
Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Preceded by An Opera of Violence; followed by Something to Do With Death.)Something to Do with Death
IMDB 6 | Nov , 2003
Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Preceded by The Wages of Sin.)Letter from Tokyo
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2018
Letter from Tokyo is a documentary film that looks at art, culture and politics in Tokyo, Japan. Shot over three months during the summer of 2018, and with a particular focus on grass roots arts initiatives, the use of public space, and queer politics, the film provides a snapshot of Japan’s capital in the run up to the 2020 olympics.In Search of Avery Willard
IMDB 4 | Jun , 2012
In Search of Avery Willard iIlluminates the life and work of the groundbreaking, and mostly forgotten, artist Avery Willard — photographer, filmmaker, writer, publisher, leatherman, pornographer.Dressed in Blue
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1983
A documentary about the lives of six transgender women in post-Franco Spain.Cinema Red: Natives & Horror
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2019
Over the course of four months, urban Native horror director Mike J. Marin (The Smudging) met with nine Native artists to discuss their opinions on horror cinema and the horror genre and how horror films impacted them and what role Native people play in the horror filmmaking process.Democracy for $ale
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2020
In the United States of America, lobbyists, corporations and billionaires invest millions of dollars to ensure that a suitable candidate, one inclined to support their personal ambitions and economic projects, wins an election, which inevitably affects everything, from the selection of local officials to presidential elections, creates countless conflicts of interest and undermines what supposedly used to be a model democracy.