Kirsten Johnson Movies

The following roundtable conversation features director Kirsten Johnson along with documentary filmmaker Gini Reticker and sound recordists...

In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth...

Through a unique, “mom-and-pop” style film festival, a small town in south Dakota celebrates its most famous native son, Oscar Micheaux,...

Provocative in its cinematic simplicity, THE VIEWING BOOTH recounts an encounter between a filmmaker and a viewer, exploring the way meaning is...

In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having...

It’s a medical breakthrough that might never have happened - if not for the persistence of one man. A woman is fighting cancer - with the help...

Elliott Erwitt has spent his entire adult life taking photographs, of presidents, popes and movie stars, as well as regular people and their pets....

This acclaimed documentary follows the story of six people who are determined to end the sufferings in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur. The six - an...

The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with animals.

Sixteen women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in Foca, Bosnia, testify in an international court of law.

Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to...

A documentary filmed in Myanmar

In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university students uncovered new evidence proving the innocence...

Filmmaker Julia Pimsleur used to make up elaborate lies about her brother Marc, rather than explain that he had dropped out of college, turned his...

A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they...

Journey To The West is a contemporary exploration of the ways in which Chinese medicine - including acupuncture and herbal remedies - is being...

TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures in the US and clinics have taken their...

What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well,...

Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local...