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AMERICAN DOCTOR

07 Feb

United States/State of Palestine/Malaysia/Qatar 2026 93 min English, Arabic

Director: Poh Si Teng
Stars: Thaer AhmadMark PerlmutterFeroze Sidhwa

“When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth. From Gaza hospitals to the halls of American power, director Poh Si Teng unflinchingly depicts a terrible reality and also shows a path forward to engage on such a difficult issue with humanity and collective action.”

 
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Posted by on February 7, 2026 in A: New/Just Added, Documentary, Health care, Public Sector

 

ALL ABOUT THE MONEY 

07 Feb

2026; 1h 30m; Ireland; 95 min English
Director: Sinéad O’Shea
Writer: Sinéad O’Shea
Stars: Fergie ChambersFergie Chambers

“Fergie Chambers, a son of one of America’s wealthiest families, creates a communist revolutionary base in rural Massachusetts as a means of disrupting the capitalist system he grew up in, but has now come to despise. It’s the starting point of an astonishing journey. He funds people and projects, like a Marxist-Leninist collective in Massachusetts, that seek to destroy the hypercapitalist structure that he himself is a product of.”

 
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Posted by on February 7, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Communism/Socialism, Documentary

 

UNION

01 Feb

2024; 100 minutes; US

Follows former and current workers of Amazon, as they form the Amazon Labor Union, and take on the company to form a union.

Directed by Brett Story & Stephen Maing

https://www.unionthefilm.com/

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Documentary, Organizing, Working Class

 

THE DAY ICELAND STOOD STILL

01 Feb

2024; 1h 10m

Oct. 24, 1975, Iceland: 90% of women just took the day off, and men scrambled to fulfill their duties, sometimes comically so. A gleeful, amazing tale of the feminist collective, “The Red Stockings”, and their search for equality.

Director: Pamela Hogan
Writer: Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir
Stars: Guðrún Erlendsdóttir; Vigdís Finnbogadóttir; Ágústa Þorkelsdottir

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Documentary, Women

 

SEEDS

01 Feb

2025; 2h 3m

A look into the lives of Black generational farmers, unveiling the challenges of maintaining legacy and the value of land ownership.

Director: Brittany Shyne

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Blacks, Documentary, Farm & Food

 

ON THE BOWERY

01 Feb

1956; Not Rated; 1h 5m

By focusing on the lives of three down-and-out alcoholic transients, the film creates a wrenching portrait of the tragic hopelessness of life on the Bowery in New York City.

Director: Lionel Rogosin
Writers: Richard Bagley; Lionel Rogosin; Mark Sufrin
Stars: Ray Salyer; Gorman Hendricks; Frank Matthews

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Cities-Urban, Classic, Documentary, Drama

 

EL ARTE DE TABACO

01 Feb

1974, 6m
Cuban cigar making accompanied by the danzón Liceo del Pilar.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Writer: Mario García Joya

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Farm & Food, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

THE CLEANERS

29 Jan

Original title: Im Schatten der Netzwelt
2018; 1h 28m

A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed. The documentary details the work experience of content moderators who have to decide which content needs to be removed by employing a moderation system for social media websites.[1]

The film won seven awards and was nominated for nine more. The Cleaners shines a light on a corner of the internet that is meant to be hidden from the average user. The film contrasts the poverty of those who work in content moderation and those in the technology profiting off of their labor.[2] Run Time: 88 minutes[2]

Directors: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
Writers: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck, Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Stars: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Nicole Wong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cleaners_(2018_film)

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Big Business/Corporations, Communications, Documentary

 

MAINTENANCE ARTIST

29 Jan

2025; 1h 30m

NYC’s first Sanitation Department artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, blends art with waste management in Maintenance Artist, exploring her groundbreaking public art career.

Director: Toby Perl Freilich
Writers: Anne Alvergue; Toby Perl Freilich
Stars: Mierle Ukeles

https://www.maintenanceartist.com/about

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Biography, Documentary, Transportation

 

ORWELL 2 +2=5

29 Jan

2025; R; 1h 59m

An investigation into the life, work, and enduring influence of the writer George Orwell, connecting his ideas to the contemporary world.

Director: Raoul Peck
Writer: Raoul Peck
Stars: Damian Lewis, George Orwell, U Win Khine

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Automation, Consumerism, Documentary, Global Economy, Technology, Working Class

 
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