IFC Films (Firm)

Brooklyn, 1973. When Shu'aib Raheem and his friends attempted to steal guns for self-defense, it sparked the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to avert a bloodbath, reform police methods, and save the lives of hostages, police, and the four young Muslim men at the heart of the conflict.

An internationally acclaimed, award-winning (and Oscar nominated) documentary film about the greatest operation to test nuclear weapons ever conducted by the United States. Staged at a remote Pacific atoll called Bikini in the summer of 1946, the tests (code-named Operation Crossroads) were also one of the first great 'media events' of the modern age. Using rare and mostly never-before-seen archival footage, the film unfolds through the eyes of the...

A family of fur hunters thinks their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. While father Joseph is away tracking the wolf, his wife, Anne, and daughter find a man named Lou (Nick Stahl), who has been severely injured and left for dead. The longer Lou stays and Joseph is away, the more paranoid Anne becomes, and the idea of a mysterious predator in the woods slowly becomes a threat much closer to home.

Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Focuses on two the families with young deaf children and their conflict over whether or not to give their children cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that may improve their ability to hear but may threaten their Deaf identity.

General Tso's chicken is a staple of Chinese-American cooking, and a ubiquitous presence on restaurant menus across the country. But just who was General Tso? And how did his chicken become emblematic of an entire national cuisine? Director Ian Cheney (King Corn) journeys from Shanghai to New York to the American Midwest and beyond to uncover the origins of this iconic dish, turning up surprising revelations and a host of humorous characters along...

After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of BAD AXE, Michigan,at the start of the pandemic, Asian American filmmaker David Siev documents his family's struggles to keep their restaurant afloat. As fears of the virus grow, deep generational scars dating back to Cambodia's bloody "killing fields" come to the fore, straining the relationship between the family's patriarch, Chun, and his daughter, Jaclyn. When the BLM movement takes center stage in America,...

A Sundance award-winning film, documenting the heartwarming triumphs of real life "horse whisperer" & cowboy Buck Brannaman & his transformative approach to horse training.

Delbert, Bill, Lyman, and Roscoe Ward are illiterate bachelor brothers who never ventured beyond their 99-acre dairy farm in Central New York State. Known by their neighbors as "The Ward Boys", the brothers shared a two-room shack with no running water or indoor toilet for as long as anyone could remember. But their quiet life was shattered June 6, 1990, when Bill was found dead in the bed he shared with Delbert. By day's end, Delbert had confessed...

From the director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind comes this series of brilliant animated interviews with legendary linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky.

Meet the dirtiest cop in NYC history. Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of 80s Brooklyn. He tells all in this explosive true crime saga.