DOCUMENTARY
“A Night at the Garden”:
Seven minutes of a 20,000-strong pro-Nazi rally in 1939 — at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. The footage of the “Pro-American Rally,” presented without comment, includes the organizers’ juxtaposition of George Washington with Nazi iconography and thousands of Americans giving the infamous straight-armed salute.
“Black Sheep”:
A first-person narrative of how a teen destroyed his identity as a black person to survive in a racist enclave in England. He goes so far as to wear blue contacts, bleach his skin and take part in brutal violence to fit in with a white gang.
“Lifeboat”:
A look at the ongoing refugee crisis that has led to more than 15,000 deaths since 2015 among those trying to make it to Europe from Northern Africa. Rescue workers with a German NGO try to save people on the journey, and refugees tell horror stories of what they’re fleeing. “Maybe hope in the humans is some mad, irrational
thing we’ve got,” says a thoughtful captain, “but we’ve got it anyway.”
“End Game”:
By two-time Oscar winner Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, this is a thought-provoking, unsentimental look at
the decisions to be made as death approaches, including whether to forgo treatment that could afford a few more weeks or days but at a questionable quality of life.
“Period. End of Sentence.”:
First-timer