Criterion Channel Films Seen

In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.

A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.

Prominent black women comment on the history and experiences of the African slave woman in white European society.

The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.

A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there.

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

A short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.

A slow-motion portraiture combined with a soundtrack of snippets of people's conversations and interviews.

A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.

A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.

Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.

This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.

The sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963.

A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.

A group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to lynch them.

After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.

A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).

After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Su-mi reunites with her sister, Su-yeon, and they return to live at their country home. But strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion.

Part fiction, part documentary, Charles Burnett presents an unflinching look at homelessness in Los Angeles with empathy and concern.

Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.