All three films offer rich explorations in under 100-minute runtimes and are highly recommended.

If there was ever a rock star in classical music, it was Leonard Bernstein.

Part biopic of journalist Amy Goodman, part media analysis, and part history of the last 30 years of major progressive news stories.

History buffs and cinephiles will enjoy this witty hybrid documentary that intertwines farce and tragedy.

Gianfranco Rosi has created a somber, eerie study of Naples in black and white. Sometimes the city looks part crime scene, part modern-day ruin.

Werner Herzog’s newest offering is especially rich in incidental detail.

As director Paris Barclay makes clear, Preston was one of the early 1970s’ most exciting and original musicians, either as an invaluable sideman or as a hitmaker.

Baz Luhrmann and Elvis Presley go well together. EPiC mines unseen footage from two early 1970s Elvis concert films that have been restored.

An invaluable and chilling picture of a propaganda machine at work in the everyday lives of those under its thumb.