• Bring Film to Your Community

    Kino Lorber EDU brings the award-winning and extensive catalog of Kino Lorber films to your school, museum, organization, film festival or community event.

    Bring Film to Your Community

    KINO LORBER EDU brings the award-winning and extensive catalog of Kino Lorber films to your school, museum, organization, film festival or community event.


  • Bring Film to Your Community

    Kino Lorber EDU brings the award-winning and extensive catalog of Kino Lorber films to your school, museum, organization, film festival or community event.

    Bring Film to Your Community

    KINO LORBER EDU brings the award-winning and extensive catalog of Kino Lorber films to your school, museum, organization, film festival or community event.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT

2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition, this beguiling documentary portrait follows poet and activist Nikki Giovanni as she approaches 80.

  • Bring Film to Your Community

    Kino Lorber EDU brings the award-winning and extensive catalog of Kino Lorber films to your school, museum, organization, film festival or community event.

    Bring Film to Your Community

    KINO LORBER EDU brings the award-winning and extensive catalog of Kino Lorber films to your school, museum, organization, film festival or community event.

T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

FOUR QUARTETS

Ralph Fiennes's exquisite performance of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece is dynamically translated from stage to screen by director Sophie Fiennes (Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology).

Close to Vermeer

CLOSE TO VERMEER

Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world – with glowing reviews, global publicity, and tickets sold out...

 

Bring Film to Your Community

Kino Lorber EDU brings the award-winning and extensive catalog of Kino Lorber films to your school, museum, organization, film festival or community event.

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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through video calls between director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian...

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

In 1987, at the age of just 21, Marlee Matlin shattered expectations as the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award® for her groundbreaking performance in Children of a Lesser God. Catapulted into...

Reel Injun

ON THE TRAIL OF THE HOLLYWOOD INDIANAn entertaining and provocative look at Hollywood's depiction of Native Americans, REEL INJUN journeys through a century of cinema to set the record straight....

Riefenstahl

Filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Her films Triumph of the Will and Olympia are defined by their fascist...

Monk in Pieces

Meredith Monk – composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist – is one of the great artistic pioneers of our time, yet her profound cultural influence is largely unrecognized. With Monk’s...

Souleymane's Story

Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane (Sangare) is struggling to stay afloat. In two days, he has to report for an asylum application...

Shari & Lamb Chop

Before Fred Rogers and Jim Henson, there was Shari Lewis, a children’s television pioneer whose whimsical characters and ebullient spirit have guided generations of children as they came of age....

A Photographic Memory

Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards and a New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate, genre-bending portrait of the...

Holy Cow

WINNER - YOUTH AWARD - UN CERTAIN REGARD - CANNES FILM FESTIVAL After the tragic death of his father, 18 year old Totone is thrust into the unexpected and very adult role of looking after his younger...

Being Maria

Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei) is a promising, young French actress. When she gets the lead in a feature film directed by an acclaimed Italian filmmaker and starring one of America’s most...

Northern Lights

Winner of the 1979 Camera d'Or, Northern Lights, a unique work of political cinema from the late 1970s, dramatizes small North Dakotan wheat farmers' political struggle against the bankers and...

Killer of Sheep

Charles Burnett's cinematic masterpiece Killer of Sheep, magnificently restored in 4K with sparkling picture and sound, is one of the crown jewels of the Black indie filmmaking movement known as the...

There's Still Tomorrow

In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a...

The Empire

In a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, a very special child is born, unleashing a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil. In an attempt to restore their...

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

This star studded tribute brings into focus the dazzling, complex period of Liza Minnelli’s life starting in the 1970s, just after the tragic death of her mother Judy Garland— as she confronts a...

The Annihilation of Fish

New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett remains one of our country’s most celebrated independent filmmakers. In his charming The...

American Delivery

In the U.S.—where more women die in childbirth than any other wealthy nation—the joys of pregnancy and motherhood are often overshadowed by fear. Amid a growing maternal health crisis, especially...

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita...

Women Who Run Hollywood

For the past two decades, Paris-born filmmakers Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg have created documentaries that capture the essence of filmmakers and performers whose work define their times, and...

Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection

This essential collection features 17 films, including seven new restorations, by the prolific independent director whose pioneering explorations of contemporary Black life paved the way for...

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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege...

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

In 1987, at the age of just 21, Marlee Matlin shattered expectations as the first Deaf actor to win...

Reel Injun

ON THE TRAIL OF THE HOLLYWOOD INDIANAn entertaining and provocative look at Hollywood's depiction...

Riefenstahl

Filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women...

Monk in Pieces

Meredith Monk – composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist – is one of the great...

Souleymane's Story

Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant...

Shari & Lamb Chop

Before Fred Rogers and Jim Henson, there was Shari Lewis, a children’s television pioneer whose...

A Photographic Memory

Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards and a New York...

Holy Cow

WINNER - YOUTH AWARD - UN CERTAIN REGARD - CANNES FILM FESTIVAL After the tragic death of his...

Being Maria

Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei) is a promising, young French actress. When she gets the lead...

Northern Lights

Winner of the 1979 Camera d'Or, Northern Lights, a unique work of political cinema from the late...

Killer of Sheep

Charles Burnett's cinematic masterpiece Killer of Sheep, magnificently restored in 4K with...

There's Still Tomorrow

In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future...

The Empire

In a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, a very special child is born,...

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

This star studded tribute brings into focus the dazzling, complex period of Liza Minnelli’s life...

The Annihilation of Fish

New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett...

American Delivery

In the U.S.—where more women die in childbirth than any other wealthy nation—the joys of...

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a...

Women Who Run Hollywood

For the past two decades, Paris-born filmmakers Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg have created...

Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection

This essential collection features 17 films, including seven new restorations, by the prolific...
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Four Daughters

2024 Academy Award® Nominee – Best Documentary Feature FilmOne of the year's most acclaimed releases, this riveting documentary by two-time Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (The...

5 Broken Cameras

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATUREAn extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance...

Colliding Dreams

COLLIDING DREAMS recounts the dramatic history of one of the most controversial, and urgently relevant political ideologies of the modern era. The century-old conflict in the Middle East continues to...

Hit the Road

Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted, and deeply...

Jafar Panahi's Taxi

Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (This is Not a Film) drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a...

Tehran Taboo

In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and...

Of Fathers and Sons

After his Sundance award-winning documentary Return to Homs, Talal Derki returned to his homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years....

Salt of This Sea

An urgent and devastating portrait of life in Palestine, SALT OF THIS SEA is essential viewing. Sixty years after her grandparents' exile from Jaffa, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) leaves Brooklyn to live...

Iranian Cinema Before and After the Revolution

Dr. Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian cinema. A former editor of Iranian film magazines, he has published extensively, presented numerous lectures, curated film series, and produced a number of...

Whose Country?

A young Egyptian filmmaker gains first-hand accounts of corruption and abuse within the security forces from Egyptian police officers. Narrated in English by the filmmaker, Whose Country? reveals not...

Ajami

Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar®, and winner of manyinternational film prizes, Ajami is a bold new crime drama set on themargins of an Arab ghetto in the Israeli city of Jaffa...

There Is No Evil

Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, There is No Evil is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice – to follow orders to enforce the...

Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights is a monumental and dazzlingly original three-part film by Miguel Gomes (Tabu) that uses the structure of one thousand and one nights in order to tell the story of contemporary...

What Will People Say

Sixteen-year-old Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) lives a double life. When out with her friends, she’s a regular Norwegian teenager. At home with her family, she is the perfect Pakistani daughter. But when...

As I Open My Eyes

As I Open My Eyes depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional expectations of her family with her creative life as the...

3 Faces

Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s fourth completed feature since he was officially banned from filmmaking is one of his very best. Panahi begins with a smartphone video shot by a young woman...

Cinema Sabaya

A group of Palestinian and Israeli women attend a video workshop at a small town community center run by Rona (Dana Ivgy, Zero Motivation), a young filmmaker from Tel Aviv, who teaches them to...

The Challenge (2017 documentary)

Italian visual artist Yuri Ancarani’s exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this Middle Eastern gas state...

Beaufort

Academy Award® NOMINEE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM After 18 years dug into a heavily fortified mountain deep in occupied Lebanon, the last Israeli soldiers enduring constant bombardment at the...

Omar

Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side...

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Four Daughters

2024 Academy Award® Nominee – Best Documentary Feature FilmOne of the year's most acclaimed...

5 Broken Cameras

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Colliding Dreams

COLLIDING DREAMS recounts the dramatic history of one of the most controversial, and urgently...

Hit the Road

Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian...

Jafar Panahi's Taxi

Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (This is Not a Film) drives a yellow cab through...

Tehran Taboo

In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician...

Of Fathers and Sons

After his Sundance award-winning documentary Return to Homs, Talal Derki returned to his homeland...

Salt of This Sea

An urgent and devastating portrait of life in Palestine, SALT OF THIS SEA is essential viewing. ...

Iranian Cinema Before and After the Revolution

Dr. Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian cinema. A former editor of Iranian film magazines, he...

Whose Country?

A young Egyptian filmmaker gains first-hand accounts of corruption and abuse within the security...

Ajami

Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar®, and winner of manyinternational film prizes,...

There Is No Evil

Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, There is No Evil is an anthology film comprising four...

Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights is a monumental and dazzlingly original three-part film by Miguel Gomes (Tabu) that...

What Will People Say

Sixteen-year-old Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) lives a double life. When out with her friends, she’s a...

As I Open My Eyes

As I Open My Eyes depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young...

3 Faces

Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s fourth completed feature since he was officially banned from...

Cinema Sabaya

A group of Palestinian and Israeli women attend a video workshop at a small town community center...

The Challenge (2017 documentary)

Italian visual artist Yuri Ancarani’s exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy...

Beaufort

Academy Award® NOMINEE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM After 18 years dug into a heavily fortified...

Omar

Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret...

Fatima

Fatima lives with her two teenage daughters and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through...

West of the Jordan River

Amos Gitai (Rabin, The Last Day; Kadosh; Free Zone) returns to the occupied territories for the...

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I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is an examination of racism in America through the lens of James Baldwin’s unfinished book, REMEMBER THIS HOUSE. Intended as an account of the lives of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X,...

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is...

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the...

The Complete Metropolis

Fritz Lang’s Sci-Fi MasterpieceWith 25 Minutes of Restored FootageOne of the most celebrated movies in cinema history...For the first time, Lang’s vision... which has influenced contemporary...

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (4K Restoration)

In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge into the mind...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty (which sold over three million copies worldwide and landed Piketty on Time's list of most influential people), this...

F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu

A cornerstone of the horror film, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is resurrected in an HD edition mastered from the acclaimed 35mm restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung....

Battleship Potemkin

SERGEI EISENSTEIN'S BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN with THE Original Meisel Orchestral ScoreOdessa - 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin, the ship's loyal crew...

Concerning Violence

From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in...

Dogtooth

Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award® nomination for Best...

Pioneers of African-American Cinema

This collection of the works of America's legendary first African-American filmmakers is the only one of its kind. Funded in part by a highly successful Kickstarter campaign, the packaged set...

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Filmmakers Stevie Salas, Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana examine the musical contribution and bring to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music and...

What is Democracy?

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King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis

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Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

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The Complete Metropolis

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (4K Restoration)

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Concerning Violence

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Dogtooth

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