Feb 20th is EMERGENT CITY - Kelly Anderson makes great films!!!!

This February, OVID marks Black History Month with THE FORGOTTEN OCCUPATION: JIM CROW GOES TO HAITI. Plus, the battle over Brooklyn’s Industry City with EMERGENT CITY, and two films by Mare’s Nest director Ben Rivers. Check out the full lineup here! ▶️ metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/01/25/o...

Ring in the New Year with OVID’s January lineup and 27 new films! Highlights include THE DIVINE SARAH BERNHARDT, a biopic on the world’s first diva, the NY Times Critic’s Pick OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN, and the wisdom of nuns in Arizona's high desert in FINAL VOWS. metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/12/18/o...

OVID's most watched film this week is Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche's “tragic and sublime” @thr.com THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG: a richly imagined, arrestingly original take on the heist genre named one of the 10 best films by Cahiers du Cinéma of 2023. Now streaming on OVID courtesy @severalfutures.bsky.social

OVID's most watched film this week is Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche's “tragic and sublime” @thr.com THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG: a richly imagined, arrestingly original take on the heist genre named one of the 10 best films by Cahiers du Cinéma of 2023. Now streaming on OVID courtesy @severalfutures.bsky.social

Ring in the New Year with OVID’s January lineup and 27 new films! Highlights include THE DIVINE SARAH BERNHARDT, a biopic on the world’s first diva, the NY Times Critic’s Pick OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN, and the wisdom of nuns in Arizona's high desert in FINAL VOWS. metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/12/18/o...

Heiny Srour's THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED is "a precious document" (Rusted Radishes) and "remains the most striking visual record of the Dhofar Rebellion.” —Bidoun This Cannes-selected film from 1974 is #nowstreaming on OVID courtesy @severalfutures.bsky.social www.ovid.tv/videos/the-h...

OVID's December is here! Exclusive premieres include Kateryna Gornostai's TIMESTAMP, about school kids in war-torn Ukraine. Plus, restored masterpieces by pioneering Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour, and Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s heist with a twist THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG. metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/11/21/o...

OVID's December is here! Exclusive premieres include Kateryna Gornostai's TIMESTAMP, about school kids in war-torn Ukraine. Plus, restored masterpieces by pioneering Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour, and Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s heist with a twist THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG. metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/11/21/o...

I've long admired Amalie R. Rothschild's personal documentary Nana, Mom and Me, now on @ovidtv.bsky.social where she has another great film, too: Woo Who? May Wilson, one of the most exciting and moving portraits of an artist that I've seen—from 1970, expanding a form that Wilson already considered

Congrats, Mister Mayor! Born on this day, and invoked last night in Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech, we recommend AMERICAN SOCIALIST: EUGENE DEBS, Yale Strom’s exploration of his life and ideas that shaped Mamdani’s agenda and inspire a new generation of progressives. www.ovid.tv/videos/ameri...

Peter Watkins (Oct 29, 1935—Oct 30, 2025) “His cinema persistently asked questions about those in power, and what will happen when their power goes catastrophically wrong.” @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social @theguardian.com LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871) is streaming on OVID courtesy @icarusfilms.bsky.social

Peter Watkins has died - perhaps the least-appreciated great British filmmaker (and you sense he wouldn't have wanted it any other way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

R.I.P. Peter Watkins (1935–2025)

Peter Watkins: an English film-making revolutionary from a tradition of uncompromising radicalism

THE BOOKSELLERS with Fran Lebowitz (exec produced by Parker Posey) is OVID's Film of the Week! 📚🎞️ "A fascinating look into the world of rare book dealers.” @lithub.com.web.brid.gy ovid.tv/the-booksell...

THE BOOKSELLERS with Fran Lebowitz (exec produced by Parker Posey) is OVID's Film of the Week! 📚🎞️ "A fascinating look into the world of rare book dealers.” @lithub.com.web.brid.gy ovid.tv/the-booksell...

OVID's November lineup is here! Feat. the Sarkozy Scandal, Charlotte Le Bon as Niki de Saint Phalle, films x 3 by Eryk Rocha, an “absorbing” Iranian cine-essay movie by Ehsan Khoshbakht, an expansive family memoir from New Day Films' Amalie Rothschild, and much MORE! metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/10/24/o...

I wrote a short appreciation of Roger Corman's The Terror for @ovidtv.bsky.social www.metafilm.com/2025/10/16/r...

OVID's October presents a week of Bullfrog Films spanning subjects from habitats to quantum science. For narrative features, the tension-drenched drama WHO BY FIRE (NYFF Main Slate), Atsushi Yamatoya's noir INFLATABLE SEX DOLL OF THE WASTELANDS, and so much more! metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/09/15/o...

OVID's September MEGA-LINEUP is HERE! 30 new films are on the way, with 50 years of indie docs from New Day, Labor Day films from Kartemquin, more Yakuza Films from Radiance, Woolly Mammoths in Siberia, an Adults-only Cat-Noir, and MUCH MORE below 👇 metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/08/20/o...

OVID's September MEGA-LINEUP is HERE! 30 new films are on the way, with 50 years of indie docs from New Day, Labor Day films from Kartemquin, more Yakuza Films from Radiance, Woolly Mammoths in Siberia, an Adults-only Cat-Noir, and MUCH MORE below 👇 metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/08/20/o...

Powerful and infuriating Cooked is a must-watch doc that hits hard!

“Much of the retrospective material is still enraging.” —Ben Kenigsberg @nytimes.com COOKED: SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE by Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, the story of Chicago's worst heat disaster, is a top must-see doc this month! Streaming ONLY on OVID www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/m...

OVID's August lineup is here with over twenty new films! As the premier streaming destination for social justice docs, OVID continues joining forces with filmmakers’ collective New Day Films! Plus, a selection of thrilling feature films on top. Check these out 👇 metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/07/18/o...

As the premier streaming destination for social issue documentary films from the US and internationally, OVID has partnered with pathbreaking filmmakers’ collective New Day Films, bringing their collection to our members for the first time. New Day Summer begins TODAY! www.ovid.tv/new-day-films

“One of the greatest documentary characters ever... He makes the Soup Nazi look like an angel at times.” @nonfics.bsky.social Starring the unforgettable Kenny Shopsin, I LIKE KILLING FLIES dishes up bites of wisdom, serving up a charming slice of NYC history. #NowStreaming/Noshing on OVID 🍽️

“One of the greatest documentary characters ever... He makes the Soup Nazi look like an angel at times.” @nonfics.bsky.social Starring the unforgettable Kenny Shopsin, I LIKE KILLING FLIES dishes up bites of wisdom, serving up a charming slice of NYC history. #NowStreaming/Noshing on OVID 🍽️

"A timely and edge-of-your-seat Dardenne brothers-produced thriller." @loudandclearrvs.bsky.social “RED SOIL pits a tireless underdog against the forces of corporate greed and looming environmental catastrophe.” @hollywoodreporter.bsky.social #NowStreaming on OVID www.ovid.tv/videos/red-s...

THIS IS NOT A MOVIE: ROBERT FISK AND THE POLITICS OF TRUTH "The two things that give this doc its power and provocativeness are intellectual rather than dramatic: Fisk’s work, and his ideas." @slantmagazine.com Now Streaming on OVID courtesy @kimstim.bsky.social www.ovid.tv/videos/this-...

Born on this day, 2 July 1925, Patrice Lumumba was the leader of the Congolese National Movement from 1958 until his assassination in 1961. Raoul Peck's LUMUMBA made Ava DuVernay's top ten movies of the 21st century @nytimes.com Streaming on OVID courtesy @kinolorber.com www.ovid.tv/videos/lumumba

OVID's July lineup is here with 34 new films! Features include the comedy THE ART OF NOTHING + a Dardenne brothers-produced eco-thriller RED SOIL. Plus, a doc on uncompromising journalist ROBERT FISK, and indie docs galore from our new partners New Day Films! ☀️ metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/06/27/o...

THE UNIVERSAL THEORY made Devika Girish’s Five International Films to Stream now @nytimes.com “A delicious sci-fi noir... a mordant, intelligent and entertaining ode to the inscrutable complexity of the universe — and of the human imagination." Streaming on OVID www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

“Forensically sober and fucking intense.” —Flick Attack “One of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen.” —NY Times Pre-Nathan Fielder, CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO puts viewers inside tension-filled cockpits of actual flights in distress. Buckle up! Now in flight on OVID courtesy Dekanalog ✈️

I watched Story of a Summer Lover on @ovidtv.bsky.social and if its neurotic middle aged Romanian protagonist Petru (Alexandru Papadopol) has a chance we all have a chance. More on #film at @intheseats.bsky.social. intheseats.ca/romanian-com...

“A whirlwind tour both of New York and of Mr. Levitch’s feverish mind… you can’t help but admire the zest for life of this heroically independent but impossibly self-centered crank.” @nytimes.com Bennett Miller's THE CRUISE with Timothy “Speed” Levitch is Now Cruising on OVID 🎙️

Maybe this hits too close to the bone this week, but in any case... WORLD WAR III, Houman Seyedi's award-winning thriller from Iran, is streaming on OVID “Sharply conceived and agonizingly performed.” @ioncinema.bsky.social "Daring!" @variety.com www.ovid.tv/videos/world...

Today, OVID presents 8 shorts by Janie Geiser, including The Fourth Watch @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy's Top 10 Avant-Garde Films of the Decade. "In the tradition of uncanny animators like Jan Švankmajer, Geiser’s films are astonishing visions of alternate realities." @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy

Man and spirit collide in The Lost Okoroshi, a #film from Nigeria. Stream on @ovidtv.bsky.social. More at @intheseats.bsky.social. intheseats.ca/a-film-from-...

It’s that PRIDE-thang time of year again! Time to bask in OVID’s spectacularly wide-ranging collection of LGBTQ+ films. We’ll be adding titles as the month goes on, so stay tuned! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideMonth #Pride2025 www.ovid.tv/pride-2025

HUM 255 resonates with new urgency amid the current wave of student arrests across the US. Exclusive from the collective @kartemquinfilms.bsky.social founded by University of Chicago students immersed in the political turmoil and verité cinema movement of the 60s. Now Streaming ONLY on OVID

“Where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of film to create a new kind of magic!” @nytimes.com For the fifth year running, OVID hosts the internationally renowned festival DANCE CAMERA WEST, presenting their 2025 edition comprising docs and experimental films! www.ovid.tv/dance-camera...

R.I.P. to the great Marcel Ophuls (1927-2025) OVID continues streaming his Oscar-winning HOTEL TERMINUS: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, THE TROUBLES WE'VE SEEN, and MARCEL OPHULS & JEAN-LUC GODARD: The Meeting in St-Gervais. An extraordinary legacy! www.ovid.tv/marcel-ophul...

Every month is Pride Month on 🪩VID! P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE "illuminates countless fascinating aspects of the New York drag scene" @thr.com wherein a box of letters unfurls a forgotten world where being yourself meant breaking the law. Now streaming ONLY on OVID ▶️ www.ovid.tv/videos/p-s-b...

WAR IS OVER What comes after the horrors of war? Over a million people in Iraqi Kurdistan are impacted by violence brought on by ISIS. “Insightful and moving... brilliantly showcases the resilience of the human spirit in the aftermath of conflict.” —Video Librarian www.ovid.tv/videos/war-i...

15 years ago today, 'The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Watch the film, about the titular Romanian communist dictator, now on @kanopy or @ovidtv.bsky.social‬.

“★★★★★ A masterclass in teaching with film, freely interspersing biography with ethnography and musicology atop stunning cityscapes and countryside.” –Video Librarian TEHRAN BLUES takes us on a vivid musical tour of Iran’s capital. Now streaming on OVID courtesy @pragda.bsky.social

Are you a subscriber? Because we’ve been pondering, in a pseudo-Freudian way — What do OVID users want? We’re sending FREE “Le Chat Qui Voit” totes to current members willing to have an open-ended 15-min phone chat for us to learn more about your preferences. Deets: metafilm.ovid.tv/2025/05/14/l...

Post-Met Gala Superfine dandy decadence of yesterday, today we look to another spectacle: bodybuilders on anabolic steroids. ADONIS investigates the troubling obsession with masculine perfection and muscle dysmorphia. Now streaming on OVID ▶️ www.ovid.tv/videos/adonis