Library Stories: Books on the Backroads

Made in New Mexico

2012

A documentary that takes a look at the film and media industry of New Mexico and its impact today.

The Peoples Palace: Secrets of the New York Public Library

1992

A documentary about the New York Public Library, including the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts and the Sc...

Flying Padre

1951

Stanley Kubrick’s short documentary about Father Fred Stadtmueller, a Catholic priest serving a vast 4,000-square-mile p...

5.1

Old New Mexico

1940

This Traveltalk series short takes viewers on a tour of old New Mexico. Starting in Santa Fe, the oldest state capitol i...

The Sun Never Sets

2012

Smithsonian Magazine once asked the rhetorical question, 'Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to ke...

Hacking at Leaves

2024

Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms wit...

The Mystery of Chaco Canyon

1999

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in an elaborate pattern...

8.0

The Boy Who Found Gold

William Hart McNichols is a world renowned artist, heralded by Time magazine as "among the most famous creators of Chris...

10.0

Free for All: The Public Library

2025

The story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea of a public library happen. From the pioneering women behi...

Phantoms of the Sierra Madre

2024

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that fervently seeks to remain...

The American Dreamer

1971

A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film "The Last...

5.6

Art in Taos

1976

A documentary by husband and wife filmmakers, Mario Balibrera and Dana Evans, of the art colonies of Taos, New Mexico in...

The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

1983

Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Co...

Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey

2008

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the...

5.6

Refuge(e)

2019

Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in...

Nasario Remembers the Rio Puerco

Acclaimed folklorist Nasario Garcia wanders through landscape and memory amid the ghosts towns of New Mexico's Rio Puerc...

Searching for Padre Martinez

TBD

Follows directors journey to discover the life and times of Antonio José Martínez, an activist priest dedicated to the e...

Up Heartbreak Hill

2012

Up Heartbreak Hill chronicles the lives of three high school seniors living on the Navajo Nation and struggling to shape...

The People's Palace: A Portrait of the New York Public Library

1991

With a mission of collecting, preserving and making accessible the materials of human culture, the New York Public Libra...

And Those Who Dance it Surrender Their Hearts to Each Other

And Those Who Dance it Surrender Their Hearts to Each Other is a portrait of Lone Piñon, a Northern New Mexican string b...

Vacation Friends 2

2023

Newly married Marcus and Emily invite Ron and Kyla, who are also newly married with a baby, to join them at a Caribbean...

6.3

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2005

Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover...

7.1

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship w...

8.0

Arrival

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whet...

7.6

Baby Driver

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to...

7.4

Logan

In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attemp...

7.8

Blade Runner 2049

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that...

7.6

Joker

2019

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City whil...

8.1

Hacksaw Ridge

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes th...

8.2

Me Before You

A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an...

7.9

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

2021

After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the...

6.8

Batman

1989

Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham Ci...

7.2

Passengers