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How Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, became John Waters' cinematic muse and an international drag icon.

A look at the creation of former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss' latest venture, a Nevada-based male brothel called Heidi's Stud Farm, which caters to female clientèle.

An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

Inspired by the writings of Karl Marx, the female staff of a seedy San Francisco hotel revolt against the management to protest low wages and squalid working conditions.

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.

Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.

Clim and Bébé have grown up together in a blue-collar neighborhood in Marseille. When Bébé is eighteen and Clim is sixteen, they fall in love. She becomes pregnant, and the situation is welcomed with surprise and joy from their working class families. But on a bad day, Bébé is unjustly accused of rape by a racist cop and he is arrested. The families of the two must now fight to disprove the unfounded accusation.

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.

In the midst of a family vacation, an unexpected reunion updates Pablo's childhood trauma. Confronted by the irony of chance, he begins a disturbing return to the landscapes of his childhood, dragging his wife Raquel and his son João in this process. Pablo decides to remain there, recovering the past to alter a memory that conditioned his entire life.

A vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.

Crotchety old lady Sally Fergus roams the Old West with young companion Cyrus.

A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.

Heather, Beth, Carla, Brea, and Heather's cousin Paula are five lovely young ladies who decide to spend their summer vacation at Lake Arrowhead. While at Lake Arrowhead the women hit the party circuit and get involved with various men in the area. However, things go awry when the gals find themselves the targets of a mysterious murderer.

This outlandish compilation of trailers and clips spotlights the women-in-prison sub-genre of grindhouse exploitation films.

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents, his brother, Divine's mom, actors and crew, other directors, film critics, a film curator, psychologists, and Maryland's last censor, who shudders at the memory of Waters's pictures. Also included is footage of Waters making his early movies, culminating in an up-close and in-depth look at Pink Flamingos: the script, the set, the filming conditions, its editing, its distribution, and its impact. In sweet ways, this documentary is also a celebration of Divine (1945-1988).

A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.

This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.

The story of Vikingo, a rude motorcyclist whose rigid principles are honor and respect.

An aging heavy metal musician gets involved in a downward spiral of violence after his wife is kidnapped as punishment for having an affair with a married man.