Saturday

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (150 min.,  documentary)
directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
As authorities prosecute three young men charged with a set of  gruesome murders, the local community reacts to the  presence of evil in its midst. (contains material of a graphic nature, viewer discretion advised)

Burden of Dreams (94 min., documentary)
directed by Les Blank
Filmmaker Werner Herzog, caught in the grip of his creative passions, challenges the Peruvian Amazon and the natives who live there in order to shoot his film, Fitzcarraldo.  Depicts the  mesmerizing impact of losing ones' self to the temptings of pride and artistic lust. 

Roger & Me (91 min., documentary)
directed by Michael Moore
In this provoking, satirical commentary on the evils of  corporate greed, filmmaker Moore journeys the societal and economic dystopia of Flint, Michigan in the wake of massive plant closings by General Motors.

The Atomic Cafe (88 min., documentary)
directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, Pierce Rafferty
A masterful assemblage of post-World War II propaganda, newsreel and documentary footage.  This surreal journey through the years of nuclear proliferation and the Cold War indicates the evils encountered when governments engage in the quantifying of humanity. 

Sunday

Triumph of the Will (112 min., documentary)
directed by Leni Riefenstahl
The highly skilled and effective propaganda film that helped propel Hitler's Nazi regime toward military conquest.  Today it serves as a stunning reminder of the power of film to affect human lives. 

The Wannsee Conference (87 min., narrative)
directed by Keinz Schirk
The dialogue of this film, shot in the style of a narrative, is drawn from the actual transcript of the Wannsee conference, at which Nazi officers and government bureaucrats planned the mass extermination of millions of human beings.  It is a chilling portrayal of the banality of even the darkest evil. 

Night and Fog (32 min., documentary)
directed by Alain Resnais
Displaying graphic footage of the horror of Nazi death camps,  this classic film offers an eerily meditative documentation of  man's ultimate inhumanity to man. 

One Day Crossing (25 min., narrative)
directed by Joan Stein
To protect her child from the Nazis in Hungary, a devoted  mother poses as a Christian, denying her Jewish faith and  heritage.  But when another Jewish boy is threatened by the  Nazis, she risks everything to save him.

The Trial of Adolph Eichmann(120 min., documentary)
Reported by David Brinkley, Producer Daniel B. Polin
The prime architect of Hitler's final solution, who was also a  key figure at the Wannsee Conference, faces accountability for  his crimes in an Israeli court.  Seeking shelter behind a veil of  Nazi bureaucracy, Adolph Eichmann calmly denies responsibility for his deeds, providing a powerful record not  only of the Holocaust and its aftermath, but of the human  frailty that allows evil to prosper.