Movies: Chicken Egg Films

  • 2014
    Private Violence

    Private Violence (2014)

    Private Violence

    6.52014HD

    One in four women experience violence in their homes. Have you ever asked, “Why doesn't she just leave?” Private Violence shatters the brutality of our logic and intimately reveals the stories of two women: Deanna Walters, who transforms from victim ...

    Private Violence
  • 2024
    Look Into My Eyes

    Look Into My Eyes (2024)

    Look Into My Eyes

    5.62024HD

    A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and healing....

    Look Into My Eyes
  • 2017
    Dispatches from Cleveland

    Dispatches from Cleveland (2017)

    Dispatches from Cleveland

    5.72017HD

    Dispatches from Cleveland is a focused on ordinary Clevelanders who have been long shaken by police misconduct, social discrimination, and poverty. Depicting intersecting movements in Cleveland, the series examines how residents' love for their homet...

    Dispatches from Cleveland
  • 2021
    Ascension

    Ascension (2021)

    Ascension

    6.82021HD

    The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes humorous—imagery, this observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation...

    Ascension
  • 2017
    Unrest

    Unrest (2017)

    Unrest

    7.02017HD

    When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fi...

    Unrest
  • 2023
    The Eternal Memory

    The Eternal Memory (2023)

    The Eternal Memory

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    Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her....

    The Eternal Memory
  • 2014
    Vessel

    Vessel (2014)

    Vessel

    7.52014HD

    A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms....

    Vessel
  • 2021
    Writing with Fire

    Writing with Fire (2021)

    Writing with Fire

    7.32021HD

    In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines o...

    Writing with Fire
  • 2021
    Pray Away

    Pray Away (2021)

    Pray Away

    6.72021HD

    In the 1970s, five men struggling with being gay in their Evangelical church started a bible study to help each other leave the "homosexual lifestyle." They quickly received over 25,000 letters from people asking for help and formalized as Exodus Int...

    Pray Away
  • 2020
    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias (2020)

    Coded Bias

    6.92020HD

    Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in th...

    Coded Bias
  • 2014
    Meet the Patels

    Meet the Patels (2014)

    Meet the Patels

    6.92014HD

    Finding love is never easy. For Ravi Patel, a first generation Indian-American, the odds are slim. His ideal bride is beautiful, smart, funny, family-oriented, kind and—in keeping with tradition—Indian (though hopefully raised in the US). Oh, and her...

    Meet the Patels
  • 2017
    Step

    Step (2017)

    Step

    7.52017HD

    The senior year of a girls’ high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try to become the first in their families to attend college. The girls strive to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in th...

    Step
  • 2019
    Roll Red Roll

    Roll Red Roll (2019)

    Roll Red Roll

    6.92019HD

    At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved high school football team. The aftermath exposed an entire culture of complicity—and Roll Red Roll maps out the roles that peer p...

    Roll Red Roll
  • 2020
    Belly of the Beast

    Belly of the Beast (2020)

    Belly of the Beast

    6.72020HD

    When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With...

    Belly of the Beast
  • 2021
    Simple As Water

    Simple As Water (2021)

    Simple As Water

    5.82021HD

    A meditation on the elemental bonds of family told through portraits of four Syrian families in the aftermath of war....

    Simple As Water
  • 2017
    Strong Island

    Strong Island (2017)

    Strong Island

    6.32017HD

    Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging...

    Strong Island
  • 2016
    Cameraperson

    Cameraperson (2016)

    Cameraperson

    6.72016HD

    As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation...

    Cameraperson
  • 2014
    Democrats

    Democrats (2014)

    Democrats

    6.72014HD

    An intriguing look at an authoritarian state on the verge of democratization: how Zimbabwe got a new constitution. Two political enemies are forced on a joint mission to write Zimbabwe's new constitution. The ultimate test that will either take the ...

    Democrats
  • 2021
    Enemies of the State

    Enemies of the State (2021)

    Enemies of the State

    62021HD

    From the outside, the DeHart’s were an All-American family. Parents Paul and Leann were U.S. Military members, and son Matt was obsessed with computers from an early age. As a military family, they moved around during Matt’s adolescence, and Matt rea...

    Enemies of the State
  • 2014
    Web Junkie

    Web Junkie (2014)

    Web Junkie

    6.52014HD

    China is the first country in the world to classify Internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Caught in the Net features a Beijing treatment center where Chinese teenagers are being "deprogrammed," and follows the story of three boys from the day th...

    Web Junkie