Nancy Buirski

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

• 2023
• 1h 41m
• Documentary, History

• 7

Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy (1969) produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.

A Crime on the Bayou

• 2021
• NR
• 1h 29m
• Documentary

In 1966 in a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans a young Black fisherman, Gary Duncan, tries to break up a fight between white and black teenagers outside a newly integrated school. He gently lays his hand on a white boy’s arm. That night, police arrest 19-year-old Gary Duncan for assault on a minor. With the help of a young Jewish attorney, Richard Sobol, Duncan bravely stands up to systemic racism in courtroom battles, including the US Supreme Court.

The Loving Story

• 2012
• Other
• 1h 17m
• Documentary, Drama, History, Romance

• 7.7

A racially charged trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, set during the Civil Rights era.

Loving

• 2016
• PG-13
• 2h 3m
• Biography, Drama, Romance

• 7

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.