This revisionist western, restored to its full length, is a marvel of ambition and complex storytelling, dramatizing the Johnson County War of 1892, when European settlers were targeted for death and displacement by cattle barons. December 9–10.

Constructed from audio recorded during the making of Robert Gardner’s landmark ethnographic documentary Dead Birds, this work by renowned sound artists is simultaneously an immersive sonic document and a deft critique of the ethnographic endeavor.

This Universal boxing picture by William Wyler, based on a story discovered by Wyler’s brother Robert, finds the then-young director honing his considerable skills.

ne of the greatest documentary filmmakers the medium has ever known, the 80-year-old Guzmán has been creating works about the political past and hopeful future of his home country Chile for more than fifty years.

This expansive and sensitive documentary was filmed entirely inside the world of virtual reality. See it December 10, featuring a virtual Q&A with director Joe Hunting.

For AIDS Awareness month, MoMI presents Yen Tan’s 1985 on December 10, plus a conversation with star Cory Michael Smith and local advocates Jimmy Van Bramer, Sainabou Njai, and Frank Naso.

On December 22nd through 24th, see Lubitsch’s exquisite, Christmas-set workplace romantic comedy with James Stewart & Margaret Sullavan—a MoMI holiday tradition.

Brown’s moving documentary about this country’s legacy of slavery and its lingering traumas excavates a violent past that for a community in Mobile, Alabama, remains a painful reality.

On 12/26, see Ingmar Bergman’s magnificent family saga, shown in Bergman’s preferred version, which aired as a four-part miniseries on Swedish television.

For her brilliantly executed archival footage documentary, screening 12/11, Sierra Pettengill has uncovered a trove of remarkable and disturbing footage from the late ’60s of a U.S. military experiment.