You can find documentaries, miniseries, and narrative films that help illuminate what the Black Lives Matter movement is about and why it's so important. Here are several available to rent or stream.

The main message, one of solidarity in a time of uncertainty, resonates in 'Military Wives.' There's a quite wonderful sense of sorority.

'The Assistant' follows a junior assistant as she tries to expose her boss and his reign of sexual terror. What happens is more disturbing. Because, what happens is . . . nothing.

What makes 'Unorthodox' markedly different is that, although clearly taking Esty's side, the miniseries never ridicules or criticizes the Hasidim. In fact, it reverently, almost lovingly, depicts what is sacred and beautiful about the people and their traditions.

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Céline Sciamma has described her latest film, 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire,' as a "manifesto on the female gaze."

'The Photograph,' which is decidedly romantic, but not at all sappy, takes place in New York and New Orleans, today and in the 1980s.