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If you're growing as weary of Iraq war documentaries as you are of the war itself, then this sobering, information-filled study of the war's origins is the film for you.

Deeply immersive, thought-provoking, and quite often funny, Offside depicts the resourcefulness women in Iran must rely on in order to enter a stadium to watch, no less play, soccer.

This recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is the story of the small redemption of one man, who happens to be a hated East German Stasi officer.

This mockumentary provides some of the most fearless acts of transgressive comedy in years.

This Oscar nominee from Germany chronicles the last desperate hours of Sophie Scholl, a real-life German university student who, in 1943 Munich, ran afoul of the gestapo while distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.

Scathingly satirical, often horrific mockumentary examines what America might look like if the South had won the Civil War.

Winner of the 2005 Best Foreign Language Oscar, this South African entry is a harsh but ultimately redemptive tale of a young gang leader who lives in a Johannesburg shantytown.

Jarecki’s canny and somewhat overwhelming documentary paints a grim historical picture of war profiteering run amok.

This documentary shows what happens when famed producer’s rep/author/gadabout John Pierson convinces his family to move with him to Fiji, where, if all goes according to plan, he can leave behind the indie-film rat race, immerse himself in a completely foreign culture, and, best of all, screen all sorts of movies for the natives.

City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.

Valiant, an animated adventure about heroic homing pigeons in England during World War II, flies in on a wing and a prayer.

A near masterpiece, this atypical samurai movie is more an epic of the heart than the battlefield.

In this Argentinean film, a single dad and businessman struggles to keep his personal life afloat while undergoing a midlife crisis.

This bleak antiwar comedy won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2001.

At nearly three hours long, Yang's final film is a novelistic portrait of the Jians, a comfortable middle-class family, presumably like many others, whose members can be categorized neither as happy nor unhappy.

This campy send-up of surf and slasher movies uses Gidget movies as its comic template.

Filmed in Bhutan with a cast of unknown Tibetan nonprofessionals, The Cup takes its charming premise – pint-sized monks striving against all odds to watch a satellite broadcast of the 1998 World Cup match between Brazil and France – and runs with it.

Media misses the boat when it comes to quizzing Bush on foreign dictators.

Documentary traces the uprising of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, led by charismatic Subcommandante Marcos, who sparked the revolt of Indians seeking to reclaim their lives and land.

Polanski and Deneuve's depiction of a young woman's dissolution into madness is one of the most harrowing mental descents ever depicted onscreen.

One of Wong's first international hits, this stylish film is an atmospheric drama about a playboy who's stringing along two women while also learning that the prostitute who raised him is not his biological mother.