Films
Baaba Andoh, a young Ghanaian woman, recounts the twists and turns of her life that caused her to seek asylum in the United States. In…
MORE ›In Denmark, a dedicated teacher helps refugee children withstand the hardships of adapting to a new country.
MORE ›For fifteen years Rev. Carroll Pickett served as death house chaplain to the Walls prison unit in Huntsville, Texas. There he presided over ninety-five executions.…
MORE ›An unflinching account of the work of Reverend Carroll Pickett, who presided over 95 executions during his 15-year tenure as a death house chaplain in a Texas prison.
MORE ›At a desolate military fort in the northern hinterlands of Russia, six soldiers train daily to ward off intruders who will never come.
MORE ›Through the stories of two teenage girls, this film examines the intersections of sexual assault and social media.
MORE ›This film explores the life and times of a renowned documentary photographer whose black and white pictures of townspeople, farmers, and laborers create an indelible…
MORE ›How long is a life of 80-plus years? How long does it take to get ready for bed? Could the answer to those questions be…
MORE ›In vivid black and white, tourists and guides visit concentration camps. In observing their interactions, Austerlitz provides a powerful meditation on the (often imperfect) ways human beings connect, remember, and reflect.
MORE ›In 1911 Austin, Pennsylvania, was flooded after the collapse of a dam built to serve the town’s large paper mill, killing 72 people, many of…
MORE ›The twisting, riveting tale of a gender-fluid author with a troubled past, who went on to become a literary sensation.
MORE ›This epic film revisits the state footage of Nicolae Ceausescu, clearly choreographed to favorably represent the Romanian dictator in the years leading up to his assassination.
MORE ›In his first film since 1981’s Diaries (1971-1976), Ed Pincus joins Lucia Small on a sixty-day road trip to meet and document evacuees who have…
MORE ›As one woman pieces together the fragmented memories of her childhood, she finds herself
linked to a photograph of Anne Frank holding an infant girl.
At the intersection of self-expression and communal reflection sits BABYBANGZ, a Black hair salon in Mid–City, New Orleans. Proprietor Anastasia Ebel fills a void through…
MORE ›In this delightful, life-affirming film, senior citizens talk about what they want in terms of romance, relationships, companionship and sex. Liz Blazer combines audio interviews…
MORE ›During the summer before his second year at film school, Ross McElwee conceived of two separate films. The first was to document his younger brother’s…
MORE ›At a Mojave Desert high school, intrepid educators work to connect with at-risk students. Can their commitment help break the shattering effects of poverty and abuse?
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