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In the Lubombo region of Swaziland, where forty percent of the population is HIV positive and life expectancy has dropped to thirty-two years, elderly women…
MORE ›Meet Tom Dowd, audio-engineering wunderkind. From recording “race records” and jazz in the segregated South to capturing rock and jazz legends to helping develop the…
MORE ›Beautifully scripted by Horton Foote, Tomorrow tells a story of love, loss, generosity and perseverance. In Mississippi, a helpful, quiet farmer (Duvall) befriends a pregnant…
MORE ›The life of an institution for long-term mental care is portrayed through a day’s worth of encounters between patients and their caregivers. As the institution…
MORE ›A personal-essay documentary, threaded with poetry, song, dance, and monologue, fueled by rage and tenderness. The landmark work of the established journalist and documentarian-turned-artist Marlon…
MORE ›In this deft and stirring portrait, candid interviews with the legendary author, as well as colleagues and contemporaries, celebrate Morrison’s inimitable writing career and its profound impact on American literature.
MORE ›A riveting behind-the-scenes look at the well-known business strategist’s once-a-year seminar “Date With Destiny,” where some 2,500 attendees prepare to change their lives.
MORE ›The rich tradition of Indian masking by African Americans in New Orleans Mardi Gras has a history rooted in African culture and close ties to…
MORE ›Nature and industry clash and converge in this time-lapse experiment that follows the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.
MORE ›In 1902, Giuseppe Verdi founded a retirement home for opera stars in Milan, which he named Casa Verdi and which he originally supported with his…
MORE ›A fifth grader protests, “I’m not that sick! I have to go to school!” His classmates march with picket signs that read: “Vote for Shakespeare!”…
MORE ›Two parents navigate the red tape of America’s child welfare system as they fight to regain custody of their children.
MORE ›On April 20, 1971, Norman Mailer met with a diverse group of feminists, appearing on a panel at New York City’s Town Hall to discuss…
MORE ›On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York’s intellectual elite packed the city’s Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer—fresh from the controversy over his essay “The Prisoner of Sex” and the backlash it received from leaders of the women’s movement—tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling.
MORE ›A beautifully produced biography of a Japanese-American photographer, a mainstay of his Los Angeles community before, during and after World War II. Toyo Miyatake’s old…
MORE ›A transfixing tribute to filmmaker Alan Berliner’s cousin Edwin Honig. Once a master of intricate phrasing, the acclaimed poet now struggles with a fading memory.…
MORE ›When Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws restrict access to abortion in southern states, passionate clinic workers and lawyers wage a fight to preserve a woman’s right to choose.
MORE ›An unusual partnership between a dancer and Austin’s Department of Solid Waste Services
results in a public performance starring man, music, and machine.