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Enter a wondrous exploration of the meeting of heaven and Earth in this dynamic exchange between humans and the starry skies of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
MORE ›As T.S. Eliot said, “The immature artist borrows. The mature artist steals.” Steal from the masters! This film surveys the history, development and ongoing practice…
MORE ›Scientific data, animation, and man-on-the-street interviews collide in this portrait of life above the world’s largest high-energy particle accelerator.
MORE ›Expectations are high when the son and daughter of two famous circus families fall in love. But will the fickle flames of young romance threaten this perfect union?
MORE ›The remarkable achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. have been well documented, but this moving, revealing film brings a fresh focus to King by concentrating…
MORE ›A multilayered dissection of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United campaign finance decision as
seen through the lens of Wisconsin’s 2011 election standoff.
This film documents a year in the life of a unique musical production. The cast of this theater piece is comprised of teenagers—spanning many races—profoundly…
MORE ›The London skyline is the stage for Eva Weber’s ballet mécanique, featuring graceful cranes and their observant and thoughtful operators. The four compact chapters of…
MORE ›Captivating in its immediacy, City of Ghosts follows the journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently,” a group of anonymous Syrian activists who band together to document the Islamic State’s crimes after the city is taken by ISIS.
MORE ›Food critic Jonathan Gold takes us on a journey through Los Angeles’s eclectic food scene, introducing a trove of international delicacies far off the well-beaten path.
MORE ›A stimulus-funded ‘green jobs” training program in Washington, D.C., throws racial tensions and the messiness of nonprofit work into sharp focus.
MORE ›This four-hour series captures the city of Chicago at a pivotal moment, as residents grapple with a divisive mayoral election alongside the trial of the policeman who killed Laquan McDonald. Documenting the city from multiple vantages, City So Real highlights the experiences of candidates and citizens alike to consider how issues of race manifest across the political spectrum and in everyday lives.
MORE ›In the Philippines, a team of “cleaners” specialize in identifying and eliminating obscene content from the internet. Their personal accounts of the pressures and personal judgements inherent in their work give way to a broader examination of the global impact of manipulating content on social media.
MORE ›In his own uniquely Southern voice, Reynolds Price tells of his heritage, the people and places that influenced his life and made him who he…
MORE ›This moving short focuses on the work of a volunteer-run clinic that provides medical services to the uninsurd Latino community of South Philadelphia.
MORE ›Kiarostami uses a provocative blending of documentary and fictional techniques in this account of the arrest and trial of a poor man accused of impersonating…
MORE ›From the Appalshop archive, a rare trip down a 1970s Virginia coal mine with an expressive, engaging miner to tell us about union organizing, prejudice, and the coal-mining way of life.
MORE ›This in-depth examination into the profound social ramifications of artificial intelligence follows MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini and other computer scientists as they investigate widespread racial, gender, and other human biases in the algorithms that increasingly impact our lives.
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