Films


Citizen King
Orlando Bagwell

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…

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Citizen Koch
Carl Deal, Tia Lessin

A multilayered dissection of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United campaign finance decision as
seen through the lens of Wisconsin’s 2011 election standoff.

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City at Peace
Susan Koch

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…

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City of Cranes
Eva Weber

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…

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City of Ghosts
Matthew Heineman

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.

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City of Gold
Laura Gabbert

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.

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City of Trees
Brandon Kramer

A stimulus-funded ‘green jobs” training program in Washington, D.C., throws racial tensions and the messiness of nonprofit work into sharp focus.

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City So Real
Steve James

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.

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The Cleaners
Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck

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.

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Clear Pictures
Charles Guggenheim, Center for Documentary Studies

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…

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Clínica de Migrantes: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Maxim Pozdorovkin

This moving short focuses on the work of a volunteer-run clinic that provides medical services to the uninsurd Latino community of South Philadelphia.

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Close-Up
Abbas Kiarostami

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…

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The Cloud Factory
Hannes Lang

“The Cloud Factory” is an cinematic exploration of the sky above the Rhenish coal mining region, where emission-enriched air masses ascend into the atmosphere to transform the climate. What can these human-made clouds tell us about our future? And what kind of castles can we build in this air?

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Coal Miner: Frank Jackson
Ben Zickafoose

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.

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Coded Bias
Shalini Kantayya

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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Coexistence, My Ass!
Amber Fares

Noam Shuster Eliassi grew up the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a hard pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region sinks deeper into devastating violence, she must meet the moment by challenging her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.

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Collective
Alexander Nanau

In Romania, an intrepid team of journalists uncover vast corruption across the medical industry—a conspiracy to traffic in diluted hospital disinfectant that results in the deaths of many innocent patients and involves product manufacturers and distributors, hospital managers, government officials, and business moguls. With remarkable access, Collective boldly traces the personal risks involved in bringing the truth to light.

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Color Cry
Len Lye

Inspired by Man Ray’s “rayographs,” Color Cry was made with what Lye called a “shadow cast.” This consists of placing objects directly on film and…

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