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After the Civil War, freed African Americans settled in the floodplains along North Carolina’s Tar River. This land becomes Princeville, the first town chartered by…
MORE ›For eight months in 1961, 400 black and white men and women risked their lives when they flouted Jim Crow laws to sit side by…
MORE ›Remarkable archival footage and unforgettable eyewitness accounts take us back to the summer of 1964, when hundreds of civil rights activists entered Missisippi to help enfranchise the state’s African American citizens.
MORE ›This investigative documentary takes us back to that moment when the only thing that mattered was making the U.S. a country worth living in for…
MORE ›This heart-wrenching tale takes us through the struggles of a highly respected police lieutenant who, while battling terminal cancer, must take on the city council…
MORE ›The Fresh Docs program will feature a work-in-progress cut of Farmer Veteran (Working Title), followed by a moderated conversation with the filmmakers.
MORE ›The Iranian cinema is the subject of this fascinating and highly informative documentary by Jamsheed Akrami. Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and other top directors discuss…
MORE ›In the brief ascent up a flight of stairs, a pair of strangers find a rapport across languages and generations.
MORE ›The poignant experience of a young man who determines an unlikely outlet for his pain and hardships: In local wrestling, he finds catharsis, community, and a sense of purpose.
MORE ›An inspiring account of the experiences and activities of Jewish scholars, refuges from Nazism, who came to the U.S. and taught in traditional black colleges…
MORE ›Renowned Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman shifts her focus to the border town of Agua Prieta in Mexico where would-be illegal immigrants ponder the risks of…
MORE ›In the 1970s, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi began making films from early nitrate footage, reframing shots and keeping the scratches and damaged bits.…
MORE ›In the lead-up to her wedding, filmmaker Sharon Shattuck returns home to better understand the enduring relationship between her mother and transgender father.
MORE ›From the snowy Norwegian land comes this intriguing portrait of the explorer Roald Admunsen, the first man to sail the Northwest Passage, the first man…
MORE ›Extremely dedicated connoisseurs seek to devour, yet also sustain, the world’s most intoxicating
and elusive produce.
Ashley is an introspective teen with curiosity about the world and her relationship to her ancestors. She also works days in the strawberry fields and…
MORE ›Deep within the Mojave Desert, the United States army has erected a cluster of fake Iraqi villages where American soldiers spend three weeks training before…
MORE ›A whimsical tale of a group of elderly women in a small Italian village who get creative while trying to raise funds for a trip to the sea, which many of them have never seen.
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