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The Great Experiment reflects on this nation once dubbed “the last great experiment in democracy,” by documenting one four-year period of political upheaval from 2017 to 2020 to create a deeply affecting portrait of our nation and its people.
MORE ›Issei looks like one cool Japanese guy. He’s got it all, expensive clothes, the perfectly messed up hair, a boyish grin frozen in time, a…
MORE ›A chilling investigation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill through the stories of people still experieincing its aftereffects—from oil executives to Gulf Coast residents—long after the media moved on.
MORE ›A meandering camera takes a graceful, evocative journey through the spaces and operations of Warsaw’s Grand Theatre as it presents the opera Madama Butterfly.
MORE ›Filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to document the systematic use of rape as a weapon of war. With a…
MORE ›On the Mississippi river between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is a stretch of land dubbed “Cancer Alley.” The residents of this area, mostly poor…
MORE ›A real-life thriller about the complex relationship between a Palestinian spy and his Israeli Shin Bet handler.
MORE ›In 1979 members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazis opened fire on a Communist Workers Party rally, killing five protesters and injuring…
MORE ›This sweeping, lyrical look at the lives of residents of East Java, Indonesia, explores the ongoing ramifications of a mudflow disaster, caused by natural gas drilling, that wiped out 16 villages in 2006.
MORE ›In a tiny New Zealand farming town, a community rugby squad vows to come back from a losing season.
MORE ›Public policy and personal memories collide in San Francisco in the attempt to memorialize the tragedy of AIDS on a national scale.
MORE ›Growing Up Female captures six women, from the ages of four to twenty-six, as they experience coming of age in America. Each reveals impressions specific…
MORE ›Julia Reichert and Jim Klein’s first film, widely seen as the first feature documentary of the modern-day Women’s Liberation Movement, offers six portraits of girls and women at various ages, examining how they are socialized. Added to the National Film Registry in 2011, Growing Up Female remains in active distribution fifty-three years after its initial release.
MORE ›Adult students with Down Syndrome question their unknown futures. After attending the same school for decades, is there anything left to be discovered in this place, and what opportunities exist in the outside world?
MORE ›Pinocchio, Schnozola, Sir Nose… Charles grows up to be clearly self-conscious of his prominent Italian nose. Still, he was shocked when one of the teachers…
MORE ›Mexican workers are welcomed to North Carolina’s farms for long months of officially sanctioned exploitation; when the agricultural season is over, they go home to…
MORE ›After the dismantling of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa, Bishop Desmond Tutu and others were assigned the troubling…
MORE ›Set in Mozambique, this new film examines the human side of environmental sustainability.
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