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A chronicle of the final months at a GM plant in Ohio as heartbroken workers prepare for the closing of the factory.
MORE ›In 2008, General Motors closed their doors in Dayton, Ohio, leaving 2,500 stunned and saddened workers. The Last Truck chronicles the plant’s final months, until the very last day, from the point of view of the women and men on the assembly line. How does a good job impart dignity and build community?
MORE ›After 15 years on the road, The Band gives their farewell concert on Thanksgiving, 1978 at San Francisco’s Winterland. Perhaps the most beloved concert film…
MORE ›This film is an inspirational, good-natured look at the genesis, ideology and success of the Bombay-based Laughing Clubs, founded by Dr. Maidan Kataria. The phenomenon…
MORE ›Winner of the 1969 Emmy for Best News Documentary, Law and Order portrays the working lives of police officers with brutal honesty, from the wide…
MORE ›The Law in These Parts exposes the widening moral gap between the presumed ethical aspirations of Israeli society and its promulgation of discriminatory laws against Palestinians.…
MORE ›When the spotlight of “the movement” moved on, many sharecroppers and tenant farmers were forced off the land in retaliation for their attempts to vote.…
MORE ›LBJ, a biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, tells the sprawling story of one of the nation’s most controversial presidents, whose political career spanned the Great…
MORE ›This beautiful work of fiction begins with an aging shepherd in a medieval Calabrian village who tends his herd of goats. A lush visual portrait, Le Quattro Volte offers four meditations on the soul of a man journeying through his natural habitat.
MORE ›Our society witnesses daily the violence associated with racial and gender intolerance. In Northern Ireland, similar, if not worse, violence rises from differences in religion.…
MORE ›In the early 1960s, the lumber town of Leavenworth, Washington, faced extinction. A group of local leaders created Leavenworth Improvement For Everyone (LIFE) and adopted…
MORE ›A dreamlike evocation of a dairy farm in Mexico, Leche pushes the outermost boundaries of the documentary form. Shot in 16mm black and white, with…
MORE ›Assessing the realism of flesh-toned paint isn’t normally a job for a soldier. But Ross Graydon, who has just returned from Baghdad without his left…
MORE ›In response to over a decade of right-wing domination of the airwaves, a group of angry, enterprising individuals team up in early 2004 to launch…
MORE ›There are many layers to the humble Rosina Lhevinne. She was a devoted wife to one of the finest piano players of the 20th century,…
MORE ›Call her a freedom fighter or a terrorist; Leila Khaled was the first woman to ever hijack an airplane. Born and raised in Haifa, in…
MORE ›An inside look at the life of the brilliant satirist, Lenny Bruce. Narrated by Robert DeNiro, the film follows Bruce’s evolution from strip club comic…
MORE ›An intimate look at the songs, poetry, and life of one of music’s most loved and influential songwriters. In the tradition of landmark documentaries about…
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