Films


Racing Dreams
Marshall Curry

Three preteens with NASCAR aspirations compete for the World Karting Championship while grappling with the pressures of family and the realities of coming of age.

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Racing Dreams
Marshall Curry

Meet Annabeth, Brandon, and Josh, pre-teens from different regions and circumstances sharing a common goal: to win a World Karting Championship. Street Fight director Marshall Curry follows the exceptional young drivers and their families during a season of challenges and surprises.

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Radiant City
Gary Burns, Jim Brown

This sharp look at the suburban lifestyle and aesthetic is both satirical and surprising. Detached Dad commutes hours a day to a high powered city…

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Radio Unnameable
Paul Lovelace, Jessica Wolfson

Tune in and turn on to this unheard tale from America’s counterculture. When Bob Fass sat down behind the microphone at New York City’s public…

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Radiograph of a Family
Firouzeh Khosrovani

Iranian director Firouzeh Khosrovani, the child of a secular father and devout Muslim mother, revisits her parents’ relationship to examine the chasm between them and…

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Radiophobia
Julio Soto

Radiophobia is full of images that hit with the power of a sledgehammer and frightful ideas that resonate long after the film is over. Although…

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Rafea: Solar Mama
Mona Eldaeif, Jehane Noujaim

In this resounding global testament to the power and necessity of equal access to education, Rafea attends Barefoot College in India to become a solar engineer, learning with other women from developing areas how to create sustainable futures for their hometowns.

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The Raft
Marcus Lindeen

An infamous 1973 social experiment exploring violence and sex put 11 volunteers to sea on a small boat—for three months. The Raft incorporates pristine archival footage and new footage of the surviving participants, who reunite to analyze how the voyage changed their lives.

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Raging Dove
Duki Dror

“I’m a believer, I’m a dreamer, I’m a fighter.” —Johar Abu-Lashin. What does boxing’s World Lightweight Champion do when no one will fight him? Johar…

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Rain
Joris Ivens

A lyrical impression of a rain storm in Amsterdam, this “city poem” observes, as the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens put it, the changing face of…

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Rain in a Dry Land
Anne Makepeace

The civil war in Somalia displaced as many as 12,000 Bantu to refugee camps in Kenya. Brought as slaves during early centuries from Mozambique and…

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The Rain Will Follow
Eugene Richards

From his chair in a retirement home, 90-year-old Melvin Wisdahl shares poignant recollections of wartime and strife in this deeply personal account set aglow by beautiful images of North Dakotan farmland.

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RAISE HELL: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
Janice Engel

This dynamic biography captures late political columnist Molly Ivins, the funny, fiery, whip-smart journalist who was unafraid to challenge the political and media establishments, no matter the cost.

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Raise the Dead
James Rutenback

Religious tent revivals have a long history in America, coming into and out of fashion since the Great Awakening of the 18th century. This film…

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Raises Not Roses – The Story of the 9 to 5 Movement Work-In-Progress
Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar

This film tells the stories of the millions of low-wage, virtually invisible women who populated the clerical pool, served coffee, and suffered sexual harassment before it was recognized as such. In the 1970s, they gathered their courage and rose up against their bosses, large corporations, and institutions.

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Raising Bertie
Margaret Byrne

In this portrait of coming of age, three young men in rural North Carolina persevere against poverty, discrimination, and unemployment.

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Raising Renee
Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher

Artist Beverly McIver was enjoying a skyrocketing career when a casual—yet life-changing— promise made to her mother years before came due.

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Raising Resistance
Bettina Borgfeld, David Bernet

In one generation, the cultivation of transgenic soy has exploded in South America and has changed the way people live. Enormous tracts of land are…

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