In 2006, Congress passed the Secure Fence Act, authorizing the U.S. government to build a 700-mile fence along its Mexico border. Its ostensible purpose was…

In times of war, as this probing film notes, civil liberties inevitably lose ground to national security. To demonstrate just how much ground since 9/11,…

Rory Kennedy spent a year in rural Appalachia and emerged with a riveting portrait of family and survival seen through the lens of Iree Bowling,…

This film delves into the turbulent life of seven-year-old Robert Oliver and his family in impoverished Europa, Mississippi. Robert’s mother turned over custody of both…

In 1988 Wanda Jean Allen shot her girlfriend, Gloria Leathers, to death outside the Village Police Department in Oklahoma City. The State charged Allen, who…

In The Farm, life at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum-security prison in the United States, is seen through the eyes of both its wardens and its prisoners—many of whom will die there—with disturbing parallels to plantation life.

When the images of Abu Ghraib hit the media in 2004, those who participated in the systematic torture of Iraqi prisoners were considered part of…