Film Category: NEW DOCS

Wetback — The Undocumented Documentary
Arturo Perez Torres

This epic exploration of undocumented workers walking to the United States from as far away as El Salvador is unlike any other film on the…

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Why We Fight
Eugene Jarecki

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki’s latest documentary, Why We Fight, is a powerful essay on American foreign policy in the age of the military-industrial complex. Borrowing the…

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Yellow Brick Road
Matthew Makar, Keith Rondinelli

Each year, the drama program of Long Island’s ANCHOR (Answering the Needs of Citizens with Handicaps Through Organized Recreation) sponsors an extravagant, one-night-only production of…

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Pack Strap Swallow
Holly Paige Joyner

The Lonely Planet tourist guidebook suggests bringing food and sundries to inmates at the women’s prison in Quito, Ecuador. Some of the women there were…

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Phantom of the Operator
Caroline Martel

Artfully edited excerpts of a hundred public relations films from the dawn of the century to today—made by the telephone company for operators or the…

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Press On
Gillian Grisman

Get down, boogie and praise the Lord. Press On traces the history of “sacred steel,” a unique steel guitar-based gospel music born in African American…

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Protocols of Zion
Marc Levin

Filmmaker Marc Levin uses an infamous hoax, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—a book fabricated in Russia at the end of the 19th century—as…

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The Ritchie Boys
Christian Bauer

Accompanying George Patton’s forces across Europe after D-Day, German-speaking American troops practiced psychological warfare and interrogated captured German soldiers. They gathered crucial intelligence for the…

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Same Sex America
Henry Corra, Charlene Rule

On May 17, 2004, same sex marriage became legal in the state of Massachusetts. This film follows seven couples as they make wedding plans in…

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The Self-Made Man
Susan Stern

The right-to-die debate goes West in this riveting portrait of a man and his family grappling with a darker side of rugged individualism. At 77,…

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