Film Category: NEW DOCS

Tupperware!
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt

Before there was Mary Kash Ash and her pink Cadillacs, there was Ms. Brownie Wise and her annual Tupperware Jubilees. Narrated by Kathy Bates, Tupperware!…

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Un Modèle pour Matisse: Histoire de la Chapelle du Rosaire à Vence
Barbara F. Freed

This is a delightful film about a warm and affectionate connection between the artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and his artistic muse, Sister Jaques Marie. At…

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Unlikely Heroes
Richard Trank

From small stories come grand heroism. Weaving old footage of the Nazi occupation of Europe with modern reminiscences, this movie tells of other Schindler’s Lists,…

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Word Wars
Julian Petrillo, Eric Chaikin

Like a brutally honest sports film, Word Wars documents the ordeals suffered by those dedicated to one-on-one competition. Knowing that their game requires the stamina…

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Year of the Bull
Todd Lubin

Year of the Bull provides a powerful, even disturbing, inside look at high school football in America. Following Miami Northwestern High School’s Bulls through their…

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Thirst
Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman

Multinational corporations seizing control of water supplies around the world are shocked, shocked by grassroots opposition. “Water for Life, Not for Profit!” shout California community…

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No Name Game Farm
Toby Beach, Peter Yost

“I wouldn’t own a mean chicken,” says Glen Comeaux, who has been raising fighting birds for 43 years in southwest Louisiana. Cockfighting is legal there,…

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The Opposite Sex: Rene’s Story
Josh Aronson

Gender issues are complicated for friends and family of Rene, who was born a girl but has always felt like boy. This challenging film asks…

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A Place of Our Own
Stanley Nelson

The town of Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vineyard, has long been a summer resort destination for generations of upper-middle-class black Americans, filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s family…

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The President Versus David Hicks
Curtis Levy

In the 2000s, there were hundreds of prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay by the US government for interrogation in the war against terrorism. David…

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