Part memoir and part contemporary political story, this film deals with class within the context of immigration. A clash between working-class Mexican immigrants and wealthy…

Although it was made over three decades ago, this examination of the black American middle class remains a landmark documentary. Made to challenge negative stereotypes…

In 1967 during the government’s War on Poverty, a visiting filmmaker documenting that campaign was shot and killed by a local Kentucky resident. The search…

This reflective film tells the story of anti-Vietnam War activists who set out to overthrow the U.S. government. Through much of the 1970s, The Weathermen…

In 1864, capitalist George Pullman began selling his famous railroad sleeping cars, which helped him build a vast industrial empire. In 1981, Pullman workers found…

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.…

They clean other people’s houses and raise other families’ kids—often leaving their own loved ones behind in their Latin American homelands. This film underscores the…

A look at America’s upper class by one of its own. Both investigative and personal, the film reveals the self-centered arrogance and ruthlessness by which…

Most people have heard of Mardi Gras, but few know that within the festival also exists a very private world of high-society balls. Originated by…

Named after a New Orleans housing project, Desire follows a diverse group of teenage girls over a period of five years. But the film is…