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Film Category: Thematic
Generally recognized as the film which introduced the cinema-verité style of documentary filmmaking, Primary is politics at its most exposed—the Democratic Party campaign during the…
MORE ›Leni Reifenstahl was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to film the Nazi Nuremberg Party Rally in 1934. Using 30 cameras and many assistants, the result was…
MORE ›A propaganda film made by the U.S. War Department in 1944 to defend segregation in the armed forces, The Negro Soldier tells a mythic history…
MORE ›This earliest surviving feature by an African-American filmmaker confronts issues beyond the scope of Hollywood studio productions and what the industry once labeled “race movies.”…
MORE ›This portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. is not a sentimental tribute to a fallen leader. It is the biography of a movement, from the…
MORE ›When Vincent Chin was beaten to death in a working-class Detroit bar, the Asian-American community was outraged. When the two unemployed autoworkers who murdered Chin…
MORE ›For 30 years, Jane Elliot has committed herself to fighting against racism, prejudice and ignorance through an exercise separating blue-eyed persons from brown-eyed persons. This…
MORE ›After becoming lost on the plains, Howard (Dustin Hoffman) is taken in by a Cheyenne tribe. When the white men invade the tribe many years…
MORE ›Our society witnesses daily the violence associated with racial and gender intolerance. In Northern Ireland, similar, if not worse, violence rises from differences in religion.…
MORE ›Strange Victory provocatively questions whether the World War II triumph was indeed a victory for all Americans. Hurwitz sets up a discrepancy between the ideals…
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