Social Sciences
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A Hard Straight
NEW! A film by Goto Toshima
A gang member, a mother, and a small-time dealer. They served their sentences, they're on parole. Now they're about to discover that walking out the prison gates is just the beginning.
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A Village Called Versailles
NEW! A film by Leo Chiang
One community's political awakening in the aftermath of tragedy.
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Against the Grain: An Artist's Survival Guide to Perú
A film by Ann Kaneko
Is freedom of expression a right or a privilege? Four Peruvian visual artists defy tyranny through their work and ignite change.
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Ask Not
A film by Johnny Symons
They went into the closet to serve their country. Now they're coming out to change it.
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At Home In Utopia
A film by Michal Goldman
Cooperative living in complicated times.
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Bachelorette, 34
A film by Kara Herold
Bachelorette, 34 examines the pressure society puts on women to find Mr. Right.
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Becoming American
A film by Ken Levine
A Hmong refugee family resettles in the United States: Culture shock, prejudice and gradual adaptation.
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Bonecrusher
A film by Michael Fountain
An intimate journey inside the lives and work of coal miners.
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Brooklyn Matters
A film by Isabel Hill
A riveting look at how big real estate, politics, community voices, and a desperate need for jobs and housing clash in one of the largest development proposals in the history of New York City.
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Children in No Man's Land
NEW! A film by Anayansi Prado
A documentary that uncovers the plight of unaccompanied immigrant minors entering the United States.
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Concrete, Steel, & Paint
A film by Cindy Burstein and Tony Heriza
Men in prison. Victims of crime. A daring idea...
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A Day's Work, A Day's Pay
A film by Jonathan Skurnik
A Day's Work, A Day's Pay follows three welfare recipients in New York City from 1997 to 2000 as they participate in the largest welfare-to-work program in the nation.
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Deadly Deception - General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment
A film by Debra Chasnoff
Grassroots activists successfully expose a corporate giant's environmental record and push GE out of the deadliest business of all.
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Deep Down: A story from the heart of coal country
A film by Jen Gilomen & Sally Rubin
Beverly and Terry grew up like kin on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Now in their fifties, the two find themselves in the midst of a debate dividing their community and the world: who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet’s shrinking supply of natural resources? While Beverly organizes her neighbors to stop Miller Brothers Coal from advancing into her hollow, Terry considers signing away the mining rights to his backyard—a decision that could destroy both of their homes. This tale of social change examines the environmental, human, and cultural impacts of our actions.
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Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas
A film by Robert Richter
A powerful examination of the limits of free speech
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Every Mother's Son
A film by Kelly Anderson & Tami Gold
Three women - Kadiatou Diallo, Iris Baez and Doris Busch Boskey - lose sons to police brutality and unite to fight for reform and accountability in law enforcement.
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Fallon NV: DEADLY OASIS
A film by Amie Williams
Sixteen children have been diagnosed with leukemia in Fallon, NV, and sadly three have died. While officials, scientists, and journalists descend, the film probes the loaded question of a "cancer cluster".
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Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins
A film by Robert Richter
The struggle to find and reveal the truth about torture training at a U.S. military school.
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Five Days to Change the World
A film by Robert Richter
Student activists at the largest world peace conference in history take charge of their own destiny.
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Frontier Youth
NEW! A film by John Kane
Growing up in neighboring towns divided by a steel border fence.
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The Garifuna Journey
A film by Andrea Leland
A first voice testimony celebrating the resiliency of the Garifuna people of Belize and their traditions.
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Girl Trouble
A film by Lexi Leban & Lidia Szajko
The compelling stories of three girls entangled in San Francisco's juvenile justice system. The film documents the girls' successes and setbacks and exposes a failing juvenile justice system.
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Homes & Hands—Community Land Trusts in Action
A film by Debra Chasnoff
Three communities of low-income residents find new ways to develop permanent affordable housing
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Hopi: Song of the Fourth World
A film by Pat Ferrero
Living life in balance with nature
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Hungry for Profit
A film by Robert Richter
Is Third World famine the price we're paying for our food?
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