Urban Studies & Environment
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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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Bag it - 65 minute version
A film by Suzan Beraza
Is Your Life Too Plastic?
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Bag It - 78 minute version
A film by Suzan Beraza
Is Your Life Too Plastic?
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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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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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Downside Up
A film by Nancy Kelly
What happens when a poor, working-class town decides its best hope for survival is contemporary art? A personal and family story about MASS MoCA, America's largest museum of contemporary art.
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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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Foo Foo Dust
A film by Gina Levy
The award-winning "Foo-Foo Dust" explores the relationship between a crack-addicted prostitute and her junkie son living together in one room in San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
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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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Going On 13
A film by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez
Four girls. Four years. The change of a lifetime.
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Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
A film by Mark Lipman
Holding Ground is at once a cautionary tale of urban policies gone wrong and a message of hope for all American cities.
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Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia
A film by Jenny Cool
As mortgage market "meltdowns" and the environmental crisis bespeak its wider consequences, HOME ECONOMICS bursts the bubble of the American Dream of homeownership and reveals the deep human costs of suburbanization and automobilization. |
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Homeless in Paradise
A film by Chuck Braverman
The intimate profile of four homeless people.
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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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Land of Opportunity
NEW! A film by Luisa Dantas
The frontlines of the unprecedented rebuilding process in New Orleans.
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Living Broke in Boom Times
A film by Paco de Onis
Living Broke in Boom Times depicts the epic movement of poor Americans organizing to end poverty as documented in a decade-long journey by filmmakers Peter Kinoy and Pamela Yates.
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No Dinosaurs in Heaven
NEW! A film by Greta Schiller
A film about Noah's Flood, the Grand Canyon, and why we need to keep science in and religion out of our public schools. Featuring Dr Eugenie Scott and NYC public school teachers.
Recommended by AAAScience, Video Librarian, Booklist, Library Journal and American Biology Teacher
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A Revolving Door
A film by Chuck Braverman
This is the story of 33-year-old Tommy Lennon, struggling to deal with the dual diagnosis of mental illness and drug addiction. The film focuses on Tommy and his family's frustration, helplessness, courage and resilience.
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The Shrimp
A film by Keith Wilson
Tracing an environmentally threatened seafood from source to plate and back again.
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Taken for a Ride
A film by Jim Klein and Julia Reichert
Why does America have the worst public transit in the industrialized world, and the most freeways? |
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