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Collector of Bedford StreetThe Collector of Bedford Street
is an Academy Award® nominated short documentary that follows Larry Selman, the film maker's 61 year old developmentally disabled neighbor.
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Body & Soul: Diana & KathyTwo remarkable advocates for people with disabilities, Diana Braun, who has Down Syndrome, and Kathy Conour, who has cerebral palsy, met four decades ago and vowed to fight for independent lives.
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Uncommon Ground Uncommon Ground
explores the critical voice of youth between South Africa and the US. The film looks at young people coming of age in two different areas of the world, and the mutual discovery that takes place.
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| Fallon NV: DEADLY OASISSixteen 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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Jamsie King of ScratchA spirited musical journey from the U. S. Virgin Islands. 79-year old James Brewster is an uncompromising, humorous, and provocative musician known for his playful compositions and lively performances.
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| The Garifuna JourneyA first voice testimony celebrating the resiliency of the Garifuna people of Belize and their traditions.
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| Third Ward TXThird Ward TX
intro- duces Project Row Houses--"The nation’s most impressive public art project [and] a bold experiment in how to build communities." |
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Writings on the WallThe hopes and dreams of India's film poster artists.
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| Laramie Inside Out Laramie Inside Out explores the aftermath of Matthew Shepard's 1998 gay-bashing murder in the filmmaker's Wyoming hometown. |
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| The Last to KnowThe ground breaking film on alcoholism, prescription drug abuse and women. |
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| A Revolving DoorThis 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. |
| Homeless in ParadiseThe intimate profile of four homeless people. |
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Let's Get RealAn in-depth look at name-calling and bullying in middle schools today, told entirely from a youth perspective.
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| That's a Family!What children have to say about the changing shape of American families. That's a Family!
breaks new ground in helping children in grades K-8 embrace diversity. |
It's ElementaryThe ground- breaking film that addresses anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with children about gay people.
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It's Still ElementaryTen years later, students and teachers talk about how learning and teaching about gay issues in school has changed their lives.
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| One Wedding and a RevolutionThe frantic planning inside city hall for the first gay marriage |
| Deadly DeceptionGrassroots activists successfully expose a corporate giant's environmental record |
| Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All Tied UpWith a fearless look at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens. Their stories reflect a diversity of experiences, demonstrating how gender role expectations and homop |
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| Still Doing ItStill Doing It explores the lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white, these women, age 67-87, express with honesty and humor how they feel about sex in later years. |
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| Eating AlaskaA wry search for the "right thing" to eat |
| Carved from the HeartCarved from the Heart
intertwines the process of carving and erecting the Healing Heart totem pole with the participants' stories of personal loss, grief, substance abuse, suicide and violence. |
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| Another Side of PeaceIf we who've paid the highest price possible can talk to each other why can't our leaders do the same? |
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Silent ChoicesAfrican American women and abortion. Finally, the silence is broken.
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The New Old CountryAmerican Jews flock from across the country to New York City's Lower East Side, revealing an intricate web of nostalgia, collective memory and the elusive nature of recorded history.
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Women of the WallFeminism arrives at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, when a women's prayer group tries to pray in Israel and finds themselves under violent attack from ultra-orthodox right wing opponents.
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| Downpour ResurfacingPoet, meditation teacher, and somatics pioneer Dr. Robert Hall opens his own story of child sexual and physical abuse and conveys how he transformed their
repercussions into a life of confidence and peace.
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| Tango 73: A Busrider’s DiaryThis film illustrates the vital importance of public transportation in urban areas by exploring one bus line and the people whose lives are shaped by the bus schedule and the elements. |
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Foo Foo DustThe 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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| Letters from the Other SidePost-NAFTA immigration stories from the Mexican women left behind. |
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Tangled RootsThis compelling film offers a new way for people to look at the complexities of the past as the filmmaker tries to reconcile her dual identity as the daughter of a German father and a Jewish mother.
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Spirit of the Dawn"Education is your most powerful weapon. With it, you are the white man's equal, without it, you are his victim."
Chief Plentycoups, last Crow Chief. |
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| Brooklyn MattersA 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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| Vietnam: The Secret AgentUsing striking archive and war footage in support of interviews with veterans, scientists, attorneys, the U.S. Air Force, the Veterans Administration, Dow Chemical and more; this film documents the extraordinary history of chemical warfare, agricultural h |
| Letters Not About LoveBased on letters exchanged between a Russian and American poet, a touching portrait of two countries and two people is revealed — a provocative exploration of language, culture and genuine communication. |
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| In Whose Honor?An award- winning and compelling documentary that takes a critical look at the long running practice of using American Indians as sports mascots. |
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Kansas vs. DarwinDarwin's theory of evolution is challenged by a Midwestern school board
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| Home Economics: A Documentary of SuburbiaAs 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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| Wet Dreams and False ImagesWet Dreams and False Images uses humor to raise serious concerns about the marketplace of commercial illusion and unrealizable standards of physical perfection. |
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| The GuaranteeA dancer's hillarious story about his prominent nose and the effect it has on his career. |
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| 34x25x3634 x 25 x 36 is the third installment in a trilogy of films (including “The Guarantee” and the Sundance award-winning “Wet Dreams and False Images”) examining issues of body image from quirky and revealing angles. This time, we are taken into the inner wo |
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Taken for a RideWhy does America have the worst public transit in the industrialized world, and the most freeways?
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| Tales from Arab DetroitWhat does it mean to be Arab American?
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| Voices in ExileArab Americans bring civil liberties to the Supreme Court |
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| The Gillian FilmThe Gillian Film is a moving portrait of an exceptional young woman who works at a local veterinary clinic, rides horses, takes dance classes, and is developmentally disabled. |
Men are Human, Women are BuffaloInterviews and shadow puppetry tell five moving stories about violence against women in Thailand.
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Daddy & PapaA story of gay fathers in America
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Beauty Before AgeGrowing Older in Gay Culture
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Ask NotThey went into the closet to serve their country.
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| A Day's Work, A Day's PayA 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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| Our DisappearedThrough a casual Google search director Juan Mandelbaum finds out that Patricia, a long-lost girlfriend from Argentina, is among the thousands who were kidnapped, tortured and then "disappeared" by the military during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. |
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| The Red PinesA pioneering Japanese American community perseveres.
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Teachings of the Tree PeopleThe trees were our first teachers.
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| When the Light's RedYou're stopped at an intersection, and someone with a sign asks for money. What do you do? Do you give them change or do you stare straight ahead pretending they're not there? |
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| Every Mother's SonThree 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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| Becoming AmericanA Hmong refugee family resettles in the United States:
Culture shock, prejudice and gradual adaptation. |
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| Going On 13Four girls. Four years. The change of a lifetime. |
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Twitch and ShoutEmmy nominated film, Twitch and Shout provides an intimate journey into the startling world of Tourette Syndrome (TS) told through the eyes of a photojournalist who has it.
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TwistedThe neurological disorder dystonia causes your body to twist in awkward, often painful postures. When you are locked inside your body, what can set you free?
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| Crossing Lines“Crossing Lines” is about an Indian American woman’s struggle to stay connected to India after the loss of her father. Like most second-generation ethnic Americans, Indira Somani has struggled with identity issues, since her parents migrated to the U.S. |
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| To You Sweetheart, AlohaAn entertaining yet poignant portrayal of a passionate elderly artist who continues to love, to grieve, and to live his life to the fullest, even at age 94. |
One + OneA powerful film about serodiscordant couples (of mixed HIV status) living with HIV and AIDS.
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| Girl TroubleThe 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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Wings of DefeatOnce we were Kamikaze...
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| Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari MaathaiHow the simple act of women planting trees changed a nation... |
| The World in Claire's ClassroomAn intimate portrait of a veteran teacher and her classroom |
| Home to TibetA Tibetan refugee returns to his occupied homeland |
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Seoul TrainSeoul Train is the definitive exposé into the growing North Korean refugee crisis that threatens to undermine the stability of East Asian peace.
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| States of UnbelongingThe core of this meditation on war, land, the Bible, and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed in a terrorist act on a kibbutz near the West Bank |
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| Special CircumstancesThis award- winning film follows ex-political prisoner, Hector Salgado to Chile 30 years later to confront those responsible for his own torture and the death of his friends. |
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| Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley StreetHolding 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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| The Double BurdenWhat is it like to grow up in a family where mothers have always worked outside the home? |
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View from a Grain of SandThree Afghan women tell how international interventions, war, and the rise of political Islam has stripped Afghan women of rights and freedom over the last 30 years.
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| STAGESSTAGES is a moving and surprisingly funny vérité exploration of the unexpected power of the simple act of storytelling. |
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| No Dumb QuestionsUncle Bill is becoming a woman in this funny and touching exploration of gender and sexuality through the eyes of 6, 9 and 11 year old sisters. |
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| At Home In UtopiaCooperative living in complicated times. |
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| The Most Distant PlacesDr. Edgar Rodas has dedicated his life to improving the health conditions for underprivileged communities in his native Ecuador, and Cinterandes is his visionary mobile hospital and rural health care project. |
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| Downside UpWhat 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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| What Do You Believe?The religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers |
| Out At WorkCan you be fired because of who you sleep with? |
| Bachelorette, 34Bachelorette, 34 examines the pressure society puts on women to find Mr. Right. |
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SilencesWhat happens when an interracial person's identity is completely ignored by his white family and friends?
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| Witness To WarAcademy Award winning story of Dr. Charlie Clements’ journey of conscience from Vietnam to El Salvador. A pilot in Vietnam, he went on to dedicate himself to non-violence and healing. |
| State of FearBased on the findings of the Peruvian Truth Commission, State of Fear blends personal testimony and history to tell the story of escalating violence in Peru, and how fear of terror undermined democracy. |
| Living Broke in Boom TimesLiving 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. |
| The ReckoningA David & Goliath battle of titanic proportions unfolds as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo faces down warlords, genocidal dictators and world superpowers. |
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| Gay YouthBreaking the silence surrounding gay and lesbian teens. |
| Liberty: 3 Stories about Life & DeathAn extraordinary celebration of life & lesbian community. |
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| Quilts in Women's LivesTraditional quilt makers share their art and their lives |
| Hearts and HandsA social history of 19th century women and quilts |
| Yield to Total Elation: Life and Art of Achilles RizzoliPortrait of the enigmatic, visionary artist |
| Hopi: Song of the Fourth WorldLiving life in balance with nature |
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If the Mango Tree Could SpeakTen children ages 12 to 15 share their experiences growing up in the midst of war in Guatemala and El Salvador.
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| Power and Control"Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America” is a comprehensive and timely exploration of the shocking persistence of domestic violence in our society. The complex issues around domestic abuse are refracted through the story of Kim, a mother of th |
Golden VentureThe epic tale of 286 Chinese immigrants on a freighter that ran aground off New York in 1993.
With immigration dominating political debate, the fate of the Golden Venture passengers is more relevant than ever.
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| Freedom MachinesThis award- winning PBS special dramatically redefines "disability" through personal stories of technology. A riveting reflection on America's largest minority: 55 million people with disabilities. |
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| The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the PentaIn 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. |
| Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American PressNarrated by Susan Sarandon. Seldes's written words read by Edward Asner. NOW ON DVD, WITH DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY SPECIAL FEATURE! The Academy-Award-nominated Tell The Truth and Run, is the dramatic story of muckraking journalist George Seldes, and a pierci |
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The Key Of GAn award-winning doc about disability, caregiving and interdependence.
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| Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against IdeasA powerful examination of the limits of free speech |
| Father Roy: Inside the School of AssassinsThe struggle to find and reveal the truth about torture training at a U.S. military school. |
Last Atomic Bomb, TheAge ten and hiding in a Nagasaki shelter near ground zero when the bomb dropped, Sakue Shimohira survived to wage a personal campaign — joined by student activists — to abolish all nuclear weapons.
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| Hungry for ProfitIs Third World famine the price we're paying for our food? |
| Five Days to Change the WorldStudent activists at the largest world peace conference in history take charge of their own destiny. |
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| Saving JackieSaving Jackie is a snapshot of a recovering addict’s attempt to strengthen her damaged relationship with her two estranged daughters. |
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| Maybe BabyA ground- breaking film and one of the first of its kind to deal with brand new technologies and ideas of family and birth. |
| In the Name of LoveWhat motivates the thousands of Russian women who sign up with agencies to meet and marry American men? |
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Young Aspirations Young ArtistsAn artist creates a wildly successful after school arts program for teens in her downtown New Orleans neighborhood.
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Jumping Off BridgesA narrative portrait of a family's struggle through depression and the aftermath of suicide.
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| The Self-Made ManNominated for two national Emmy Awards, The Self-Made Man explores issues of aging, the right to die, and family dynamics through the story of a sane "self-made man" who takes his own life. |
| Barbie NationThe new Barbie Nation Collector's Edition DVD plumbs the cult of the Barbie doll, revealing attitudes about sexuality, body image, gender roles and creativity. Starring Barbie creator Ruth Handler. |
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The Smith Family"The Smith Family" is a riveting account
of one family's uncommon struggle to keep faith and family
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Scout's Honor"To be physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight," is the Boy Scout Oath.
Millions of boys have joined. But today, if you are gay, you can't. Witness how one young boy changes the course of Scouting forever.
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| Breaking Silence: The Story of the Sisters at Desales HeightsAn examination of social and cultural change, and the impact of such change upon individuals |
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| The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana IslandsTHE INSULAR EMPIRE is the first film to document the United States’ historical – and ongoing – role as a colonial power. |
