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The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America 2 videos Acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise explores how Donald Trump expertly tapped into long-simmering racial tensions and rode an accelerating wave of white anxiety…
The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America
Anita - Speaking Truth to Power 77 mins Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, ANITA reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. An entire country watched…
Anita - Speaking Truth to Power Anita - Speaking Truth to Power
What Is Democracy? - A Philosophical Journey Exploring Government 108 mins Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? reflects on a word we too often take for granted. Director Astra…
What Is Democracy? - A Philosophical Journey Exploring Government What Is Democracy? - A Philosophical Journey Exploring Government
Cartel Land - Vigilante Groups Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels 101 mins In this Sundance award-winning film, Director Matthew Heineman and Executive Producer Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) gain unprecedented, on-the-ground access to the…
Cartel Land - Vigilante Groups Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels Cartel Land - Vigilante Groups Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels
Normal is Over - Innovative Solutions to Global Decline 113 mins An award-winning documentary about humanity's wisest responses to climate change, species extinction, resource depletion, income inequality, and the connection between these issues. A look at…
Normal is Over - Innovative Solutions to Global Decline Normal is Over - Innovative Solutions to Global Decline
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media 168 mins Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic…
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 93 mins In 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…
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Concerning Violence - Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense 89 mins From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the…
Concerning Violence - Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense Concerning Violence - Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense
Climate Refugees - The Global Human Impact of Climate Change 87 mins Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics.…
Climate Refugees - The Global Human Impact of Climate Change Climate Refugees - The Global Human Impact of Climate Change

Important Issues in American Politics

Anita - Speaking Truth to Power 77 mins Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, ANITA reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. An entire country watched…
Anita - Speaking Truth to Power Anita - Speaking Truth to Power
What Is Democracy? - A Philosophical Journey Exploring Government 108 mins Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? reflects on a word we too often take for granted. Director Astra…
What Is Democracy? - A Philosophical Journey Exploring Government What Is Democracy? - A Philosophical Journey Exploring Government
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 93 mins In 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…
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
The Times of Harvey Milk 89 mins A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office;…
The Times of Harvey Milk The Times of Harvey Milk
The War Room 97 mins The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the…
The War Room The War Room
#ReGENERATION - Social Activism 80 mins Ryan Gosling narrates this engrossing film about social activism, the forces that galvanized the Occupy movement, and how a new generation of young people is…
#ReGENERATION - Social Activism #ReGENERATION - Social Activism
A Good American - Behind a Government Surveillance Program 101 mins A gripping docu-thriller about a groundbreaking surveillance program, the brilliant mastermind behind it and how a perfect alternative to mass surveillance was killed by NSA-management…
A Good American - Behind a Government Surveillance Program A Good American - Behind a Government Surveillance Program

Political Figures

Mooch - The Story of Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci 84 mins Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci may have been the shortest tenured White House Communications Director, but he sure left a big impression. Compiled over a four-year…
Mooch - The Story of Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci Mooch - The Story of Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci
Koch - The Life and Career of a New York Mayor 96 mins Former Mayor Ed Koch was the quintessential New Yorker. Ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, Koch, ruled New York from 1978 to 1989, a down-and-dirty decade…
Koch - The Life and Career of a New York Mayor Koch - The Life and Career of a New York Mayor
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu - A Portrait of the Romanian Dictator 188 mins A monumental achievement, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU tracks the rise and fall of the infamous Romanian dictator through his own propaganda footage. Director Andrei…
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu - A Portrait of the Romanian Dictator The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu - A Portrait of the Romanian Dictator
The Times of Harvey Milk 89 mins A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office;…
The Times of Harvey Milk The Times of Harvey Milk
Keep Quiet - An Anti-Semitic Politician's Astonishing Transformation 93 mins As vice-president of Hungary's far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials, and founded the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by…
Keep Quiet - An Anti-Semitic Politician's Astonishing Transformation Keep Quiet - An Anti-Semitic Politician's Astonishing Transformation
John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls - A Portrait of the Republican Senator and Presidential Candidate 104 mins Produced and directed by six-time Emmy® winner Peter Kunhardt, along with Emmy® winners George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt, JOHN MCCAIN: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS is…
John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls - A Portrait of the Republican Senator and Presidential Candidate John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls - A Portrait of the Republican Senator and Presidential Candidate
Women's March - Women Protesting for Democracy and Human Rights 31 mins Shot on location in five U.S. cities, WOMEN'S MARCH is a story about democracy, human rights, and what it means to stand up for your…
Women's March - Women Protesting for Democracy and Human Rights Women's March - Women Protesting for Democracy and Human Rights

Voting Rights

Bridge to Freedom - 1965 58 mins A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory is won when the federal…
Bridge to Freedom - 1965 Bridge to Freedom - 1965
Freedom on my Mind - Mississippi Voter Registration in the 1960's 110 mins In 1961 Mississippi was a virtual South African enclave within the United States. Everything is segregated. There are virtually no black voters. Bob Moses, enters…
Freedom on my Mind - Mississippi Voter Registration in the 1960's Freedom on my Mind - Mississippi Voter Registration in the 1960's
Who Controls the Land - Bears Ears National Monument and the Fight for Native American Equality 52 mins Native American actor Martin Sensmeier travels to San Juan County, Utah, to investigate the controversy over the Bears Ears National Monument. While there, he learns…
Who Controls the Land - Bears Ears National Monument and the Fight for Native American Equality Who Controls the Land - Bears Ears National Monument and the Fight for Native American Equality
Answering the Call - The American Struggle for the Right to Vote 77 mins The bloody attacks of protestors in Selma in 1965 led to the historic protection of all Americans' right to vote. The film explores a cherished…
Answering the Call - The American Struggle for the Right to Vote Answering the Call - The American Struggle for the Right to Vote
No More Corsets: The New Woman 32 mins The lives of American women changed in far-reaching ways during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Trace late-19th-century social trends that led to more public…
No More Corsets: The New Woman No More Corsets: The New Woman
We'll Never Turn Back 31 mins WE'LL NEVER TURN BACK was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era. Amzie Moore, a Mississippi NAACP activist,…
We'll Never Turn Back We'll Never Turn Back
Voting Matters - Fighting for Voter Rights 27 mins More than 50 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most extensive pieces of civil rights legislation, people of color across…
Voting Matters - Fighting for Voter Rights Voting Matters - Fighting for Voter Rights

Women in Politics

Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed - The First Black Woman to Run for President 77 mins Recalling a watershed event in US politics, this Peabody Award-winning documentary takes an in-depth look at the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first…
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed - The First Black Woman to Run for President Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed - The First Black Woman to Run for President
Political Animals - Pioneering Women Who Paved the Way for LGBT Equality 88 mins The winner of over ten awards including the American Library Associations Notable Video for Adults." POLITICAL ANIMALS tells the story of the civil rights struggle…
Political Animals - Pioneering Women Who Paved the Way for LGBT Equality Political Animals - Pioneering Women Who Paved the Way for LGBT Equality
Perfect 36: When Women Won the Vote - Ratifying the 19th Amendment 26 mins Of all the battles waged on Nashville's doorstep, the final throes for the passage of the 19th Amendment were among the most heated, controversial and…
Perfect 36: When Women Won the Vote - Ratifying the 19th Amendment Perfect 36: When Women Won the Vote - Ratifying the 19th Amendment
Evita 3 videos Long after Evita was embalmed and secretly buried under a fictitious name in Milan, the former First Lady of Argentina once again was catapulted to…
Evita Evita
Gloria: In Her Own Words - Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem 62 mins Produced by Emmy®-winning documentary filmmaker Peter Kunhardt and HBO’s own Sheila Nevins, GLORIA: IN HER OWN WORDS combines recent interviews that showcase Steinem’s sharp sense…
Gloria: In Her Own Words - Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Gloria: In Her Own Words - Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem
Eleanor Roosevelt 141 mins She was the nation's conscience, a tireless advocate for the disadvantaged, a woman who influenced American social policies for decades and pushed through the first…
Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt
Bhutto - Democracy Was Her Greatest Revenge Against Extremism 108 mins The epic story of Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in history elected to lead a Muslim nation. A favored daughter of the family often called…
Bhutto - Democracy Was Her Greatest Revenge Against Extremism Bhutto - Democracy Was Her Greatest Revenge Against Extremism

War and the Military

Jim: The James Foley Story - An American Journalist Killed by ISIS 113 mins On Thanksgiving Day 2012, American photojournalist James "Jim" Foley was kidnapped in Syria and went missing for two years before the infamous video of his…
Jim: The James Foley Story - An American Journalist Killed by ISIS Jim: The James Foley Story - An American Journalist Killed by ISIS
Enemies of the People - Investigating the Cambodian Killing Fields 94 mins In Enemies of the People the men and women who perpetrated the massacres - from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party's ideological leader,…
Enemies of the People - Investigating the Cambodian Killing Fields Enemies of the People - Investigating the Cambodian Killing Fields
Fearless - The Stories of Those Who Disappeared During the Guatemalan Civil War 78 mins A group of relatives of people who disappeared during the Guatemalan military dictatorship requested and obtained, among many other measures of compensation, the production of…
Fearless - The Stories of Those Who Disappeared During the Guatemalan Civil War Fearless - The Stories of Those Who Disappeared During the Guatemalan Civil War
The War Around Us 78 mins The War Around Us tells the absorbing true story of the only two international journalists on the ground in Gaza during Israel's bombardment and invasion…
The War Around Us The War Around Us
Okinawa: The Afterburn - A Comprehensive Look at the Battle of Okinawa 123 mins Released in Japan on the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, OKINAWA: THE AFTERBURN is the first documentary to provide a comprehensive look at…
Okinawa: The Afterburn - A Comprehensive Look at the Battle of Okinawa Okinawa: The Afterburn - A Comprehensive Look at the Battle of Okinawa
Breaking Point - The War for Democracy in Ukraine 98 mins This documentary looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which…
Breaking Point - The War for Democracy in Ukraine Breaking Point - The War for Democracy in Ukraine
Last Days in Vietnam 98 mins April, 1975. During the chaotic final days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, South…
Last Days in Vietnam Last Days in Vietnam

North American Politics

The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America 2 videos Acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise explores how Donald Trump expertly tapped into long-simmering racial tensions and rode an accelerating wave of white anxiety…
The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America
Anita - Speaking Truth to Power 77 mins Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, ANITA reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. An entire country watched…
Anita - Speaking Truth to Power Anita - Speaking Truth to Power
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 93 mins In 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…
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
The Immigration Paradox - Diverse Stories Reveal Root Causes of Mass Migration 6 videos The Immigration Paradox takes a critical and in depth look at one of the most divisive issues in human global history-immigration. After encountering an immigrant…
The Immigration Paradox - Diverse Stories Reveal Root Causes of Mass Migration The Immigration Paradox - Diverse Stories Reveal Root Causes of Mass Migration
The Times of Harvey Milk 89 mins A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office;…
The Times of Harvey Milk The Times of Harvey Milk
1964 114 mins 1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was…
1964 1964
Not Just a Game - Power, Politics & American Sports 62 mins We've been told again and again that sports and politics don't mix, that games are just games and athletes should just "shut up and play",…
Not Just a Game - Power, Politics & American Sports Not Just a Game - Power, Politics & American Sports
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The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America
The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America
Media Education Foundation
Acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise explores how Donald Trump expertly tapped into long-simmering racial tensions and rode an accelerating wave of white anxiety and grievance straight to the White House. Rejecting the notion that Trump's racial appeals to…
2 videos
Anita - Speaking Truth to Power
Anita - Speaking Truth to Power
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, ANITA reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. An entire country watched as a poised, beautiful African-American woman sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men…
What Is Democracy? - A Philosophical Journey Exploring Government
What Is Democracy? - A Philosophical Journey Exploring Government
Kino Lorber
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? reflects on a word we too often take for granted. Director Astra Taylor's idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens' groundbreaking experiment in self-government…
Cartel Land - Vigilante Groups Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels
Cartel Land - Vigilante Groups Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels
The Orchard
In this Sundance award-winning film, Director Matthew Heineman and Executive Producer Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker , Zero Dark Thirty ) gain unprecedented, on-the-ground access to the riveting stories of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy-- the…
Normal is Over - Innovative Solutions to Global Decline
Normal is Over - Innovative Solutions to Global Decline
Renée Scheltema
An award-winning documentary about humanity's wisest responses to climate change, species extinction, resource depletion, income inequality, and the connection between these issues. A look at the financial and economical paradigm underlying our planetary problems, while offering various solutions to reverse…
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
Zeitgeist Films
Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, the…
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
New Day Films
In 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.…
Concerning Violence - Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense
Concerning Violence - Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense
Kino Lorber
From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s, accompanied by text…
The Immigration Paradox - Diverse Stories Reveal Root Causes of Mass Migration
The Immigration Paradox - Diverse Stories Reveal Root Causes of Mass Migration
The Immigration Paradox Movie
The Immigration Paradox takes a critical and in depth look at one of the most divisive issues in human global history-immigration. After encountering an immigrant crossing the Arizona desert, Emmy Award Winner and Filmmaker Lourdes Lee Vasquez set out to…
6 videos
Climate Refugees - The Global Human Impact of Climate Change
Climate Refugees - The Global Human Impact of Climate Change
The Video Project
Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. The film turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with…
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed - The First Black Woman to Run for President
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed - The First Black Woman to Run for President
Women Make Movies
Recalling a watershed event in US politics, this Peabody Award -winning documentary takes an in-depth look at the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first to seek nomination for the highest…
The Times of Harvey Milk
The Times of Harvey Milk
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.…
5 Broken Cameras - Non-Violent Resistance in the Middle East
5 Broken Cameras - Non-Violent Resistance in the Middle East
Kino Lorber
Winner at the Sundance Film Festival , 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought…
Frontline: The Interrogator
Frontline: The Interrogator
PBS
In a rare interview with Ali Soufan, the FBI agent who was at the center of the 9/11 investigations, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith uncovers an insider's view of the "war on terror." One of only eight Arabic-speaking FBI agents, Soufan…
1964
1964
Part of the Series: American Experience
PBS
1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was the year when Berkeley students rose up in protest, African Americans fought back against injustice…
The Socialist Dream - President Lázaro Cárdenas and the Socialist Ideals his inspired in Mexico
The Socialist Dream - President Lázaro Cárdenas and the Socialist Ideals his inspired in Mexico
Pragda
In the convulsive Mexican post-revolutionary times of a complex and divided country, the ideas of Lazaro Cardenas paved the way towards social transformation. Radical, practical and courageous, Cardenas and his socialist dream molded the future of Mexico.
Not Just a Game - Power, Politics & American Sports
Not Just a Game - Power, Politics & American Sports
Media Education Foundation
We've been told again and again that sports and politics don't mix, that games are just games and athletes should just "shut up and play", but according to Nation magazine sports editor, Dave Zirin, this notion is just flat-out wrong.…
The Square - The Egyptian Revolution
The Square - The Egyptian Revolution
MVD Entertainment Group
The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster over the past two and a half years. Through the news, we only get a glimpse of the bloodiest battle, an election, or a million man march. At the beginning of July…
Our New President - The Russian Media and American Politics
Our New President - The Russian Media and American Politics
Giant Interactive
This is the story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. Horrifying and hilarious, this is a satirical portrait of Russian meddling in the 2016 election revealing a fake news empire and its information warfare tactics. Winner of…
Not My Life - The Global Impact of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Not My Life - The Global Impact of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Worldwide Documentaries
Not My Life is the first film to depict the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My Life takes viewers into a world…