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The Mask You Live In 91 mins THE MASK YOU LIVE IN follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America's narrow definition of masculinity.…
The Mask You Live In The Mask You Live In
Miss Representation 90 mins Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to…
Miss Representation Miss Representation
Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City 79 mins Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an…
Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America 69 mins White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens…
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
People Like Us - Social Class in America 126 mins It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark…
People Like Us - Social Class in America People Like Us - Social Class in America
My Brooklyn - Demystifying Gentrification 78 mins My Brooklyn is a documentary about Director Kelly Anderson's personal journey, as a Brooklyn "gentrifier," to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of…
My Brooklyn - Demystifying Gentrification My Brooklyn - Demystifying Gentrification
Minimalism - The Many Levels of Minimalistic Lifestyles 79 mins Can true happiness and success be measured by material possessions? What is the personal and global impact of our consumer culture? Is there an alternative?…
Minimalism - The Many Levels of Minimalistic Lifestyles Minimalism - The Many Levels of Minimalistic Lifestyles
Life Off Grid - A Film About Disconnecting 87 mins A two-year journey exploring the lives of Canadians in every province and territory who have made the choice to disconnect. LIFE OFF GRID is a…
Life Off Grid - A Film About Disconnecting Life Off Grid - A Film About Disconnecting
Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity 65 mins Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as…
Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity

Civil Rights

Tongues Untied - Giving a Voice to Black Gay Men 55 mins Marlon Riggs' essay film TONGUES UNTIED gives voice to communities of black gay men, presenting their cultures and perspectives on the world as they confront…
Tongues Untied - Giving a Voice to Black Gay Men Tongues Untied - Giving a Voice to Black Gay Men
Freedom Riders 115 mins FREEDOM RIDERS is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more…
Freedom Riders Freedom Riders
Before Stonewall 87 mins In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the…
Before Stonewall Before Stonewall
Screaming Queens - The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria 57 mins EMMY Award-winning Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in…
Screaming Queens - The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria Screaming Queens - The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
The Black Panthers - Vanguard of the Revolution  115 mins In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored -- cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding,…
The Black Panthers - Vanguard of the Revolution  The Black Panthers - Vanguard of the Revolution 
Who Cares About Kelsey? - Helping Students with Emotional and Behavioral Challenges Succeed 2 videos When Kelsey Carroll entered high school, she was a more likely candidate for the juvenile justice system than graduation. Diagnosed with ADHD and carrying the…
Who Cares About Kelsey? - Helping Students with Emotional and Behavioral Challenges Succeed Who Cares About Kelsey? - Helping Students with Emotional and Behavioral Challenges Succeed
Stonewall Uprising 84 mins In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New…
Stonewall Uprising Stonewall Uprising

Gender Studies

The Mask You Live In 91 mins THE MASK YOU LIVE IN follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America's narrow definition of masculinity.…
The Mask You Live In The Mask You Live In
Miss Representation 90 mins Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to…
Miss Representation Miss Representation
The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty 2 videos The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the…
The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty
All this Panic - Teenage Girls Coming of Age in Brooklyn 80 mins Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the…
All this Panic - Teenage Girls Coming of Age in Brooklyn All this Panic - Teenage Girls Coming of Age in Brooklyn
Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality 77 mins Out in the Night is a documentary that tells the story of a group of young friends, African American lesbians who are out, one hot…
Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality
The Bro Code - How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men 57 mins Filmmaker Thomas Keith takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. Keith breaks down a…
The Bro Code - How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men The Bro Code - How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men
The Red Pill - A Feminist's Journey Into the Men's Rights Movement 119 mins When feminist filmmaker Cassie Jaye sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men's Rights Movement, she begins to question her own…
The Red Pill - A Feminist's Journey Into the Men's Rights Movement The Red Pill - A Feminist's Journey Into the Men's Rights Movement

Crime

Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality 77 mins Out in the Night is a documentary that tells the story of a group of young friends, African American lesbians who are out, one hot…
Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality
The Witness 91 mins The name "Kitty Genovese" became synonymous with urban apathy after The New York Times printed an article stating that she was stabbed to death during…
The Witness The Witness
Titicut Follies - The Massachusetts State Prison for the Criminally Insane 84 mins This important film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts.…
Titicut Follies - The Massachusetts State Prison for the Criminally Insane Titicut Follies - The Massachusetts State Prison for the Criminally Insane
The Survivor's Guide to Prison - Exploring the Current State of the US Prison System 103 mins You're more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world. THE SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON explores the current…
The Survivor's Guide to Prison - Exploring the Current State of the US Prison System The Survivor's Guide to Prison - Exploring the Current State of the US Prison System
Broken on All Sides - Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice 69 mins Today, there are more African Americans in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War…
Broken on All Sides - Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice Broken on All Sides - Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice
Tower - First Hand Accounts of the University of Texas' 1966 Shooting 83 mins August 1st 1966 was the day our innocence was shattered. A sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas…
Tower - First Hand Accounts of the University of Texas' 1966 Shooting Tower - First Hand Accounts of the University of Texas' 1966 Shooting
Sex Trafficking in the USA 88 mins The Department of Justice estimates that there are 300,000 children at risk of being trafficked into sexual slavery in the U.S. A Path Appears introduces…
Sex Trafficking in the USA Sex Trafficking in the USA

Racism

Race - The Power of an Illusion 3 videos The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups - "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches,…
Race - The Power of an Illusion Race - The Power of an Illusion
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America 69 mins White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens…
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
American Denial - The Truth is Deeper than Black and White 56 mins In his 1944 study of the 'Negro Problem' in America, Gunnar Myrdal posed a simple, disturbing question: How can Americans espouse a belief in liberty,…
American Denial - The Truth is Deeper than Black and White American Denial - The Truth is Deeper than Black and White
Freedom Riders 115 mins FREEDOM RIDERS is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more…
Freedom Riders Freedom Riders
The Black Panthers - Vanguard of the Revolution  115 mins In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored -- cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding,…
The Black Panthers - Vanguard of the Revolution  The Black Panthers - Vanguard of the Revolution 
Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans 2 videos Past and present collide in this powerful documentary about Faubourg Treme, the fabled New Orleans' neighborhood that gave birth to jazz, launched America's first black…
Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
How Racism Harms White Americans - A lecture by John H. Bracey 46 mins Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a…
How Racism Harms White Americans - A lecture by John H. Bracey How Racism Harms White Americans - A lecture by John H. Bracey

Social Justice

Milwaukee 53206 - America's Mass Incarceration Crisis 55 mins The United States has the most prisoners of any nation in the world both in raw numbers and by percentage of the population. These numbers…
Milwaukee 53206 - America's Mass Incarceration Crisis Milwaukee 53206 - America's Mass Incarceration Crisis
Pre-Crime - Investigating Predictive Crime Algorithms 88 mins Science fiction turns into disturbing fact as forecasting softwares, algorithms and databases quickly become the new fortune-tellers for future crimes, driving us to ask: how…
Pre-Crime - Investigating Predictive Crime Algorithms Pre-Crime - Investigating Predictive Crime Algorithms
In Our Water - A Classic Documentary On the Fight for Clean Water 62 mins In this Oscar nominated documentary, a New Jersey family discovers their well is being poisoned by a landfill while local and state officials assure them…
In Our Water - A Classic Documentary On the Fight for Clean Water In Our Water - A Classic Documentary On the Fight for Clean Water
The Survivor's Guide to Prison - Exploring the Current State of the US Prison System 103 mins You're more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world. THE SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON explores the current…
The Survivor's Guide to Prison - Exploring the Current State of the US Prison System The Survivor's Guide to Prison - Exploring the Current State of the US Prison System
Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans 2 videos Past and present collide in this powerful documentary about Faubourg Treme, the fabled New Orleans' neighborhood that gave birth to jazz, launched America's first black…
Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Water Warriors - A Community's Resistance Against the Oil & Gas Industry 22 mins WATER WARRIORS is the story of a community's successful resistance against the oil and gas industry. When an energy company begins searching for natural gas…
Water Warriors - A Community's Resistance Against the Oil & Gas Industry Water Warriors - A Community's Resistance Against the Oil & Gas Industry
Almost Holy - A Controversial Ukranian Pastor Fighting Against Child Homelessness 97 mins The acclaimed documentary ALMOST HOLY tells the story of Gennadiy Mohknenko, a Ukrainian pastor who has taken up the fight against child homelessness by forcibly…
Almost Holy - A Controversial Ukranian Pastor Fighting Against Child Homelessness Almost Holy - A Controversial Ukranian Pastor Fighting Against Child Homelessness

Family

Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity 65 mins Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as…
Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity
Makala - An Intimate Portrait of a Man Supporting His Family in Congo 97 mins A powerful testament to one man's commitment to his family, and his endurance in working to provide them with a brighter future. Kasongo, a 28-year-old…
Makala - An Intimate Portrait of a Man Supporting His Family in Congo Makala - An Intimate Portrait of a Man Supporting His Family in Congo
Grey Gardens 96 mins Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the…
Grey Gardens Grey Gardens
Rich Hill - The Challenges and Dreams of Teenagers in a Rural American Town 93 mins Rich Hill, Missouri could be any of the countless small towns that blanket America's heartland. But to teenagers Andrew, Harley and Appachey, it's home. As…
Rich Hill - The Challenges and Dreams of Teenagers in a Rural American Town Rich Hill - The Challenges and Dreams of Teenagers in a Rural American Town
American Commune - America's Largest Socialist Experiment 91 mins In 1970, 1,500 hippies and their guru Stephen Gaskin founded a commune in rural Tennessee. Members forked over their savings, grew their own food, delivered…
American Commune - America's Largest Socialist Experiment American Commune - America's Largest Socialist Experiment
For the Love of Spock - The Life of Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy 113 mins A one-of-a-kind documentary sure to unite trekkies worldwide, FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK tells the life of Star Trek's Mr. Spock and the actor who…
For the Love of Spock - The Life of Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy For the Love of Spock - The Life of Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy
Little White Lie - Family Secrets, Dual Identity & the Power of Telling the Truth 67 mins Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz's story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong…
Little White Lie - Family Secrets, Dual Identity & the Power of Telling the Truth Little White Lie - Family Secrets, Dual Identity & the Power of Telling the Truth

Community

Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City 79 mins Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an…
Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City
In Jackson Heights - One of America's Most Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods 190 mins Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. There are…
In Jackson Heights - One of America's Most Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods In Jackson Heights - One of America's Most Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods
Dark Days - A Homeless Community Beneath the Subway Tunnels of NYC 83 mins This acclaimed documentary explores the surprisingly domestic subterranean world of a homeless community living in a train tunnel beneath NYC. Through stories heartbreaking and hilarious,…
Dark Days - A Homeless Community Beneath the Subway Tunnels of NYC Dark Days - A Homeless Community Beneath the Subway Tunnels of NYC
Central Park - A Look at the Famous New York Landmark 177 mins CENTRAL PARK is a film about the famous New York City landmark and the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running,…
Central Park - A Look at the Famous New York Landmark Central Park - A Look at the Famous New York Landmark
Essene - Daily Life in a Benedictine Monastery 87 mins ESSENE is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational priorities of the…
Essene - Daily Life in a Benedictine Monastery Essene - Daily Life in a Benedictine Monastery
Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans 2 videos Past and present collide in this powerful documentary about Faubourg Treme, the fabled New Orleans' neighborhood that gave birth to jazz, launched America's first black…
Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Belfast, Maine - A Fishing Community in Maine 249 mins BELFAST, MAINE is a film about ordinary life in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular…
Belfast, Maine - A Fishing Community in Maine Belfast, Maine - A Fishing Community in Maine
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Race - The Power of an Illusion
Race - The Power of an Illusion
California Newsreel
The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups - "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet,…
3 videos
The Mask You Live In
The Mask You Live In
The Representation Project
THE MASK YOU LIVE IN follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America's narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our…
Miss Representation
Miss Representation
The Representation Project
Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute…
Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City
Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City
Oscilloscope Pictures
Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Winner of Best First…
In Sickness and in Wealth
In Sickness and in Wealth
Part of the Series: Unnatural Causes
California Newsreel
What are the connections between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin colour? Our opening episode travels to Louisville, Kentucky, not to explore whether medical care cures us, but to see why we get sick in the first place, and…
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
White Like Me - Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
Media Education Foundation
White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy…
People Like Us - Social Class in America
People Like Us - Social Class in America
The Center for New American Media
It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Class can be harder to spot…
My Brooklyn - Demystifying Gentrification
My Brooklyn - Demystifying Gentrification
New Day Films
My Brooklyn is a documentary about Director Kelly Anderson's personal journey, as a Brooklyn "gentrifier," to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and class. The story begins when Anderson moves to Brooklyn in 1988, lured by…
Minimalism - The Many Levels of Minimalistic Lifestyles
Minimalism - The Many Levels of Minimalistic Lifestyles
The Video Project
Can true happiness and success be measured by material possessions? What is the personal and global impact of our consumer culture? Is there an alternative? Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things examines the many aspects of the growing "minimalist"…
Precious Knowledge - Fighting for Mexican American Studies in Arizona Schools
Precious Knowledge - Fighting for Mexican American Studies in Arizona Schools
Dos Vatos
Precious Knowledge reports from the frontlines of one of the most contentious battles in public education in recent memory, the fight over Mexican American studies programs in Arizona public schools. The film interweaves the stories of several students enrolled in…
Life Off Grid - A Film About Disconnecting
Life Off Grid - A Film About Disconnecting
Fighting Chance Films
A two-year journey exploring the lives of Canadians in every province and territory who have made the choice to disconnect. LIFE OFF GRID is a film about people who have chosen to build their lives around renewable energy, with beautiful,…
Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity
Sensitive - The Untold Story - A Film About the Innate Trait of High Sensitivity
The Global Touch Group
Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? Did…
Makala - An Intimate Portrait of a Man Supporting His Family in Congo
Makala - An Intimate Portrait of a Man Supporting His Family in Congo
Kino Lorber
A powerful testament to one man's commitment to his family, and his endurance in working to provide them with a brighter future. Kasongo, a 28-year-old man living in Congo with his wife and daughters, dreams of purchasing a plot of…
The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty
The Illusionists - The Globalization of Beauty
Media Education Foundation
The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from Harvard to the halls of the…
2 videos
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States
Under the Milky Way
With the tremendous success of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn litteraly transformed a generation's conscience. Zinn talks about those who…
Trouble The Water - Surviving Hurricane Katrina
Trouble The Water - Surviving Hurricane Katrina
Zeitgeist Films
This astonishingly powerful, Oscar-nominated documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before…
In Whose Honor? - American Indian Mascots in Sports
In Whose Honor? - American Indian Mascots in Sports
New Day Films
The Cleveland Indians. Washington Redskins. Atlanta Braves. What's wrong with American Indian sports mascots? This moving, award-winning film is the first of its kind to address that subject. In Whose Honor? takes a critical look at the long-running practice of…
When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks
Part of the Series: Unnatural Causes
California Newsreel
The number of infants who die before their first birthday is much higher in the U.S. than in other countries. And, for African Americans, the rate is nearly twice as high than it is for white Americans. Even well-educated Black…
Consuming Kids - The Commercialization of Childhood
Consuming Kids - The Commercialization of Childhood
Part of the Series: MEF Debt & Consumerism Collection
Media Education Foundation
With virtually no government or public outcry, the multi-billion dollar youth marketing industry has been able to use the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics…
All this Panic - Teenage Girls Coming of Age in Brooklyn
All this Panic - Teenage Girls Coming of Age in Brooklyn
The Film Sales Company
Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn.…