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Not in My Neighbourhood - Urban Activists Fighting Against Spatial Violence 87 mins From colonization to gentrification, NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD tells the intergenerational stories of the ways in which ordinary citizens respond to the policies, process, and…
Not in My Neighbourhood - Urban Activists Fighting Against Spatial Violence Not in My Neighbourhood - Urban Activists Fighting Against Spatial Violence
In the Executioner's Shadow - Justice, Injustice and the Death Penalty 54 mins A documentary that casts a penetrating look at the consequences of the death penalty through three powerful stories - the rare perspective of a former…
In the Executioner's Shadow - Justice, Injustice and the Death Penalty In the Executioner's Shadow - Justice, Injustice and the Death Penalty
Detroit 48202 - Conversations Along a Postal Route 83 mins This documentary examines the rise, demise, and contested resurgence of the City of Detroit through the lens of African-American mail carrier, Wendell Watkins, and the…
Detroit 48202 - Conversations Along a Postal Route Detroit 48202 - Conversations Along a Postal Route
The Year We Thought About Love - Behind the Scenes of Queer Youth Theater 69 mins What happens when LGBTQ youth decide to create a play about queer love to tour to area high schools? The Hollywood Reporter writes that the…
The Year We Thought About Love - Behind the Scenes of Queer Youth Theater The Year We Thought About Love - Behind the Scenes of Queer Youth Theater
I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America 13 mins A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers…
I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America
Circle Up - Mothers Seeking Justice for Their Murdered Sons 2 videos This is the powerful story of a group of Boston mothers who seek true justice for their sons' murders. For these women, justice is not…
Circle Up - Mothers Seeking Justice for Their Murdered Sons Circle Up - Mothers Seeking Justice for Their Murdered Sons
In Whose Honor? - American Indian Mascots in Sports 49 mins 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…
In Whose Honor? - American Indian Mascots in Sports In Whose Honor? - American Indian Mascots in Sports

African & African American Studies

My Brooklyn - Demystifying Gentrification 77 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
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
Taking Root - The Vision of Environmentalist Wangari Maathai 81 mins Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai tells the inspiring story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first…
Taking Root - The Vision of Environmentalist Wangari Maathai Taking Root - The Vision of Environmentalist Wangari Maathai
On The Line: Where Sacrifice Begins - Boston’s Longest Running Voluntary School Desegregation Program 76 mins When you think of busing in Boston, chances are it's about a dark episode in the city's history that sparks images of violence, intolerance, and…
On The Line: Where Sacrifice Begins - Boston’s Longest Running Voluntary School Desegregation Program On The Line: Where Sacrifice Begins - Boston’s Longest Running Voluntary School Desegregation Program
Yurumein (Homeland) - The Caribs / Garifuna of St. Vincent in the Caribbean 51 mins An untold history of the indigenous Caribs on St. Vincent: their near extermination and exile by the British 200 years ago; and return of some…
Yurumein (Homeland) - The Caribs / Garifuna of St. Vincent in the Caribbean Yurumein (Homeland) - The Caribs / Garifuna of St. Vincent in the Caribbean
70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green - The Demolition of Public Housing in Chicago 59 mins Filmed over a period of 20 years, 70 ACRES IN CHICAGO chronicles the demolition of Chicago's Cabrini Green public housing development, the clearing of an…
70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green - The Demolition of Public Housing in Chicago 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green - The Demolition of Public Housing in Chicago
Homes and Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action 40 mins Three tenacious and visionary communities deliver the American dream of owning a home to low-income residents. It has been over 40 years since leaders of…
Homes and Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action Homes and Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action

Aging & Gerontology

States of Grace - An Inspiring Journey of Resilience, and Renewal 4 videos Winner of multiple audience awards, States of Grace intimately captures the profound transformation of a revered physician and her family in the wake of a…
States of Grace - An Inspiring Journey of Resilience, and Renewal States of Grace - An Inspiring Journey of Resilience, and Renewal
Still Doing It 55 mins Flying in the face of this culture's extreme ageism, STILL DOING IT explores the lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white,…
Still Doing It Still Doing It
Seeking Asian Female 82 mins Steven is a 60-year-old white American man who works as a cashier in a garage and dreams of marrying a young Asian woman. Debbie, a…
Seeking Asian Female Seeking Asian Female
Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco 32 mins A documentary about unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building romantic, extraordinarily detailed…
Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco
Care - Care Workers, Their Clients, and a Coming Crisis 57 mins This intimate documentary pulls back the curtain on the poignant and largely hidden world of in-home eldercare. Beautifully shot and deeply moving, the film reveals…
Care - Care Workers, Their Clients, and a Coming Crisis Care - Care Workers, Their Clients, and a Coming Crisis
Mimi and Dona - An Aging Mother Cares for her Disabled Daughter 57 mins What happens when love runs out of time? For 92-year-old Mimi, who has spent much of her life caring for 64-year-old Dona, her daughter with…
Mimi and Dona - An Aging Mother Cares for her Disabled Daughter Mimi and Dona - An Aging Mother Cares for her Disabled Daughter
Triptych: 3 Women Making Art 36 mins Art is one of the oldest activities on Earth, even predating science or math. But too often we forget it is a basic part of…
Triptych: 3 Women Making Art Triptych: 3 Women Making Art

Asian and Asian American Studies

Finding Kukan - Uncovering the Story of An Asian-American Female Producer from the 1940's 76 mins KUKAN, a landmark color film that revealed the atrocities of World War II China to audiences around the world, was the first ever American feature…
Finding Kukan - Uncovering the Story of An Asian-American Female Producer from the 1940's Finding Kukan - Uncovering the Story of An Asian-American Female Producer from the 1940's
A Village Called Versailles 54 mins In a New Orleans neighborhood called Versailles, a tight-knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes…
A Village Called Versailles A Village Called Versailles
Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco 32 mins A documentary about unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building romantic, extraordinarily detailed…
Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee 62 mins Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to…
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
95 and 6 to Go - A Filmmaker Connects with Her Grandfather 85 mins In this award-winning documentary, filmmaker Kimi Takesue finds an unlikely collaborator while visiting her resilient Japanese-American grandfather in Hawai'i. A recent widower in his 90s,…
95 and 6 to Go - A Filmmaker Connects with Her Grandfather 95 and 6 to Go - A Filmmaker Connects with Her Grandfather
Leaving Home - Traditional Marriage in India 73 mins Leaving home is what most of us do -- eventually. It's different for Renu. Will she fulfill her dreams of leaving her village home to…
Leaving Home - Traditional Marriage in India Leaving Home - Traditional Marriage in India
Out Run - LGBT Politics in the Philippines 57 mins As leader of the world's only LGBT political party, Bemz Benedito dreams of being the first transgender woman in the Philippine Congress. But in a…
Out Run - LGBT Politics in the Philippines Out Run - LGBT Politics in the Philippines

Children, Youth & Families

I Learn America 2 videos In I Learn America, five resilient immigrant teenagers come together at the International High School at Lafayette and struggle to learn their new land. The…
I Learn America I Learn America
Power and Control - Domestic Violence in America 65 mins Kim, a Duluth, MN mother of three, is at the center of this compelling and authoritative exploration of gender violence in America. As Kim and…
Power and Control - Domestic Violence in America Power and Control - Domestic Violence in America
It's Elementary—Talking About Gay Issues in School 2 videos It's Elementary features elementary and middle schools where (mainly heterosexual) teachers are challenging the prevailing political climate and its attempt to censor any dialogue in…
It's Elementary—Talking About Gay Issues in School It's Elementary—Talking About Gay Issues in School
Straightlaced—How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up 66 mins With a fearless look at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths how pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens. These stories reflect a…
Straightlaced—How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up Straightlaced—How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
Split: Divorce Through Kids' Eyes 31 mins Split is a deeply personal film made in collaboration with children aged 6-12, exploring the often frightening and always life altering separation of their parents.…
Split: Divorce Through Kids' Eyes Split: Divorce Through Kids' Eyes
Daddy and Papa 58 mins Daddy & Papa is a one-hour documentary video that opens a candid window on the personal, cultural and political implications of gay fatherhood. From surrogacy,…
Daddy and Papa Daddy and Papa
Life on the Line - Coming of Age Between Nations 27 mins Just two years ago, the Torrez family looked a lot like many American families: Mexican-American with immigrant roots, multilingual and multicultural, working class with two…
Life on the Line - Coming of Age Between Nations Life on the Line - Coming of Age Between Nations

Disabilities: New Perspectives

The Key of G - Disability, Caregiving and Interdependence 2 videos An award-winning documentary about disability, caregiving and interdependence. THE KEY OF G tells the story of Gannet, a 22-year-old man with severe disabilities, as he…
The Key of G - Disability, Caregiving and Interdependence The Key of G - Disability, Caregiving and Interdependence
Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty 2 videos "There is no right or wrong body of a conscious revolutionary mind." Sins Invalid witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities,…
Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty
Freedom Machines 58 mins Freedom Machines, a PBS Special, dramatically explores the concept of "disability" through the intimate stories of adults and children who are using modern technologies to…
Freedom Machines Freedom Machines
Deaf Jam 3 videos DEAF JAM is the story of deaf teen Aneta Brodski's bold journey into the spoken word slam scene. In a wondrous twist, Aneta, an Israeli…
Deaf Jam Deaf Jam
Wheelchair Diaries: One Step Up - An Exploration of the Lack of Handicapped Accessibility in Europe 2 videos Reid Davenport's breakout film that explores the lack of accessibility in Europe. It is an award-winning documentary that has been shown coast-to-coast and internationally. The…
Wheelchair Diaries: One Step Up - An Exploration of the Lack of Handicapped Accessibility in Europe Wheelchair Diaries: One Step Up - An Exploration of the Lack of Handicapped Accessibility in Europe
Mimi and Dona - An Aging Mother Cares for her Disabled Daughter 57 mins What happens when love runs out of time? For 92-year-old Mimi, who has spent much of her life caring for 64-year-old Dona, her daughter with…
Mimi and Dona - An Aging Mother Cares for her Disabled Daughter Mimi and Dona - An Aging Mother Cares for her Disabled Daughter
Read Me Differently: A Family’s Journey with Dyslexia, ADHD, and Learning Differences 57 mins A shock of recognition in social work school leads award-winning filmmaker Sarah Entine to explore how undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD have impacted three generations in…
Read Me Differently: A Family’s Journey with Dyslexia, ADHD, and Learning Differences Read Me Differently: A Family’s Journey with Dyslexia, ADHD, and Learning Differences

Human Rights & Global Concerns

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
Power and Control - Domestic Violence in America 65 mins Kim, a Duluth, MN mother of three, is at the center of this compelling and authoritative exploration of gender violence in America. As Kim and…
Power and Control - Domestic Violence in America Power and Control - Domestic Violence in America
When the Mountains Tremble - War and Revolution in Guatemala 84 mins A classic documentary on war and social revolution in Guatemala, which vigorously and persuasively describes the struggle of the largely indigenous peasantry against a legacy…
When the Mountains Tremble - War and Revolution in Guatemala When the Mountains Tremble - War and Revolution in Guatemala
500 YEARS - Life in Resistance 109 mins This new documentary tells the epic story that led Guatemala to a tipping point in their history from the genocide trial of former dictator General…
500 YEARS - Life in Resistance 500 YEARS - Life in Resistance
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator 105 mins Granito: How to Nail a Dictator is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent…
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
The Reckoning - The Battle for the International Criminal Court 100 mins Late in the 20th century, in response to repeated mass atrocities that convulsed the world, more than 120 countries united to form the International Criminal…
The Reckoning - The Battle for the International Criminal Court The Reckoning - The Battle for the International Criminal Court
Every Mother's Son - Policing and Race in America 54 mins In the late 1990s, three victims of police brutality made headlines around the country: Amadou Diallo, the young West African man whose killing sparked intense…
Every Mother's Son - Policing and Race in America Every Mother's Son - Policing and Race in America

Immigration & Border Studies

I Learn America 2 videos In I Learn America, five resilient immigrant teenagers come together at the International High School at Lafayette and struggle to learn their new land. The…
I Learn America I Learn America
First Person Plural 61 mins In this Emmy Award-nominated documentary, filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem explores themes of race, identity, assimilation, and birth family reunion. In 1966, Deann was adopted by…
First Person Plural First Person Plural
Finding Kukan - Uncovering the Story of An Asian-American Female Producer from the 1940's 76 mins KUKAN, a landmark color film that revealed the atrocities of World War II China to audiences around the world, was the first ever American feature…
Finding Kukan - Uncovering the Story of An Asian-American Female Producer from the 1940's Finding Kukan - Uncovering the Story of An Asian-American Female Producer from the 1940's
Seeking Asian Female 82 mins Steven is a 60-year-old white American man who works as a cashier in a garage and dreams of marrying a young Asian woman. Debbie, a…
Seeking Asian Female Seeking Asian Female
Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco 32 mins A documentary about unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building romantic, extraordinarily detailed…
Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee 62 mins Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to…
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America 13 mins A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers…
I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America
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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…
Fixed - The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
Fixed - The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
New Day Films
From botox to bionic limbs, the human body is more "upgradeable" than ever. But how much of it can we alter and still be human? What do we gain or lose in the process? Award-winning documentary, Fixed: The Science/Fiction of…
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…
Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality
Out in the Night - Criminalization of Race, Gender Identity and Sexuality
New Day Films
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 August night in 2006, in the gay friendly neighborhood of New York City. They are…
I Learn America
I Learn America
New Day Films
In I Learn America , five resilient immigrant teenagers come together at the International High School at Lafayette and struggle to learn their new land. The International High School is a New York City public school dedicated to serving newly…
2 videos
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.…
Holding Ground - The Rebirth of Dudley Street
Holding Ground - The Rebirth of Dudley Street
New Day Films
Holding Ground is at once a cautionary tale of urban policies gone wrong and a message of hope for all American cities. In 1985, African-American, Latino, Cape Verdean, and European-American residents in Roxbury, MA united to revitalize their community. The…
States of Grace - An Inspiring Journey of Resilience, and Renewal
States of Grace - An Inspiring Journey of Resilience, and Renewal
New Day Films
Winner of multiple audience awards, States of Grace intimately captures the profound transformation of a revered physician and her family in the wake of a life-changing accident. For Dr. Grace Dammann, a pioneering AIDS specialist who was honored by the…
4 videos
Power and Control - Domestic Violence in America
Power and Control - Domestic Violence in America
New Day Films
Kim, a Duluth, MN mother of three, is at the center of this compelling and authoritative exploration of gender violence in America. As Kim and her fragile daughters take up residence in a domestic violence shelter, we follow the harrowing…
Taking Root - The Vision of Environmentalist Wangari Maathai
Taking Root - The Vision of Environmentalist Wangari Maathai
New Day Films
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai tells the inspiring story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The U.S.- educated Professor…
Bag It: Is your Life too Plastic?
Bag It: Is your Life too Plastic?
New Day Films
Try going a day without plastic. Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and frightening ways. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow "everyman" Jeb Berrier, who is admittedly not a tree hugger, as he embarks…
The Thick Dark Fog - Reclaiming Native American Identity
The Thick Dark Fog - Reclaiming Native American Identity
New Day Films
Walter Littlemoon is a 69-year-old Lakota man born and raised in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. At the age of five, he was removed from his family to attend a Federal government boarding school where his culture, language and spirituality were…
Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Faubourg Treme - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
New Day Films
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 daily newspaper, and nurtured generations of African American activists. Executive produced by Wynton Marsalis and…
2 videos
When the Mountains Tremble - War and Revolution in Guatemala
When the Mountains Tremble - War and Revolution in Guatemala
New Day Films
A classic documentary on war and social revolution in Guatemala, which vigorously and persuasively describes the struggle of the largely indigenous peasantry against a legacy of state and foreign oppression. Centered on the experiences of Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu,…
70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green - The Demolition of Public Housing in Chicago
70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green - The Demolition of Public Housing in Chicago
New Day Films
Filmed over a period of 20 years, 70 ACRES IN CHICAGO chronicles the demolition of Chicago's Cabrini Green public housing development, the clearing of an African-American community, and the building of mixed-income communities on the valuable land where Cabrini once…
Still Doing It
Still Doing It
New Day Films
Flying in the face of this culture's extreme ageism, STILL DOING IT explores the lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white, nine extraordinary women, 67-87, express with startling honesty and humor how they feel about themselves,…
Wonder Women - The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Wonder Women - The Untold Story of American Superheroines
New Day Films
Kapow! Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines offers a nuanced critique of gender and heroism in popular culture as well as a powerful dose of Vitamin F(eminism) for the undernourished. From the birth of the 1940s comic book…
First Person Plural
First Person Plural
New Day Films
In this Emmy Award-nominated documentary, filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem explores themes of race, identity, assimilation, and birth family reunion. In 1966, Deann was adopted by an American family and was sent from Korea to her new home. Growing up in…
500 YEARS - Life in Resistance
500 YEARS - Life in Resistance
New Day Films
This new documentary tells the epic story that led Guatemala to a tipping point in their history from the genocide trial of former dictator General Rios Montt to the popular movement that toppled sitting President Otto Perez Molina. Focusing on…
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
New Day Films
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present. In Granito our characters sift for…