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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
This edgy and often hilarious look at a dying breed of American outcasts exposes West Virginia's corruption, poverty, and environmentally devastating coal mining culture. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*Its governing spirit, captured in the raucous music that punctuates the story (including songs performed live by Hank Williams III), is one of outlaw celebration.*" - A.O. Scott, ***The New York Times***
2) Two Rivers
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Alejandro Jimenez fled Oaxaca, Mexico as a child and survived the desert to fight for a better life. As DACA policies and his status remain embattled in America, he trains tirelessly to embody the best of both his countries: his homeland, and the one he calls home. An inspirational knockout. TWO RIVERS celebrates the immigrant story in America, looking back at how Presidents of both parties have uplifted and disparaged these new arrivals; looking...
3) Sicko
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore takes an in depth look into the US healthcare system, which is seemingly driven by profits. He compares it to the systems in the UK, Canada and France which all offer free medical care, as well as offering insight from doctors and patients from each country to determine which model works best.
Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Formats
Description
"A sweeping story about four women whose lives are shaped by love, longing, and pain. Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in the U.S. who is unlucky in love and coping with the pandemic on her own. Zikora is a successful lawyer living in Washington, DC, who finds herself, unexpectedly, a heartbroken single mother. Omelogor is a scholar researching pornography for a master's thesis in Women's Studies. And Nafissatou, Chiamaka's housekeeper,...
5) Homeseeking
Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
"An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland"--
6) Althea
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
A documentary about the trailblazing athlete Althea Gibson. The first black tennis player to compete at elite level, Althea Gibson slammed her way through the color barrier into the world of international tennis. With a style of play she described as 'aggressive, dynamic, and mean' Althea brought a fierce athleticism to the women’s game, ushering in a new era in the sport. Her singles win at Wimbledon drew the attention of the world and a ticker-tape...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Examines the lives of two people whose only connection is a genetic link to John Armfield, one of the most notorious slave traders of the 1830s. Rodney Williams, who is Black, and Susanna Grannis, who is white, each trace their ancestry back to their distant ancestor, detailing the diverging paths their lineages took. While their relationship to this past is fundamentally different, and they never meet in the film, they both share in the telling of...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Join actor John Leguizamo on a quest to uncover Latino and Latina heroes and their contributions. In this three-part series, Leguizamo takes viewers on a captivating journey, delving into both well-known and lesser-known stories of Latino history, spanning thousands of years, from the Ancient Empires to the present, and shining a light on the rich and often overlooked history of Latinos.
9) Triumph67
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Following the sudden death of his brother, a Palestinian-American man reconnects with a woman from their past and forges a bond with his newfound family. He must grapple with the past, the present, and the cost of his own secrets from a long-ago summer.
10) My Last Nerve
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
MY LAST NERVE documents the life of a young research scientist, Max Glanz, as he undertakes the fight of a lifetime to cure his father from a rare disease that has torn his family apart. The film reveals Max’s 12 year journey to find answers before the clock runs out for his dad. Standing in his way are the institutions, hospitals and bureaucracies that he must navigate. This thought-provoking film showcases the real-world consequences of battling...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A racially complex American city confronts its past and future. When a Black female city councilor, once bussed as a child to hostile neighborhoods, is catapulted to Acting Mayor, she breaks 200 years of white male mayorship. Boston's old-school politics are further challenged when the top candidates in the historic 2021 mayoral race are all non-white women.
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming - despite the odds.
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Winner of the Philadelphia Filmmaker Award at the BlackStar Film Festival, EXPANDING SANCTUARY follows an immigrant mother who becomes a powerful community leader in the fight to end police data-sharing with ICE. The film captures her transformation from personal desire to bring her mother to the U.S. into a passionate, collective movement for immigrant rights and family protection.
15) Greener Pastures
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
GREENER PASTURES is an urgent and intimate look at American farming, told through the stories of farmers living at the intersection of climate change, globalization, and a mental health crisis over the course of five years.
16) What is light?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Children discover the many sources of light in the world--from the sun to the smile on a friend's face.
17) Reel South
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Season seven of Reel South is a study in survival and belief. With a formidable cast of unforgettable women (and one enlightened mortician), these films offer audiences a look past the specter of our present. Difficult jobs and hardened communities shape their stories, but with an assured vision for a future of their own making, these Southerners offer a powerful argument for perseverance.
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
Journey to a land of grizzlies, coastal wolves, sea otters and the all-white spirit bear — the rarest bear on earth — in the film GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST. Hidden from the outside world, the Great Bear Rainforest is one of the wildest places left on earth. Found on Canada’s remote Pacific coast, it is the last intact temperate rainforest in the world—a place protected by the region’s indigenous people for millennia.
19) The Cruise
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
Sailing the streets of Manhattan atop a double-decker bus, Timothy Speed Levitch waxes philosophical as the city's most eccentric tour guide. Speed's bombastic and psychedelic poetry is captured in the documentary THE CRUISE, the groundbreaking debut feature film from two-time Academy Award-nominated director Bennett Miller.
20) Without Arrows
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Filmed over 13 years, WITHOUT ARROWS chronicles the vibrance and struggle of a Lakȟóta family. Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, left his reservation as a young man and built a new life in Philadelphia. A decade later, he abandons it all and returns home to fulfill his mother’s ambition and carry on the legacy of their thiyóšpaye (extended family).
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