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1) 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...
2) 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.
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.
4) 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.
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.
9) 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.
11) 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.
12) 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).
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The unbelievable true story of Chelly Wilson, who escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s. Chelly was a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Author and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit introduces audiences to Terry's diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling. Over the course of director Sally Aitken’s moving documentary, we become deeply invested in baby hummingbirds like Cactus and...
15) Ferguson Rises
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
How does a father find purpose in his pain? In 2014, Michael Brown Sr.’s son was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, an event that fueled the global Black Lives Matter movement. But his personal story seeking justice and healing has not been told until now.
16) The Volunteer
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
After being mistaken for the enemy by fellow U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, a Japanese-American veteran struggles to overcome his feelings of guilt and anger, find a sense of belonging, and reunite with the soldier from Alabama who saved his life.
17) I Got a Monster
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, which terrorized the city of Baltimore for a half-decade. Based on the acclaimed book of the same name, I GOT A MONSTER takes viewers around every twist and turn of a real-life cat-and-mouse game where cops are also robbers and those meant to protect our safety turn out to be the ones jeopardizing it.
18) Borderland
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
There is a war on immigrants. A massive surveillance, militarized and carceral apparatus has been built to capture, imprison and deport millions. But in the shadow of this border-industrial- complex, immigrants are building a rights movement envisioning a future rooted in human connection and the sanctity of life. In BORDERLAND | THE LINE WITHIN a trio of digital humanists, immigrants themselves, dig deep into the hidden apparatus of the border industrial...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Tells the story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional afterthought to a position of political consequence. Focusing on the fraught period between 1963 and 1974, the film examines the passage and first uses of the 25th Amendment and offers a fresh perspective on succession in the executive branch.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
This multiplatform documentary examines the priorities of a politically diverse Latino electorate in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. It focuses on key issues that will drive Latino voter turnout in some of the most hotly contested battleground states like Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as California and Florida, which have large Latino populations.
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