Film Catalog

Page 2 of 81

	African School by Nicki Stoker, Max Baring, Ed Kellie, and Sarah Hamilton A series that captures the daily lives, concerns and personalities of young Africans and their teachers in Masindi, Uganda. Global Perspectives Collection
	After the Fall by Eric Black and Frauke Sandig Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, After the Fall searches for traces of this monolith within the people who lived in its shadow. Global Voices
	Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman Ai Weiwei is arguably the most internationally celebrated Chinese artist of the modern era. At heart, he is a troublemaker with a serious agenda: to challenge the oppression of the Chinese people by their government with rebellious and irreverent gestures. His activism has cost him his freedom repeatedly, but he never seems to lose his childlike approach to serious dissidence executed with a wink. Independent Lens
	Aimee's Crossing by Tod Lending A personal portrait of juvenile offender Aimee Myers that reveals how the Illinois justice system heals and supports troubled young women.
	Alcatraz Is Not an Island by Jon Plutte and James M. Fortier When a group of Native Americans reclaimed Alcatraz Island in 1969, their activism forever altered how Native Americans viewed themselves, their culture, and their rights.
	Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth by Pratibha Parmar Writer and human-rights activist Alice Walker’s story is an inspiring personal journey of a life lived with passionate commitment to truth and justice – ideals that sprang from a background of poverty and violent racism. Women and Girls Lead, American Masters
	Alive in Limbo by Erica Marcus Being a teenager is hard — especially in a war zone. Alive in Limbo traces the lives of five Arab youth over 10 years, uncovering their ordinary adolescent obsessions, familiar dreams, and their attempts to live normal lives amidst the ruins of war around them.
	All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts by Alexandra Lescaze The “Girls” have been friends — and morbidly obese — for years. But now, having weight-loss surgery is about to upset everything they thought they knew about health, happiness, friendship, and love. Independent Lens
	Almost Home by Brad Lichtenstein and Lisa Gildehaus Shot on location in a nursing home, Almost Home tells the real stories of aging: couples both bonded and divided by disability, children torn between caring for their parents and their children, nursing assistants doing unsavory work for poverty wages, healthy elders fearful of moving to the dreaded nursing home, and a visionary nursing home director committed to changes that would shuck the nursing home stigma and alleviate such dread. Independent Lens Watch it online
	Almost There by Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden Outsider artist Peter Anton, 82, has spent decades obsessively chronicling his rollercoaster of a life into a massive, illustrated autobiography, and nothing — not poverty, isolation, or crippling disabilities — will stop him from seeing it published.