 | Brother to BrotherBy Rodney Evans, Jim McKay, and Aimee Schoof Bruce Nugent, the black gay writer who co-founded the journal Fire!! with Langston Hughes and others, inspires a gay teenager through memories of the Harlem Renaissance. Independent Lens |
 | Catherine's Storyby James Babanikos and Mary John Catherine is reading Kate Chopin's short story, when Chopin's fictional heroine appears in the flesh to help Catherine struggle against an abusive husband. |
 | Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaustby Menachem Daum Filmmaker Menachem Daum passes on the lessons he learned from his parents’ post-Holocaust crisis of faith to his own children and grandchildren, hoping to show how to be true to one’s deepest beliefs while being open to all people. POV |
 | The Last Letterby Frederick Wiseman The Last Letter is legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s poignant portrayal of a Russian Jewish woman living in a Ukrainian city seized by the Germans who writes her son one last letter. Independent Lens |
| Locust Pointby John Bright Mann Get a glimpse of the American immigrant experience circa 1900 in the nation’s second-largest immigration point after Ellis Island. |
| Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisanceby Barbara Abrash, and Esther Katz A look at the early public debate surrounding birth control and the unstoppable Margaret Sanger. |
| Memory of Fireby Edin Velez, and Sarah Vogel A theatrical meditation on the "discovery" of the new world by Christopher Columbus. |
| Mother of the Riverby Zeinabu Irene Davis The tale of a girl befriending an ostracized old woman who teaches her strength and independence despite the conditions of slavery in the ante-bellum South. |
| Pharaoh's Armyby Robby Henson A long-kept secret about the burial of a murdered Union soldier. |
 | What Happened to Her? And the Strawberry Fieldsby Rea Tajiri A young woman tries to unlock painful memories about her parents forced stay in Japanese internment camps, which they prefer to keep hidden. |
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