A Day's Work, a Day's Payby Katherine Leichter and Jonathan Skurnik A Day’s Work, a Day’s Pay, a one hour long video documentary, following three people on public assistance fighting for a just and effective welfare-to-work system. | |
Delafieldby Mark Brodin The farm community around a 125-year-old rural church is dying. Church members decide to sacrifice their church as the responsible thing to do. | |
Downside Upby Nancy Kelly Downside Up tells the story of how a blue-collar town in rural Massachusetts reinvented itself in the post-industrial economy by opening the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Independent Lens, True Stories | |
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Roomby Alex Gibney An Academy Award-nominated study of one of the biggest business scandals in American history, this film chronicles a corporate disaster in which executives walked away with over $1 billion, leaving investors and employees with nothing. Independent Lens | |
Escape from Affluenza: Living Better on Lessby John de Graaf A sequel to Affluenza, a documentary which introduced Americans to the national epidemic of rampant consumerism and materialism. | |
The Farmer's Wifeby David Sutherland A landmark portrait of three tumultuous years in the life of a Nebraska farm couple, chronicling three years of their struggle to save their farm and their marriage. Frontline | |
A Fish Storyby Courtney Hayes and Tim Gallagher A Fish Story is a tale of two women who lead their communities in a battle against a coalition of national environmental groups for control of the ocean. Three hundred years of fishing tradition and the health of the ocean hang in the balance. Independent Lens | |
Flag Warsby Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras What happens when gay white people move into a black working-class neighborhood? This up-close look at gentrification leads viewers on a journey into a divided community. POV | |
Give Us the Moneyby Bosse Lindquist Give Us the Money explores how celebrity is changing the world of humanitarian aid. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices, Why Poverty? | |
Hand Changesby Gregory Gilbert An investigation of the cyclic social, economic and political changes influencing farm labor on Virginia's eastern shore for 400 years. |
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