 | Lakshmi and Meby Nishtha Jain and Smriti Nevatia In this intimate examination of the relationship between Indian filmmaker Nishtha Jain and her young maid, Lakshmi, Jain holds up a mirror to her own culture and the pervasive caste system that can still determine an individual’s fate in life. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection, Independent Lens |
 | The Last Cowboyby Jon Alpert Filmed over two decades in the life of Vern Sager and his family, The Last Cowboy captures a family's struggle to preserve a vanishing way of life as cowboys and Indians in the Badlands of South Dakota. Independent Lens |
 | Maggie Growlsby Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater Outraged by being forced to retire at the age of 65, Maggie Kuhn formed the Gray Panthers to fight against mandatory retirement and ageism and improved society's treatment of older Americans. Independent Lens |
 | Maid in Americaby Anayansi Prado Meet Telma, Eva, and Judith, three undocumented workers who toil as cooks, housekeepers, and even surrogate mothers — often at the expense of their own families — as they attempt to pursue their American dreams. Global Voices, True Stories, Independent Lens |
 | The Parking Lot Movieby Meghan Eckman The Parking Lot Movie chronicles the rarefied world of one small parking lot in a college town, and the asphalt philosophers who work as attendants there. Independent Lens |
 | Razing Appalachiaby Sasha Waters Freyer The last 40 families of Blair, West Virginia stay to fight America's second-largest coal company as mountaintop removal mining threatens their homes. True Stories, Independent Lens |
 | The Real Dirt on Farmer Johnby Taggart Siegel and Teri Lang Against all odds, John Peterson abandons conventional chemical farming and fights local hysteria to build a thriving organic farm and a progressive farm community. Independent Lens |
 | T-Shirt Travelsby Shantha Bloemen An eye-opening documentary tracing how secondhand clothing donated to charity in the western world eventually lands in Zambia, Africa, and how the communities that trade and resell these clothes are impacted. Global Voices, Independent Lens |
 | Taking the Heat: The First Women Fire Fighters of New York Cityby Bann Roy When the New York City Fire Department tried to push women out of firefighting, Brenda Berkman pushed back. Her story, and those of other pioneer female firefighters, reveals the price these women paid to break the department’s gender barrier. True Stories, Independent Lens |
 | Los Trabajadores/The Workersby Heather Courtney Focusing on the lives of Juan and Ramon, immigrant day laborers working in Austin, Texas, Los Trabajadores/The Workers explores the contradictions that haunt America's dependence on and discrimination against immigrant labor. Independent Lens |
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