Butte, Americaby Pamela Roberts Butte, America chronicles the rise and fall of a small mining town with a larger-than-life spirit — where fortunes were made and lost, and where community was precious, but life was cheap. Independent Lens | |
By Invitation Onlyby Rebecca Snedeker New Orleans filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker gives an unprecedented look at the secrets and inner workings of the old-line Carnival societies and debutante balls of Mardi Gras. | |
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. | |
The Cats of Mirikitaniby Linda Hattendorf and Masahiro Yoshikawa When 9/11 threatens 80-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani's life on the streets of New York, the artist begins to confront his painful past and finds hope, humanity, and home. Independent Lens | |
Chicago 10by Brett Morgen Mixing animation and archival footage, Director Brett Morgen’s Chicago 10 explores the buildup to and unraveling of the protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the 1969 conspiracy trial that followed. Independent Lens | |
Children of the Sunby Ran Tal and Amir Harel Tracing Israel’s kibbutz movement, Children of the Sun follows members of the Zionist elite from their birth in the 1920s and 1930s to the crisis that weakened the movement Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
China 21by Ruby Yang A portrait of a new generation raised under China's “One Child Policy.” | |
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossedby Shola Lynch and Phil Bertelsen In 1972, black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination, launching a groundbreaking campaign that united an unlikely coalition of supporters from every walk of life. POV | |
Coming Out Under Fireby Arthur Dong Gay and lesbian soldiers in World War II found themselves fighting two wars: one for their country; the other as targets of military policy. | |
Conscience and the Constitutionby Frank Abe and Shannon Gee In 1944, 85 Japanese American prisoners in an American internment camp were prosecuted as criminals when they refused the draft. |
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