 | The Order of Mythsby Margaret Brown Beneath the surface of pageantry at America’s oldest Mardi Gras lies a complex story about race relations and the ever-present racial divide in America. Independent Lens |
 | Paper Wordsby Joyce Lee A 3-D-animated short about a bright, five year old from China who uses her imagination to cope with her new life in America. Global Voices |
 | Precious Knowledgeby Ari Luis Palos and Eren Isabel McGinnis When a highly successful Mexican American Studies program at a high school in Tucson comes under fire for teaching ethnic chauvinism, teachers and students fight back in a modern civil rights struggle. Independent Lens |
 | The Revisionariesby Scott Thurman The theory of evolution and U.S. history are caught in the crosshairs when an unabashed creationist seeks re-election as chairman of America’s most influential board of education. Independent Lens |
 | School Prayer: A Community at Warby Slawomir Grunberg and Ben Crane Profile of a Mississippi mother of six who sues her school district to remove prayer and religious instruction from public schools. POV |
| Shaker Heights: The Struggle for Integrationby Stuart Math Documents a town's efforts to create an integrated community. |
 | Skipping Upby Jimmy Mendiola and Faith Radle Skipping Up follows a group of eighth graders in San Antonio as they finish their year in the Middle School Partners Program, a successful dropout-prevention project that has generated national interest as a model for schools with significant Latino populations. |
 | Southern Belleby Kathy Conkwright and Mary Makley Southern Belle is an insider's look at the 1861 Athenaeum Girls' School where young women from around the world signed up to become that iconic and romantic image of southern identity — the southern belle. |
 | Speaking in Tonguesby Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider Four children — learning to be bilingual and bicultural — raise questions about what it means to be American in the 21st century. |
| Street Soldiersby Avon Kirkland San Francisco's Omega Boys Club reaches out to America's most endangered: young African American men. |
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