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School Prayer: A Community at War

by 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.

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Shaker Heights: The Struggle for Integration

by Stuart Math

Documents a town's efforts to create an integrated community.

Southern Belle

by 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 Tongues

by 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 Soldiers

by Avon Kirkland

San Francisco's Omega Boys Club reaches out to America's most endangered: young African American men.

A Touch of Greatness

by Catherine Gund

Weaving stunning archival footage together with interviews of former elementary schoolteacher Albert Cullum and his former students, this is a portrait of the lives transformed by a maverick teacher who enabled children to embrace their own inner greatness.

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Up Heartbreak Hill

by Erica Scharf

Three Navajo high school seniors must decide whether to stay in their community — a place inextricably woven into the fiber of their being — or leave in pursuit of educational and economic opportunities.

Whatever It Takes

by Christopher Wong

In the first year of a South Bronx public high school, visionary rookie principal Edward Tom leads teacher, students, and their parents in their biggest gamble yet.

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