Homecoming ... Sometimes I Am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clayby Charlene Gilbert “This is the story of my family, this is the story of black farmers in the 20th century, this is the story of land and love.” | |
Homelandby Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson Four Lakota Indian families face the persistent challenges of contemporary reservation life. True Stories | |
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Frontby Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman A behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental organization that the FBI calls the “number one domestic terrorism threat” in America. POV | |
Justice in the Coalfieldsby Anne Lewis Examine the community and family toll surrounding the 1989 Pittston Coal Strike, its effects on the rank-and-file miners, and on those neighbors, shopkeepers, sons and daughters, both united and divided. | |
Kind Hearted Womanby David R. Sutherland In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota’s Spirit Lake Reservation. Women and Girls Lead, Independent Lens, Frontline | |
Knee Deepby Michael Chandler The true story of attempted murder in a small town in Maine. Independent Lens | |
Land (and how it gets that way)by Walter Brock A look at how land-use issues are affecting one community in Kentucky, and how the ramifications translate to other communities across the nation. | |
The Land is Oursby Laurence A. Goldin The Tlingit and Haida people of Alaska were confused by the idea of America “buying” the land they lived on from the Russians. They would be among the first native people to make a successful claim on their homeland and rights. | |
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 | |
Letter from Wacoby Don Howard and Terri Clemens A humorous portrait of “the West’s most southern city,” a place governed by four principles: race, religion, death, and football. |
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