Miss Nikki & The Tiger Girlsby Juliet Lamont If you think it's hard making it as an all-girl band, try being the first to do it with a military dictatorship breathing down your neck. Global Perspectives Collection | |
Monkey Danceby Julie Mallozzi Their parents escaped Cambodia's killing fields — now dance helps three teens survive the minefields of urban America. | |
Music from the Inside Outby Daniel Anker Featuring the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Music from the Inside Out weaves together a mosaic of the stories, ideas, experiences and music making that form the heart of these musicians’ lives, inside and outside the concert hall. Independent Lens | |
The Music's Gonna Get You Throughby Gabrielle Mullem A look at a creative and music jazz camp in New Orleans for blind and visually-impaired teenagers run by master musician Henry Butler. | |
Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Storyby Jamie Meltzer An engaging look at the fascinating subculture of the song-poem industry, where a dream and a song come together as ordinary people mail in their poems to be set to music for a fee. Independent Lens, True Stories | |
One Night at the Grand Starby Natasha Uppal How did L.A.'s Grand Star restaurant become one of the city's liveliest, intergenerational, and culturally-integrated neighborhood nightclubs? Independent Lens | |
Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in Americaby Phil Bertelsen, and Katy Chevigny Looking at three families brought together and sometimes pushed apart by transracial adoption, Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America explores the personal, political, and socio-cultural implications of white parents adopting black children. True Stories | |
P-Star Risingby Gabriel Noble Rapper Priscilla Diaz was dazzling New York nightclub crowds at age nine. But chasing music stardom isn’t child’s play when you live in a shelter, your mom’s an addict, and your dad’s struggling to keep the family afloat. Independent Lens | |
Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Grooveby Yvonne Smith, Harlene Freezer, and Sharon Davis Follow one of the most unique and influential groups in music history. From a 1960s barbershop doo-wop group to 1970s masters of funk, through pitfalls, comebacks, to becoming the world's most sampled band, P-Funk continues to perform, record, and funk on into the 21st century. Independent Lens | |
Polka Timeby Lisa Blackstone Each July for more than 30 years, polka lovers from around the United States have descended on the tiny rural town of Gibbon, Minnesota for the Gibbon Polka Fest. Independent Lens |
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