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Struggles in Steel: A Story of African-American Steelworkers

by Anthony Buba and Raymond Henderson

An examination of the 100-year struggle of African American steelworkers for equal rights in the mills.

T-Shirt Travels

by Shantha Bloemen

An eye-opening documentary tracing how secondhand clothing donated to charity in the western world eventually lands in Zambia, Africa, and how the communities that trade and resell these clothes are impacted.

Independent Lens, Global Voices

Taking the Heat: The First Women Fire Fighters of New York City

by Bann Roy

When the New York City Fire Department tried to push women out of firefighting, Brenda Berkman pushed back. Her story, and those of other pioneer female firefighters, reveals the price these women paid to break the department’s gender barrier.

Independent Lens, True Stories

Talking to the Wall: The Story of an American Bargain

by Steve Alves and Joyce Follet

Despite the arrival of retail sprawl, three New England towns — Greenfield, Orange and Athol, Massachusetts — struggle to revive Main Street as the traditional village center and symbol of cohesive community life.

Tent City

by Aldo Velasco

In a world where housing is granted only to the powerful few, a father who makes his living evicting the powerless must choose between his responsibilities and his moral principles.

FUTURESTATES

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Test of Courage: The Making of a Firefighter

by Kyung Sun Yu, Gary Mercer, and The Working Group

The young men and women competing to become firefighters in Test of Courage not only test their courage, but learn to navigate cultural divides and to trust one another.

Tobacco Blues

by Eren McGinnis and Christine Fugate

Families who have been growing tobacco for generations face the consequences of a national controversy fuming in their own backyards.

POV

Los Trabajadores/The Workers

by Heather Courtney

Focusing on the lives of Juan and Ramon, immigrant day laborers working in Austin, Texas, Los Trabajadores/The Workers explores the contradictions that haunt America's dependence on and discrimination against immigrant labor.

Independent Lens

Una Vida Mejor: A Better Life

by Lela Delgado

A look at the lives of Latin American immigrants in the American heartland as they struggle to maintain their traditions in the face of language barriers, prejudice, and the challenge of adapting to a new culture.

An Unreasonable Man

by Stephen Skrovan and Henriette Mantel

An Unreasonable Man takes an unsparing look at Ralph Nader, one of the most important and controversial political figures of our time.

Independent Lens

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