 | Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteriaby Victor Silverman, Susan Stryker, and Jack Walsh When San Francisco police raided a popular late-night hangout for transgendered people in 1966, the patrons unexpectedly fought back, helping to launch a broader fight of human rights in America. |
 | Sea Point Daysby Francois Verster The Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town was once once a bastion of apartheid exclusivity. Today it is a mix of age, race, gender, religion, wealth status, and sexual orientation. In a country that will not fully deal with past or present, is all as it appears? Global Perspectives Collection |
 | Shared Historyby Felicia Dryden The great, great granddaughter of a slaveowner and a descendant of a slave seek to reconcile the connections between their families with the reality of slavery. |
 | Sisters of '77by Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen Mondell On an historic weekend in November 1977, 20,000 people attended the first federally funded National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas, where they hammered out resolutions that revolutionized the women’s movement. Independent Lens |
 | Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Changeby Jayasri Majumdar Hart African American and white Catholic nuns helped make Selma a turning point for the civil rights movement and change the role of the Catholic church in America. |
 | Strange Fruitby Joel Katz An exploration of the history and legacy of "Strange Fruit," the song first recorded by Billie Holliday in 1939 which has become an enduring anthem of American civil rights. Independent Lens |
 | Street Ballad: A Jakarta Storyby Daniel Ziv A young, gifted street musician searches for identity, legitimacy, and love on the frenzied streets of Jakarta, Indonesia. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices |
 | Taking the Heat: The First Women Fire Fighters of New York Cityby 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 |
 | This Is Where We Take Our Standby Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros, and David Zeiger In 2008, at an unprecedented conference of veterans and active-duty soldiers called Winter Soldier, four days of heartbreaking testimony revealed why many veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had concluded that their mission was unjust. |
 | The Trials of Muhammad Aliby Bill Siegel and Kartemquin Films The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers Ali's toughest bout: his battle to overturn the five-year prison sentence he received for refusing U.S. military service. The film explores Ali's exile years when he was banned from boxing and found himself in the crosshairs of conflicts concerning race, religion, and wartime dissent. Independent Lens |
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