Crank: Darkness on the Edge of Townby Todd Jarrell Crank is an anatomy of one Tennessee town’s waking nightmare and a nation’s struggle against methamphetamine addiction. | |
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. | |
Razing Appalachiaby Sasha Waters Freyer The last 40 families of Blair, West Virginia stay to fight America's second-largest coal company as mountaintop removal mining threatens their homes. Independent Lens, True Stories | |
Third Ward TXby Nancy Bless, Andrew Garrison, and Noland Walker Turning an abandoned block of shotgun houses into art, Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses is re-shaping its Houston community, paying tribute to its past and racing to protect its future. | |
Los Trabajadores/The Workersby 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 | |
A Village Called Versaillesby S. Leo Chiang The story of a Vietnamese American community on the edge of New Orleans that fought the opening of a toxic government-imposed landfill near their homes. Independent Lens, Global Voices |
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