Beyond the Border - Más Allá de la Fronteraby Eren McGinnis and Ari Palos Beyond the Border — Más Allá de la Frontera traces the painful transition made by four sons in the Ayala family who leave their family in Mexico to seek "una vida mejor" (a better life) in Kentucky, where they fight cultural, class and language barriers. Global Voices, True Stories | |
The Black Kungfu Experienceby Martha Burr and Mei-Juin Chen From Blaxploitation cinema in the 1970s to hip-hop and reggae iconography, the martial art of kungfu provides a vital subtext for the modern African American cultural experience. | |
Boxing Gymby Frederick Wiseman The boxing gym: a place of violence, but also discipline; the site of fights, but also of community. This film explores the dichotomous role of the boxing gym in modern cities. | |
Chiefsby Donna Dewey and Daniel Junge An observational documentary about the on- and off-court struggles of Native American basketball players at Wyoming Indian High School. Independent Lens | |
Girl Wrestlerby Diane Zander Texas teenager Tara Neal wrestles through the last year that state guidelines allow her to compete with boys, amid conflict and pressures from family and community. Independent Lens, Women and Girls Lead, True Stories | |
Girls' Hoopsby Justine Richardson Through accounts of women aged 14 to 94, Girls’ Hoops examines girls’s high school basketball programs in the basketball-obsessed state of Kentucky. | |
Goodbye Soloby Ramin Bahrani An elderly man hires Solo, a Senegalese cab driver, to drive him to a mountaintop in North Carolina where he plans to commit suicide. Independent Lens | |
The Great American Foot Raceby Dan Bigbee and Lily Shangreaux The story of Andy Payne, a Cherokee who won the Great American Foot Race in 1928, reveals an ordinary young man who triumphed not because of mystical power, but because he believed in himself. | |
Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball and the United Statesby Aaron Woolf, Rudolph Callegari, and Nancy Roth Set against the backdrop of choppy U.S.-Cuban relations, Greener Grass documents how both countries have used baseball as a political tool, and how the sport has operated as both bridge and barrier between the two lands. Global Voices | |
Guide Seasonby Michael Hacker and Dennis Aig In this drama set in rural Montana, a hunting guide must reconcile his life with the changing social attitudes that threaten to render his work obsolete or even immoral. |
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