 | Almost Thereby Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden Outsider artist Peter Anton, 82, has spent decades obsessively chronicling his rollercoaster of a life into a massive, illustrated autobiography, and nothing — not poverty, isolation, or crippling disabilities — will stop him from seeing it published. |
 | The Amasong Chorus: Singing Outby Jay Rosenstein In a small Illinois college town, a music student creates a lesbian/feminist choral group, transforming the community as she builds an award-winning ensemble. Independent Lens |
 | Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identityby Robert A. Clift As hip-hop music and culture continue to redefine American life, its influence exposes the high stakes of the struggle to cross or maintain the cultural divide. |
 | Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoesby Peter Rosen American Masters |
 | The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Danceby Stephen Parry From the Great Migration of the 1920s through the hardships of World War II, The National Barn Dance unified rural Americans with traditional folk music and country humor. |
 | In the Realms of the Unrealby Jessica Yu This experimental documentary portrays the work of Henry Darger, a janitor by day and “outsider artist” by night who transcended social isolation and poverty by creating his own world through art. POV |
 | 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 |
 | Summer Sun Winter Moonby Hugo Perez An unlikely collaboration between a Blackfeet poet and an unconventional classical composer results in a provocative symphony about the Lewis and Clark expedition from the perspective of American Indians today. |
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