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Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
The unlikely story of America's original shock-jock — Petey Greene — who battled the system and his own demons during a time of civil unrest in the nation's capital.
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At Home in Utopia
New York City cops in the Great Depression called it Little Moscow, but for the 2,000 Jewish immigrant residents of the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a.k.a. “the Coops,” it was their first taste of the American dream. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment, following two generations of residents and their commitment to radical ideas of racial equality and rights for tenants and workers.
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Banished
From the 1860s to the 1920s, towns across the U.S. violently expelled African American residents.
Today, these communities remain virtually all white. As black descendants return to demand justice, Banished exposes the hidden history of racial cleansing in America.
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Behind the Rainbow
With the 2009 presidential election ahead, Behind the Rainbow is an untold account of South Africa's political problems, struggles and realities.
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Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity
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.
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The Boys of Baraka
A group of troubled boys in inner city Baltimore leave home to complete the 7th and 8th grade at the Baraka School, an experimental program located in rural Kenya, East Africa.
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Companeras
Compañeras profiles America’s first all-female mariachi band, Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles, founded in 1994.
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Copyright Criminals
Can you own a sound? Copyright Criminals examines the history and influence of musical sampling, provoking debates about copyright, compensation, and creativity in the age of intellectual property.
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Dinka Diaries
Five Sudanese refugee orphans resettled near Philadelphia use digital cameras to tell their experiences adjusting to American culture and a new way of life.
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Egalité for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
The story of history’s only successful slave insurrection and the man who lead it.
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End of the Rainbow
END OF THE RAINBOW explores the human dimensions of industrial gold-mining in two remote locations: Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo and Guinea, West Africa.
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Escape from Auschwitz
The story of two young Slovak Jews who managed to escape and help save as many as 120,000 Jews by sharing their detailed account of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Nestled at the edge of New Orleans’ fabled French Quarter, Faubourg Tremé is one of America’s oldest African American neighborhoods: it is also the origin of the civil rights movement in the South, and the birthplace of jazz.
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February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
One day at a Woolworth lunch counter, four young men changed the course of history.
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The Fighting Spirit
Three young boxers from Bukom, Ghana try to navigate the glittering prizefighting rings of Europe and North America through triumph and defeat.
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A Girl's Life
An exploration into the obstacles girls face during their adolescent years.
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Girls on the Wall
A group of incarcerated teenage girls are given a shot at redemption in a most unlikely form: a musical.
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Going on 13
A brave and unflinching look into the face of modern-day puberty, Going on 13 follows four urban girls of color over the span of four years.
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Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story
Based on the book by William Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story looks at the impact of African American performers and musicians during the great jazz era in Paris.
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Herb & Dorothy
A couple of modest means manages to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history.
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Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness examines the life and work of the Jewish anthropologist Melville Herskovits, whose writings challenged prevailing notions of race and culture.
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Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Take an in-depth look at manhood in rap music and hip-hop culture — where creative genius, poetic beauty, and mad beats collide with misogyny, violence, and homophobia.
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Journals of a Wily School
A young pickpocket in Kolkata, India is lured by police to help them crack down on more notorious criminals.
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Knee Deep
The true story of attempted murder in a small town in Maine.
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The Last Conquistador
Racial tensions boil over as a brilliant and quixotic artist does battle with Hispanics, Indians and Mestizos over the purpose of public art and the meaning of American history.
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A Lion's Trail
A LION'S TRAIL celebrates the timeless power of Africa's most famous song, "Mbube"--inspiration for the pop classic "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"--written by an illiterate Zulu musician who barely received pennies for his efforts.
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March Point
The journey of three teens from the Swinomish Indian Tribe who make a film about the threat from two local oil refineries.
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Milking the Rhino
MILKING THE RHINO tells the story of rural Africans at the forefront of community-based conservation: a revolution that is turning poachers into preservationists and local people into the stewards of natural resources.
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Mine
MINE tells the poignant and powerful story of animals left behind during Katrina, and of the struggles of hurricane victims to reunite with their beloved pets. A meditation on the essential bond between humans and animals – MINE is an equally compelling story of race and class, and the power of compassion, in contemporary America.
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Mirror Dance
MIRROR DANCE is the story of two women: identical twins Margarita and Ramona de Saá, forever linked by birth and dance, but struggling to overcome rifts between sisters and nations alike.
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The New Americans
An INDEPENDENT LENS Special, this seven-hour mini-series traces the journeys of America's newest arrivals from their roots in their homelands through their first difficult years in America.
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New Cops
NEW COPS explores what it takes to be a police officer by following new recruits through eight months of training at the Philadelphia Police Academy, and returning five years later to to see how they are doing on the job.
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No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY follows the lives of cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond from their escape from Soviet controlled Hungary, to their rise to prominence in the late 60s and 70s in Hollywood.
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The Order of Myths
Beneath the surface of pageantry at America’s oldest Mardi Gras lies a complex story about race relations and the ever-present racial divide in America.
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P-Star Rising
The story of a single-father who is determined that his 9- year old daughter become a rap star and thus redeem his deferred dream. We follow the father-daughter duo through the grit and glamour of the music industry, the struggles of being a single dad with no means, and the sacrifices a child makes in order to make her daddy proud.
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Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority
A look at the life of Patsy Mink, the first Asian American woman and woman of color in the United States Congress.
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Recalling Orange County
Examining the fierce recall election of Nativo Lopez, a school board leader and immigrant rights activist, RECALLING ORANGE COUNTY reveals both the cultural chasm and surprising alliances between the suburban establishment and a growing Latino community.
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Revolution '67
REVOLUTION '67 returns to Newark, New Jersey in the summer of 1967 to reveal the untold story of what happened during the Newark rebellion.
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Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
A look at the musical and political significance of composer, performer and pioneering pop music entrepreneur Sam Cooke and the circumstances that led to his murder.
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Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968
SCARRED JUSTICE investigates the continued cover-up of the tragedy of 1968 on the campus of South Carolina State University and follows ongoing efforts to seek justice.
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Scenes from a Parish
In 2001, an irreverent, young, Harvard-educated Catholic priest arrived at Saint Patrick Parish in the hard-pressed former mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Filmed over four years, SCENES FROM A PARISH explores the personal stories of a Catholic parish struggling to reconcile the ideals of faith with the cultural realities of a globalized community.
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Sgt. Fitch: The Legacy of Sarg Records
Exploring the advent and legacy of Sarg Records, SGT. FITCH: The Legacy of Sarg Records reveals the stories behind Charlie Fitch's independent label that launched the careers of some of today's rock and country music legends.
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Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change
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.
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The Spirituals
THE SPIRITUALS recounts an indigenous American music form's bitter histories through the work of a world-renown contemporary spiritual group.
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Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
The extraordinary survival tale of a group of young men who lived for 72 days in the Andes Mountains after their plane crashed in October 1972.
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Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
The dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a global movement.
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Tulia, Texas
TULIA, TEXAS is the story of a small town's search for justice and the price Americans pay for the nation's war on drugs.
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The Way We Get By
On call 24/7 for the past six years, three senior citizens have made history by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine.
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Young@Heart
Documents the true story of the final weeks of rehearsal for the Young@Heart Chorus in Northampton, MA, whose average age is 81.Their music is unexpected, going against the stereotype of their age group, performing songs by James Brown and Sonic Youth.
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