Alien: American Dream Denied spotlights the emotional journey of high-skilled, documented immigrants as they seek permanence in a country that benefits from their talent, but denies them a home.
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The Way Everything Was
This film will revisit a powerfully formative event in my life: being bullied daily in a high school classroom nearly 4 decades ago.
Sisterhood: How Women Can Save the World
Spanning six continents, “SISTERHOOD” is a feature-length documentary exploring communities of women and girls confronting today’s most crucial problems.
Unbreakable Blue
Law enforcement professionals spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with the uglier side of human existence.
For Here or To Go?
FOR HERE OR TO GO? is an eight-episode documentary series that celebrates one of the staples of American cuisine.
Frida's Gaze
Frida’s Gaze, will look at the last years of Frida Kahlo’s life through her diary taking us from the mid 1940’s to the present.
Murdered on the Fourth of July
Years of mounting tensions between multicultural, anti-racist skinheads and white neo-Nazi groups led to two brutal murders in the desert outside Las Vegas on July 4, 1998, including that of a Blac
License to Tell
"License to Tell" traces the history of this explosion of writing through one of its most colorful and wildest creators.
Mother of Buffalo
Mother of Buffalo is a documentary film following one woman’s daily, years-long struggle to protect a dwindling population of free roaming water buffalo on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island.
A Sexplanation
To right the wrongs of his all-American sex education, a 36-year-old Alex Liu goes on a quest to uncover naked truths and hard facts - no matter how awkward it gets.
Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid
From Texas to Tokyo, this five-part docuseries shows how politicians and corporate avarice weakened our most critical network — and why we need fission to fix it.
Growing Together Again
"Growing Together Again" tells the story of German unity three decades after the end of the Cold War.
Artemisia
After a devastating trial, artist Artemisia Gentileschi becomes the unexpected face of a new art movement amidst personal tragedy and public scrutiny.
Incarnations of I
INCARNATIONS OF I is the story of a Bengali American woman, who after decades of devotion a Hindu warrior goddess, gives voice to unspoken trauma through the traditional art of clay idol-making—dis
100 Years From Mississippi
100 Years From Mississippi is a 60 minute documentary on the life of Mamie Lang Kirkland, a 111-year old African American woman who experienced and survived racial terrorism, segregation, bigotry a
Keeping The Faith With Morrie
Morrie Turner, the pioneering African American cartoonist whose newspaper comic strip and television show reached millions of Americans with a powerful message of tolerance from the Civil Rights er
Senior Prom
For residents of the Triangle Square retirement home, “senior” prom takes on a whole new meaning—a celebration of the lives and legacies of resistance of the eldest LGBTQ generation.
No Ordinary Campaign
At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with ALS—on the same day he and his wife Sandra brought their second daughter home from the hospital. In an instant, everything changed.
Stolen Sisters
“Stolen Sisters” is a riveting exploration of the MMIWG crisis in Michigan, told through a family’s heart-wrenching search for their missing daughter, highlighting the systemic failures, the moveme
Papertown
When a paper mill in a small Appalachian town suddenly closes, leaving 1,200 people without jobs and undoing the economic fabric that held the community together for over a century, how will its pe
Coached into Silence
Coached into Silence explores sexual abuse in youth sports. Filming since 2009, it tells the stories of a diverse group of athletes whom the system failed to protect.
Penumbra of Memory
Eight former political prisoners reunite fifty years after their detention in one large room together during Argentina’s last military dictatorship.
And She Could Be Next
In a polarized America, where the dual forces of white supremacy and patriarchy threaten to further erode our democracy, a game-changing transformation is happening at the grassroots.
Live at the Agora
THE RISE, FALL, AND REBIRTH OF A ROCK-AND-ROLL CATHEDRAL: In the 1970s, the Agora Ballroom concert clubs brought rock-and-roll to the heartland of America and became a springboard for some of the m
Of Jaguars, Sky Islands, and Us
He was young, handsome, mysterious, and wanted. He was looking for a mate.
Voices Over the Water
This is the story of the Scottish Highlanders and their clan chiefs torn apart by a rapidly changing world--feeling their trust betrayed, many Highlanders faced famine and poverty, or emigration to
The Day Mississippi Shook the World
The untold story of Mississippi's strategic role in superpower nuclear gamesmanship at the peak of the Cold War — and its legacy.
Life in the Shadows
Years after K's classmates were massacred in his school, he records the lives of Machid, who attends the same school, and Khatima, who works in the cemetery where the dead students are buried.
Inquiry of Shadows
Inquiry of Shadows is an essay-documentary that examines genocide not
only as physical erasure, but as a psychological colonization of time, memory,
identity, and perception.
Los Cautivos: The First Battle Over Native American Education
As the Western frontier closed, America sought to forcibly re-educate Native Americans at Indian Boarding Schools. Their motto was “Kill The Indian To Save The Man.” In 1892, the Pueblo
Burrocracy
Considered invasive pests by some and friends by others, there are thousands of feral donkeys roaming the Southwestern desert. What is the fate of the wild burro in today's United States?
Our Land, Our Freedom
Set in Kenya, a powerful woman, Wanjugu Kimathi’s search for her father's remains becomes an investigation into British colonial atrocities, including concentration camps and land theft that left h