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During golden hour, an older bespectacled astronomer looks up anxiously to the sky. Her younger colleagues, at a distance in a tent behind her, look to her. All are concerned.

Habbal et al.

Synopsis: Dr. Shadia Habbal leads an international team of cloud-fearing astronomers as they prepare for the 2024 eclipse.

Halloween Parade director Jeanne Fleming, with purple hair and a flamboyant fur coat, stands in awe in the barn where she stores fifty years of puppets.

Halloween Parade

HALLOWEEN PARADE captures the spirit of a beloved, iconic institution – New York at its most subversive, outrageous, and creative.

photo of hands holding image of a victim of hazing

Hazing

If you think hazing is a trivial college problem, think again.

A helicopter is flying past the hazy silhouettes of the Hollywood Hills in a pink sunset.

Hazy Valley

In their ancestral homeland Los Angeles, members of the Kizh-Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians are responding to the city’s ecological crisis by reviving the highly efficient land stewardship prac

Image of a man cast in shadow walking down a road with dark storm clouds above

Healing Trauma - The Resilient Soul

Healing Trauma: The Resilient Soul is a documentary that follows the lives of four diverse individuals who are all survivors of trauma.

Wounded Knee Memorial arch framing a tree with a ray of sunlight

Healing Wounded Knee

How do we begin to heal national trauma? How does the heart navigate the terrain of forgiveness?

Heart Beats in white lettering over a background of a heart monitoring machine.

Heart Beats Film

"Heart Beats" chronicles the rise of Minnesota's Medical Alley from its humble and unconventional beginnings to its status as a global leader in medical technology.

Holder of the Sky

Synopsis

Holder of the Sky is a documentary film that tells the story of one tribe’s pursuit to take back their treaty territory in the face of longstanding r

young boy sitting on top of one of three drainage tunnels expelling blue water color paint

Hollow Tree

Hollow Tree tells the stories of three teenagers coming of age in Southeast Louisiana; a parable of climate adaptation worldwide.

Three young boys living in a refugee camp on a rooftop playing

Hossain

Synopsis

Hossain is a coming-of-age story set within the backdrop of the Rohingya refugee crisis.

A man wearing sunglasses, shorts, and a neon colored top sprints ahead of a group of runners on a paved street

How I Prepare For The LA Marathon

They are the happiest people on the planet. It is not about running the race; it’s about finishing the LA Marathon without injury.

How To Poison A Planet

With behind the scenes access to the largest litigation involving drinking water in American history, How to Poison A Planet investigates how the use of a product as seemingly harmless as firefight

Hula

“Hula” explores the vibrant and deeply cloistered world of modern hula through the decades-long journey of one small but mighty hālau (hula school) and its legendary kumu hula (hula teacher), La’ak

two people standing in light brown dirt with a blue sky and light brown landscape. A train yard and a train are in the distance.

Hummingbirds

In this late-night summer self-portrait, Silvia Castaños and Estefanía Contreras make magic of everyday moments coming of age on the Texas-Mexico border.

Hunter-Gatherers: The Story of Hunter S. Thompson Stories

Hunter S. Thompson was an icon of American journalism and stomped upon global culture.

The Heart is a Mirror

El Korazon es Espejo (The Heart is a Mirror) is a significant creative endeavor of transcendent lyricism regarding Ladino folklore through the powerful means of preserving an endangered ethnic iden

Close up of a teenage girl with light-brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a light-pink sweater and jeans, laying on her stomach on a bedroom floor with a noticeable, hunched-over spine, looking melancholily away from the camera.

The Hunchback

Sufferers of a rare and misunderstood spine disease, which can leave them with a severely curved spine, severe pain and long-term health complications, search for answers, help, and purpose in life

A station wagon drives slowly through the African grasslands, a few lions walk in front of the car.

The Hunter Legacy

Many visitors to Africa feel like they've stepped into the past. However, Kenyan conservationist and safari guide Alex Hunter is acutely aware of how much has changed on this iconic land.