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The untold story of Mississippi's strategic role in superpower nuclear gamesmanship at the peak of the Cold War — and its legacy.

This film will be the definitive documentary on the life of novelist-poet-outdoorsman-raconteur Jim Harrison.

UNBOUND: Crowned in Pleasure is a feature documentary following educators, performers, and partners Jet Setting Jasmine and King Noire as they build a family and cultural legacy within adult entert

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

ALIVE IN STRINGS tells the story of America through an instrument that has traveled with the country for centuries: the banjo.

God of Manga explores the fascinating life and times of Osamu Tezuka, the legendary pioneer of Japanese comics and animation, who is widely credited with giving birth to the globe-spanning $25 bill

A group of immigrant families forced into an English-speaking culture confront a fundamental need: the ability to communicate.

Two mothers fight for justice and accountability when their daughters are found dead in a California women's prison.

Around the late 1980s, a diverse group of Orthodox Christians—Greeks, Russians, Syrians, Lebanese, Yugoslavians, Romanians, and more—found themselves in Bloomington, Indiana, without a local place

A group of film school graduates research the teaching legacy of film educator, Colin Young, the former chairman of UCLA’s film department, wherein, during his tenure many of UCLA’s most famous alu

I have been tasked to have roughly 1,000 16mm Southern California sports films preserved and restored to HD digital video from the Tommy Hawkins Film Collection. Mr.

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

After 32 years of searching and access to some of the best care available, survivor and filmmaker Sara Banyan finally meets LCSW Will Randle, whose understanding of childhood sexual trauma changes

Eight decades after being smuggled out of Poland, a box of photographs sparks a filmmaker’s journey to confront his family’s past and the haunted silence that lingers in their present.

The Sewing Girl’s Tale presents a gripping documentary recounting America’s first published rape trial.

THREADS is an intimate portrait of a Bangladeshi artist who refines a unique quiltwork tradition to create possibilities for a better life for her family and for hundreds of mothers.

Galloping Upstream speaks to a massive, underserved audience: people in mid‑to‑late life wrestling with whether their choices meant anything.

VIVA VERDI!

"Nampeyo, an American Modernist" is a 90-minute documentary film based on the life, art and legacy of the great Hopi-Tewa ceramicist Nampeyo to be broadcast on PBS with co-production support from p

The Clyde Best Story is a first-hand look at overcoming racial discrimination in sport through the lens of a barrier-breaking player.

KITÁ is a true story about elite Juilliard students from New York City who cross the world to the Philippine Islands—where their plan to teach dance one summer shatters everything they thought they

“The Cherán Way" captures the compelling story of Cherán, a P'urhépecha indigenous town in Mexico, rising against illegal logging to achieve self-determination and environmental revival.

The story of half million Jews who fought for Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary, in the Great War, has yet to be told.

AI WEIWEI’S TURANDOT follows Chinese revolutionary artist, Ai Weiwei, as he brings his artistic vision and iconoclastic activism to Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House during his directorial operatic debut.

“Rock Behind the Wall" unveils the untold story of Bulgarian rock and roll's past, present, and future from the tightly controlled era of communism to the modern era of oligarchs' media control, which ranks last in media freedom among all EU countries.

The founding father of what we know today as the Tiki bar, Donn Beach spent years embellishing the details of his extraordinary life.

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.

When a popular beach spot is closed to the public by a Silicon Valley billionaire, one family vows to fight back to protect their cherished generational connection to the coast.

TRACES begins when a beloved lion pride is found poisoned in northern Botswana.

In the aftermath of high-profile lawsuits and unsettling deaths, The Rink's Edge delves into the unknown truths of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in professional hockey.

GONDOLA focuses on the story of the hotly contested Dodgers gondola, a high powered private/public proposal to whisk passengers, in aerial cars, from Union Station, 1.2 miles to the stadium — and r

Eight former political prisoners reunite fifty years after their detention in one large room together during Argentina’s last military dictatorship.

In America’s remote forests, wildfire is a constant force. Many of us experience it through smoke rather than flames.

This character-driven film revolves around a central figure—a building that has lived many lives: the Sheboygan County Hospital and those who have loved it and feel protective of it.

Whose Land? O'odham Land!