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Ask Not
As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits — unless they happen to be openly gay.
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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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Between the Folds
Between the Folds chronicles the stories of 10 fine artists and intrepid theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and hard-earned graduate degrees — all to forge unconventional lives as modern-day paper-folders.
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Beyond the Border - Más Allá de la Frontera
Beyond the Border - Más Allá de la Frontera traces the painful transition made by four sons in the Ayala family who leave their family in Mexico to seek "una vida mejor" (a better life) in Kentucky, where they fight cultural, class and language barriers.
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Black Gold
Tracing one man's fight for a fair price, Black Gold is an eye-opening expose of the eighty billion dollar coffee industry.
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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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Butte, America
Told through the experiences of five-generation families whose lives intersected key historical events, BUTTE, AMERICA explores the largely untold story of industrialized hard rock mining in Butte, Montana.
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Craft in America
This three-part series explores the history and significance of the craft movement in America and its impact on our nation’s rich cultural heritage.
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The Creek Runs Red
The Environmental Protection Agency calls the former lead mining town of Picher, Oklahoma one of the most toxic places in America, but a dwindling population still calls it home. The Creek Runs Red explores the human response to environmental disaster, and the complex connections between people and place.
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The Devil Never Sleeps
The Devil Never Sleeps is a “whodunit” documentary about family secrets. Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo travels to Mexico to learn the truth about her wealthy uncle’s death.
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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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En Route to Baghdad
En Route to Baghdad is a portrait of the peacekeeping career of former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose death in a 2003 Baghdad bombing attack became a tragic metaphor for the effort to bring stability to Iraq.
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The Eyes of Me
How do you see yourself, when you can’t see at all? Follow four visually impaired teenagers in Texas as they face the usual challenges of adolescence while simultaneously learning to navigate a world designed for the sighted.
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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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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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First Australians
This epic story combines landscapes, interviews, art and archival footage to present the birth of contemporary Australia from the perspectives of its first peoples.
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A Girl's Life
Author Rachel Simmons brings together the latest research on the psychological, physical and emotional development of girls.
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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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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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Heart Strings: The Story of the Kamaka Ukulele
Heart Strings is the story of Kamaka Hawaii, an instrument manufacturing business run by four generations of one Hawaiian family.
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Helvetica
A film about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture, Helvetica looks at the proliferation of a single typeface.
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I.M. Pei: Building China Modern
After 70 years in the U.S., renowned architect I.M. Pei returns to his ancestral home of Suzhou, China to build a modern museum in this ancient city.
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Imelda
Clips, interviews, home movies and more reveal how the former first lady of the Philippines courted, claimed, used, and abused power for nearly four decades.
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Iron Ladies of Liberia
Go behind the scenes with Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, of Liberia.
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Knocking
Following two families who stand firm for their controversial and misunderstood Christian faith, KNOCKING reveals how Jehovah's Witnesses have helped shape history beyond the doorstep.
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Lioness
An intimate look at war through the eyes of women and the U.S. military policy that bans them from combat.
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Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)
Set against the backdrop of increased attention to the U.S.-Mexican border, LOST SOULS (Animas Perdidas) looks at the impact of deportation.
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Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief's Indian name means "woman of two worlds" and this documentary deftly weaves together the different worlds of Tallchief, including ballet and her Osage Indian heritage.
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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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Morning Sun
An exploration of China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the historical and ethical implications of this violent and dramatic era.
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New Year Baby
Filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. In NEW YEAR BABY, she embarks on a journey to Cambodia in search of the truth about her family's past.
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Objectified
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, OBJECTIFIED documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives.
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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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A Panther in Africa
Before leaving America for Tanzania, where he has lived in exile for over 30 years and struggled to reconcile his past with his future, Pete O'Neal founded the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panthers.
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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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Pickles, Inc.
In the Israeli Arab village of Tamra, eight widows challenge social conventions and establish the Azka Pickle Cooperative, seeking financial independence for themselves and their children.
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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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Recycle
The life of an ex-Mujahideen soldier looking to build a peaceful life after years of fighting in the Soviet-Afghan war.
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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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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
When San Francisco police raided a popular late-night hangout for transgendered people in 1966, the patrons unexpectedly fought back, helping to launch a broader fight of human rights in America.
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Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman)
The remains of more than 250 sexually assaulted girls have been found in the desert outside of Juarez, Mexico. The victims' relatives will not rest until these crimes are solved.
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Seoul Train
SEOUL TRAIN exposes the complex geopolitics and bureaucracy entangling the lives of thousands of North Korean refugees as they risk their lives trying to escape their homeland and China, often aided by activists via an underground railroad.
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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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Water Flowing Together
WATER FLOWING TOGETHER offers an intimate portrait of a remarkable dancer, Jock Soto, who retired from the New York City Ballet at age 40, after a 24-year career.
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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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Whatever It Takes
WHATEVER IT TAKES follows principal Edward Tom, who envisions the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics as a safe haven where children can focus on a rigorous and meaningful education. A dramatic, ultimately uplifting story with uncommon personal access.
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL tells the true story of a bohemian St. Francis in San Francisco and his remarkable relationship with a flock of wild red and green parrots.
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Witnesses to a Secret War
WITNESSES TO A SECRET WAR tells the stories of three generations of Hmong refugees as they struggle with their personal and political legacies.
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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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