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A

A Day's Work, A Day's Pay (57 min.)
Three welfare recipients transform their lives through their fight against workfare

A Hard Straight (74 min.)
Walking out of the prison gates is just the beginning

A Revolving Door (39 min.)
A loving family tries to help their son fight drug addiction and mental illness.

AIDS-Wise, No Lies (22 min.)
Young people tell what it's like to live--and sometimes die--in the age of AIDS

All of Us and AIDS (30 min.)
It's not about how you get AIDS; it's about how you don't!

Am I Normal? (22 min.)
A film about male puberty

The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out (53 min.)
Sometimes social justice is won through singing

American Odyssey (34 min.)
A film about age, adventure and the open road

An Acquired Taste (26 min.)
The American obsession with success

Another Side of Peace (60 min.)
Grief, Reconciliation and Hope

Anything You Want To Be (8 min.)
A teenager's humorous collision with sex-role

B

Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour (101 min./53 min.)
Everybody has a Barbie story. The stories are about us.

Battle for the Minds (52 min.)
A shocking tale of politics, fundamentlism & women

Beauty Before Age (22 min.)
Growing Older in Gay Culture

Beauty in the Bricks (29 min.)
Black teenage girls growing up in a housing project.

Becoming American (30 min./45 min./58 min.)
A Hmong refugee family from highlnd Laos resettling in the U.S.

Betty Tells Her Story (20 min.)
Liane Brandon's classic documentary in which Betty tells her story - twice.

Bionic Beauty Salon (22 min.)
A chronicle of fact and fiction about the female body

Breaking Silence (30 min./58 min.)
Surviving Incest and child sexual abuse

Breaking Silence: The Story of the Sisters at Desales Heights (58 min.)
A unique community in transition

Brooklyn Matters (50 min.)
Urban neighborhoods on the brink of change - Who makes the decisions?

Brother Born Again (57 min.)
A Jewish woman's jouirney to find her born again Christian brother

Bubbeh Lee & Me (35 min.)
Family, Identity and Aging with Chutzpah

By Invitation Only (56 min.)
A brave critique of an alluring family tradition

C

Carved from the Heart (30 min./45 min.)
A portrait of grief, healing, and community

The Chicago Maternity Story (60 min.)
Women fight for the survival of a home-birth center.

Children of the Left (57 min.)
Red diaper babies describe growing up communist in 1950s America

The Choice of a Lifetime: Returning From the Brink of Suicide (53 min.)
Transforming suicidal despair into the will to live

Chris and Bernie (25 min.)
Two divorced single mothers share the responsibilities of family and career.

The Collector of Bedford Street (34 min.)
An Academy Award nominated short film about a neighbor with disabilities and a community with a plan.

Coming of Age (58 min.)
Teenagers confront intimate feelings about race, family and sexuality.

Conversations with Willard Van Dyke (59 min.)
A candid portrait of a filmmaker photographer who believed that film could change the world

Current Events (33 min./56 min.)
How we respond - or don't respond - to the news

Curtain Call (38 min.)
Oscar nominated film about growing old with dignity and humor.

El Corrido de Cecilia Rios (15 min.)
Latino youth cope with violence, grief and healing

D

Daddy & Papa (57 min./68 min.)
A story of gay fathers in America

Dawn's Early Light (57 min.)
Ralph McGill and the segregated South.

Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment (27 min.)
Grassroots activists successfully expose a corporate giant's environmental record

Dear Diary (24 min.)
The film on puberty for girls

Dear Lisa: A Letter to My Sister (45 min.)
Women's dreams, women's stories

Dirty Secrets: Jennifer, Everardo & the CIA in Guatemala (57 min.)
Exposing CIA complicity in Guatemalan human rights violations

Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas (58 min.)
A powerful examination of the limits of free speech

The Double Burden: Three Generations of Working Mothers (56 min.)
A multigenerational look at mothers and work

Downpour Resurfacing (28 min.)
Transforming the repercussions of child sexual and physical of abuse

Downside UP (56 min.)
How art can change the spirit of a place

e

Eager For Your Kisses, Love and Sex at 95 (35 min.)
A 95-year-old man's determination to keep love and sex in his life

The Elevator Operator (8 min.)
An immigrant caught between his past and the American Dream

Embracing Our Sexuality (45 min.)
Women talk about their sexuality

Enemies of War (57 min.)
El Salvador's civil war

Every Mother's Son (52:30 min.)
Three very different women lose sons to police brutality and unite to fight for change

Everyday Heroes (109 min./59 min.)
Youth, race and national service: AmeriCorps behind-the-headlines

F

Fallon, NV: Deadly Oasis (57 min.)
A town tries desperately to find out what is making their children sick

Father Roy: Inside the School of the Assassins (57 min.)
Abu Ghraib and SOA: The Pentagon's secret torture training revealed.

Father's Day (38 min.)
A son searches for the meaning of his father's death

Finding Our Way (38 min.)
Men talk about their sexuality

Five Days to Change the World (57 min.)
Students at the largest world peace conference in history take charge of their own destiny

The Flashettes (20 min.)
Inner city girls gain self-esteem from a track club

Foo Foo Dust (37 min.)
A Mother. A Son. Crack. Heroin. A Tale of Love and Addiction.

Freedom Machines (57 min./76 min.)
YOU WILL NEVER SEE DISABILITY THE SAME WAY AGAIN

French Connections (29 min.)
Two U.S. teenagers use their high school French for the first time

Funny Ladies: A Portrait of Women Cartoonists (46 min.)
A new look at the comics

G

The Garifuna Journey (46 min.)
Celebrating the resiliency of the Garifuna people and their traditions

Gay Youth (30 min.)
Breaking the silence surrounding gay and lesbian teens.

Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family (82 min.)
The impact of war on a Palestinian family

Ghost Dance (9 min.)
Lakota art and poetry commemorate the Wounded Knee massacre

The Gillian Film (44 min.)
A daughter with developmental disabilities decides to move out of the house.

Girl Trouble (57 min./74 min./74 and 57 min.)
Three teenage girls navigate the juvenile justice system

The Global Assembly Line (32 min./58 min.)
The human story behind the new global workplace

Godzilla Meets Mona Lisa (33 min./56 min.)
Art for whom? ... reflections on the Pompidou Center

Going On 13 ()

Golden Venture (70 min.)
Three hundred undocumented Chinese immigrants sail into a 1993 tragedy that becomes a crucial turning point in US immigration history.

Golub (56 min.)
The role of art in modern society.

Goodbye Baby (58 min.)
Exploring the controversy around adoptions from Guatemala

Growing Up Female (50 min.)
Women talk about their socialization

The Guarantee (12 min.)
A dancer's hillarious story about his prominent nose and the effect it has on his career.

H

Hearts and Hands (60 min.)
A social history of 19th century women and quilts

Heroes and Strangers (29 min.)
Men, emotions, and the family

Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street (58 min.)
The award-winning documentary about community vision, struggle, and change

Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia (47 min.)
An ethnographic look at urban sprawl

Home to Tibet (55 min.)
A Tibetan refugee returns to his occupied homeland

Homeless In Paradise (50 min.)
The intimate profile of four homeless people.

Homes & Hands: Community Land Trusts in Action (36 min.)
Three communities of low-income residents find new ways to develop permanent affordable housing

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers (28 min.)
A portrait of death, dying, and the power of love & creativity to heal

Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World (58 min.)
Living life in balance with nature

How to Prevent a Nuclear War (30 min.)
An upbeat and practical guide to effective grassroots organizing.

Hungry For Profit (86 min.)
Is Third World famine the price we're paying for our food?

I

If the Mango Tree Could Speak (58 min.)
Children and war in Central America

In and Out of Time (14 min.)
Living with Alzheimer's disease

In Our Water (60 min.)
Defines the terrifying chemical waste problems in America.

In the Name of Love (58 min.)
Modern day mail-order brides

In the Shadow of Memory (52 min.)
A Legacy of Lidice

In Whose Honor? (47 min.)
American Indian mascots in sports

It Happens to Us (30 min./32 min.)
The classic film plea for legal abortion

It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School (78 & 37 min.)
Inspiring elementary and middle school classrooms where students are learning respect for all

j

Jamesie, King of Scratch (70 min.)
A spirited musical journey to the U. S. Virgin Islands

The Jew in the Lotus (60 min.)
One man's spiritual awakening in India

Joint Custody: A New Kind of Family (56 min.)
Shared parenting after divorce

Joyce at 34 (28 min.)
A woman faces the conflict of work vs. family.

jumping off bridges (93 min.)
A narrative portrait of a family's struggle through depression and the aftermath of suicide.

K

The Key Of G (59 min.)
An award-winning doc about disability, caregiving and interdependence.

Kicking High...In The Golden Years (58 min.)
Managing the changes of advancing years

Knocking (53 min.)
Fundamentalism and freedom meet at the front door: The untold story of Jehovah's Witnesses.

L

Laramie Inside Out (56 min.)
Gay-bashing murder inspires community transformation

The Last Atomic Bomb (92 min.)
Nuclear proliferation: a Nagasaki survivor's wake-up call

The Last Pullman Car (56 min.)
The fight to stop the closing of the Pullman factory.

The Last to Know (45 min.)
Alcohol, prescribed drugs, and women - the myth, the stigma, the reality

Leona's Sister Gerri (57 min.)
A provocative film about abortion

Let Our People Grow (26 min.)
Medical Marijuana patients tell their stories of grass-roots empowerment

Let's Get Real (35 min.)
An in-depth look at name-calling and bullying in middle schools today, told entirely from a youth perspective

Letter to the Next Generation (68 min.)
Today's college students and the world they live in

Letters From the Other Side (73 min.)
A post-NAFTA immigration story told by the Mexican women left behind.

Letters from America: the Life and Times of O.E. Rolvaag (30 min.)
An immigrant author's quest for the truth

Letters Not About Love (58 min.)
Language, history, community - a U.S./ Russian dialogue

Liberty: 3 Stories about Life & Death (55 min.)
An extraordinary celebration of life and lesbian community

Living Broke in Boom Times: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty (73 min.)
Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

The Long Road Home (30 min.)
The story of Guatemalan/ Mayan refugees living in Chiapas, Mexico

Los Trabajadores/ The Workers (48 min.)
The American paradox of immigrant labor

M

M & M Smith: For Posterity's Sake (57 min.)
The social artistry of African American photographers and brothers, Morgan & Marvin Smith

Made in Brooklyn (55 min.)
Urban manufacturing and the future of our cities

Man Oh Man (18 min.)
Growing up male in America

A Matter of Respect (30 min.)
Modern Alaska Natives balancing the past and present

Maybe Baby (60 min.)
What happens when single women give up looking for Mr. Right and settle for Mr. Right's DNA?

Means of Grace (57 min.)
A tribute to the women who were institutionalized in the 1950's

Men Are Human, Women Are Buffalo (29 min.)
Lifting the veil of silence that has long surrounded domestic violence in Thailand

Men's Lives (43 min.)
The definitive film on the American male experience.

Metropolitan Avenue (58 min.)
Women fighting for a Brooklyn community

Miles from the Border (15 min.)
A portrait of a Mexican-American family caught between cultures

Moving Toward the Light (28 min.)
The making of a public work of art.

Murray Avenue (28 min.)
A tender portrait of an old, vital, Jewish neighborhood.

N

Nana, Mom, and Me (47 min.)
An absorbing portrait of three generations of women

The New Old Country (27 min.)
Nostalgia, memory, and history on the Lower East Side

No Dumb Questions (24 min.)
Uncle Bill is becoming a woman in this funny and touching exploration of gender and sexuality through the eyes of 6, 9 and 11 year old sisters.

No Loitering (57 min.)
Teens searching for a place

O

Once Upon a Choice (15 min.)
A humorous, original fairy tale dealing with sex-role stereotypes.

One + One (27 min.)
Two couples - one straight, one gay - cope with their mixed HIV status

One Wedding and a Revolution (19 min.)
The frantic planning inside city hall for the first gay marriage

The Optimists (23 min./56 min./82 min.)
The story of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust

P

Palenque: Un Canto (48 min.)
The African heritage of a Colombian village

Poetic License (34 min./57 min.)
The captivating power of youth poetry and spoken word

Q

Quilts in Women's Lives (28 min.)
Traditional quiltmakers share their art and their lives

R

Raananah: A World of Our Own (28 min.)
Aging with dignity in a supportive community

S

Scout's Honor (56 min.)
The struggle to overturn anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of America

A Season in Hell (59 min.)
An in-depth view of eating disorders

Seeds of Tibet: Voices of Children in Exile (26 min.)
A community nurtures young minds

Seeing Red (100 min.)
Stories of American Communists

The Self-Made Man (57 min./64 min.)
Is it ever rational to choose death? Is it ever good?

Seoul Train (54 min.)
SEOUL TRAIN, a gripping documentary and definitive exposé into the growing North Korean refugee crisis that threatens to undermine the stability of East Asian peace.

She's Just Growing Up, Dear (16 min.)
Coping with incest and abuse

Silences (22 min.)
What happens when an interracial person's identity is completely ignored by his white family and friends?

Silent Choices (60 min.)
African American women and abortion. Finally, the silence is broken.

Sita, a Girl from Jambu (48 min.)

Skokie: Rights or Wrong? (28 min.)
A film about freedom of speech

The Smith Family (55 min./79 min.)
One family's extraordinary struggle with faith and forgiveness amidst AIDS, homosexuality and infidelity

So Long Silence (22 min.)
Disabled...or mislabeled?

Song of the Canary (58 min.)
The powerful story of the hidden dangers in the American workplace.

Special Circumstances (56/73 min.)
Special Circumstances follows former political prisoner, Héctor Salgado, back to Chile to confront his perpetrators.

Spirit of the Dawn (29 min.)
Dramatic changes in Indian education

Spit it Out (55 min.)
Stuttering, substance abuse, and the journey of self-acceptance

State of Fear: The Truth About Terrorism (94 min.)
Based on the findings of Peru's Truth Commission, State of Fear dramatizes the human and societal costs a democracy faces when it embarks on a war against terror.

States of UnBelonging (63 min.)
Portrait of Israeli woman filmmaker explores violence in the Middle East

Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 65 (54 min.)
Challenging ageist notions

Still Missing (42 min.)
When children are abducted by non-family members

Stories of Change (57 min.)
Four women transforming their lives

Style Wars (210 min./32 min./70 min.)
Original Kings of NY subway graffiti art and B-boy breaking

T

The Tailenders (52 min./72 min.)
Missionaries evangelize indigenous communities using low-tech media

Taken for a Ride (52 min.)
Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways?

Taking The Heat (54 min.)
The daring story of the first women firefighters of New York City

Tales from Arab Detroit (45 min.)
What does it mean to be Arab American?

Tangled Roots (66 min.)
Struggling with a legacy of war

Tango 73: A Bus Rider's Diary (28 min.)
A street-level view of public transit woes

Taylor Chain I: A Story of a Union Local (33 min.)
The gritty realities of a strike at a small Indiana chain factory.

Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining (30 min.)
Beyond the closed doors of a contract negotiation.

Teachings of the Tree People: The Work of Bruce Miller (58 min.)
"The trees were our first teachers."

The Teen Years: War or Peace (40 min.)
The essential video survival kit for every parent of a teenager.

Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (111 min.)
A critical look at freedom of the press

Tell Them Who We Are (29 min.)
A Drill Team and Drum Squad in South Central LA

That's a Family! (35 min.)
What kids want us to know about what "family" means today

Theme: Murder (54 min.)
A powerful, personal account of homicide and its aftermath

Third Ward TX (57 min.)
Art, Life, and Real Estate in an Inner City Neighborhood

This Unfamiliar Place (10 min.)
An award-winning film about secrets, survival and memory

Through a Glass, Lightly (20 min.)
Inner city art and transformation of environment, society, and self

The Times of a Sign (40 min.)
A folk history of the Iran-Contra affair

To Have And To Hold (20 min.)
Men who batter women

To You Sweetheart, Aloha (57 min.)
Can life begin again at age 94?

Twisted (56:40 min.)
When you are locked inside your body, what can set you free?

Twitch and Shout (59 min.)
A documentary about Tourette Syndrome

U

Uncommon Ground (57 min.)
American youth take a personal look behind the politics of South Africa

Union Maids (48 min.)
A vivid history of women organizing in the 1930's

V

View From A Grain Of Sand (82 min.)
Three Afghan women tell how international interventions, war, and the rise of political Islam, has stripped Afghan women of basic rights.

Voices from a Steeltown (28 min.)
The rise and fall of an American town

Voices From Inside (60 min.)
Women prisoners and their children speak out

Voices in Exile: Immigrants and the First Amendment (30 min.)
Arab Americans bring civil liberties to the Supreme Court

W

The World in Claire's Classroom (89 min.)
An intimate portrait of a veteran teacher and her classroom

Waterborne: Gift of the Indian Canoe (13 min.)
Linking past and present through the renewal of an important Native American tradition

A Wedding in the Family (22 min.)
Young women face marriage and career decisions.

WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES (12 min.)
Media manipulation and body image

What Do You Believe? (50 min.)
The religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers

When the Fire Dims (17 min.)
A visually poetic and realistic look at the destructive nature of alcoholism

When The News Went To New Orleans (20 min.)
The media at the 1988 Republican Convention

Who Remembers Mama? (58 min.)
The plight of middle-aged women who lose their traditional roles as homemakers through divorce.

Wings of Defeat ()
Once we were Kamikaze...

With Babies and Banners (45 min.)
The story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

Witness To War (30 min.)
One Man's Journey of Conscience

Women of Mystery (53 min.)
Female heroes seek truth and justice

Women of the Wall (31 min.)
The controversial women's prayer group in Jerusalem

Women's Voices: The Gender Gap Movie (16 min.)
The impact of the 80's economic policies on women

Woo Who? May Wilson (33 min.)
A grandmother begins a new life as an underground artist

Words from the Heart ( min./15 min.)
The companion video to Carved from the Heart, a portrait of grief, healing and community

Writings On the Wall (25 min.)
The hopes and dreams of India's film poster artists.

Y

Yidl in the Middle: Growing Up Jewish in Iowa (56 min.)
Identity and being different

Yield to Total Elation: The Life and Art of Achilles Rizzoli (50 min.)
Portrait of the enigmatic, visionary artist

Young Aspirations/ Young Artists (32 min./56 min.)
Inner-city art students learn community value

Yudie (20 min.)
A film about independence, agin, and the immigration experience


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