A Sentence Apart
Law and Criminal JusticeThe United States imprisons more people, per capita, than any country in the world - A Sentence Apart follows three families as they cope with the infinite ripple effects of incarceration in the U.S.
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The United States imprisons more people, per capita, than any country in the world - A Sentence Apart follows three families as they cope with the infinite ripple effects of incarceration in the U.S.
Three welfare recipients transform their lives through their fight against workfare
One community's political awakening in the aftermath of tragedy.
The devastating effects of US immigration enforcement policies on children, families and communities.
Is freedom of expression a right or a privilege?
Young people tell what it's like to live--and sometimes die--in the age of AIDS
Sometimes social justice is won through music.
A teenager's humorous collision with sex-role stereotypes.
The definititve story of the history and activism behind "don't ask, don't tell."
Cooperative living in complicated times.
Tackling bullying among boys at its core: the cult of toughness and silence boys live by.
Bachelorette, 34 examines the pressure society puts on women to find Mr. Right.
Everybody has a Barbie story. The stories are about us.
Black teenage girls growing up in a housing project.
A Hmong refugee family from highlnd Laos resettling in the U.S.
The classic film about beauty, identity and a dress.
A chronicle of fact and fiction about the female body
Disability advocates model a grand experiment in independent living.
Body Image short film compilation.
3 Short Films 1 DVD
start important conversations -- from different cultural angles.
An intimate journey inside the lives and work of coal miners.
An examination of social and cultural change, and the impact of such change upon individuals
Urban neighborhoods on the brink of change - Who makes the decisions?
A Jewish woman's jouirney to find her born again Christian brother
Family, Identity and Aging with Chutzpah
A brave critique of an alluring family tradition
A portrait of grief, healing, and community
Award-winning documentary that uncovers the plight of unaccompanied immigrant minors entering the United States.
Named 'Best Film' by The Center for Mexican-American Studies and Research
Red diaper babies describe growing up communist in 1950s America
Transforming suicidal despair into the will to live
Two divorced single mothers share the responsibilities of family and career.
Israelis and Palestinians find an island of peace at Jerusalem's only gay bar.
Medical marijuana and the political process
An Academy Award nominated short film about a neighbor with disabilities and a community with a plan.
A candid portrait of a filmmaker photographer who believed that film could change the world.
An Indian-American woman’s struggle to stay connected to India after the loss of her father.
Ralph McGill and the segregated South.
Grassroots activists successfully expose a corporate giant's environmental record
A story from the heart of coal country
Exposing CIA complicity in Guatemalan human rights violations
A powerful examination of the limits of free speech
Going above and beyond to stop family violence.
Three Cities, Three Departments, One Common Goal.
A multigenerational look at mothers and work
Addressing the repercussions of child sexual and physical abuse
How art can change the spirit of a place
The groundbreaking feature film about Alcoholics Anonymous.
A 95-year-old man's determination to keep love and sex in his life
A wry search for the "right thing" to eat
An immigrant caught between his past and the American Dream
Three women lose sons to police brutality and unite to fight for change
Youth, race and national service: AmeriCorps behind-the-headlines
A town tries desperately to find out what is making their children sick
How do you accept and love your transgender child?
The CIA's and the Pentagon's secret torture training revealed.
A Korean adoptee bravely unites her biological and adoptive families.
Students at the largest world peace conference in history take charge of their own destiny
A Mother. A Son. Crack. Heroin. A Tale of Love and Addiction.
Two U.S. teenagers use their high school French for the first time
Growing up in neighboring towns divided by a steel border fence.
A new look at the comics
An inside view of community organizing at its best.
A first voice testimony celebrating the resiliency of the Garifuna people and their traditions.
Breaking the silence surrounding gay and lesbian teens.
The impact of war on a Palestinian family
A daughter with developmental disabilities decides to move out of the house.
Shot over a period of four years, Girl Trouble documents the compelling personal stories of three teenage girls entangled in San Francisco's failing juvenile justice system.
The powerful story of working women and men linked in our new global economy and the business decisions behind it, Emmy Award winner.
Three hundred undocumented Chinese immigrants sail into a 1993 tragedy that becomes a crucial turning point in US immigration history.
A dancer's hillarious story about his prominent nose and the effect it has on his career.
A portrait of Hawaiian surfer and breast cancer activist Rell Sunn.
The award-winning documentary about community vision, struggle, and change
An ethnographic look at the American Dream of homeownership.
Three low-income communities find new ways to develop permanently affordable housing.
A portrait of death, dying, and the power of love & creativity to heal
An upbeat practical guide to effective grassroots organizing.
Is Third World famine the price we're paying for our food?
In just 15 minutes, 'In Circles' offers direct access to the experiences of convicted sex offenders, and to the incredible group that helps them reintegrate into society.
Ten children ages 12 to 15 share their experiences growing up in the midst of war in Guatemala and El Salvador
A family accepts their gender nonconforming child just as she is.
The story of the immigrant rights movement in 2006 and 2007 and the story of single mother and activist Elvira Arellano who is fighting against her deportation.
Defines the terrifying chemical waste problems in America.
A Korean adoptee returns to her native Korea to find her "double," the mysterious girl whose place she took in America.
An engaging short documentary about recovery from brain injury and life after rehabilitation.
What is it like to be a colonial subject of the greatest democracy on earth?
The classic film plea for women's right to choose
All kids are affected by anti-gay prejudice, and all adults have the ability and responsibility to address it.
The movie and the movement about addressing homophobia in schools
A spirited musical journey to the U. S. Virgin Islands
Darwin's theory of evolution is challenged by a Midwestern school board
An award-winning doc about disability, caregiving and interdependence.
Managing the changes of advancing years
Where fundamentalism and freedom meet at the front door. The untold stories of Jehovah's Witnesses.
The frontlines of the unprecedented rebuilding process in New Orleans.
Gay-bashing murder inspires community transformation
Nuclear power and nuclear proliferation: a Fukushima evacuee and a Nagasaki survivor's wake-up call
Alcohol, prescribed drugs, and women - the myth, the stigma, the reality
Opens up dialogue about name-calling, bullying, and bias among middle school age students, told entirely from a youth perspective.
Today's college students and the world they live in
An immigrant author's quest for the truth
A post-NAFTA immigration story told by the Mexican women left behind.
A gripping exploration of language, culture, and communication as seen through the dynamic exchange of letters between a Russian and American poet.
An extraordinary celebration of life and lesbian community
Lessons from the movement to end poverty: the hidden story of poor people organizing in America.
The Peabody Award-winning story of how separation of church and state began in American public schools, and the courageous woman who made it happen.
The social artistry of African American photographers and brothers, Morgan & Marvin Smith
Urban manufacturing and the future of our cities
Award-winning PBS documentary about the Latinas who clean your homes and help raise your children.
Born in Kansas City, living in Tanzania - artist, activist, citizen of the world.
What happens when single women give up looking for Mr. Right and settle for Mr. Right's DNA?
A tribute to the women who were institutionalized in the 1950's
Lifting the veil of silence that has long surrounded domestic violence in Thailand
A portrait of a Mexican-American family caught between cultures
A small team of Ecuadorian doctors expanding the possibilities of rural health for their own people.
An act of conscience that shocked the world
An idealistic rookie challenges politics polarized by race and partisanship.
Who has a right to live in cities and determine their future?
Five former childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionment of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.
Fighting for America. Fighting to become American.
A film about Noah's Ark, The Grand Canyon and the struggle to keep religion out and science in our public schools.
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.
A humorous, original fairy tale dealing with sex-role stereotypes.
Two couples - one straight, one gay - cope with their mixed HIV status
The frantic planning inside city hall for the first gay marriage
The story of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust
A personal journey to Argentina's dark history of "disappearing" political activists
Three Roma (“Gypsy”) children from a small Transylvanian village are swept in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools.
Can you be fired because of who you sleep with?
A Bronx lesbian teenager juggles conflicting identities to please friends and family.
Women's Rights are Human Rights!
The impact of "English only" policies on students' learning and self esteem
One Woman's Desperate Journey; a Revolution at a Crossroads
Traditional quilt makers share their art and their lives
They were unpaid and they were crazy. They were REBELS WITH A CAUSE. How a battle over land changed the landscape forever.
Dyslexia…ADHD…One Family. Three generations struggling to connect.
A captivating portrait of Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach, two pioneering artists who started a photography studio in Berlin in 1929, and what being a “New Woman” was like during those times.
A recovering drug addict struggles to develop healthy relationships with her adult daughters.
The struggle to overturn anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of America
A community nurtures young minds
Tracing an environmentally threatened seafood from source to plate and back again.
What happens when an interracial person's identity is denied by his white family and friends?
African American women and abortion. Finally, the silence is broken.
With intimate access and striking imagery, Sin País (Without Country) explores one family's journey as they are separated by deportation.
A girls group in rural Nepal raises awareness about child sex trafficking and HIV/AIDS through street theater.
One Mormon familys extraordinary struggle with faith and forgiveness amidst infidelity, homosexuality and AIDS.
A pioneer documentary, looking at environmental dangers in America
Special Circumstances follows former political prisoner, Hector Salgado, back to Chile to confront his perpetrators.
Challenging old ideas about making a family.
Stuttering, substance abuse, and the journey of self-acceptance
A moving portrait of aging Puerto Rican women and urban teenagers collaboratively creating a play out of the stories of their lives.
Based on the work of Peru's Truth Commission, State of Fear dramatizes the human and societal costs a democracy faces when it wages a 'war on terror'.
Portrait of Israeli woman filmmaker explores violence in the Middle East
Challenging ageist notions
How gender pressures impact all youth - straight and LGBT
An Oscar® nominated film about some of the world's first environmental refugees.
A portrait of a community of four generations of women surfers in Santa Cruz.
Missionaries evangelize indigenous communities using low-tech media
Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways?
How the simple act of women planting trees changed a nation...
The daring story of the first women firefighters of New York City
What does it mean to be Arab American?
A street-level view of public transit woes
"The trees were our first teachers."
The essential video survival kit for every parent of a teenager.
A piercing look at censorship and suppression in the news media
What kids want us to know about what "family" means today
A powerful, personal account of homicide and its aftermath
Multi-award winner film about the Human face of climate change.
The impact of climate change forces an island community in the Pacific to consider leaving their homeland forever. A decision becoming even more urgent as they face a terrifying f
Saving the children of Kenya, one dream at a time.
When Community Development is also Art, a Neighborhood Comes Back to Life....
An award-winning film about secrets, survival and memory
Inner city art and transformation of environment, society, and self
A documentary that explores the point of tension where gender, family relationships, and faith, intersect.
A folk history of the Iran-Contra affair
What happens in this teen theater company will amaze you.
American youth take a personal look behind the politics of South Africa
A vivid history of women organizing in the 1930's
The definitive exposé of the consequences of America's wartime use of Agent Orange in Vietnam
Three Afghan women tell how international interventions, war, and the rise of political Islam, has stripped Afghan women of basic rights.
The rise and fall of an American town
Women prisoners and their children speak out
Arab Americans bring civil liberties to the Supreme Court
Through the trial of a rebel leader in Sierra Leone, a nation faces its wartime past. Now international justice is on trial for the world to see.
Linking past and present through the renewal of an important Native American tradition
The religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers
A visually poetic and realistic look at the destructive nature of alcoholism
How do you decide between help and harm?
An Iraq veteran's struggle for survival after returning from the war
From a snowy small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, forever changed by a faraway war.
Two American sisters reflect on both the war and contemporary life in Vietnam
The plight of middle-aged women who lose their traditional roles as homemakers through divorce.
The dramatic story of working women and men who changed American history, Oscar nominated and Grand Prize winner.
One man's journey of conscience from war to peace.
How Fang Sui Yong became Faith Sadowsky.
One woman rebel soldier's revolution; from the jungles of Nepal to the halls of Parliament.
A nuanced critique of gender and heroism in popular culture
The companion video to Carved from the Heart, a portrait of grief, healing and community
An intimate portrait of a veteran teacher and her classroom
How a self-taught Texas prisoner sparked historic prison reform.
Portrait of the enigmatic, visionary artist
The making of one of the nation's most successful youth arts programs.
What happens when your child changes gender? Two Short Films, One DVD