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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A Day's Work, A Day's Pay
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentThree welfare recipients transform their lives through their fight against workfare
A Village Called Versailles
Asian and Asian-American StudiesOne community's political awakening in the aftermath of tragedy.
abUSed: The Postville Raid
Immigration & Border StudiesThe devastating effects of US immigration enforcement policies on children, families and communities.
Against the Grain: An Artist's Survival Guide to Peru
Latin American StudiesIs freedom of expression a right or a privilege?
The Amasong Chorus Singing Out
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesSometimes social justice is won through music.
Anything You Want To Be
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA teenager's humorous collision with sex-role stereotypes.
Ask Not
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyThe definititve story of the history and activism behind "don't ask, don't tell."
At Home In Utopia
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyCooperative living in complicated times.
The Boy Game
Children, Youth & FamiliesTackling bullying among boys at its core: the cult of toughness and silence boys live by.
Bachelorette, 34
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesBachelorette, 34 examines the pressure society puts on women to find Mr. Right.
Becoming American
Multicultural StudiesA Hmong refugee family from highlnd Laos resettling in the U.S.
Bionic Beauty Salon
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA chronicle of fact and fiction about the female body
Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy
Disabilities: New PerspectivesDisability advocates model a grand experiment in independent living.
BODY TYPED: 3 films on media & physical perfection
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesBody Image short film compilation.
3 Short Films 1 DVD
start important conversations -- from different cultural angles.
Bonecrusher
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentAn intimate journey inside the lives and work of coal miners.
Brooklyn Matters
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentUrban neighborhoods on the brink of change - Who makes the decisions?
Bubbeh Lee & Me
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesFamily, Identity and Aging with Chutzpah
By Invitation Only
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyA brave critique of an alluring family tradition
Carved from the Heart
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionA portrait of grief, healing, and community
Children in No Man's Land
Immigration & Border StudiesAward-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
The Choice of a Lifetime: Returning From the Brink of Suicide
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionTransforming suicidal despair into the will to live
Chris and Bernie
Children, Youth & FamiliesTwo divorced single mothers share the responsibilities of family and career.
Code of the West
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyMedical marijuana and the political process
The Collector of Bedford Street
Disabilities: New PerspectivesAn Academy Award nominated short film about a neighbor with disabilities and a community with a plan.
Conversations with Willard Van Dyke
Media, Art & CultureA candid portrait of a filmmaker photographer who believed that film could change the world.
Crossing Lines
Asian and Asian-American StudiesAn Indian-American woman’s struggle to stay connected to India after the loss of her father.
Deadly Deception - General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentGrassroots activists successfully expose a corporate giant's environmental record
Deep Down
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentA story from the heart of coal country
Dirty Secrets: Jennifer, Everardo & the CIA in Guatemala
Latin American StudiesExposing CIA complicity in Guatemalan human rights violations
Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas
Human Rights & Global ConcernsA powerful examination of the limits of free speech
Domestic Violence and Health Care
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionGoing above and beyond to stop family violence.
Domestic Violence and Law Enforcement
Law and Criminal JusticeThree Cities, Three Departments, One Common Goal.
Downside UP
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentHow art can change the spirit of a place
Drunks
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionThe groundbreaking feature film about Alcoholics Anonymous.
Eating Alaska
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentA wry search for the "right thing" to eat
The Elevator Operator
Immigration & Border StudiesAn immigrant caught between his past and the American Dream
Every Mother's Son
Law and Criminal JusticeThree women lose sons to police brutality and unite to fight for change
Everyday Heroes
Children, Youth & FamiliesYouth, race and national service: AmeriCorps behind-the-headlines
The Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children
Children, Youth & FamiliesHow do you accept and love your transgender child?
Father Roy: Inside the School of the Assassins
Human Rights & Global ConcernsThe CIA's and the Pentagon's secret torture training revealed.
First Person Plural
Asian and Asian-American StudiesA Korean adoptee bravely unites her biological and adoptive families.
Five Days to Change the World
Human Rights & Global ConcernsStudents at the largest world peace conference in history take charge of their own destiny
Foo-Foo Dust
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionA Mother. A Son. Crack. Heroin. A Tale of Love and Addiction.
Frontier Youth
Immigration & Border StudiesGrowing up in neighboring towns divided by a steel border fence.
Funny Ladies: A Portrait of Women Cartoonists
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA new look at the comics
Gaining Ground: Building Community on Dudley Street
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentAn inside view of community organizing at its best.
The Garifuna Journey
African & African American StudiesA first voice testimony celebrating the resiliency of the Garifuna people and their traditions.
Gay Youth
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesBreaking the silence surrounding gay and lesbian teens.
Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family
Human Rights & Global ConcernsThe impact of war on a Palestinian family
The Gillian Film
Disabilities: New PerspectivesA daughter with developmental disabilities decides to move out of the house.
Girl Trouble
Law and Criminal JusticeShot 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 Global Assembly Line
Human Rights & Global ConcernsThe powerful story of working women and men linked in our new global economy and the business decisions behind it, Emmy Award winner.
Golden Venture
Immigration & Border StudiesThree hundred undocumented Chinese immigrants sail into a 1993 tragedy that becomes a crucial turning point in US immigration history.
The Guarantee
Media, Art & CultureA dancer's hillarious story about his prominent nose and the effect it has on his career.
Heart of The Sea; Kapolioka'ehukai
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA portrait of Hawaiian surfer and breast cancer activist Rell Sunn.
Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
The award-winning documentary about community vision, struggle, and change
Homes & Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentThree low-income communities find new ways to develop permanently affordable housing.
Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionA portrait of death, dying, and the power of love & creativity to heal
How to Prevent a Nuclear War
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentAn upbeat practical guide to effective grassroots organizing.
Hungry For Profit
Human Rights & Global ConcernsIs Third World famine the price we're paying for our food?
In Circles
Law and Criminal JusticeIn 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.
If the Mango Tree Could Speak
Latin American StudiesTen children ages 12 to 15 share their experiences growing up in the midst of war in Guatemala and El Salvador
I'm Just Anneke
Children, Youth & FamiliesA family accepts their gender nonconforming child just as she is.
Immigrant Nation!: The Battle for the Dream
Immigration & Border StudiesThe 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.
In The Matter of Cha Jung Hee
Asian and Asian-American StudiesA Korean adoptee returns to her native Korea to find her "double," the mysterious girl whose place she took in America.
Indelible Mark
Disabilities: New PerspectivesAn engaging short documentary about recovery from brain injury and life after rehabilitation.
The Insular Empire
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyWhat is it like to be a colonial subject of the greatest democracy on earth?
It Happens to Us
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionThe classic film plea for women's right to choose
It's Elementary - Talking About Gay Issues in School
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesAll kids are affected by anti-gay prejudice, and all adults have the ability and responsibility to address it.
It's STILL Elementary
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesThe movie and the movement about addressing homophobia in schools
Jamesie, King of Scratch
African & African American StudiesA spirited musical journey to the U. S. Virgin Islands
Kansas vs. Darwin
Religion, Theology & EthicsDarwin's theory of evolution is challenged by a Midwestern school board
The Key Of G
Disabilities: New PerspectivesAn award-winning doc about disability, caregiving and interdependence.
Knocking
Religion, Theology & EthicsWhere fundamentalism and freedom meet at the front door. The untold stories of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Land of Opportunity
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentThe frontlines of the unprecedented rebuilding process in New Orleans.
Laramie Inside Out
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesGay-bashing murder inspires community transformation
The Ultimate Wish: Ending the Nuclear Age
Human Rights & Global ConcernsNuclear power and nuclear proliferation: a Fukushima evacuee and a Nagasaki survivor's wake-up call
The Last to Know
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionAlcohol, prescribed drugs, and women - the myth, the stigma, the reality
Let's Get Real
Children, Youth & FamiliesOpens up dialogue about name-calling, bullying, and bias among middle school age students, told entirely from a youth perspective.
Letters From the Other Side
Immigration & Border StudiesA post-NAFTA immigration story told by the Mexican women left behind.
Living Broke in Boom Times: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentLessons from the movement to end poverty: the hidden story of poor people organizing in America.
The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today
Law and Criminal JusticeThe Peabody Award-winning story of how separation of church and state began in American public schools, and the courageous woman who made it happen.
Made in Brooklyn
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentUrban manufacturing and the future of our cities
Maid in America
Immigration & Border StudiesAward-winning PBS documentary about the Latinas who clean your homes and help raise your children.
Mama C: Urban Warrior in the African Bush
African & African American StudiesBorn in Kansas City, living in Tanzania - artist, activist, citizen of the world.
Maybe Baby
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesWhat happens when single women give up looking for Mr. Right and settle for Mr. Right's DNA?
Men Are Human, Women Are Buffalo
Asian and Asian-American StudiesLifting the veil of silence that has long surrounded domestic violence in Thailand
Miles from the Border
Immigration & Border StudiesA portrait of a Mexican-American family caught between cultures
The Most Distant Places
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionA small team of Ecuadorian doctors expanding the possibilities of rural health for their own people.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyAn act of conscience that shocked the world
Mr. Cao Goes to Washington
Asian and Asian-American StudiesAn idealistic rookie challenges politics polarized by race and partisanship.
My Brooklyn
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentWho has a right to live in cities and determine their future?
My Perestroika
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyFive former childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionment of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.
New American Soldier
Immigration & Border StudiesFighting for America. Fighting to become American.
No Dinosaurs in Heaven
Religion, Theology & EthicsA film about Noah's Ark, The Grand Canyon and the struggle to keep religion out and science in our public schools.
No Dumb Questions
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesUncle 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.
Once Upon a Choice
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA humorous, original fairy tale dealing with sex-role stereotypes.
One Wedding and a Revolution
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesThe frantic planning inside city hall for the first gay marriage
The Optimists
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyThe story of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust
Our Disappeared (Nuestros Desaparecidos)
Human Rights & Global ConcernsA personal journey to Argentina's dark history of "disappearing" political activists
Our School
Human Rights & Global ConcernsThree Roma (“Gypsy”) children from a small Transylvanian village are swept in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools.
Out at Work
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesCan you be fired because of who you sleep with?
Pidgin: the Voice of Hawai'i
Multicultural StudiesThe impact of "English only" policies on students' learning and self esteem
Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesOne Woman's Desperate Journey; a Revolution at a Crossroads
Quilts in Women's Lives
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesTraditional quilt makers share their art and their lives
Rebels With A Cause
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentThey were unpaid and they were crazy. They were REBELS WITH A CAUSE. How a battle over land changed the landscape forever.
Read Me Differently
Disabilities: New PerspectivesDyslexia…ADHD…One Family. Three generations struggling to connect.
Ringl and Pit
Media, Art & CultureA 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.
Saving Jackie
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionA recovering drug addict struggles to develop healthy relationships with her adult daughters.
Scout's Honor
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesThe struggle to overturn anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of America
The Shrimp
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentTracing an environmentally threatened seafood from source to plate and back again.
Silences
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyWhat happens when an interracial person's identity is denied by his white family and friends?
Silent Choices
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesAfrican American women and abortion. Finally, the silence is broken.
Sin País (Without Country)
Immigration & Border StudiesWith intimate access and striking imagery, Sin País (Without Country) explores one family's journey as they are separated by deportation.
Sita: A Girl from Jambu
Human Rights & Global ConcernsA girls group in rural Nepal raises awareness about child sex trafficking and HIV/AIDS through street theater.
The Smith Family
Children, Youth & FamiliesOne Mormon familys extraordinary struggle with faith and forgiveness amidst infidelity, homosexuality and AIDS.
Song of the Canary
Human Rights & Global ConcernsA pioneer documentary, looking at environmental dangers in America
Special Circumstances
Human Rights & Global ConcernsSpecial Circumstances follows former political prisoner, Hector Salgado, back to Chile to confront his perpetrators.
Spit it Out
Disabilities: New PerspectivesStuttering, substance abuse, and the journey of self-acceptance
Stages
Media, Art & CultureA moving portrait of aging Puerto Rican women and urban teenagers collaboratively creating a play out of the stories of their lives.
State of Fear: The Truth About Terrorism
Human Rights & Global ConcernsBased 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'.
States of UnBelonging
Middle East and Arab StudiesPortrait of Israeli woman filmmaker explores violence in the Middle East
Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesHow gender pressures impact all youth - straight and LGBT
Sun Come Up
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentAn Oscar® nominated film about some of the world's first environmental refugees.
Swell
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA portrait of a community of four generations of women surfers in Santa Cruz.
The Tailenders
Religion, Theology & EthicsMissionaries evangelize indigenous communities using low-tech media
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Human Rights & Global ConcernsHow the simple act of women planting trees changed a nation...
Taking The Heat
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesThe daring story of the first women firefighters of New York City
Tales from Arab Detroit
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyWhat does it mean to be Arab American?
Tango 73: A Bus Rider's Diary
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentA street-level view of public transit woes
Teachings of the Tree People: The Work of Bruce Miller
Native American Studies"The trees were our first teachers."
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
Media, Art & CultureA piercing look at censorship and suppression in the news media
That's a Family!
Children, Youth & FamiliesWhat kids want us to know about what "family" means today
There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentMulti-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
These Are Our Children
African & African American StudiesSaving the children of Kenya, one dream at a time.
Third Ward TX
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentWhen Community Development is also Art, a Neighborhood Comes Back to Life....
This Unfamiliar Place
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyAn award-winning film about secrets, survival and memory
Through a Glass, Lightly
Media, Art & CultureInner city art and transformation of environment, society, and self
Thy Will Be Done
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender StudiesA documentary that explores the point of tension where gender, family relationships, and faith, intersect.
TRUST: Second Acts in Young Lives
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyWhat happens in this teen theater company will amaze you.
Vietnam: The Secret Agent
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyThe definitive exposé of the consequences of America's wartime use of Agent Orange in Vietnam
View From A Grain Of Sand
Human Rights & Global ConcernsThree Afghan women tell how international interventions, war, and the rise of political Islam, has stripped Afghan women of basic rights.
Voices in Exile: Immigrants and the First Amendment
Immigration & Border StudiesArab Americans bring civil liberties to the Supreme Court
War Don Don
Human Rights & Global ConcernsThrough 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.
What Do You Believe?
Religion, Theology & EthicsThe religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers
When the Light's Red
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyHow do you decide between help and harm?
When I Came Home
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyAn Iraq veteran's struggle for survival after returning from the war
Where Soldiers Come From
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyFrom 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.
Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
Asian and Asian-American StudiesTwo American sisters reflect on both the war and contemporary life in Vietnam
With Babies and Banners
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesThe dramatic story of working women and men who changed American history, Oscar nominated and Grand Prize winner.
Witness To War
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyOne man's journey of conscience from war to peace.
Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy)
Asian and Asian-American StudiesHow Fang Sui Yong became Faith Sadowsky.
Woman Rebel
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesOne woman rebel soldier's revolution; from the jungles of Nepal to the halls of Parliament.
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA nuanced critique of gender and heroism in popular culture
Words from the Heart
Physical & Mental Health and AddictionThe companion video to Carved from the Heart, a portrait of grief, healing and community
Young Aspirations/ Young Artists
Media, Art & CultureThe making of one of the nation's most successful youth arts programs.
The Youth and Gender Media Project
Children, Youth & FamiliesWhat happens when your child changes gender? Two Short Films, One DVD
