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
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?
Anything You Want To Be
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA teenager's humorous collision with sex-role stereotypes.
The Boy Game
Children, Youth & FamiliesTackling bullying among boys at its core: the cult of toughness and silence boys live by.
Bionic Beauty Salon
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA chronicle of fact and fiction about the female body
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 Collector of Bedford Street
Disabilities: New PerspectivesAn Academy Award nominated short film about a neighbor with disabilities and a community with a plan.
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
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.
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
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?
First Person Plural
Asian and Asian-American StudiesA Korean adoptee bravely unites her biological and adoptive families.
Frontier Youth
Immigration & Border StudiesGrowing up in neighboring towns divided by a steel border fence.
The Garifuna Journey
African & African American StudiesA first voice testimony celebrating the resiliency of the Garifuna people and their traditions.
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 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.
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.
The Insular Empire
Sociology, Political Science & AnthropologyWhat is it like to be a colonial subject of the greatest democracy on earth?
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.
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.
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.
Maid in America
Immigration & Border StudiesAward-winning PBS documentary about the Latinas who clean your homes and help raise your children.
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 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.
Perry County
Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The EnvironmentA true story of legacy, waste and environmental injustice in one small Alabama community, where another state's toxic trash has become one politician’s treasure.
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?
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.
Special Circumstances
Human Rights & Global ConcernsSpecial Circumstances follows former political prisoner, Hector Salgado, back to Chile to confront his perpetrators.
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.
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Human Rights & Global ConcernsHow the simple act of women planting trees changed a nation...
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."
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 EnvironmentThe 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 flood.
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....
Through a Glass, Lightly
Media, Art & CultureInner city art and transformation of environment, society, and self
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?
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.
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Women's Studies/Men's StudiesA nuanced critique of gender and heroism in popular culture
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
