A Day's Work, A Day's Pay
by Jonathan Skurnik and Kathy LeichterThree welfare recipients transform their lives through their fight against workfare
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Subject: Urban Studies, Community Organizing & The Environment
A Village Called Versailles
by S. Leo ChiangOne community's political awakening in the aftermath of tragedy.
At Home In Utopia
by Michal Goldman and Ellen Brodsky - Co-producerCooperative living in complicated times.
Brooklyn Matters
by Isabel HillUrban neighborhoods on the brink of change - Who makes the decisions?
The Collector of Bedford Street
by Alice ElliottAn Academy Award nominated short film about a neighbor with disabilities and a community with a plan.
Deadly Deception - General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment
by Debra ChasnoffGrassroots activists successfully expose a corporate giant's environmental record
El Corrido de Cecilia Rios
by Kristy Guevara-FlanaganLatino youth cope with violence, grief and healing
The Elevator Operator
by Jonathan SkurnikAn immigrant caught between his past and the American Dream
Every Mother's Son
by Kelly Anderson & Tami GoldThree women lose sons to police brutality and unite to fight for change
Everyday Heroes
by Rick Goldsmith and Abby GinzbergYouth, race and national service: AmeriCorps behind-the-headlines
Fallon, NV: Deadly Oasis
by Amie WilliamsA town tries desperately to find out what is making their children sick
The Flashettes
by Bonnie Friedman and co-produced by Emily LeonInner city girls gain self-esteem from a track club
Gaining Ground: Building Community on Dudley Street
by Mark Lipman and Leah MahanAn inside view of community organizing at its best.
Girl Trouble
by Lexi Leban & Lidia SzajkoShot 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
by Lorraine GrayThe powerful story of working women and men linked in our new global economy and the business decisions behind it, Emmy Award winner.
Going On 13
by Dawn Valadez & Kristy Guevara-FlanaganFour girls. Four years. The change of a lifetime.
Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
by Mark Lipman and Leah MahanThe award-winning documentary about community vision, struggle, and change
Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia
by Jenny CoolAn ethnographic look at the American Dream of homeownership.
Homes & Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action
by Debra Chasnoff & Helen CohenThree low-income communities find new ways to develop permanently affordable housing.
How to Prevent a Nuclear War
by Liane BrandonAn upbeat practical guide to effective grassroots organizing.
Immigrant Nation!: The Battle for the Dream
by Esau MelendezThe 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.
It's STILL Elementary
by Debra Chasnoff & Johnny SymonsThe movie and the movement about addressing homophobia in schools
Land of Opportunity
by Rebecca Snedeker & Luisa DantasThe frontlines of the unprecedented rebuilding process in New Orleans.
The Ultimate Wish: Ending the Nuclear Age
by Robert Richter and Kathleen SullivanNuclear power and nuclear proliferation: a Fukushima evacuee and a Nagasaki survivor's wake-up call
Living Broke in Boom Times: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty
by Paco de Onis and Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates, Kathleen Dara KellLessons from the movement to end poverty: the hidden story of poor people organizing in America.
Metropolitan Avenue
byWomen fighting for a Brooklyn community
My Brooklyn
by Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish DeanWho has a right to live in cities and determine their future?
No Dinosaurs in Heaven
by Greta SchillerA film about Noah's Ark, The Grand Canyon and the struggle to keep religion out and science in our public schools.
Rebels With A Cause
by Nancy KellyThey were unpaid and they were crazy. They were REBELS WITH A CAUSE. How a battle over land changed the landscape forever.
Scout's Honor
by Tom ShepardThe struggle to overturn anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of America
The Shrimp
by Keith WilsonTracing an environmentally threatened seafood from source to plate and back again.
Song of the Canary
byA pioneer documentary, looking at environmental dangers in America
Sun Come Up
by Jennifer Redfearn & Tim MetzgerAn Oscar® nominated film about some of the world's first environmental refugees.
Taken for a Ride
by Jim Klein and Martha OlsonWhy Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways?
Teachings of the Tree People: The Work of Bruce Miller
by Katie Jennings"The trees were our first teachers."
There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho
by Briar MarchMulti-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
Third Ward TX
by Andrew Garrison and Nancy Bless and Noland WalkerWhen Community Development is also Art, a Neighborhood Comes Back to Life....
Through a Glass, Lightly
by Jacky Comforty and Kathy BergerInner city art and transformation of environment, society, and self
Union Maids
by Julia Reichert & Jim Klein and Miles MogulescuA vivid history of women organizing in the 1930's
Vietnam: The Secret Agent
by Jacki OchsThe definitive exposé of the consequences of America's wartime use of Agent Orange in Vietnam
With Babies and Banners
by Lorraine GrayThe dramatic story of working women and men who changed American history, Oscar nominated and Grand Prize winner.
Young Aspirations/ Young Artists
by Shirley ThompsonThe making of one of the nation's most successful youth arts programs.
