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Featured Films

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

The story of one secretive hedge fund that is plundering American newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back.

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Brooklyn, Inshallah

In a historic first, A Palestinian-American runs for New York City Council, declaring that the Arab community can be silent no more in Trump's America.

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Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066

The untold story of lies, deceit and a failure of democracy.

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Ask Not

The definitive story of the history and activism behind "don't ask, don't tell."

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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

An act of conscience that shocked the world

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Seeing Red

Stories of American Communists

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Skokie: Rights or Wrong?

A film about freedom of speech

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This Unfamiliar Place

An award-winning film about secrets, survival and memory

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Witness To War

One man's journey of conscience from war to peace.

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All Films About Political Science

Emergent City

Real estate confronts democracy on NYC's last industrial waterfront

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Whose Water?

Across the United States, millions of people lack access to safe, affordable water and sanitation.

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What I Want You To Know

A film about veterans, moral injury, and the post-9/11 wars

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An Act of Conscience

Digitally Remastered 4K Version • 2024 • Standing up for your beliefs begins at home.

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Higher Power

Black Washingtonians' fight for cannabis legalization reveals the urgent need for D.C. statehood and self-determination.

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The Peace Patriots

A primer on dissent in a time of war • Digitally Remastered 4K Version • 2024

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Children of Las Brisas

As Venezuela collapses, three struggling young musicians chase their dreams.

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Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

The story of one secretive hedge fund that is plundering American newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back.

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Cruise Boom

An Alaskan town grapples with an explosive increase in cruise ship tourism

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Safe Haven

From Peabody Award winning filmmaker Lisa Molomot: In Safe Haven, war resisters expose the realities and myths of Canada as refuge.

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Stop Time

A story of community, perseverance, and defiance of a deportation.

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Not Your Model Minority

Explores the myth and intersections with anti-Asian violence.

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Looking Back to Look Forward

January 13, 2025

A still image from Stripped From Parts of journalists protesting. Two hold up a large sign with "Democracy Depends on Journalism" and "Heath Freeman, Destroyer of Newspapers."

New Day at AEJMC 2023 Conference in Washington, DC, Aug. 7-10

Photo of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Plus text that reads "Conference, August 7-10, Washington, DC"

New Day Films mourns the loss of Daniel Ellsberg

A black and white still image from the film, The Most Dangerous Man in America. The camera looks up from below at Daniel Ellsberg, a white man in a pinstriped suit, who speaks into a mass of TV reporter microphones that are taped together. He stands in front of tall, pale building with “United States Court House” embossed on the exterior wall. He is surrounded by men of various ethnicities who listen on or jockey into position to get their microphone closer to him.