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- DirectorMatthew OrnsteinStarsDaryl D. DavisKenneth NwadikeJeff SchoepDaryl Davis is an accomplished musician who was played all over the world. He also has an unusual hobby, particularly for a middle aged black man. When not displaying his musical chops, Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan. When many of these people eventually leave the Klan with Daryl's support, Daryl keeps their robes and hoods; building his collection piece by piece, story by story, person by person, in hopes of one day opening a museum of the Klan.2/19/17
- DirectorKeith FultonLouis PepeStarsVonda VilandJulia AlexanderLaura AmbrosiusA group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students.3/27/17
- DirectorJoanna SokolowskiKate Trumbull-LaValleStarsAndiEvieSingle mom Xela, artist Andi, and newcomer Evie are members of Ovarian Psycos -- an unapologetic bicycle crew of young, Latina misfits from Eastside Los Angeles. By the light of the full moon they ride the streets together, seeking sisterhood as protection from the violence in their neighborhoods and broken homes.3/28/17
- DirectorKim A. SnyderStarsGene RosenSyeda Suriya AhmedAbbey ClementsA look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.5/2/17
- DirectorJon BetzTaggart SiegelStarsVandana ShivaAndrew KimbrellJane GoodallA film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.5/9/17
- DirectorFerne PearlsteinStarsRenee FirestoneKlara FirestoneGilbert GottfriedWorld-famous comedians including Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, and Gilbert Gottfried pitch in with their own views on the boundaries of comedy.5/18/17
- DirectorSonia KennebeckStarsHeather LinebaughDaniel HaleLisa LingDrone whistleblower interviewed about borderless information gathering by the government.5/20/17
- DirectorBrett StoryStarsCharisse DavidsonLyndon B. JohnsonA film about the prison from the places we least expect to find it.5/21/17
- DirectorMaya ZinshteinStarsEli CohenArcadi GaydamakAriel HarushOne season and one football team in crisis, as power, money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control.5/23/17
- DirectorBen LearStarsAllegra AcostaJoel AndersonRichard BloomLegislators debate legislation that allows for adult charges for juvenile offenders.5/30/17
- DirectorAlix BlairJeremy LangeStarsFred Curtis-LewisAlexander SuttonAfter three tours in Iraq, Alex Sutton's new mission to find healing through farming is haunted by the wounds of a family lost and the shadow of the soldier he yearns to be.6/1/17
- DirectorJames D. SolomonJessica RobinsonStarsWilliam GenoveseKitty GenoveseCharles SkollerThe brother of Kitty Genovese investigates the circumstances of her murder and the truth of the story that dozens of locals witnessed the crime and did nothing to intervene.6/7/17
- DirectorJohan GrimonprezBased on the book of The Shadow World, this feature length documentary is an investigation into the multi-billion dollar international arms trade.12/14/17
- DirectorJessie AurittNaomi seems like a typical 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl; watching her lift almost three times her bodyweight tells a different story.12/21/17
- DirectorJennifer BreaStarsJennifer BreaOmar WasowJessica l e TaylorWhen Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.1/10/18
- DirectorPeter NicksStarsCat BrooksJonathan CairoBen McBrideTHE FORCE goes inside an embattled urban police department struggling to rebuild trust in one of America's most violent yet promising cities.2/9/18
- DirectorNanfu WangStarsDylanNanfu WangEating garbage, dodging police, and hitching rides with strangers, award-winning Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang shares the streets with a young drifter named Dylan who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness. Fascinated by his choice and rejection of society's rules, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that takes her across America and explores the meaning of freedom - and its limits.2/12/18
- DirectorPascale LamcheStarsWinnie MandelaAnné-Mariè BezdropZindzi MandelaWinnie Madikizela Mandela is one of the most misunderstood and intriguingly powerful contemporary female political figures. Her rise and seeming fall from grace, bear the hallmarks of epic tragedy.2/16/18
- 20171h 25mNot Rated6.9 (133)DirectorStanley NelsonMarco WilliamsStarsTugart BrownTell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities examines the impact black colleges and universities have had on American history, culture, and national identity.2/28/18
- DirectorTheo AnthonyStarsTheo AnthonyDan DeaconMatt FouseAcross walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. This documentary uses the rat to explore the history of Baltimore.3/19/18
- DirectorPeter BrattStarsDolores HuertaMartin Luther KingLuis ValdezIn the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.4/4/18
- DirectorMarissa AroyFollows the Filipino farm workers who spurred the Great Grape Strike in 1965 and joined forces with the other ethnic workers to create the United Farm workers Union.4/4/18
- DirectorTill SchauderStarsShahryar AhadiZari AhadiLeili BazarganThis rap-punk-rock documentary tells the story of Iranian musician Shahin Najafi who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death, incensed by a rap song that focuses on the oppression of women and human rights abuses. Shahin's frantic escape leads to an impossible romance when he falls in love with the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Their backgrounds make their relationship a modern-day Romeo and Juliet.4/6/18
- DirectorStacey TenenbaumStarsDon WardKevin TuchyJes MiddendorfMeet some of the colorful characters who bring pride and passion to the global profession of shoe-shining.4/13/18
- DirectorCullen HobackStarsErin Brockovich-EllisMarc EdwardsRahul GuptaIn this scandalous political thriller, an investigation into a chemical spill spirals into an indictment of the entire system meant to protect drinking water, revealing cover-ups at the highest levels of government.4/25/18
- DirectorLaura DunnJef SewellStarsJohn Berry Jr.Mary BerryTanya BerryA portrait of the world as lensed through the works of farmer, writer and activist Wendell Berry.5/1/18
- DirectorJamie MeltzerThere's a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by three exonerated men, with decades in prison served between them. True Conviction is a character-driven documentary that follows these change-makers as they rebuild their lives and families, learn to investigate cases, and work to support one another.5/8/18
- DirectorDavid ByarsFrom inception to deadly conclusion, director David Byars immerses audiences in the 2016 Malheur rebellion with exclusive access into the Oregon compound. No Man's Land is a portrait of the fringe and doesn't flinch when the bullets fly.5/15/18
- DirectorArthur JonesStarsMatt FurieAiyana UdesenChris SullivanArtist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.
- DirectorJonathan Silver ScottEdward Osei-GyimahStarsJonathan Silver ScottBernie SandersAl GoreSolar is a beautiful, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective source of energy, but fossil fuel monopolies, with the help of Koch Brothers funded groups and their government allies, are stifling the growth of renewables to protect their own wealth and control. Jonathan Scott, the famed HGTV "Property Brothers" personality, is on a mission to dismantle this system. POWER TRIP takes us across the US to explore the production of energy, something we take for granted but it is crucial to everyday living. Jonathan speaks to senators, coal miners, solar panel installers, and everyone in between, to learn the obstacles and opportunities for achieving energy freedom.
- DirectorErika CohnStarsLynn AcostaPamela BakerTeresa BrownWhen an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women's prisons, they wage a near impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
- DirectorYu GuStarsRobin AbcarianBeverly AlexanderJune Russell BeeteFootball and feminism collide in this documentary that follows former NFL cheerleaders battling the league to end wage theft and illegal employment practices that have persisted for 50 years.
- DirectorAlex JablonskiEvery summer, the American West burns. As climate change has increased, average temperatures have risen, resulting in a sudden increase in both the frequency and intensity of wildfires. Inside each of these fires are small crews who work to contain them by hand, using shovels, pulaskis, and methods that haven't changed in sixty years. Filmed during two recent wildfire seasons, Young Men and Fire is a sweeping yet deeply personal account of a single wildland firefighting crew as they struggle with fear, loyalty, dreams, and demons. What emerges is a rich story of working-class men - their exterior world, their interior lives and the fire that lies between.
- DirectorAdam MazoBen Pender-CudlipA story of stolen children and cultural survival: inside the first truth and reconciliation commission for Native Americans.
- DirectorHans BlockMoritz RiesewieckStarsMark ZuckerbergDonald TrumpNicole WongA look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed.
- DirectorErika CohnStarsKholoud Al-FaqihA verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice.
- DirectorJoel FendelmanStarsRon BlantonGrand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town--until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town's racism in 2014.
- DirectorRita BaghdadiJeremiah HammerlingGenerations of family farming tradition go up in flames as the North Dakota oil boom leaves human memory, culture and identity scorched in its wake.
- DirectorQuinn CostelloChris MetzlerJeff SpringerStarsMichael BeranThomas GonzalezWendell PierceA story about giant swamp rats invading coastal Louisiana and the defiant people on the edge of the world, who are defending their communities, culture, and livelihoods from the onslaught of this curious and unexpected invasive species.
- DirectorShalini KantayyaStarsJoy BuolamwiniMeredith BroussardCathy O'NeilWhen MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all.
- DirectorCatherine BainbridgeAlfonso MaioranaStarsGeorge ClintonRobbie RobertsonGary GiddinsA documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history.
- DirectorEugene JareckiStarsElvis PresleyEugene JareckiJames CarvilleForty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce explores how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a king while his country lost her democracy and became an empire.
- DirectorDan RybickyACCIDENT, MD is a survey of attitudes about America's health care crisis filmed in and around the small town of Accident, Maryland.
- DirectorChico ColvardStarsMalcolm XOur modern global economy connects disparate individuals in unexpected ways. At the intersection of international commerce, racial identity, and historical narrative, this story follows the propagation of demeaning representations of African Americans. From industrial China to the rural American south to contemporary Brooklyn, we observe the people and places that reproduce, consume and reclaim BLACK MEMORABILIA. This feature documentary takes us on a journey into the material culture of racialized artifacts and confronts us with the incendiary features of these objects. BLACK MEMORABILIA also moves beyond perverse attractions and absolute objections to collectibles and antiques that serve as reminders of America's troubled racial history. In the midst of roiling ethnic unrest in the US today, the film's confrontation of our feelings about these objects strikes at the heart of a pressing contemporary issue and opens a unique dialogue about the continuing legacy of racism in America.
- DirectorRaMell RossStarsLatrenda 'Boosie' AshKarmyn BryantKorbyn BryantA kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.
- DirectorMaris CurranThis short documentary explores the captivating work of five acclaimed African American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, a rural community that played a pivotal role during the Civil Rights Movement.
- DirectorDenali TillerStarsTre JansonDasan LopesMaison TeixeiraA documentary film focusing on viewing adults in prison through the eyes of their children. Three boys: Tre Janson, 13, Maison Teixeira, 11 and Dasan Lopes, 6 visit with their parents who are incarcerated at Rhode Island facilities where parents are allowed to spend two hours with their kids in an assigned space once a week. The film also spends time with them when they are elsewhere observing their coping mechanisms and behaviors and determining how they are responding to the parent's incarceration.
- DirectorLaura GreenAnna Moot-LevinThree healthcare providers bring care to those living on the margins, in a rural American community struggling with a shortage of doctors and the ravages of the opioid epidemic.
- DirectorMarilyn NessStarsDante BarksdaleTre'a BertrilleEriccka BridgefordCharm City delivers a candid portrait of citizens, police, community advocates, and government officials on the frontlines during three years of unparalleled, escalating violence in Baltimore.
- DirectorCiara LacyOUT OF STATE is the story of outcasts, of native Hawaiian prisoners shipped 3,000 miles across the ocean to a for-profit prison in the desert of Arizona. In this unlikely setting, these men discover their fierce indigenous dances, inspiring two students to fight to turn their lives around upon release.
- DirectorBernardo RuizStarsVanesa RobledoGustavo BrambilaRene ReyesThree winemakers navigate the changing situation of their business, affected by climate shifts, new technology, and immigration policies, in the Napa and Sonoma valleys of California.
- DirectorBeth AalaFour women find purpose carrying babies for strangers in Boise, ID - the unofficial surrogacy capital of the United States - and encounter complexities along the way.
- DirectorGretchen HildebranVivian VazquezStarsCarmen RosadoHetty FoxRobert FosterAs a kid in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Vivian Vazquez watched her tight-knit community become a burned-out ruin as an epidemic of fires raged through her Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood. As Vivian seeks to understand the lasting effects of this tragedy on her family and community, she uncovers a story of injustice, survival and hope that resonates deeply in cities today.
- DirectorAndres CaballeroSofian KhanLocal interpreters were key to the US war effort, but now many face danger in their countries because of their affiliation. This is the story of how they are rebuilding their lives, told through a chain-smoking Iraqi codenamed "Phillip Morris" who was able to make it to the US with the help of an American soldier he befriended during his deployment, an Afghan called Malik who is still working as an active interpreter at the US base in Kabul despite threats to his life, and another Afghan named Mujtaba who fled with his family as refugees to Turkey.
- DirectorEunice LauStarsIbrahim TraoreTony OsmanIkraan AbdurahmanA father seeks to understand why his son is accused of terrorism, as they journey to repair their relationship after breaking each other's hearts.
- DirectorRay SantistebanStarsBilly Che BrooksKathleen CleaverFred HamptonChicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront police brutality and unfair housing practices in one of America's most segregated cities. A timely story of collective action, The First Rainbow Coalition tells this little-known chronicle of political struggle with insight and urgency using archival footage and interviews with those who lived it.
- DirectorJudith HelfandStarsValerie BrownRichard M. DaleyMichelle Landis DauberA life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.
- DirectorNanfu WangJialing ZhangStarsNanfu WangZaodi WangZhimei WangAfter becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
- DirectorKenneth Paul RosenbergStarsPatrisse CullorsDalilah Marie HudsonA psychiatrist makes rounds in ERs, jails, and homeless camps to tell the intimate stories behind one of the greatest social crises of our time. A personal and intense journey into the world of the seriously mentally ill.
- DirectorBrett StoryStarsClare CoulterOrdinary people in New York are asked to talk about their lives and their hopes for the future in a time marked by political division and climate change.
- DirectorSasha Joseph NeulingerStarsSasha Joseph NeulingerHenry NevisonHoward NevisonDigging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.
- Pipe Dreams follows 5 organists as they compete in Canada's International Organ Competition (CIOC). Who will master the 'king of instruments' and come out victorious in Montreal?
- DirectorJared LetoStarsMicaiah JonesAbby SteinOn July 4th, Jared Leto sent 92 crews to all 50 states to capture A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AMERICA. Shot in a single 24 hour period what he got back was inspiring, provocative, beautiful and surprising. We have created an apolitical film that takes a deep and unflinching look at this country in the midst of a very important time.
- DirectorMelissa HaizlipSam PollardStarsBlair UnderwoodSidney PoitierMichael JacksonBefore Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL. Ellis Haizlip ensures that the Revolution would be televised with "SOUL!," America's first "Black Tonight Show." From 1968 to 1973, the public-television variety show SOUL!, guided by enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics--voices that had few other options for national exposure, and, as a result, found the program an improbable place to call home. The series was among the first to provide expanded images of African Americans on television, shifting the gaze from inner-city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement. With participants' recollections and illuminating archival clips, Mr. SOUL captures a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate, and an unsung hero whose voice we need now more than ever, to restore the SOUL of a nation.
- DirectorUrsula LiangStarsLesley SteeleOn a fall day in 2014, Peter Liang, a Chinese American police officer, shot and killed an innocent, unarmed black man named Akai Gurley. Unfolding in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project, the shooting inflamed the residents of New York City and thrust two marginalized communities together into the uneven criminal justice system. Gurley's death sparked cries of police brutality and a raging, anguished debate about racial bias in criminal prosecution of law enforcement officers.
- DirectorAlan AdelsonKate TavernaStarsCarol Van StrumBruce AndersonTo Nga TranThe Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant causes deformed births and deadly cancers. Two heroic women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable.
- DirectorAlice GuStarsTed NgoyChristie SuganthiniChet NgoyThis documentary tells Ted Ngoy's story that is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks, and redemption.
- DirectorMobolaji OlambiwonnuStarsJeffrey Amado AhrensRasheen AldridgeDominique AlexanderFerguson Rises is the inspiring story of the residents of Ferguson, Missouri, a small town that suffered a powerful loss and became the flash point for a modern day civil rights movement.
- DirectorBeth LevisonJerry RisiusStarsJill BidenPete ButtigiegJulián CastroArt Cullen and his family and colleagues at Iowa's Storm Lake Times, fight-at the local level-for the survival of their biweekly small-town newspaper
- DirectorSian-Pierre RegisStarsRebecca DanigelisSian-Pierre RegisAfter a 75 year-old mother gets fired from her job, her son takes her on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life. As she struggles to find work, he documents a journey that uncovers the betrayals plaguing her past and the economic insecurity soon to shape not only her future, but that of an entire generation.
- 1999–7.8 (31)TV EpisodeDirectorGeoffrey O'GaraNorthern Arapaho tribal members travel from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to retrieve remains of three children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880's. This episode is about 55 minutes.
- DirectorJames RutenbeckStarsCarl ChandlerJack ChengKafi DixonKafi Dixon is a Boston bus driver and urban farmer who seeks equity for low-income women of color who have experienced trauma and disenfranchisement. Carl Chandler, a community elder wants to tell his family's story to the wider world. They gather with twenty other adults living along the poverty line at a community center in Boston to study art, history, philosophy and literature in a rigorous yearlong tuition-free night course. Kafi reads dialogues about the city in Plato's Republic, yet faces rejection in her own hometown, a prosperous metropolis swept up by the allure of development and gentrification. Carl, a disabled senior citizen who raised two daughters as a single father, cares for his grandson and reads voraciously. James Rutenbeck, a white filmmaker from the suburbs, has come here to document their lives. Over five years he witnesses evictions, chaos and calm persistence. He wants to remain a witness and allow Carl and Kafi to tell their own stories, but over time comes to understand the film cannot be fully realized until he speaks up too.
- DirectorJeff BemissLisa MolomotStarsNora LopezEduardo CanalesCraig JohnsonTwo families search for their loved ones who went missing in the fields of Brooks County, Texas, and find a haunted land with more questions than answers.
- DirectorGiorgio Angelini'Owned' is a fever dream vision into the dark history behind the US housing economy. Tracking its overtly racist beginnings to its unbridled commoditization, the doc exposes a foundational story few Americans understand as their own.
- DirectorTodd ChandlerA documentary about the response of American schools to gun violence.
- DirectorJennifer RedfearnIn a Midwestern state caught between the opioid epidemic and increasing incarceration rates for women, three unforgettable mothers - Amanda, Tomika, and Lydia - return home from prison and rebuild their lives after being separated from their children for years. Their stories overlap at a new reentry program for women, run by Malika, an advocate who was formerly incarcerated in the same prison.
- DirectorSushmit GhoshRintu ThomasStarsMeera DeviShyamkali DeviSuneeta PrajapatiIn a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.
- DirectorDebbie LumStarsAlvan CaiShealand FairchildRachael SchmidtSeniors at one the best public high schools in the country face the pressure of applying to elite colleges.
- DirectorBrad LichtensteinStarsVictoria DavisonNathan KingClaud MotleyA victim of gun violence becomes conflicted about the punishment for his attacker.
- DirectorJared JakinsStarsNoah BegayIlii NeangGranite SloanThree Indigenous youth come of age on the fringes of the Navajo Nation. 'Scenes from the Glittering World' is a meditation on adolescence, trauma and the power of connecting with a homeland.
- DirectorShalini KantayyaStarsRichard Cannon IIIJon 'TheBlondeJon' MadridJonathan MadridWith TikTok crowned the world's most downloaded app, these are the personal stories of a cultural phenomenon, told through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives, journalists and experts alike.
- DirectorDaniel KleinKelsey PetersonStarsChristi AdelineKathy AllenJennifer BrackenAt 27, Kelsey Peterson dove into Lake Superior, off the shores of Wisconsin, and emerged paralyzed. Now, the former dancer struggles to redefine who she is while adapting to life with a disability. At the intersection of acceptance and hope, Kelsey unexpectedly finds herself facing an opportunity to dance again, showing her a new path toward acceptance, all the while grappling with a decision to participate in a cutting-edge clinical trial that could bring her much-desired change - forcing her to evaluate the possibilities of her recovery, body and spirit. In Move Me, a first-time filmmaker with a disability simultaneously takes the reins behind the scenes, while revealing her inner revolution through raw storytelling onscreen.
- DirectorMarianela MaldonadoSet in the sprawling suburbs of Valencia, The Children Of Las Brisas is a poetic and observational documentary capturing the struggle and transformation of a group of young musicians striving for a better life through classical music.
- DirectorErika AlexanderWhitney DowStarsTa-Nehisi CoatesSheila Jackson LeeJason JohnsonAn inspiring look at Alderman Robin Rue Simmons' fight to redress the wrongs of "redlining" and the legacy of slavery through a groundbreaking reparations program in Evanston, Illinois.
- DirectorVivian KleimanStarsAlison BechdelJennifer CamperAlex CombsA lively look at five LGBTQ+ comic book artists whose careers go from the underground scene to the cover of Time Magazine and the international stage.
- DirectorPhil BertelsenBryan Gunnar ColeStarsChina CooperDarrell ThomasFamed photographer Ernest Withers was credited with documenting the civil rights movement, but his legacy was blemished when it was revealed after his death that he'd been an FBI informant.
- DirectorIra McKinleyBhawin SuchakStarsAlvin DeanBridgett DeanElea DeanAn astounding and intimate narrative of Black achievement focusing on the self-determined Dean family, seven generations of their history, and the resilient community of rural Pahokee, Florida.
- DirectorColin AskeyA group of misfits, artists, and drug users operates a renegade safe injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
- DirectorJoanna RudnickA filmmaker's brother opens up about his recovery from opioid use disorder.
- DirectorHazel GurlandThe story of Las Vegas activist Ruby Duncan and a band of ordinary mothers who launched one of the most extraordinary, yet forgotten, feminist, anti-poverty movements in U.S. history.
- DirectorViolet Du FengQing ZhaoStarsXin HuSimu WuHe YanxinThe story of two Chinese women trying to balance their lives as independent women in modern China while confronting the traditional identity that defines but also oppresses them.
- DirectorJulie HaEugene YiStarsChol Soo LeeJeff AdachiK.W. LeeIn 1970s San Francisco, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is wrongly convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, journalist K.W. Lee takes an interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social movement.
- DirectorLaura GreenAnna Moot-LevinMatter of Mind: My ALS follows three people living with the fatal illness ALS, in an intimate exploration of the complex choices confronting them and the different paths they find.
- DirectorReed HarknessStarsDoris HarknessJared HarknessJois HarknessSam Harkness and his half-brother Reed go on a road trip to find their missing mom. But solving the mystery of her disappearance is only the beginning of their story.
- DirectorJasmin Mara LópezThis story revolves around an autobiographical exploration of one woman's family history with child sexual abuse and a culture of silence.