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21) Manakamana
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Produced by the directors of SWEET GRASS and LEVIATHAN, MANAKAMANA is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind documentary experience. Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, it is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity. Nominated or the Truer than Fiction Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.**...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When two stolen children reappear after 40 years, their eccentric family is thrown into disarray. Attempting to put the past to rest and discover the truth, Ben-Moshe and his family embark on a remarkable journey from Australia, to England and Iran, in an attempt to unravel the dense web of secrets, and put the past to rest. Best Documentary nominee at the **Jewish International Film Festival** and the **UK International Jewish Film Festival**.
23) CodeSwitching
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
CODESWITCHING is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary desegregation program. Shuttling between their inner-city Boston neighborhoods and predominantly white suburban schools in pursuit of a better education, they find themselves swapping elements of culture, language, and behavior to fit in with their suburban counterparts – Often acting or speaking differently...
24) Carry Me Home
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Documentary highlighting death and funerals experienced within the African American community.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ordered in April 1945 by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FACTUAL SURVEY is an official documentary about the atrocities committed at concentration camps under Nazi leadership. Producer Sidney Bernstein assembled a team at the Ministry of Information that included editors Stewart McAllister and Peter Tanner, writers Colin Wills and Richard Crossman; and Alfred Hitchcock who gave directorial advice. A...
26) Island Soldier
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This documentary interweaves the personal stories of Micronesian soldiers serving in the US military, and the experiences of their families back home in the islands. We follow their journey from one of the most remote islands in the world to the front lines of war in Afghanistan. These non US citizens mostly serve in the infantry and have extremely high casualty rates, dying at a rate five times higher than any US state, per capita. Through the odyssey...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
DOCUMENTING HATE - CHARLOTTESVILLE is the first in a series of two films from FRONTLINE and ProPublica that investigates and exposes the resurgence of white supremacists and Neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville rally. This film shows how some of those behind the racist violence went unpunished and continued to operate around the country.
28) Drokpa
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Set in the high plateau of eastern Tibet, DROKPA is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of Tibetan nomads whose life is on the cusp of irreversible change as once lush grasslands are rapidly turning into deserts. The grasslands of the Tibetan plateau are home to the source of Asia’s major rivers. Nearly half of humanity depends on this water for survival. Tibetan nomads, known as DROKPA have roamed on this land for thousands of years....
30) Human
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. Through these stories full of love and happiness, as well as hatred and violence, HUMAN brings us face to face with the Other, making us reflect on our lives. From stories of everyday experiences to accounts of the most unbelievable lives, these poignant encounters share a rare sincerity and underline who we are – our darker side,...
31) Southern Pride
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This inspiring documentary profiles two lesbian bar owners in Mississippi battling to host local Pride events in the wake of fresh ignorance and hatred stirred up by the election of Donald Trump.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Discover the truth behind the scandalous 1930s rape and murder case involving a Navy wife, her society mother, Clarence Darrow, and five nonwhite Hawaiians that shook the island paradise and exposed the racial tensions roiling beneath the surface.
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where journalist and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counter terrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, code-named "Operation Vulgar...
35) Why The Jews?
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The stunning accomplishments of the Jews raise a question no film has dared ask before. How do they do it? Some of the world’s most prominent thinkers tackle a mystery shrouded in ignorance and prejudice. They tear back the curtain on a taboo and draw a startling link between a people’s achievements and the darkest hours in its history.
36) The Hard Ride
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at black cowboys as they gather for a rodeo and dance on the 40 acre Circle 6 Ranch in Raywood, Texas. A dirt road leads onto the ranch, where all of the structures, including a frame house, rodeo arena, and barn, are hand-wrought. A.J. Walker, his wife Pam, and his son, Anthony, are preparing for the monthly rodeo. This rodeo, which draws from the surrounding communities, is very much a family operation. Black cowboys drive their...
Publisher
Stourwater Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2017 Asian American International Film Festival Audience Choice Award, Documentary, PROOF OF LOYALTY: KAZUO YAMANE AND THE NISEI SOLDIERS OF HAWAII tells the story of a Japanese American who played a crucial strategic role in World War II. He and his fellow Nisei from Hawaii combatted prejudice and discrimination to loyally serve their country. Their extraordinary service, mostly untold, ultimately changed the course of U.S. history....
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In JAMAICA AND TAMARINDO: AFRO TRADITION IN THE HEART OF MEXICO, we meet five people to explore African heritage in Mexico City, an identity that goes beyond the color of one's skin.
39) Divided States
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
DIVIDED STATES seeks to document the current state of hate in America by exploring the lives of those who have experienced it firsthand and emerged transformed.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing America, from the inner city to small towns like Yamhill, Oregon. While pockets of empathy and aid exist, are they enough to rescue the thousands of Americans in despair, for whom the American Dream of self-reliance is impossibly out of reach?
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