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Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
This acclaimed documentary covers the 200 year history of African-American Christianity, featuring the legends of Gospel music, including The Staple Singers, The Clara Ward Singers, The Dixie Hummingbirds, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.. Culled from hundreds of hours of music, tracing the evolution of gospel music through its many styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing, the emergence...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Explore America's changing demographics and the stories behind them.. America By The Numbers with Maria Hinojosa reveals how dramatic demographic changes are playing out in our country today. This is the first national series to explore the impact of the new American mainstream--the growing numbers of Asians, Latinos, African Americans, persons of mixed race, immigrants, women, youth, and LGBTs whose influence over culture, commerce, and the outcome...
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Lebron James… Nowadays, the most fashionable heroes of pop culture are black men. Their love of style is not only a status symbol or a vapid superficial trend, it is rooted in a deep American cultural history, as flamboyant as it is political, that of Black Dandyism.. This movement recalls more than a century of cultural adventures, at the crossroads of fashion, arts and major social issues.
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Arab men worldwide are, for the most part, depicted by the mainstream media as terrorists, suicide bombers, or, at best, extremists. THINGS ARAB MEN SAY, by Egyptian-born filmmaker Nisreen Baker, is an intimate and fascinating documentary that follows eight Arab Canadian friends who reveal a very different picture of Arab men.. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, this insightful film introduces us to Jay, Ghassan, Faisal, Adnan, Falah, Bashar and Ramey...
46) All of Us
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A young doctor in the South Bronx embarks on a project to find out why African-American women are becoming infected with HIV at alarming rates. She finds a dangerous power imbalance that all heterosexual women face in the bedroom, but rarely discuss. Selected as Showtime’s 2008 World AIDS Day Film.. “This powerful, conceptually sure film is a model of documentary method and compassionate social filmmaking… a striking feminist inquiry." - The...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
In Black and White is the first video series devoted to the life and work of contemporary African American authors. It introduces students and general readers to six of America's most talented and challenging writers: Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman and August Wilson.. These authors' work is helping to define a new multi-cultural American literary canon for the 21st Century. As Nobel Prize- winning novelist...
48) Me Without You
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
This British indie film follows Holly (4-time Oscar-nominee Michelle Williams, Manchester by The Sea) and Marina (Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies) as their friendship endures hard drugs, random sex, manipulation, betrayal, and more over the span of three decades.. Nominated for Best British Film at the BAFTA Awards, ME WITHOUT YOU explores how friendships evolve over time, all set to a throbbing soundtrack including tracks by The Clash and The Stranglers.....
Publisher
The Immigration Paradox Movie
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The Immigration Paradox takes a critical and in depth look at one of the most divisive issues in human global history–immigration. After encountering an immigrant crossing the Arizona desert, Emmy Award Winner and Filmmaker Lourdes Lee Vasquez set out to understand why people would risk their lives to come to the U.S. Her quest takes a shocking twist when she musters enough courage to cross the line at a protest and has an encounter with whom she...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Strange Fruit is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. The saga brings viewers face- to- face with the terror of lynching even as it spotlights the courage and heroism of those who fought for racial justice when to do so was to risk ostracism and livelihood...
51) Angry Inuk
Publisher
Film Movement Exclusives
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Seal meat is a staple food for Inuit, and many of the pelts are sold to offset the extraordinary cost of hunting. Inuit are spread across extensive lands and waters, and their tiny population is faced with a disproportionate responsibility for protecting the environment.. This documentary interweaves the reality of Inuit life with the story of their challenge to both the anti-sealing industry and those nations that mine resources on Inuit lands while...
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
In the wake of Suge Knight's move to destroy NWA and Ruthless, Death Row Records exploded on the music scene in 1993 with a “gangster rap” sound that had taken the world by storm. Despite its unprecedented success with stars such as Dr. Dre, Snoop and Tupac, it quickly unraveled in a firestorm of rivalries, greed, and violence as Knight’s business methods increasingly mirrored the violent, hard-edged themes of its music.. This is the complete...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Asian Americans are the best-educated and highest-income ethnic group in the United States. They are often referred to as the “model minority,” suggesting that all Asians are successful in school and in life. But Southeast Asian Americans have some of the lowest high school completion rates in the nation. Visit Long Beach, California — the city with America’s largest Cambodian community — to find out why this educational crisis is occurring...
56) Care
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
This intimate documentary pulls back the curtain on the poignant and largely hidden world of in-home eldercare. Beautifully shot and deeply moving, the film reveals the bonds that form between paid care workers and elders - and exposes the cracks in a system that is currently failing both.. Official Selection at Sheffield Doc/Fest and DOC NYC.. “Superb. A powerful tale of dedication through the eyes of workers and clients.” – The Huffington...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
A character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With the epic proportions of a Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream.. The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the largest privately owned house in America, a 90,000 sq. ft. palace. Over the...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The Bakken oil boom is bringing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to North Dakota. A substantial part of the oil production is concentrated on an Indian reservation. Fort Berthold Reservation’s 1,000-plus oil wells have brought in money and jobs for some, but oil has also brought danger — organized crime, hard drugs, traffic fatalities — and other problems. Tribal members speak about the benefits and consequences of the boom....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
A companion film of sorts to the 1998 PBS blockbuster "The Farmer's Wife," Country Boys turns the lens to Cody Perkins and Chris Johnson, two teenage boys from Appalachian Kentucky.. Although wired to the world via the internet and cable, they are deeply rooted in a region stigmatized as "other," where the lack of economic opportunity puts its youth under uncommon pressure. The film follows them over three years, from ages 15 to 18, examining what...
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