What measures the distance between an African village and an American city? What does it signify to be a refugee in today's interconnected world? *Rain in a Dry Land* offers illuminating answers, charting the experiences of two Somali Bantu…

The refugee is perhaps the defining image of our war-torn era; yet, the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars, a reggae-infused band forged in the West African camps, embodies a powerful narrative of resilience and optimism. These six musicians fo…

What sacrifices does a family make to build a future? In April of 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family cultivated industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, a venture born from the failure of other crops. They in…

Revolution '67 offers a revealing look at events too frequently overlooked in the narrative of American history: the black urban uprisings of the 1960s. Concentrating on the six-day eruption in Newark, New Jersey, during mid-July, the film …

Ten years prior, a revelation in a New York restaurant spurred Richard Ogust to devote himself to saving endangered turtles – intercepting hundreds destined for Southeast Asian markets. Now, filmmakers find the fifty-year-old writer residin…

During the 1990s, as the construction of prisons surged across the nation, a new correctional facility emerged in rural America roughly every fifteen days. *Prison Town, USA* chronicles the story of Susanville, California – one small commun…

Three decades after his acclaimed short film depicted a four-year-old child raised by free spirits in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury during the peak of the 1960s, Ralph Arlyck undertakes a revelation only documentary film can offer. In *Fol…

In *Arctic Son*, the tension between tradition and progress creates a rift between a Native father and son in the remote village of Old Crow, situated eighty miles above the Arctic Circle. Stanley, Jr., having grown up in Seattle, is increa…

Tucked beneath the rugged peaks of Montana's Northern Rockies, a landscape as emblematic of America's "purple mountain majesties" as any other, lies the nation's most severe instance of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance. In the s…

Los Angeles has become the nation's primary hub for apparel manufacturing, yet many of its factories echo the grim conditions of early 20th-century New York sweatshops. *Made in L.A.* chronicles the compelling story of three Latina immigran…

What lengths would one go to prevent war? *The Camden 28* recounts the 1971 raid on a Camden, New Jersey draft board office, carried out by activists identifying as "Catholic Left" who opposed the Vietnam War and its impact on urban America…

The suffering of modern Africa finds a stark reflection in the women who endure it. In eastern Congo, bordering Rwanda, warring militias, armies, and bandits weaponize rape, using it as a tool of terror. Lumo Sinai was barely twenty when so…

Among documentary filmmaking's most compelling projects, *49 Up* makes its U.S. broadcast debut as the seventh installment in a series chronicling a group of English children every seven years, starting in 1964. Acclaimed director Michael A…

Tony Kushner, celebrated for his groundbreaking work *Angels in America*, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, has established himself as a preeminent playwright and a sharp moral voice in American theater. In the documentary *Wrestling …