Directed by Liane Brandon • Documentary • 1972 • 20 minutes

Betty Tells Her Story is the poignant tale of beauty, identity and a dress - and is considered a classic of documentary filmmaking. Made in 1972, it was the first independent film of the women’s movement to explore the issues of body im...

Directed by Liane Brandon • Documentary • 1971 • 8 minutes

Anything You Want To Be was one of the earliest and most popular films of the Women's Movement. Made in 1971, this groundbreaking film about a teenager's humorous collision with gender role stereotypes was one of the first to explore the...

Directed by Stephanie Wang-Breal • Documentary • 2010 • 76 minutes

In 2007 Donna and Jeff Sadowsky of Long Island, New York submitted their dossier to adopt eight-year old Fang Sui Yong from Guangzhou, China. From the very first moment Sui Yong meets her new mother, Donna, we get a real sense of...

Directed by Robert Arnold • Documentary • 2007 • 59 minutes

The Key of G is an award-winning documentary about disability, caregiving and interdependence. The film follows Gannet, a charismatic 22-year-old with physical and developmental disabilities, as he leaves his mother's home to share an a...

Directed by Alice Elliott • Documentary • 2008 • 40 minutes

Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, a PBS award winning film, looks at an unusual, symbiotic relationship between two people some would call profoundly disabled. In the film, two of the country’s most remarkable advocates for people with disabi...

Directed by Kathy Huang • Documentary • 2011 • 57 minutes

Indonesia is home to the world’s largest Muslim population. It is also home to a transgender community known as warias, biological men who live openly as women. TALES OF THE WARIA follows four characters from this little-known community a...

Directed by Lisa Merton Alan Dater • Documentary • 2008 • 80 minutes

TAKING ROOT tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democra...

Directed by Julie Mallozzi • Documentary • 2004 • 65 minutes

Three Cambodian-American teenagers come of age in a world shadowed by their parents' Khmer Rouge nightmares. Traditional Cambodian dance links them to their parents’ culture, but fast cars, hip consumerism, and new romance pull harder....

Directed by Andrea Kalin • Documentary • 2022 • 63 minutes

Grieving mom, Hallie Twomey, put a call out on Facebook after losing her veteran son, CJ, to suicide. Her request: To honor her son's memory by scattering his ashes in as many special places as possible. The request went viral. A global ...

Directed by Julie Mallozzi • Documentary • 2017 • 69 minutes

After the brutal slaying of her teenage son, Janet Connors reaches out to her son’s killer to offer a chance for forgiveness. They team up with a group of mothers of murdered children to help young people in their community break the c...

Directed by Willow O'Feral • Documentary • 2019 • 56 minutes

Break The Silence features raw, powerful interviews with 17 diverse cisgender and transgender women about their sexual & reproductive health histories. Challenging social taboo with unflinching candor, vulnerability, and often great hu...

Directed by Ellen Frankenstein • Documentary • 1998 • 30 minutes

Stan Marsden is a resident of the small town in a Alaska, a member of the Tsimshian Tribe, and a master woodcarver. He is also a father who lost a son to a cocaine overdose. Unable to display his grief through traditional channels,...

Directed by Kelly Anderson, Chris Baier • Documentary • 2017 • 22 minutes

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often viewed as a minor annoyance, or worse, something useful. The fact is OCD is a serious mental health issue that traps millions of kids, teens and adults in a vicious cycle of wor...

Directed by Tony Heriza, Cindy Burstein • Documentary • 2009 • 55 minutes

"Concrete, Steel & Paint" tells the complex story of men in prison, victims of crime, and an artistic partnership that helps break down barriers between them. As prisoners, victims, and victim advocates collaborate on a mu...

Directed by Mike Mascoll • Documentary • 2016 • 75 minutes

When you think of busing in Boston, chances are it’s about a dark episode in the city’s history that sparks images of violence, intolerance, and racial tension. And while most of the historical spotlight has been on forced busing to dese...

Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • 1971 • 32 minutes

Made in 1971 when a medically safe legal abortion was available in only one state, "It Happens to Us" was produced to bring to public attention the sometimes shattering, and always difficult, personal situations underlying a woma...

Directed by Luisa Dantas • Documentary • 2011 • 97 minutes

Through the eyes of urban planners, community organizers, displaced youth, immigrant workers, and public housing residents, this verité-style documentary reveals how the story of New Orleans is the story of urban America: how democratic ...

Directed by Andrew Garrison, Nancy Bless and Noland Walker • Documentary • 2007 • 55 minutes

THIRD WARD TX is the story of how Project Row Houses uses the tools of design, art and architecture to transform two blocks of “shotgun” houses familiar across the South into exhibition space, classrooms...

Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • 2014 • 28 minutes

Shot over a seven year period, The Marion Lake Story tells the compelling story of how a community on the east end of Long Island, N.Y. came together to clear their lake of the highly invasive phragmite reed. They educated themselves, ...

Directed by Jonathan Skurnik • Documentary • 2005 • 57 minutes

Spit It Out is a funny and poignant portrait of Jeff Shames' successful efforts to come to terms with his stutter and his family's legacy of denial.

Directed by Jonathan Skurnik • Documentary • 2010 • 11 minutes

Anneke is 12. She loves ice hockey and is a hardcore tomboy. Everybody who meets her assumes she's a boy, but she's not sure if she wants to be a girl, a boy, or something in-between when she grows up.

Directed by Jonathan Skurnik • Documentary • 2016 • 27 minutes

When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive.

Directed by Jonathan Skurnik, Kathy Leichter • Documentary • 2001 • 58 minutes

A Day's Work, A Day's Pay follows three welfare recipients in New York City from 1997 to 2000 as they participate in the largest welfare-to-work program in the nation.

Directed by Jonathan Skurnik • Documentary • 2010 • 14 minutes

Everybody wants to be loved unconditionally. But what do you do when your child tells you they're questioning their gender? The Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children follows the journey of moms, dads and siblings of k...