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...

Directed by Keith Wilson • Documentary • 2008 • 11 minutes

What do you do when you're stopped at an intersection and someone with a sign asks you for money? Do you give them some or do you stare straight ahead pretending they're not there? How do you sum up a person in the span of a red light?

Directed by Theo Rigby • Documentary • 2014 • 7 minutes

The Caretaker is a short film about the relationship between an immigrant caretaker and an elderly woman in the last months of her life. Joesy, a Fijian immigrant, works long hours providing live-in care for 95-year-old Haru Tsurumoto. Thro...

Directed by Alice Elliott • Documentary • With Larry Selman • 2001 • 34 minutes

The Collector of Bedford Street is an Academy Award® nominated 34 minute documentary about Alice’s neighbor, Larry Selman. In the film Larry collects thousands of dollars for charities while living at the poverty lin...

Directed by Joe Phelps, Rosemary Smith and Roko Belic • Documentary • With Steven Pinker • 2020 • 90 minutes

Trust Me explores why humankind is attracted to stories about violence, how media outlets capitalize on that, and how we gather and share information and misinformation in the digital age...

Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • With Dr. Eugene Scott • 2010 • 53 minutes

No Dinosaurs in Heaven is a film essay that examines the hijacking of science education by religious fundamentalists, threatening the separation of church and state and dangerously undermining scientific literacy.

Directed by Jay Rosenstein • Documentary • With Vashti McCollum • 2010 • 57 minutes

"The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today" is a Peabody Award-winning documentary that tells the compelling personal story of the late Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten year-old son led to one of...

Directed by Ellen Frankenstein • Documentary • 2009 • 57 minutes

What happens to a vegetarian who moves to the Alaskan Frontier?

Eating Alaska is a film about connecting to where you live and eating locally. Made by a former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to fisherma...

Directed by Keith Wilson • Documentary • 2010 • 15 minutes

The Shrimp follows the life cycle of a shrimp along the marshes of Savannah, Georgia. Lush, painterly images and a (un)canny audio soundtrack create a rich observational work about Southern culture, human folly and the interplay of natur...

Directed by Michal Goldman • Documentary • 1987 • 75 minutes

The first film to document the revival of klezmer music, now a worldwide movement, Jumpin’ Night tracks two foundational groups of brilliant young musicians, Kapelye and the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and includes rare footage of the e...

Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • With Willard Van Dyke, Ralph Steiner, Joris Ivens • 1980 • 58 minutes

In 1935 photographer Willard Van Dyke moved to New York with the belief that films “could change the world” and began a new career as a filmmaker. His name soon became synonymou...

Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • 48 minutes

Using home movies, family photographs and direct interviews, the filmmaker looks at the mother-daughter ties in 3 generations of her own family and in the process explores the classic female problem faced by her namesake artist mother: ...

Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • With May Wilson, Meredith Monk • 1969 • 34 minutes

When her husband informs her, after 40 years of marriage, that his future plans no longer include her, May Wilson, age 60, former "wife-mother-housekeeper-cook" and a grandmother, moves to New Yor...

Directed by Robbie Leppzer • Documentary • 2019 • 86 minutes

Democracy prevails when a nuclear engineer turned whistle-blower, a 93-year old grandmother, and a scrappy new governor join forces with a dedicated array of citizen activists to accomplish a rare grassroots environmental victory in cl...

Directed by Christie Herring • Documentary • 2013 • 56 minutes

What inspires everyday people to opt in for something larger than themselves? THE CAMPAIGN follows California's historic No-on-8 campaign to defend same-sex marriage through behind the scenes footage, interwoven with the national his...

Directed by Michelle Melles • Documentary • 2021 • 77 minutes

Drunk on Too Much Life is an intimate and powerful documentary following the filmmaker's 21-year-old daughter’s mind-opening journey from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels towards expansive worlds of creativity, connection...