Directed by Jonathan Skurnik, Randy Vasquez • Documentary • 2017 • 27 minutes

Badger Creek is a portrait of a Blackfeet (Pikuni) family, the Mombergs, who live on the lower Blackfeet Reservation in Montana near the banks of Badger Creek. In addition to running a prosperous ranching business, the...

Directed by Jonathan Skurnik, Randy Vasquez • Documentary • 2013 • 57 minutes

Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950, was still to “kill the Indian and save the man.” The children were not allowed ...

Directed by Michelle Aguilar Ficara • Documentary • 2024 • 53 minutes

Chris ‘Coco’ Cocores was born into a broken home riddled with childhood traumas–street fighting was a way to cope. By age 25, Chris was an amateur mixed martial arts fighting champion and a month away from the biggest fight of...

Directed by Amy Reid • Documentary • 2020 • 74 minutes

Long Haulers is an experimental documentary about three female truck drivers, Sandi, Lori, and Tracy. The film weaves together the stories of their lives to understand why they started trucking and what keeps them trucking. Riding along with...

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...

Directed by Ellen Brodsky • Documentary • 2015 • 68 minutes

The Year We Thought About Love goes behind the scenes of the oldest queer youth theater in America. In a twist on the common image of LGBTQ youth as victims, the film reveals the troupe members as artists and activists, celebrating the ...

Directed by Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier, Ryan Joseph • Documentary • With Frances Goldin, Tito Delgado • 2022 • 82 minutes

In 1959 New York City announced a “slum clearance plan” by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from th...

Directed by Heidi Schmidt Emberling • Documentary • 2001 • 66 minutes

Through intimate interviews with both her Jewish relatives in America and her German Lutheran relatives abroad, the director discovers a rich family tapestry spanning three continents, shaped by war, courage, prejudice, and fe...

Directed by Pam Sporn • Documentary • 2018 • 82 minutes

In Detroit 48202 we take a journey with Wendell along his route, which winds through the center of what was, once upon a time, a vital and thriving city. We listen in on his conversations with his customers – the resilient Detroiters who sh...

Directed by Andrea E. Leland, Cynthia Abbott • Documentary • With Tess Felix, Barbara Crites, Dick Ogg • 2021 • 0 minutes

Three Oceans Advocates focuses on: Tess Felix, an artist living in California; Dick Ogg, a fisherman from Bodega Bay, CA; and Barbara Crites, an underwater photographer from ...

Directed by Jacqueline Cleveland, Mischa Hedges, Sonia Luokkala • Documentary • 2023 • 30 minutes

Many coastal villages in Alaska are under imminent threat from thawing permafrost, sea-level rise and erosion. The accelerated retreat of Arctic sea ice has left shorelines unfrozen and exposed. As ...

Directed by Kate Levy • Documentary • 2023 • 65 minutes

Across the United States, millions of people lack access to safe, affordable water and sanitation. Whose Water travels to five drastically different regions of the country that are facing the impacts of this troubling trend. Through the sto...

Directed by Salome Chasnoff, Debra Chasnoff • Documentary • 2024 • 30 minutes

Someone You Should Meet focuses on an extended family gathering organized by two filmmakers who only recently learned they were related through their great-grandparents. As the family explores their shared history and ...

Directed by Indira S. Somani • Documentary • With Gauri Shankar • 2017 • 10 minutes

In Varanasi, India the boat rides on the Ganges River are part of the spiritual experience and the film introduces the audience to the river, an auspicious event called “Dev Diwali,” and one particular boatman, w...

Directed by Meghan Shea, Michael Rogers • Documentary • 2020 • 87 minutes

How I Live' chronicles the journeys of four children with cancer, in Guatemala, El Salvador, Egypt and Myanmar, as they and their families confront the realities of accessing care and treatment.

Following their journeys f...

Directed by Leena Jayaswal, Indira Somani • Documentary • With Indira Somani, Shipra Somani • 2009 • 32 minutes

Being born and brought up in the U.S., Indira Somani led an American life, but at home, her world was Indian because of her father's immense love for the country. Crossing Lines you on...

Directed by Theo Rigby, Jason Sussberg • Documentary • 2012 • 11 minutes

The United States imprisons more people, per capita, than any country in the world. Behind 2.4 million prisoners lies an infinite ripple effect of incarceration on the family and community. A Sentence Apart follows three st...

Directed by Bonnie Friedman • Documentary • 1981 • 45 minutes

Acclaimed at the New York Film Festival, THE LAST TO KNOW presents the real worlds of four addicted women, three in recovery, and one still drinking and using drugs. In their own words and in their own environments, these four very di...

Directed by Sofian Khan, Andres Caballero • Documentary • 2015 • 57 minutes

Far from his family in Chile, sheepherder Eraldo Pacheco must endure harsh conditions and loneliness in the high desert and isolated mountain pastures of the American west as he strives for a better life for his family. ...

Directed by Eva Lewis • Documentary • 2019 • 76 minutes

Undeterred is a documentary about community resistance in the rural border town of Arivaca, Arizona. Since NAFTA, 9/11 and the Obama and Trump administrations border residents have been on the front-lines of the humanitarian crisis caused b...

Directed by Kelly Anderson • Documentary • With Jamel Shabazz, Craig Steven Wilder, Kelly Anderson • 2012 • 76 minutes

My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson's journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Ful...

Directed by Bonnie Friedman • Documentary • 1977 • 20 minutes

Focusing on their hopes and aspirations, this upbeat film movingly shows how the rigorous training helps to produce more than just muscle, but a positive self-identity and pride. Andre, a young man, returns to his community after coll...

Directed by Robbie Leppzer • Documentary • With Janeane Garofalo • 2005 • 78 minutes

When the United States invaded Iraq twenty years ago in 2003, there was a huge protest against this war across the country and around the world, which was largely ignored by the American mainstream media. In an ...

Directed by Corey Ohama • Documentary • 2013 • 12 minutes

I Was Born in Mexico, But… is a creative portrait of a young woman who thought she was American but finds out as a teen that she is undocumented. Because she doesn’t want to appear on camera, found footage from American culture illuminate...