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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Every year, close to one million people from over 100 countries all over the world choose to become American citizens. These new Americans are not just coming to the big cities anymore, they are settling in communities all across America. Filmmaker Andrea Pelosi went to naturalization ceremonies in all 50 states to explore why so many people still want to become Americans. The documentary intersperses stories of newly naturalized citizens with interviews...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented and enlightening look inside a youth-prison boot camp, Rock and a Hard Place focuses on the lives of a diverse group of incarcerated young people in Florida, each of whom are granted a second chance: the opportunity to trade an extensive prison sentence for a fresh start by completing the famed Miami-Dade County Corrections & Rehabilitation Department Boot Camp Program. This one-of-a-kind, 16-week program, which resembles military...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This documentary takes an enlightening look at young people with a wide spectrum of learning differences, offering a compelling portrait of the ways in which these children are able to compensate by using their strengths to overcome their challenges. Many say they are no different from other kids, and can accomplish the same things - just differently. We hear from their parents as well as their teachers, all of whom are committed to helping the children...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after his groundbreaking Emmy®-nominated film Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street, which chronicled three years in the lives of five young heroin addicts in San Francisco's Tenderloin, Academy Award®- winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki turns his focus to America's current opiate-addiction crisis with Heroin: Cape Cod, USA. This 76-minute film takes an unsparing look at the lives of several young people in their early 20s gripped...
5) Class Divide
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed filmmaker Marc Levin explores the effects of hyper-gentrification and rising economic disparity in the NYC neighborhood of West Chelsea. On one side of the intersection of 10th Ave. and 26th St. sits Avenues: The World School, an elite, state-of-the art private school (pre-K through 12th grade) with a $40,000 plus per year price tag. On the other side sits the Elliott-Chelsea public-housing projects, home to thousands of underemployed and...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Author, playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer takes center stage in this candid portrait that examines the monumental effect of one of the most important - and controversial - figures in contemporary gay America, a political firebrand who gave voice to the outrage and grief that inspired gay men and women to fight for their lives. The film utilizes personal photos, archival footage of GMHC and ACT UP, scenes from the semi-autobiographical plays...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This program examines terminal illness through the darkly fascinating lens of family dynamics. The loved ones of five different hospice patients document their experiences, creating video diaries that are part case study, part family album. With intermittent views into the heavy responsibilities of hospice social workers-who must juggle clinical procedure, unpredictable group psychology, and their own conflicting emotions-The End clearly illustrates...
8) Mann V. Ford
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This feature documentary follows members of the Ramapough Mountain Indian tribe in Ringwood, NJ, in their five-year search for justice through a mass-action, tort lawsuit. From the middle '50s to the late '70s, the Ford Motor Company operated an assembly plant in Mahwah, NJ that produced millions of classic American cars. The waste from this plant, including thousands of tons of toxic lead-based paint sludge, was trucked to Ringwood and dumped into...
9) When I Knew
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the book of the same name, When I Knew-codirected by filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato-asks one simple question: when did you know that you're gay? The film opens with Bailey and Barbato describing their own "aha!" moments and then brings together 16 interviewees for an intimate group discussion. Though some of the stories are told with a sense of loss, most are proud affirmations of sexual identity, supporting the conviction...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1989, on the floor of Congress, Senator Jesse Helms implored America to "Look at the pictures," while denouncing the controversial art of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs pushed social boundaries with their frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism - and ignited a culture war that rages to this day. More than 25 years later, the HBO Documentary Films presentation Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures does just that, taking an unflinching,...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Three-time Emmy® winner James Gandolfini returns to HBO with this documentary special about wounded soldiers. It surveys the physical and emotional cost of war through memories of their "alive day," the day they narrowly escaped death in Iraq. Soldiers share questions about their future, severe disabilities and devotion to their country. The film also looks at the advances in military medicine that allow soldiers to return home and celebrate what...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From Emmy® - winning filmmakers Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson, this 40-minute documentary recounts the horror of March 25, 1911, when young garment workers perished in the worst industrial accident in New York City history (up until 9/11), triggering widespread reforms and ushering in the birth of modern labor movement. In addition to riveting stories of heart break and courage told by descendants of several of the fire's victims and survivors,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
It has been called "the saddest acre in America." It is also once of the most sacred. Situated in a quiet pocket of Arlington National Cemetery, Section 60 is a final resting place for young men and women who died fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. For families and friends, it is a place to grieve, to honor, to remember, and to find comfort and community with others who have shared the same profound loss.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Every Brilliant Thing strikes a delicate balance between sobering loss and cathartic laughter. Adapting the one-character stage show of the same name starring British comedian Jonny Donahoe and written by Duncan Macmillan with Donahoe, this poignant film, shot in the round at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York City before a live, interactive audience, recounts a life lived, and loved, in the shadow of one parent's repeated attempts at suicide....
15) Risky Drinking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Ellen Goosenberg Kent and journalist/producer Perri Peltz, Risky Drinking takes a case-study look at the risks of alcohol use and the ways in which the medical community is viewing and treating "risky drinkers" today. Profiling four subjects (filmed over the course of several months in 2014), who fall at different points on the spectrum of problem drinking, from binge drinking to alcohol dependence, the film provides...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A soldier's last words. A family's lasting memories. HBO and The New York Times, in association with LIFE Books, present a poignant tribute to American soldiers who have died in the war in Iraq. From the soldiers' hometowns, family members read the "last letters home" from eight men and two women who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This feature documentary chronicles how five generations of one American family have shared the "glorious burden" of collecting, preserving and documenting a treasure trove of photographs, rare books and artifacts relating to Abraham Lincoln. In the years following the Civil War, Peter Kunhardt's ancestors - in particular, his great- grandfather, Frederick Hill Meserve - collected photographs that might have been lost forever, including now-iconic...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
It was a local story that horrified the nation: two 12-year-old girls lured a friend into the Waukesha woods, where they proceeded to stab her 19 times in an effort to appease a faceless mythical entity known online as "Slenderman." But there's more to the story than the dark headlines it generated. A sobering documentary that delves deep into the story behind this shocking crime, Beware the Slenderman examines how an Internet urban myth could take...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nominated for a 2016 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short, this 40-minute documentary follows the story of Saba, a young woman from the Punjab region of Pakistan, who was shot and left for dead by her father and uncle after marrying Qaiser, a man once promised to her by her family. Told through the lens of a true love story, the film is a scathing examination of the contradictions between modernism and tradition within Pakistani society, as...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A timely exploration of one of today's most divisive and pressing issues-the threat posed by homegrown Islamic extremism and the challenges of detecting and countering it. Directed by Emmy® award-winner Greg Barker (HBO's Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden), Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma is a gripping, insider's account of the homegrown terrorist threat in America, told from the perspectives of those who helped construct America's counterterrorism...