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Hafu - The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan
HAFU is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan.
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Hair-tage
This short documentary examines the decisions involved in growing and wearing dreadlocks in African-American communities.
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Haircuts Hurt
A Native American woman and her young son encounter everyday racism when they visit a local barbershop.
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Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America
Based on the landmark book, HARVEST OF EMPIRE, by award-winning journalist Juan González.
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Heart of Harlem
HEART OF HARLEM traces the life and times of Holcombe Rucker, who founded a summer basketball league while working for New York Citys Parks Department in order to give young people a positive alternative to the streets.
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Herman B. Ferguson, Candidate for U.S. Senate (Newsreel #15)
A film about Herman Ferguson, a candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Freedom and Peace ticket in the 1968 election.
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High School Rising (Newsreel #38)
An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.
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Hiphopistan: Representing Locality in a Global City
Young Turkish rappers, DJs, break-dancers, and graffiti artists creatively blend foreign cultural influences with their local cultural values and traditions.
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Hiroshima Nagasaki Download
Two former high school friends set out on a road trip from Vancouver, Canada, heading south towards the Mexican border to meet atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself
In this experimental documentary, filmmaker Stéphane Gérard searches for the LGBT activist community that was born out of the Stonewall Uprising.
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Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
This poignant drama chronicles the contributions and hardships of Japanese Americans from the turn of the century to the late seventies.
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Home
This series of shorts documents the lives of Beiruti women.
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Homes Apart: Korea
When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart.
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I Call Myself Persian: Iranians in America
Iranian-Americans speak of how their identities are affected by being made to feel like outsiders in a country they now call home.
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I Love Hip Hop in Morocco
This film documents the creation of Morocco’s first-ever Hip-Hop festival and the work of DJ Key, female rapper Fati, and rap group H-Kayne.
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I'm Free Now, You Are Free
A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9.
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I.S. 201 and Report from Newark (Newsreel #10)
Nine months after the riot. Malcolm X Memorial Services held at I.S. 201 in New York, March 1968, and scenes from Newark, March 1968.
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If You Could Walk In My Shoes
IF YOU COULD WALK IN MY SHOES documents the struggle of an Ecuadorian-American family as they transforms their lives from workers to business owners.
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Imelda Is Not Alone
Salvadorian teenager Imelda Cortez's only hope at freedom is a local citizen’s movement that dares to defend women who are persecuted under El Salvador's total ban on abortion. The result is a shocking account of an ongoing human rights crisis and a moving portrait of those who fight for a better society.
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In a Perfect World…
A documentary film about men raised by single mothers.
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In Bed with a Mosquito
IN BED WITH A MOSQUITO is an intimate portrait of activism and aging in New York City.
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In My Genes
Documentary about the harsh realities of living with Albinism in Kenya.
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In the Absence of Peace
The story of Nicaraguans in the aftermath of four decades of dictatorship, their revolution, and the United States involvement in the continuing conflict.
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Inbetween
Experimental docudrama evokes Sri Lanka's colonial history and the experiences of the post-colonial subject in the diaspora.
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Indochina: Traces of a Mother
INDOCHINA: TRACES OF A MOTHER documents a little-known chapter in African, Asian and French colonial history.
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Infiltrators
A visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank.
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Injustice
The struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody.
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Inside Women Inside
This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons.
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Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano
A look at the work of Cuban Hip-Hop artists, this documentary includes footage of their daily lives, perfomances at the Cuban Hip-Hop festival, and recording sessions in New York City.
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Invisible
Children Living with HIV / AIDS.
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Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California
INVISIBLE ROOTS is an intimate look at Afro-Mexicans living in Southern California as they discuss complex issues of racial, national and cultural identities.
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Is It Sweet? Tales of an African Superstar in New York
Ghana’s Hip-Hop superstar Reggie Rockstone travels to New York, where he experiences the unexpected struggles and pleasures of life as an anonymous African on the fringes of an American city.
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Isle of Youth
The daily activities of young Cubans—their work, recreation, and education—as they participate in converting the Isle of Pines from a prison colony to an experiment to create a new society.
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Janie's Janie (Newsreel #)
"First I was my father's Janie, then I was my Charlie's Janie, now I'm Janie's Janie." --Jane Giese
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Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor
A street vendor, mother and activist from Guatemala makes $40 a day in New york City, one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
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Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity
A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard.
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Keep Saray Home
In the outskirts of Boston, three Southeast Asian families face the impending threat of deportation.
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Kites & Other Tales
A kite maker recreates the folklore of Asian kites by illustrating magnificent stories from China, Japan and Polynesia.
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Know Your Enemy
KNOW YOUR ENEMY critiques the mass media's bias against rap music and culture.
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Knowledge Reigns Supreme
Using the words and music of rapper KRS-1, this video short questions the current wave of multiculturalism in the educational system.
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La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx
Art, labor, and family blend in this intimate film about Latina performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better known as ‘La Bruja’.
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La Cocina de las Patronas
Day after day, for over 20 years, a group of women in Mexico, prepare and give meals to Central American migrants who travel atop La Bestia, a U.S.-bound freight train.
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Ladies of the Gridiron
The Quake is a professional women's tackle football team out to break the glass ceiling of this traditionally all-male sport.
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Lincoln Hospital (Newsreel #35)
When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run the clinic themselves.
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Little Brother: Manchild in the Promised Land (Chapter 5)
Filmed in Tucson, Arizona, the young men discuss life in the Southwest and the current state of race relations.
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Little Brother: The Fire Next Time (Chapter 4)
Young African Cherokees present a candid discussion on love, tribe, family, and race.
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Little Brother: Things Fall Apart (Chapter 1)
This first chapter of LITTLE BROTHER begins a series of films where Black boys start the conversation on a topic they rarely get to discuss: Love.
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Little Immigrants
LITTLE IMMIGRANTS is an insider's look into child smuggling captured from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Living Along the Fenceline
The U.S. has 1,000 bases worldwide. The Pentagon says they make us secure. These women disagree.
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Living Quechua
One Peruvian woman’s mission to revive her indigenous language becomes an inspiration for Quechua speakers, a historically marginalized community in New York City.
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Living the Hiplife
Shot in Accra, Ghana, this documentary follows the birth of Hiplife music, a mix of various African musical forms and American Hip-Hop.
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Make It Real (Newsreel #)
MAKE IT REAL documents a protest agains the first Earth Day.
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Making the Impossible Possible
MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student-led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960s.
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Mama Gloria
A 75-year-old Black trailblazing transgender activist who started a charm school for homeless trans youth and is now aging with joy and grace.
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Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing And The Fight For Fairness
A documentary that connects the Lesbian and Gay Marriage Equality movement with the Black Civil Rights Movement.
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Mas Man
Peter Minshall, Trinidad Carnival Artist.
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Masizakhe: Building Each Other
This documentary explores the role of art, social activism and Hip-Hop in South Africa’s education system after the end of Apartheid.
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Mi Otro Yo (My Other Self)
MI OTRO YO looks at the work of Chicano artists living in California.
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Mill-In a.k.a. The Christmas Mill-In (Newsreel #6)
To raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas Eve.
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Mississippi Triangle
This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict.
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Mississippi Triangle (110 minutes)
This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict.
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Mohawk Nation
In 1974, a group of Mohawks reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh.
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Mother
MOTHER follows labor activist Lee So-seon, who for over 40 years organized for workers’ rights in South Korea.
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Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy In/On Exile
Iranian exile and scholar Hamid Naficy, along with his family in Iran, tell us about the complexities of personal identity and exile in a globalized world.
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Mr. Devious
This documentary on South African Hip-Hop artist Mr. Devious presents his hardcore style of rapping about ghetto life in Cape Flats, and his untimely murder.
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Musica
A rich overview of the development of Afro-Cuban music in the United States, featuring interviews with Mario Bauza and Dizzie Gillespie.
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My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America.
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Nas: Time Is Illmatic
NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC delves deep into the making of Nas’ 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation.
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NCZ Goes to War
An examination of the Persian Gulf anti-war movement and its scant coverage in the mainstream media.
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NEGRITA: Racially Black, Ethnically Latina
NEGRITA—a Spanish term meaning “little Black girl”—is a personal and probing documentary exploring how anti-Blackness in American and Latino cultures shapes the identities of Afro-Latina women.
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No Bois Man No Fraid
A Feature Length documentary film on Kalinda Stick fighting in Trinidad and Tobago
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No Game (Newsreel #2)
In October, 1967, 100,000 people marched on Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam War.
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Nuyorican Básquet
Nuyorican Básquet chronicles the dramatic story of the Puerto Rican national basketball team’s participation in the 1979 Pan American Games.
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Of Kites and Borders
OF KITES OF BORDERS tells the story of the daily struggle to be a child living on the US-Mexico border through the eyes of four working children in the city of Tijuana.
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On The Map
Intra-Caribbean migration from Guyana to Barbados.
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Only the Beginning (Newsreel #59)
In April 1971, thousands of G.I.'s came to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War.
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Orientations
More than a dozen men and women of different Asian backgrounds speak frankly about their lives as members of a minority within a minority.
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Our Big House (Nuestra Casa Grande)
In this animated short, a grandmother from the indigenous Guarayo community remembers her rural village and forest before the arrival of lumber companies that profit from the deforestation of the Amazons in Bolivia.
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Our Lady Queen of Harlem: A Portrait of Faith and Rebellion
On a crumbling sidewalk in the heart of Spanish Harlem, a small but impassioned group of women are fighting for their community.
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Our Word: The Story of San Francisco de Moxos
In this docudrama, elders of the San Francisco de Moxos community tell the story of the courageous pioneers who founded their village in the Bolivian Amazons and the indigenous “cabildo”, or neighborhood council, that defended their territory from the influence of outsiders, or “carayanas”.
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Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness in the Bronx
Dance artists Sita Frederick, Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, and Marion Ramirez collaborate to create a performance work that explores Caribbean and Latina-American experiences through dance.
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Out: The Making of a Revolutionary
Convicted of the 1983 U.S. Capitol Bombing, and "conspiring to influence, change, and protest policies and practices of the United States government through violent and illegal means", Laura Whitehorn, an out lesbian and one of six defendants in the Resistance Conspiracy Case, spent 14 years in prison.
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Outside Lookin' In
Urban Latino youth reflect on the World Trade Center tragedy, their personal experiences that day, in addition to more pervasive questions and topics as to why it happened, patriotism and the government's response to the attack.
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Ọya: Something Happened On The Way To West Africa!
Media artist Seyi Adebanjo tells a tale not often heard about gender and indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.
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Pa Bell Go to Hell (Newsreel #)
In April 1970, telecom workers from multiple unions across New York City engaged in a wildcat strike to secure better pay and improve working conditions.
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People's War (Newsreel #43)
"People's War" records the mobilization and participation of the Vietnamese people in their country's fight against colonialism and foreign military aggression.
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Percussion, Impressions and Reality
Interviews and performances by Puerto Rican musicians in New York illustrate how traditional music has served as mode of resistance of cultural domination.
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Photos of Angie
PHOTOS OF ANGIE tells the story of Mexican-American transgender teenager Angie Zapata, who was murdered in a hate crime in rural Greeley, Colorado in 2008.
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Pig Power (Newsreel #23)
As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police are there "to preserve disorder".
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Promise and Unrest
An intimate portrayal of a migrant woman performing global care work and long-distance motherhood in her role as sole provider for an extended family back in the Philippines.
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Punta Soul
Chronicles the evolution of popular Garifuna music from Belize and explores the role of the music in Belize's cultural awakening.
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Quienes Son?
An eight minute journey in search of "extraterrestrial" life in Cuba.
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R.O.T.C. (Newsreel #34)
An anti-ROTC film with data demonstrating university complicity with the military, what that military is used for and why the supposedly neutral universities want to keep ROTC on campus.
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Race Against Prime Time
An award winning documentary about TV news and racial conflict in Miami.
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Radio Haiti
New York's Haitian community take it to the bridge to protest a year of mortal policing.
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Re:Orientations
A fascinating look into the lives and thoughts of seven Queer Pan-Asian Canadians as they look back on the groundbreaking documentary ORIENTATIONS.
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