"The #1 Bus Chronicles" uses a small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers.

In Moloka’I, a group of Hawaiian residents oppose the biotech industry's use of their land to test genetically engineered seeds and work to restore ancient Hawaiian farming practices.

This fascinating film presents the meditations of a Black lesbian grappling with the memory of an attack that makes her wary about being out on the street.

The power of visualizing the meaning of the words “Black & White”.

In 1974, a group of Mohawks reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh.

Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968. This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.

Lawson Inada's poetry deals with the multicultural experiences of Asian Americans, is interwoven with scenes from his life as he visits the Chicano neighborhood where he grew up, plays with his son, and travels through the streets of downtown Fresno, California with its graffiti, bars and Nisei Barber Shop.

Berkeley students organized a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X for credit.

Beverly Singer from the Santa Clara Tewa Pueblo muses aloud about history, personal and national, marks moments of regret and of insight in her life.

In this humorous video, five women talk about menstruation, masturbation and ejaculation.

A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM explores the role of Black families in American society.

An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.

An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.

A student from the Large Midwestern University receives an unusual e-mail message about the nature of time, tango singer Carlos Gardel, the humorist Will Rodgers, and writer Jorge Luis Borges.

After a one-night affair, a Latina’s examines her heritage in the context of passion and the erotic.

A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an intimate journey into the life and music of Asian American Movement troubadour Chris Iijima.

AFRO-PUNK, the movie that sparked the movement!

Documentary on Female Breakdancers

Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front.

Michael Cho's biting critique on popular cultural stereotypes centers on the case of two Cambodian immigrants tried in California on charges of slaughtering their pet dog for food.

A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity

Through found photographs, audiotaped interviews and archival footage, ANOTHER BROTHER tells the story of Vietnam veteran Clarence Fitch.

Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S. military and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military.

With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Audre Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany.

Keisha Johnson, an African American soldier, goes AWOL in Iraq after she flees a violent incident.

BEYOND THE BRICKS follows two African American students as they struggle to stay on track in the Newark public school system.

After criminal charges were dropped against four Los Angeles police officers accused in the brutal beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles erupted. This video offers a rare view of the rebellion that began within minutes of the verdict.

A queer oddball seeks approval from Black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials. This short animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging.

A film about the 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora.

A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967.

The Hip-Hop Christian movement has been uplifting youth by delivering positive religious messages that are not about drugs, sex, or hate but of hope and peace.

Bobby Seale, a member of the Black Panthers, talks about his treatment as a political prisoner and his involvement in the Black Liberation and anti-war movements.

A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups across the country during the Vietnam War.

In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city.

A celebration of women who have committed themselves to midwifery amidst powerful misconceptions about the practice and virulent opposition from practitioners of Western medicine.

A series of 16 shorts on how NYC communities of color view their "State of America" and what they're doing to make changes.

Two videos use footage compiled from over 40 social justice media productions to chronicle the perspectives of political prisoners and war within the United States.

Filmed in Baltimore during the support demonstrations for the nine catholics who were on trial for napalming the 1-A Draft files in Catonsville, Maryland.

In CLAIMING OUR VOICE, female, immigrant domestic workers bring their stories of survival, empowerment and activism to center stage.

COLOR SCHEMES uses the cycles of a generic laundromat washing machine as a metaphor to tackle misconceptions about racial assimilation.

In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three New York City school districts to become part of an experiment in community-run education.

A young woman moves to New York City from the Midwest to develop her writing. Distracted from her new creative lifestyle, she is soon challenged by her best friend to work harder to foster her own growth as an artist.

DEMARCATIONS uses the female body as a landscape to explore memories of a rape.

Two mismatched drifters, Jim and James, are on a voyage discovering the contours of homo/hetero, red/white, personal/political, textual/metatextual in an experimental narrative feast.

Feature-length documentary, uncovering the timely story of Indian healthcare and the Indian Health Service, told from the Native American prospective.

Exposes the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, NJ.

This video presents the transient aspects of the gay Colombian experience in New York City.

Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Rican communities in New York City began to address these injustices by using direct action.

A videotape of a live performance--a mythopoetic rendering of the original encounters between African, Indigenous and European peoples in the present day "border regions".

A Palestinian activist’s fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.

A moving video essay about motherhood and mourning.

A realistic view of a 12-year-old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence, peer pressure, friendship and love.

This videotape is a meditation on contemporary race relations.

Three journalists trace their mothers’ tumultuous journey in new film about WWII Japanese war brides.

Activist and poet Walidah Imarisha traveled to New Orleans and other neighboring towns shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. Through interviews with residents, activists and city officials, Imarisha succinctly captured the pain, loss and hope of the people of New Orleans.

In 2005, D-Q University, California’s only tribal college, was shut down after a 35-year struggle, but its supporters fight to hold on to a dream that was never fully realized.

Floristas are immigrant flower vendors who scratch out a living by hawking their wares on the streets of New York City.

FLOW is a multi-layered investigation of contemporary political, cultural and psychological dislocations.

A critical look at the proliferation of the mail-order bride industry in Asia and its representations of Asian women in the West.

During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decide to use the situation to make a political statement.

Everyone deserves the best defense. They fight for it. GIDEON’S ARMY takes an inside look at the criminal justice system from the perspective of three young public defenders in the South.

This short documentary examines the decisions involved in growing and wearing dreadlocks in African-American communities.

A Native American woman and her young son encounter everyday racism when they visit a local barbershop.

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.

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.

This poignant drama chronicles the contributions and hardships of Japanese Americans from the turn of the century to the late seventies.

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.

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.

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.

A documentary film about men raised by single mothers.

IN BED WITH A MOSQUITO is an intimate portrait of activism and aging in New York City.

This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons.

A street vendor, mother and activist from Guatemala makes $40 a day in New york City, one of the wealthiest cities in the world.

A kite maker recreates the folklore of Asian kites by illustrating magnificent stories from China, Japan and Polynesia.

Filmed in Tucson, Arizona, the young men discuss life in the Southwest and the current state of race relations.

Young African Cherokees present a candid discussion on love, tribe, family, and race.

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.

LITTLE IMMIGRANTS is an insider's look into child smuggling captured from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

One Peruvian woman’s mission to revive her indigenous language becomes an inspiration for Quechua speakers, a historically marginalized community in New York City.

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.

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.

A documentary that connects the Lesbian and Gay Marriage Equality movement with the Black Civil Rights Movement.

Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.

MI OTRO YO looks at the work of Chicano artists living in California.

To raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas Eve.

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.

NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC delves deep into the making of Nas’ 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation.

In October, 1967, 100,000 people marched on Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam War.

Media artist Seyi Adebanjo tells a tale not often heard about gender and indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.

Interviews and performances by Puerto Rican musicians in New York illustrate how traditional music has served as mode of resistance of cultural domination.

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.

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".

An award winning documentary about TV news and racial conflict in Miami.

During World War II, 12,000 Japanese Americans dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration.

Saints Rising is a documentary presenting the voices of New Orleans years after Hurricane Katrina and the breech of the levees.

A documentary of the now famous San Francisco State strike of 1968-69.

Refugees of the Salvadoran Civil War flee persecution and death only to be denied sanctuary under the U.S. Refugee Act.

Shot in Philadelphia, this documentary features the work of female Hip-Hop artists Lady B, Schoolly D, Rennie Harris, Bahamadia, and Ursula Rucker.

Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male-dominated world of Hip-Hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops.

This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

A series of short videos made by Mandarin-speaking seniors living in Flushing, Queens, during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The videos showcase their filmmaking abilities and their strength and willingness to share their fears and sorrows during the health crisis.

A very different look at the Middle Passage

A look at the complexities of migration, displacement, economic empowerment, and the pursuit of the elusive "American dream" within New York's growing South Asian communities.

Every day 500,000 people from 117 different countries ride a subway that runs from Flushing to Times Square, going through Queens, the most culturally diverse region in the United States.

More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony.

This documentary presents the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chinese American community during the 1950s and the 1960s, it presents first-hand accounts of seven men and women's experiences of being hunted down, jailed and targeted for deportation in America.