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A Letter from Yene

A Letter from Yene

A Letter from Yene

Yene, a fishing village on the coast of Senegal, has been besieged by coastal erosion and uncontrolled urbanization in recent decades. Local fishermen, pebble collectors, and filmmaker Manthia Diawara address how they collectively and unknowingly contribute to undermining their shared environment.
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All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11

All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11

All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11

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Another Brother

Another Brother

Another Brother

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

Camp Arirang

Camp Arirang

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Chircales

Chircales

Chircales

This film portrays the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, documenting the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Chircales offers the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.
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Claiming Our Voice

Claiming Our Voice

Claiming Our Voice

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

Echando Raices

Echando Raices

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Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel #)

Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel #)

Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel #)

Felix the Cat goes on strike!
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Floristas

Floristas

Floristas

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

From Spikes to Spindles

From Spikes to Spindles

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Frozen Happiness: Impunity, Elections and Hope in Oaxaca

Frozen Happiness: Impunity, Elections and Hope in Oaxaca

Frozen Happiness: Impunity, Elections and Hope in Oaxaca

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Garbage a.k.a. Garbage Demonstration (Newsreel #5)

Garbage a.k.a. Garbage Demonstration (Newsreel #5)

Garbage a.k.a. Garbage Demonstration (Newsreel #5)

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.
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Gideon's Army

Gideon's Army

Gideon's Army

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.
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Her Uprooting Plants Her

Her Uprooting Plants Her

Her Uprooting Plants Her

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If You Could Walk In My Shoes

If You Could Walk In My Shoes

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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In the Event Anyone Disappears

In the Event Anyone Disappears

In the Event Anyone Disappears

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Ina Mae Best

Ina Mae Best

Ina Mae Best

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Jareena, Portrait of a Hijda

Jareena, Portrait of a Hijda

Jareena, Portrait of a Hijda

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Lessons from Class Struggle

Lessons from Class Struggle

Lessons from Class Struggle

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Lincoln Hospital (Newsreel #35)

Lincoln Hospital (Newsreel #35)

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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Los Cartoneros

Los Cartoneros

Los Cartoneros

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Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words

Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words

Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words

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Maid to Stay

Maid to Stay

Maid to Stay

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Medical Committee for Human Rights (Newsreel #40)

Medical Committee for Human Rights (Newsreel #40)

Medical Committee for Human Rights (Newsreel #40)

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Mi Nombre es Carlos

Mi Nombre es Carlos

Mi Nombre es Carlos

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Mississippi Triangle

Mississippi Triangle

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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Mother

Mother

Mother

MOTHER follows labor activist Lee So-seon, who for over 40 years organized for workers’ rights in South Korea.
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Nailed It: Vietnamese & The Nail Industry

Nailed It: Vietnamese & The Nail Industry

Nailed It: Vietnamese & The Nail Industry

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Of Kites and Borders

Of Kites and Borders

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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Pa Bell Go to Hell (Newsreel #)

Pa Bell Go to Hell (Newsreel #)

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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Promise and Unrest

Promise and Unrest

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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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Resilience: Garment Workers

Resilience: Garment Workers

Resilience: Garment Workers

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Salt Peanuts

Salt Peanuts

Salt Peanuts

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Salty Dog Blues

Salty Dog Blues

Salty Dog Blues

SALTY DOG BLUES looks at a group of U.S.merchant marines from 1937-1989; their relationship to the National Maritime Union, a union merger, and a dispute over lost health benefits.
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Secondhand (Pepe)

Secondhand (Pepe)

Secondhand (Pepe)

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Straight For the Money: Interviews with Queer Sex Workers

Straight For the Money: Interviews with Queer Sex Workers

Straight For the Money: Interviews with Queer Sex Workers

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Sweet Sugar Rage

Sweet Sugar Rage

Sweet Sugar Rage

Documents how Jamaica's Sistren Collective theatre uses imporvisation and theatre as a consciousness raising tool among rural and urban working women in Jamaica.
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Talking Back

Talking Back

Talking Back

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Taxi-vala/Auto-Biography

Taxi-vala/Auto-Biography

Taxi-vala/Auto-Biography

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.
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The #1 Bus Chronicles

The #1 Bus Chronicles

The #1 Bus Chronicles

"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.
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The Right to Vend

The Right to Vend

The Right to Vend

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The River Where We Live

The River Where We Live

The River Where We Live

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The Stand-By Generation

The Stand-By Generation

The Stand-By Generation

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The Women Outside: Korean Women and the U.S. Military

The Women Outside: Korean Women and the U.S. Military

The Women Outside: Korean Women and the U.S. Military

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The Wreck of the New York Subway (Newsreel #47)

The Wreck of the New York Subway (Newsreel #47)

The Wreck of the New York Subway (Newsreel #47)

During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and through exit doors, refusing to pay the fare.
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Tijuana, Nada Mas

Tijuana, Nada Mas

Tijuana, Nada Mas

Jonathan (“Pollo”) and Enrique (“Gordo”) are 14-year old orphans making their own living on the streets of Tijuana, the busiest frontier city in the world.
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Tinku Kamayu

Tinku Kamayu

Tinku Kamayu

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Turmeric Border-Marks

Turmeric Border-Marks

Turmeric Border-Marks

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Two Dollar Dance

Two Dollar Dance

Two Dollar Dance

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Union a.k.a. Oil Strike a.k.a. Richmond Oil Strike (Newsreel #25)

Union a.k.a. Oil Strike a.k.a. Richmond Oil Strike (Newsreel #25)

Union a.k.a. Oil Strike a.k.a. Richmond Oil Strike (Newsreel #25)

January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle.
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Voices in the Street

Voices in the Street

Voices in the Street

A short on the lives and thoughts of people working on the streets of New York City and their relation to the political process during the 2004 presidential election.
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We the People

We the People

We the People

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With Blood

With Blood

With Blood

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Work and Respect

Work and Respect

Work and Respect

New updated version includes footage of New York State Governor David Paterson signing the 2010 Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.
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