|
A
- An American Ism: Joe McCarthy - Examines the making of America's most notorious demagogue, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
- Americas in Transition - A concise and fast-paced history of the volatile forces at work in Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1980s
- Arguing the World - The lives of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, and Irving Kristol.
Top of page
B
- Breaking the Ice, the Story of Mary Ann Shadd - The little known story of abolitionist, suffragette and integrationist Mary Ann Shadd, the first black female newspaper editor and the first black female attorney in North America.
- Bright Leaves - The new film from Ross McElwee, director of SHERMAN'S MARCH. The renowned filmmaker and native Carolinian journeys across the social, economic, and psychological landscapes of tobacco and family in North Carolina.
Top of page
C
- The Camden 28 - A story of the "Catholic Left" and the anti-Vietnam War movement—priests and lay people who risked jail to break into draft boards and destroy government records.
- Captain of Souls, Reverend William White - The story of the Reverend William Andrew White, the son of former American slaves, who brought solace and pride to the black community of Nova Scotia.
- Clara Lemlich - The story of the young, Jewish, Ukrainian-born woman who in 1909 sparked the 'Uprising of the 20,000' -- the first massive strike of New York City garment workers.
- Conversations with Roy DeCarava - The life of the first black photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Cul de Sac - An allegory for a working class suburb in decline, this film investigates the story of Shawn Nelson, who stole a tank and went on a rampage through the residential streets of Clairemont, CA.
Top of page
D
- Deadly Enemies - From early attempts to use bacteria as weapons, to the advent of gene splicing and the creation of superbugs, this is the chilling story of the development of biological weapons.
- Dealing with the Demon - Three-episode series that interweaves contemporary human stories with crucial scenes from the history of the drug trade, providing a provocative and timely commentary from which to view the ongoing debate.
- Dear Dr. Spencer - From the early 1920s until his death in 1969, Dr. Robert Douglas Spencer practiced medicine in a small town in Pennsylvania, where he treated colds, set fractures - and performed illegal abortions.
- Death Squadrons - The previously untold story of how the French military trained Latin American death squads in the 60s and 70s (and even U.S. Special Forces in the early days of our Vietnam War).
- Devils Don't Dream! - Analysis of the CIA-sponsored 1954 coup in Guatemala.
- Ducktators - A unique look at the use of cartoons during World War II.
Top of page
E
- El Salvador: Another Vietnam - examines the civil war in El Salvador in light of the Reagan administration's decision to "draw the line" against "communist interference" in Central America.
- An Empire of Reason - What it would have been like if television had covered the ratification process of the US Constitution in 1781.
- Epoca - How is history created? What does or does not enter our memory? By staging a variety of historical fragments, this meditative documentary challenges the idea of "authentic" history.
Top of page
F
- Finally Got The News - A film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which was, "in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s." - Manning Marable, Prof. of History, Columbia Univ.
- First Kill - Compellingly brings out the contradictory feelings that war evokes - fear and anger, but also seduction, fascination and excitement. With Michael Herr (Apocalypse Now, Dispatches).
- Fundi - Friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, FUNDI reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker played in shaping the American civil rights movement.
Top of page
G
- Ghosts of Attica - The definitive account of America's most violent prison rebellion, its deadly suppression, the days of torture that ensued, and the almost 30 year legal case that followed.
- A Grin Without A Cat - Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Che, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left.
Top of page
H
- The Human Hambone - Celebrates the use of the human body as an instrument, and traces the roots of body music back to 18th-century American history, when slaves were forbidden to use drums, and turned to the body itself as a percussive instrument.
Top of page
I
- I Am Somebody - 1969 hospital workers struggle in Charleston, South Carolina.
- In Motion: Amiri Baraka - Biographical profile of the out-spoken African-American writer.
- An Injury To One - Reconstructs the long-forgotten murder of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, and draws a connection between the unsolved murder of Little, and the attempted murder of the town itself.
- The Internationale - Draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the relationship between music and social change.
- The Intolerable Burden - One black family's commitment to a quality education, from the pre-1965 time of segregation, through desegregation, and through the recent period of resegregation. **Winner, John E. O'Connor Film Award, American Historical Association**
Top of page
J
- Joe Polowsky: An American Dreamer - The story of a World War II veteran who dedicated his life to promoting peace.
- Justice and the Generals - Investigates the human rights and legal issues involved when two Salvadoran generals are sued in an American court for atrocities (such as the murder of four American churchwomen) committed during El Salvador's civil war.
Top of page
M
- My American Family - 70-year-old Gaetano Merenda and his son (the filmmaker) travel to America for a reunion with relatives whose ancestors came from their small town in southern Italy more than a century ago.
Top of page
N
- Notes on Marie Menken - The story of the "mother of avante-garde film"—the influential experimental filmmaker who inspired artists such as Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Kenneth Anger.
Top of page
O
- One Bright Shining Moment - Retracing George McGovern's doomed presidential campaign of 1972, this film asks: could the ultimate political defeat of the American Century, also have been its high watermark?
Top of page
P
- Persons of Interest - The government calls them terrorists - they call themselves Americans. A unique and compelling film that gives voice to the human costs of the government's anti-terrorism campaign.
- The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover - A complex tale of art world profit, deception and crime, framed by O. Winston Link's stunning iconic photographs of the last of the American steam locomotives.
- Power and Terror - A portrait of the activist intellectual Noam Chomsky, arguably the most important voice of dissent in the United States today.
- The Prize of the Pole - Robert Peary's quest to plant an American flag at the North Pole came with enormous, and sometimes unacknowledged, costs. Now his great-grandson wants to set the record straight.
- Public Enemy - Four former leaders of the Black Panther Party reflect on the impact of their radical 60s civil rights movement, and the promise and limitations of attempting revolutionary change.
Top of page
R
- Ross McElwee DVD Collection - This new collection includes six of McElwee's best films, four of which have never been available on DVD.
Top of page
S
- Sacco and Vanzetti - The definitive examination of one of the most famous court cases in American history, and a timely reminder of the fragility of our liberties in times of crisis.
- Sermons and Sacred Pictures - Profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Baptist minister and inspired photographer/filmmaker who documented the fabric of black American life prior to the civil rights movement.
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X - An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader.
- The Sixth Side of the Pentagon - Chronicle of the 1967 Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam protest march on the Pentagon, by documentary essayist Chris Marker.
- Space Coast - How an LBJ-era boomtown became a recession ghost town: the darkly hilarious story of Cape Canaveral and three of its local eccentrics.
Top of page
T
- Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet - The 1970s fiscal crises in New York and Cleveland.
- Time of the Locust - Critically examines American involvement in Vietnam through a compilation of American, Japanese and Vietnamese combat footage.
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger - Focusing on his role in events in Vietnam, Indonesia and Chile, this film examines charges that the former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner is also a war criminal.
Top of page
U
- The Uprising of '34 - The story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers.
Top of page
W
- Wandering Souls - Thirty years after the end of the war against the United States, two Vietnamese veterans continue to search for the remains of their dead comrades.
- The War at Home - This Academy Award nominated film chronicles the awakening and growth of the Vietnam protest movement in the United States.
Top of page
Y
Top of page
|
