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- Acts of Defiance - Investigates the struggles of the Mohawk against the federal and provincial governments, the army, and the stone throwing rioters.
- Advertising Missionaries - Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
- Aeroplane Dance - A "story-telling dance" created by the Yanyuwa people that dramatizes the search for a crashed American bomber during World War II.
- An African Recovery - Niger's battle against desertification.
- Against My Will - The stories of three women who took refuge at the Dastak women's shelter in Pakistan, founded to help women fleeing abusive and murderous families.
- Agent Orange - A look at the long-term effects, on U.S. soldiers, the Vietnamese people, and the environment of Vietnam, of the spraying of Agent Orange on Vietnam during the Vietnam War. (new January, 2008)
- Airs in Berberland Part I
- Airs in Berberland Part II
- Aita - Part of the MOROCCO, BODY AND SOUL series of half hour films which present various musical genres being performed in the environments which fostered them.
- Aki Kaurismäki - The filmmaker of Leningrad Cowboys Go America and the new release The Man Without a Past (winner of the Grand Prix du Jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival) is the subject of this portrait.
- Al Jazeera - A behind-the-scenes look at Al Jazeera, the most important television news channel in the Arab world. ** Viewer's Choice, 2003 Middle East Studies Association FilmFest **
- Algeria's Bloody Years - Chronicles the country's struggle for peace, stability and democracy since independence, and the surprising origins of the brutal conflict between Islamic fundamentalists and the national Army.
- All White in Barking - Filmmaker Marc Isaacs examines, with charm and humor, modern attitudes toward race in Barking, a white working class community east of London. (new April, 2008)
- Almost Brothers - Through the story of a life-long friendship across class lines, this film delves simultaneously into Brazil's painful political past and raw current events.
- Alone with War - A filmmaker in exile returns to Beirut to understand the causes of Lebanon's civil war and discovers an omnipresent collective amnesia.
- Alonso's Dream - A contemplative and critical look at the impact the Zapatista uprising and paramilitary violence have had on the Mayan people.
- Alpaca Breeders of Chimboya - Depicts the lives of Indian peasants of Chimboya, a small community high in the Andes whose economy is based on the marketing of Alpaca fleece.
- Amartya Sen - A documentary about the life and work of Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
- Amateur Photographer - The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.
- America's Brutal Prisons - Exposes the violence occurring inside prisons throughout America, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards.
- An American Ism: Joe McCarthy - Examines the making of America's most notorious demagogue, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
- An American Love Story - An extraordinary 10-hour PBS series about a black man and a white woman who have struggled for thirty years against racial stereotypes and societal prejudice to keep their family together.
- 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
- Andre's Lives - The story of Andre Steiner, dubbed "the Jewish Schindler," who saved thousands of Slovak Jews during the Holocaust.
- Angel on the Right - After 10 years in Moscow, gangster Hamro returns to his native Tadjikistan village to tend to his dying mother, but he gets more than he expected from the quiet countryside village.
- Angry Monk - Gendun Choephel, a legendary figure in Tibet, turned from the monastic life he was born to (as the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama), to become a fierce critic of his country's religious conservatism and isolationism.
- Another Man's Garden - In order to study medicine, Sofia, a young woman in Mozambique, must overcome the traditional belief that educating a woman is like "watering another man's garden." (new February, 2008)
- Antonio Negri - Traces the biography and current relevance of this controversial moral and political philosopher, his work, and his contemporary role as an intellectual leader of the anti-globalization movement.
- Anyone Can Be a Genius - Says Dr. Luis Alberto Machado, the world's first Minister of State for the Development of Human Intelligence - in Venezuela.
- Arab Diaries - A five-part documentary series that presents a fresh, insightful picture of contemporary life across the Arab world.
- The Architecture of Doom - Considers the Nazis' atrocities as a wholly rational extension of a fundamental tenet seeking to beautify the world.
- Arguing the World - The lives of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, and Irving Kristol.
- Ariel Sharon - Rare archival footage and interviews with family, colleagues, critics and historians form an essential biographical portrait of the former general and Israel's controversial Prime Minister.
- Aristide and the Endless Revolution - The rise and fall of the first elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. An investigation featuring insiders on all sides of the story.
- Art and Remembrance: The Legacy of Felix Nussbaum - The story of artist Felix Nussbaum, who created the major body of work about the Jews during the Holocaust.
- Artful History - An incisive examination of the heretofore mysterious - and the not always well intentioned - process of restoring art.
- As Long as the Rivers Flow - A series of five films which document the epic struggle of Canada's Native People.
- Atomic Artist - Working with refuse from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tony Price creates "atomic art."
- August Sander - A portrait of one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, who though uncelebrated in his own lifetime, pioneered social documentary photography.
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