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  • 2021
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    North by Current

    North by Current

    6.00 2021 HD

    Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his...

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  • 2020
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    And She Could Be Next

    And She Could Be Next

    1 2020 HD

    The story of a defiant movement of women of color transforming American politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm...

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  • 2018
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    The Feeling of Being Watched

    The Feeling of Being Watched

    6.50 2018 HD

    Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored...

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  • 2013
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    American Promise

    American Promise

    6.70 2013 HD

    In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and...

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  • 2005
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    The Hobart Shakespeareans

    The Hobart Shakespeareans

    4.00 2005 HD

    Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at...

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  • 2021
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    Through the Night

    Through the Night

    8.00 2021 HD

    When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become...

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  • 2015
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    Thank You for Playing

    Thank You for Playing

    7.30 2015 HD

    For the past two years, Ryan and Amy Green have been working on That Dragon, Cancer, a videogame about their son Joel's fight against that disease....

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  • 2022
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    Midwives

    Midwives

    8.00 2022 HD

    Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the...

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  • 2018
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    93Queen

    93Queen

    7.80 2018 HD

    Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their...

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  • 2017
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    Motherland

    Motherland

    6.40 2017 HD

    The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face...

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  • 2023
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    How to Have an American Baby

    How to Have an American Baby

    1 2023 HD

    An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.

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  • 2011
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    I'm Carolyn Parker

    I'm Carolyn Parker

    6.00 2011 HD

    A documentary about a survivor of Hurricane Katrina.

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  • 2022
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    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    1 2022 HD

    The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...

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  • 2022
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    Let the Little Light Shine

    Let the Little Light Shine

    8.00 2022 HD

    When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s...

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  • 2020
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    Natours Grocery

    Natours Grocery

    1 2020 HD

    Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents' emigration from...

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  • 2024
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    Brief Tender Light

    Brief Tender Light

    1 2024 HD

    At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries...

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  • 2022
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    After Sherman

    After Sherman

    1 2022 HD

    Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history,...

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