Homes Apart: Korea
They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families...
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A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
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In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and...
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One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Described by director St. Clair...
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“It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Stormé DeLarverie, a woman whose life flouted prescriptions of gender and race. During...
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Robert Castle is the idealistic pastor of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem, and also the cousin of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Demme's...
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The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II....
See moreIt's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
The groundbreaking film that addresses anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with children about lesbian...
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This satiric comedy takes place in a building on New York's multi-ethnic Lower East Side. Four neighbors form an uneasy alliance after a case...
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This documentary brings to the public, for the first time, a story that was classified as secret by the US government for over four decades...
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They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only...
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This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins...
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In 1988 it was exactly one hundred years ago that the Nicaraguan writer Ruben Dario published his first work. Azul was the first publication of...
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TRYPTICH is set on the opening night of a new play when actor Franklin Samuels ponders his past and future within the depths of his creative mind...
See moreNamibia: Independence Now!
A revolutionary political moment is captured firsthand by two independent women filmmakers shooting inside refugee settlements in Zambia and Angola...
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