Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

This documentary provides a window into the extraordinary life of activist and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who has worked to...

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Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.

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The Dream Catcher

The Dream Catcher

An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial...

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Taken for a Ride

Taken for a Ride

How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.

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Union Maids

Union Maids

Three women labor activists in America tell their stories of organizing in the 1930s.

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Growing Up Female

Growing Up Female

Focuses on the socialization of American females. It tells the story of six women and girls. The first film to emerge from the modern women's...

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Methadone: An American Way of Dealing

Methadone: An American Way of Dealing

The clients of a Dayton, Ohio drug withdrawal clinic, many of whom are workers in the area factories, are the subject of this socially conscious...

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Letter to the Next Generation

Letter to the Next Generation

Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar demonstrators, Jim...

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