While tobacco kills, for some it’s their livelihood. Why grow this killer crop? Cynthia Hill and Curtis Gaston explore this question in their film, Tobacco Money Feeds My Family. For
I met Tommy by pure chance a few years ago, while filming a project with autistic teenagers. I was immediately struck by his love for life and his desire to
A revered “Mother” to many in her community, Lena Mae Perry, 82, has lifted countless spirits with her booming voice as part of The Branchettes, a renowned North Carolina gospel
A fish fry in Palmetto, Florida, taking place every Friday in the parking lot of an African-American church, started when a group of avid fishermen decided that their church
Americans have had a fluid relationship with death. In the 19th century it was romanticized and even embraced. Today death is a forbidden topic – something relegated to sterile hospital
During the 1979 Iranian Revolution, many Americans came to know Ayatollah Khomeini as a stern, uncompromising political leader who hated America. The United States had helped install the Shah Pahlavi
SADDEST BOY EVER is a feature-length documentary film. While digitizing his family’s home movies, filmmaker Patrick Suzuki Mitchell discovers one recorded over by an episode of the Jenny Jones Show
Pass It On reflects on Reynolds Price’s 50 years of teaching English literature and writing at Duke University. Through the eyes of colleagues, former students, his peers, and with Price’s own
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