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Musings of an Iraqi Patriot

Musings of an Iraqi Patriot chronicles one man’s journey from accomplished artist and journalist to reluctant refugee and a voice for the millions of ordinary Iraqis whose lives have been

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Big Charity

Big Charity is a feature-length documentary film about the tragic demise of the most important medical institution in the state of Louisiana, New Orleans’s 280-year-old Charity Hospital. This political and

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Tuscarora Nation

Tuscarora Nation explores the powerful, often overlooked history of the Indigenous Tuscarora people of eastern North Carolina—from their early resistance to Euro-Colonial forces to their ongoing fight for federal recognition

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Spies of Mississippi

Spring of 1964 and the civil rights community is gearing up for a major operation nicknamed Mississippi Freedom Summer. Hundreds, if not thousands, of mostly-white student activists from the North

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Chocolate Kingdom

The story of the Ecuadorian plant scientist who may hold the key to preserving chocolate. In 1965, Ecuadorian researcher Homero Castro developed a new cacao hybrid, CCN-51, in an effort

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Alamance County, 2020

Set in a small North Carolina community, Alamance County, 2020 captures a single year when the ground shifted beneath everyone’s feet. As the pandemic shutters schools and storefronts, the rhythms

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Seven Acres and a Church

Seven Acres and a Church is an urgent call to action following Ms. Georgia Benton, a community matriarch, as she leads the fight to preserve First Bryan Baptist Church—the oldest continuous

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Signs & Wonders

In a world that too often overlooks race and disability in the same breath, Valerie McMillan, a Black interpreter and only hearing child of deaf adults (OHCODA), confronts a legacy

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