The Searchers

The Searchers is a 90-minute, color, SD documentary portrait of researchers of the assassination of JFK. The film uses archival footage, photographs, documents, verite live-action footage and sit-down interviews to […]

A Sense of the Fitness of Things

Don Byrne, his wife and two young children live on a rural Chatham County farmstead without indoor plumbing or electricity. As part of his meditative life, Don handcrafts pine coffins […]

By Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is hailed as one of American cinema’s most socially conscious directors. When he passed away in 2011 at the age of 86, he left behind an impressive canon […]

SOMAY KU: A Uganda Tennis Story

Patrick Olobo, Uganda’s top-ranked tennis player, struggles to leave behind a devastating civil war, finding a new set of obstacles after emigrating to the US. Uganda is in the midst […]

Something You Can Call Home

In September 2012, filmmaker Rebecca Kenyon vacated her London apartment to fund a yearlong journey spending time with homeless people in North Carolina. She was drawn to the coastal city […]

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 […]

Looking at Appalachia

The War on Poverty was launched in 1964, and nowhere else was this war photographed more than Appalachia. Given its proximity to Washington, DC, it was easily accessible and offered […]

Lost Bomber

The Tulsamerican, American WW2 bomber vanished from the face of the earth 68 years ago. It was not just any bomber. It was the very last B-24 Liberator produced in […]

Love Lived on Death Row

Janet Syriani’s first contact with her father in 15 years, on the day of his execution. Love Lived on Death Row tells the story of the four Syriani siblings whose […]

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