Through a Bitter Struggle

It’s 1986 in Durham, NC, long a tobacco and textile town, and Mayor Wib Gulley faces a fierce campaign by Christian fundamentalists and some conservatives to throw him out of […]

American Union

American Union is a documentary film about coal miners and Amazon workers in Alabama as they unite, sparking a resurgence in the labor movement and inspiring a new era of […]

SAILING TO GUANTANAMO

A journey examining the 1991-1994 Haitian Refugee Crisis with riveting testimonies of untold stories of resilience, survival, and the pursuit of hope against the backdrop of a coup d’état, political […]

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 […]

SWINE HEART

An unprecedented and historical surgery has swept the nation and world at large; this is the story of the man who successfully underwent the first pig heart xenotransplant and changed […]

A CITY IN THE FOREST

In Atlanta, a diverse intersectional movement defends an urban forest from Cop City, a plan for the country’s largest police training facility. This film paints a prismatic portrait of the […]

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