Pass It On

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 […]

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 […]

Pelada

Four soccer-playing filmmakers abandon jobs, renew passports, trade novels for Lonely Planets, and travel the world in search of pick-up games: impromptu scenes that arise anywhere, between anyone. As we […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mountain Top Removal

Throughout southern Appalachia mountaintop removal coal mining is on the rise, blasting and leveling highland forests and streams. The process literally changes the geology of the region. Citizens negatively impacted […]

A NEW KIND OF LISTENING

A NEW KIND OF LISTENING is an hour-long documentary that takes us inside the creative work of the Community Inclusive Theater Group, as director Richard Reho inspires cast members, some […]

MAKING BANK

MAKING BANK — based on the rise of the commercial banking industry in the South, and in particular, the rise of this industry in North Carolina — includes a colorful […]

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 […]

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