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Três jovens se juntam para conseguirem escapar de suas famílias voláteis e da cidade onde nasceram, localizada em uma parte dos EUA que passa por u...

17 de ago. de 2018

O sonho das mulheres que entram para o exército norte-americano é servir e proteger seu país. Mas uma vez no campo de batalha, elas sofrem um númer...

20 de jan. de 2012

A história, contada pelos sobreviventes, de um grupo de jovens, membros de um time de rúgbi uruguaio, que conseguiu sobreviver por 72 dias, a uma a...

22 de out. de 2008

Um investigador particular no Chile contrata uma pessoa para trabalhar como espiã em um asilo onde há a suspeita de abusos contra os idosos.

11 de dez. de 2020

Em 1977 o parlamento espanhol aprovou uma Lei de Anistia que garantia a liberdade de todos os presos políticos e a proibição do julgamento de qualq...

25 de jan. de 2019

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old...

07 de out. de 2022

Biografia do artista Jean-Michel Basquiat, considerado um dos mais importantes pintores afrodescendentes do século 20. Sua vida breve e morte inesp...

25 de jan. de 2010

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.

24 de ago. de 2020

A história dos Panteras Negras é frequentemente contada em uma porção de partes reembaladas, muitas vezes representando relatos trágicos e míticos ...

08 de mar. de 2015

Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections, traumas...

14 de out. de 2016

¡Las Sandinistas! uncovers the disappearing stories of women who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform during Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandin...

12 de mar. de 2018

A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.

07 de set. de 2009

A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time fea...

15 de mar. de 2024

In a universe where cool kids are nerds, the orchestra is world class and being Asian American is the norm, seniors at Lowell High School compete f...

03 de dez. de 2021

One man dance party Howard Mordoh, a longtime fixture of the L.A. concert scene, copes with the canceled concerts and isolation of life during the ...

24 de mai. de 2021

The life and legacy of Helen Keller, including how she used her celebrity to advocate for human rights and social justice for women, the poor and p...

19 de out. de 2021

Brett Story's visionary look at New York City as it braces for an uncertain future.

15 de nov. de 2019

08 de nov. de 2013

A Chilean judge uncovers long buried secrets of former dictator Augusto Pinochet and, in the process, must confront his own role in that dark past.

04 de mai. de 2008

14 de out. de 2016

When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, ...

11 de jun. de 2020

Outlawed in Pakistan tells the story of Kainat Soomro as she takes her rape case to Pakistan's deeply flawed court system in hopes of getting justi...

In Venezuela, amidst a backdrop of poverty, murder, and corruption, the El Sistema youth orchestra offers children hope and the opportunity to purs...

26 de jun. de 2022

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation ...

26 de jan. de 2019

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to ...

13 de set. de 2019

Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist is tasked with protecting these daring explorers.

08 de mar. de 2024

Uma jornada visual para a mente e a alma do autor premiado pelo Pulitzer, Navarro Scott Momaday, relacionando cada linha escrita à sua experiência ...

29 de jan. de 2019

In the majestic tropical island of Palawan, three environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal and political corruption in this thrilling docu...

29 de abr. de 2022

When 24-year-old Hend Nafea is arrested and tortured for demonstrating peacefully in Cairo's Tahrir Square, her pursuit of justice reflects post-re...

12 de jun. de 2015

Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and discriminat...

11 de jun. de 2020

The compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as...

13 de mai. de 2013

Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.

27 de abr. de 2019

Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their...

29 de abr. de 2018

Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and through the creation of a dance inspired by his lif...

23 de jul. de 2021

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 reside...

12 de jul. de 2019

When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become a co...

20 de jun. de 2021

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-eve...

14 de out. de 2017

How would you handle the trauma of losing a loved one? Murders That Matter documents African American Muslim mother Movita Johnson-Harrell over fiv...

02 de out. de 2023

Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront pol...

24 de out. de 2019

Sam Now is a gripping family story consisting of home videos, Super 8 films and modern-day HD videos told over a lifetime. Director Reed Harkness c...

01 de mai. de 2022

He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collect...

05 de jun. de 2009

Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives...

31 de mar. de 2011

At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countri...

05 de jan. de 2024

A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.

02 de jun. de 2021

An unlikely collaboration between a forensic scientist from Texas and a group of Latin American students changes the course of forensic science and...

10 de fev. de 2023

Four women find purpose carrying babies for strangers in Boise, Idaho -- the unofficial surrogacy capital of the United States -- and encounter com...

22 de jun. de 2019

An intimate portrait of a community fighting to save lives and keep hope alive in a neighborhood ravaged by the overdose crisis.

03 de fev. de 2023

While visiting his hometown of Milwaukee, father of three and aspiring attorney, Claude Motley, is shot in the face by 15-year-old Nathan, during a...

17 de mar. de 2021

Mama Bears is an intimate exploration of two “mama bears”—conservative, Christian mothers who have become fierce advocates for LGBTQ+ people—and a ...

13 de mar. de 2022

Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-clas...

01 de mai. de 2003

When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s wealthier...

21 de abr. de 2022

Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and...

22 de fev. de 2016

When director Jasmin Mara López sees a photo of her niece with her grandfather, she is flooded by painful memories of her own childhood sexual abus...

03 de mai. de 2022

Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers—violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo—live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking the...

11 de nov. de 2020

Exposing a painful, quintessentially American geography, CONSCIENCE POINT unearths a deep clash of values between the Native American Shinnecock an...

13 de out. de 2019

Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, e...

03 de mar. de 2022

Eight miles inland of Miami’s beaches, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land, sitting on a r...

01 de mai. de 2023

An intimate character study of the complex figure Ittetsu Nemoto, an aimless and rebellious former punk rocker-turned-Buddhist priest. He is renown...

21 de abr. de 2017

Matter of Mind: My ALS follows three people living with the fatal illness ALS, in an intimate exploration of the complex choices confronting them a...

21 de fev. de 2023

Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened b...

12 de jun. de 2014

The story of a Muslim casket maker and ritual body washer in Newark, NJ who takes two young men under his wing to teach them how to live better lives.

26 de ago. de 2020

Following a cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a mischievous, rule-breaking Catholic nun dedicated to social justice—chooses to live as she’s dying. In t...

29 de ago. de 2024

Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s, 1...

24 de ago. de 2020

Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. ...

24 de fev. de 2022

Harvest Season delves into the lives of people who work behind the scenes of the premium California wine industry, during one of the most dramatic ...

07 de out. de 2018

Sixteen-year-old Jewel Wilson is the next generation in a long line of prolific Inupiat subsistence hunters in Unalakleet, Alaska. Her ability to h...

18 de nov. de 2019

A born rebel and innovator, Lupe Yoli aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi was renowned for her emotional performances. Her renditions of classics such as "My ...

05 de jun. de 2007

The Interpreters follows the lives of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters, and the American veterans they worked with. In many cases, interpreters face d...

26 de mai. de 2018

A group of women and non-binary journalists, bucking the white male status quo, launch The 19th*—a digital news startup that asks who has been omit...

07 de jun. de 2023

Marko and Atanas are two friends whose lives would be sweet as strudel but for an annoying little problem with their papers. They need a European p...

26 de fev. de 2009

Spanning his fifty-year dogsled racing career, ATTLA explores the life and persona of George Attla, from his childhood as a TB survivor in the Alas...

11 de out. de 2019

In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms.

14 de ago. de 2020

Mobilizing working-class transgender hairdressers and beauty queens, the dynamic leaders of the world's only LGBT political party wage a historic q...

08 de abr. de 2016

Following three female police officers in Minneapolis, Women in Blue charts their progress and efforts to remake the department to become more incl...

08 de fev. de 2021

Iranian musician Shahin Najafi flees his homeland and heads to Cologne, Germany after harsh criticism by several clerics over the release of his so...

20 de abr. de 2017

Explores a variety of underground hazing rituals that are abusive and sometimes deadly. The journey to understand hazing culture reveals a world of...

13 de jun. de 2022

Accept the Call charts a Muslim American family’s struggle against Islamic radicalisation. Through a series of calls from federal prison, Yusuf and...

15 de jun. de 2019

Plagued by anxiety about climate change, a filmmaker decides to start seeing a climate psychologist, hoping to find peace of mind at what she’s pre...

16 de set. de 2022

With sharp humor and a critical sense of curiosity, comedian CJ Hunt documents the fraught removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans. As...

19 de jun. de 2021

Missing in Brooks County follows the journey of two families who have come to Brooks County to look for their loved ones who went missing. As they ...

20 de ago. de 2021

Follows the mental health crisis in Chicago and three participants of the Mental Health Court in Cook County who are working to rebuild their lives...

20 de out. de 2021

Michael was a ballet prodigy with a stellar career ahead of him. He transformed into a Russian ballet instructor named Madame Olga as a way to both...

26 de mar. de 2021

From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by decades...

27 de out. de 2022

Jeff Chang visits East Palo Alto, a historically Black and Latino community in the heart of Silicon Valley, to hang out with rapper, dancer and per...

In the US Midwest, plagued with opioid abuse and rising incarceration rates for women, three unforgettable mothers return home from prison to rebui...

29 de abr. de 2021

Muslim chaplains work for change inside the U.S. military, fighting for equality and religious freedom.

06 de nov. de 2023

Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social ...

This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, art...

Rooted in tradición mexicana and infused with Texas food culture, tacos are some of Texans’ all-time favorite foods. In The Tacos of Texas, the tac...