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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring story about a global movement to reclaim our largest public spaces, our streets. For Dulcie, stopping vehicular violence has become a life mission. Both Dulcie and her mother were victims of hit-and-run crashes, 10 years apart. For Stacey, inaction by her city council after five pedestrians were hit by cars in her neighborhood, has led to her fight for change.
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An exclusive and intimate interview with the first female Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, revealing some of the women who helped shape her life, and showcasing some extraordinary women who are helping to shape the future.
85) Rush to Judgment
Publisher
Films We Like
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
In 1966, the documentary RUSH TO JUDGMENT presented for the first time a simple, concise legal argument that the Warren Commission was hiding something, suggesting a broader conspiracy. Lee Harvey Oswald could not have single-handedly killed President John F. Kennedy. Director Emile de Antonio and lawyer Mark Lane recorded unpolished, first-hand interviews from witnesses with direct proximity to the murders–but who were not given a platform in the...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about community activists on the frontlines fighting for water justice and equity. Their powerful stories are interwoven with historical context about the successes and failures of the U.S. Clean Water Act. The Act’s landmark regulations significantly reduced water pollution in America but have not served all communities equitably, leaving many disadvantaged communities unprotected. From coal sludge and toxic run-off to open wastewater,...
87) Hold Your Fire
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn, 1973. When Shu’aib Raheem and his friends attempted to steal guns for self-defense, it sparked the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to avert a bloodbath, reform police methods, and save the lives of hostages, police, and the four young Muslim men at the heart of the conflict.
88) Jobs of Tomorrow
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This series examines the technologies, processes and thought leaders shaping the future of what work we do and how we do it. The workforce will never be the same again.
89) Robin Bank
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
This is the story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who stole half a million euros from thirty-nine different banks and then donated it all to social causes. Facing certain imprisonment, Duran went on the run in 2013 but he continues to work on underground movements of economic disobedience. This caught the attention of director Anna Giralt Gris who goes on a mission to find him and investigate the consequences of his actions. But as she unravels...
Publisher
Ocean 8 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As a candidate, Joe Biden called climate change an “existential threat” and promised to make fixing the problem part and parcel of every legislative action undertaken during his Administration. Truth is, that while the Biden team got off to a good start – shutting down the XL Pipeline and rejoining the Paris Agreement on his first day in office – that commitment has wavered ever since, as related environmental ills, from flooding to fires,...
92) High Wire
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Examines the reasons that Canada declined to take part in the 2003 US-led military mission in Iraq, shining a spotlight on the diplomatic tug of war that took place behind the scenes with our neighbours to the south, who have often adopted an interventionist foreign policy to serve their own economic and geopolitical interests. Canada’s historic refusal could have had disastrous consequences, but a number of key players and other analysts remind...
93) Las Abogadas
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Follows four immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war.From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of five thousand desperate migrants, to persuading border guards to follow the law and accept a blind woman into U.S. custody, to crossing the border to counsel African migrants stuck in Tijuana,...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Anita Chitaya is a farmer in Malawi who has brought progress to her village by transforming the way they think and work together. But when the effects of climate change show indisputable signs of irreversible damage to her land and community, Anita travels to America to meet with farmers, activists, climate skeptics, and legislators to persuade them to save her home by first saving the planet.
95) Oyate
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Indigenous people are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them in an effort to embark upon the process of decolonization.
Publisher
The Epidavros Project
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Spring, 2007: This year, immigration advocates and grassroots expect great things. But Senator Kennedy has lost his partner John McCain to presidential primaries, and President Bush now puts a very different offer on the table. Deep at the heart of this fast moving story, we find a moral tale of modern American politics. Ted Kennedy—one of the handful of people whose personal efforts truly changed the face of America—will be forced to decide how...
Publisher
The Epidavros Project
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
October, 2003: High school students stage a mock graduation ceremony on the Capitol lawn. Next day, the DREAM Act gets a chance. Because it's a small bipartisan bill to help kids, supporters are optimistic. But anti-immigrant groups see it as "amnesty for illegals." The Senate Judiciary Committee markup is heated and long. Finally an amended version is recommended for full Senate debate - but what exactly did Senators agree on in the confusion of...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1960s, Lowndes County, Alabama had zero registered Black voters despite an 80% Black population. Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary chronicles the citizens' movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers led by Stokely Carmichael who risked their lives for Black voting rights.
100) Taken Hostage
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Unfolding like a political thriller, TAKEN HOSTAGE revisits the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the U.S. endured humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been a close ally. The crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.
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