Heart of Darfur: fighting an international humanitarian crisis
With the Darfur Peace Agreement in shambles, this Wide Angle report portrays the desperation of daily life five years into the Darfur conflict, from the sprawling Abu Shouk refugee camp to volatile rebel-held areas of Sudan seldom reached by Western...
Tulia, Texas
Drug use was a fact of life in the African-American community of Tulia, Texas—but when it became common in white neighborhoods, too, civic leaders grew alarmed. In 1999 they brought in an undercover agent, later found to be a racist with a crimina...
Soul Food Junkies
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its relevance to black cultural identity, and its continuing popularity despite the known dangers of high-fat, high-calorie diets. Inspired by his father...
Banished
Banished vividly recovers the too-quickly forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americans were driven from their homes and communities by violent, racist mobs. The film places these events in the context of prese...
Love & Diane
Jennifer Dworkin’s groundbreaking documentary Love & Diane presents a searingly honest and moving examination of poverty, welfare and drug rehabilitation in the United States today. Filmed in New York City over a five-year period, Dworkin document...
Big River : A King Corn Companion
Companion film to 'King Corn' about the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture. Following up on their Peabody Award-winning documentary 'King Corn', Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis have returned to Iowa with a new mission: to investigate the e...
Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town
Store Wars follows the one-year conflict that polarizes Ashland, Virginia, population 7,200, when Wal-Mart decides it wants to build a megastore there. The ensuing debate pits neighbor against neighbor in a battle as protracted and bitter as those f...
King Corn
This film is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.
In this film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the East Coast, move to the heartland to learn w...
Blacking Up: Hip-Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity
Hip-Hop was created by urban youth of color more than 30 years ago amid racial oppression and economic marginalization. It has moved beyond that specific community and embraced by young people worldwide, elevating it to a global youth culture. The a...
Street fight
Follows the 2002 race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between 32-year-old Cory Booker and four-term incumbent Sharpe James. Fought in Newark's neighborhoods and housing projects, the election pits the young challenger against an old style political machin...