The Return of Sarah’s Daughters
The Return of Sarah’s Daughters peers into the Orthodox Jewish world, focusing on the filmmaker Marcia’s interactions with two very different women, Rus and Myriam. Rus, in the center of Lubavitcher Chassidic life in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is ...
Speaking in Tongues
Closely following four very different local public-schoolers through an academic year, [the producers] draw on subtle nuances of the kids' stories to illustrate the complex shades and permutations of bilingual schooling. Two children are placed in i...
A Fierce Green Fire : The Battle for a Living Planet
A Fierce Green Fire : The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon ...
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...
Hold Your Breath
Mohammad Kochi, a deeply devout Afghan immigrant who believes that only Allah can determine the span of his life, faces possible death from stomach cancer. As they treat the disease, his American doctors try to comprehend his faith and respect his v...