Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for the murder of a 43-year-old man. Cyntoia was a prostitute and he was her client.
Mystic Voices: The Story Of The Pequot War
What led to the first declared war in America? Why is the slaughter seldom talked about? In May 1637, English Puritan colonists torch a Pequot Indian village at Missituck (Mystic), Connecticut, massacring 400-700 men, ..
Never Perfect
How are ideals of beauty influenced by race, history, and geopolitics? With a rich selection of film clips and archival footage, Never Perfect examines the dramatic rise in popularity of cosmetic surgery among Asian-Amer..
No Easy Walk: Kenya
Part of the No Easy Walk series, this video traces the history of Kenya's opposition to white rule, from the arrival of the first settlers in the 19th century to the Mau-Mau rebellion in 1952, in which the struggle for l..
Our Summer in Tehran
In 2007, Jewish-American filmmaker and former host of the travel series Globe Trekker, Justine Shapiro, takes her 6-year-old son Mateo with her to Tehran where they spend the summer with 3 families: a religious family wi..
Resistencia: Hip Hop in Columbia
An unusual look at the current political and economic crisis in Colombia—including a decades-long civil war, a rampant drug trade, kidnapping for ransom, and financial scandal at the highest levels of the government—..
Robert Mugabe... What Happened?
Robert Mugabe... what happened?, charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country, and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist, then knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and is..
Rothstein’s First Assignment
In October of 1935, the FSA photographer Arthur Rothstein came to the mountains of Virginia for his first assignment as a professional photographer. He was sent to Virginia to photograph residents before they would be mo..
Rouge Parole
On December 17, 2010, 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself on the streets of Tunis, sparking a popular uprising that toppled a dictator and developed into the Arab Spring. With remarkable never-before-seen fo..
Scandalize My Name
This potent documentary, narrated by Morgan Freeman, examines several prominent African-American performers in the American film and television industries during the 1950s Communist witch-hunting McCarthy era.