Political / Social Issues
Leader of a revolution at 21. Lawmaker at 23. Most Wanted at 26. With intimate access to the leaders of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, Who's Afraid of Nathan Law? chronicles one of the world's most famous dissidents in his fight for democracy against a superpower.
It’s Tiger King meets Blackfish… Tim Harrison, a retired cop, makes a bombshell discovery while undercover at an exotic animal auction. He starts to suspect that America’s top television celebrity conservationists, including his childhood hero and American icon Jack Hanna, may be secretly connected to the dark underbelly of the exotic pet trade.
Featuring Carole Baskin.
Spanning between past and present, Hidden Letters follows two millennial Chinese women connected by their fascination with the secret language of Nushu. This centuries-old hidden language bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood, hope and survival. Influenced by Nushu’s legacy of female solidarity, the two women struggle to find balance as they forge their own paths in a patriarchal culture.
Beautifully layered in After Sherman the filmmaker, Jon-Sesrie Goff follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.
Unzipped is a searing exposé into the alarming humanitarian crisis in America’s own backyard: the affordable housing problem in Venice, CA.
Featuring original music from hip hop duo Run The Jewels.
A breakdown in public trust and institutional racism are at the forefront of this examination of one of America's worst environmental disasters.
Narrated by Alec Baldwin.
Chronicles the fall and attempted redemption of Paterson, New Jersey citizens after the accidental killing of a 12-year-old girl in broad daylight.
Mark Reay opens up about his double life, one where he works as a New York fashion photographer before returning to the streets to sleep each night.
A look at NFL star Marshawn Lynch and his use of silence as a form of protest. Culling more than 700 video clips and placing them in dramatic, rapid, and radical juxtaposition, the film is a political parable about the American media-sports complex and its deep complicity with racial oppression.
A no-nonsense Hasidic lawyer creates the first all-female ambulance corps in New York City, something that has long been the province of men.
Cuban boxer Namibia Flores Rodriguez defies age and naysayers to pursue her dream of Olympic glory.
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide by exploring the tangled web of responsibility that has driven a century of denial by the Turkish government and its strategic allies.
What happens when a rabbinical matchmaker, a newly married Hasidic couple and a religious hip-hop artist explore the meaning of true love?
A retrospective on John Kerry's tour of duty in Vietnam, his part in the peace movement that followed and the shape of his future political career.