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Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved...

Genre: Documentary

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The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ana Messuti

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

In a universe where cool kids are nerds, the orchestra is world class and being Asian American is the norm, seniors at Lowell High School compete for...

Genre: Documentary

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An epic look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marty Walsh

Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jesselyn Radack

Blue Diner is a story of a Puerto Rican mother Meche (Miriam Colon) and daughter Elena (Lisa Vidal) living together in Boston and difficulties they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miriam Colon

Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Amy Ackerman

A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pharoah Sanders

A feature documentary on African American ballerina Misty Copeland that examines her prodigious rise, her potentially career ending injury alongside...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Misty Copeland

Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields

Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tran To Nga

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: LaTanya Richardson Jackson

The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil Barofsky

In Namibia, conservationist Maria Diekmann found herself on the frontline of the battle to save these wanted animals after unexpectedly becoming a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Attenborough

In 2010, the media branded a platoon of U.S. Army infantry soldiers “The Kill Team” following reports of its killing for sport in...

Genre: War

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In the decades after Bacon's Rebellion, an African man and an English woman - husband and wife - sing of their fate, their future as law by law,...

Genre: Documentary

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The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face...

Genre: Documentary

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In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andre Braugher

Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Lord