Guy Dull Knife Jr., a Vietnam veteran, artist, single father, and modern-day Lakota Sioux leader, invokes his family legacy to help raise his 13 children on the Pine Ridge Reservation, one of America's poorest communities.
This film will provide a rare inside look at Jewish-Palestinian encounters in the highly charged atmosphere of Israeli hospital maternity wards, as doctors and patients share intimate and often life-changing experiences, while symbolically joining forces to bring new life into the world.
A feature length documentary by Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Margaret Brown (THE ORDER OF MYTHS) on the BP oil spill and its impact on the town of Mobile, Alabama and the surrounding Gulf Coast region.
The Hunger Chronicles is a documentary series for radio and web that explores the causes of the global hunger crisis and the most promising efforts to combat it. Partners are Homelands Productions, a nonprofit media cooperative specializing in public radio documentaries; Magnum Photos, widely considered the world’s most prestigious photo agency; NPR; Cornell University, and the USC Annenberg School.
US Army Private McKinley Nolan vanished forty years ago in Vietnam on the Cambodian frontier. Some say he was captured, some say he was a traitor, others claim he was killed in the Khmer Rouge genocide, and some even say he was an American operative. In 2005 a Vietnam Vet sighted him alive near Tay Ninh, Vietnam. The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan follows one family's journey into the heart of darkness to find the truth.
During World War II, the Navy invited women to serve at an equal rank and pay scale to men. The documentary/multimedia project Homefront Heroines follows the stories of these women, revealing a hidden history about America's "greatest generation."
Trochenbrod is a documentary film that takes us back to the vanished town of Trochenbrod in Ukraine. This isolated, all-Jewish town of 5,000 people was eradicated by the Nazis except for 33 who escaped the massacre. The film accompanies a group of survivors and descendants as they journey back to what was once the site of the magical town of Trochenbrod.
GRITtv with Laura Flanders is a 28-minute daily news and culture discussion show that engages the public with critical conversations about important issues and puts powerful new media tools in the hands of non-media community organizations, artists and cultural workers.
The story of the bagel is the classic story of the immigrant made good in America – struggling, then prospering, and finally assimilating. This one hour documentary tells the fascinating tale of the bagel’s transcendence from urban Jewish street food to America’s favorite mass-market breakfast, and relates how the bagel itself has changed -and changed people’s lives - in the process.
Powerful family stories shed a new light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by examining history through the eyes of Palestinians and the heart of a Jew. This film explores the commonalities of trauma, yearning, immigration, and the harsh realities of injustice and dispossession.