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- Twenty 12-year-old black boys from one of the most violent ghettos in Baltimore, Maryland, are taken 10,000 miles away to an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, to try to take advantage of the educational opportunities they can't get in their own country.
- Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge.
- After Tisha, a streetwise teenager from the Bronx, discovers she's pregnant and receives no support from her community, she has nowhere to turn and is faced with the most difficult decision she will ever make.
- In six hour long episodes, acclaimed filmmaker, Jennifer Fox, maps the world of female life and sexuality today -- from the dramatic turns in her own life to the stories of women around the globe that shed light on the universal issues all women face. Employing a groundbreaking camera technique, called "passing the camera", this powerful series creates a new type of documentary language and storytelling that mirrors the special way women communicate.
- A documentary on Brooklyn-based Congresswoman Shirley's Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.
- The history of legal official racial segregation in the USA.
- A young Parisian woman of Caribbean descent returns to her native island of Guadeloupe looking for the father she has never known.
- Mia, an introverted beauty, gathers her college friends together on a night that she is sure will change her life. As cosmos flow, secrets are revealed and the true nature of friendship is tested. Surrounded by the slick "beautiful people", Mia ultimately learns that she must be careful what she wishes for as the Birthday Girl. The Birthday Girl is about a group of friends at the beginning of their adult lives, trying to find love.
- Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary soccer moms living in the affluent suburbs of Boston until tragedy strikes. Rather than turning inwards, grief compels these women to focus on the country where the terrorists who took their husbands' lives were trained: Afghanistan. Over the course of two years, as they cope with loss and struggle to raise their families as single mothers, these extraordinary women dedicate themselves to empowering Afghan widows whose lives have been ravaged by decades of war, poverty and oppression - factors they consider to be the root causes of terrorism. As Susan and Patti make the courageous journey from their comfortable neighborhoods to the most desperate Afghan villages, they discover a powerful bond with each other, an unlikely kinship with widows halfway around the world, and a profound way to move beyond tragedy. From the ruins of the World Trade Center to those of Kabul and back, theirs is a journey of personal strength and international reconciliation, and a testament to the vision that peace can be forged - one woman at a time.
- In 1999 when Amadou Diallo, an unarmed man, was shot at 41 times by police officers in New York, we felt we had to get out there with a camera and talk to people for our own sanity, to understand what was happening. It was like the topic of this film chose us. We were concerned about the high level of visibility of this topic, and the challenge was to find a unique angle on something that had had a lot of media coverage already. Then we found the mothers as a way in that was different and decided to focus on their enormous transition from this terrible experience to speaking out for changes in policing, and we decided to look at what was in them that pushed them to do that. We felt that it was not enough to make a documentary about police brutality alone. We wanted it to deal with this issue but also to have a human component and an aspect of hope. The three mothers in Every Mother's Son-Iris Baez, Kadiatou Diallo and Doris Busch Boskey-have found a resilience within themselves that is remarkable and can provide inspiration to others. We have always been attracted to stories that explore large social and political questions through the intimate personal experiences of people affected by them. Policing was such a dense topic that we decided that focusing on New York City during the Giuliani years (1994-2000) and on the stories of three mothers (though they are part of a larger movement) would allow us to get at the big issues through a very personal lens. Ultimately, we would like you to understand that police brutality is a problem that extends far beyond individual "bad cops." Many of the problems facing us are systemic in that they have to do with policies that put police officers in situations where abuses are likely to take place. We would like Americans who don't live in poor urban areas to have a sense of what people in these communities experience from the police on a daily basis. We know it will be shocking for many people to see how unequal policing is in terms of its effect on citizens. Finally, we hope that this film will motivate you to take action to promote community policing, and to push for the creation of independent citizen review boards with enforcement capability and for the creation of independent prosecutor positions where they do not exist. We hope you join and work to build organizations that are fighting to reform policing in America.
- Public School Teacher Nix Dunn turns to an extreme form of teaching to get his message across.
- "Sticks & Stones" directly addresses the psychological repercussions of racial and class disparity in the American public educational system. Based on the filmmaker's own experiences this short film exposes the influence a teacher can bear on her student's abilities and the role parents can play in their child's education.
- The story of a British black man and woman finding love when they meet one evening in Brooklyn. A love that gets put to the test when they find out she's pregnant.
- A paraplegic woman gambles on a chance at unconventional love when she consents to a blind date with her online suitor, "Dark Gable".
- Two sisters, both artists, embark on a quest to discover whether writer, Lorraine Hansberry was a political activist.
- A delegation of some of America's most respected stage, screen, and music artists and their families are followed on an extraordinary journey to the heart of post-apartheid South Africa.
- 1985– 1h 24mTV-148.0 (93)TV EpisodeThis uplifting musical doc explores the powerful legacy of the beloved African-American female acapella group as they embark on their 30th anniversary tour.