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Indigenous People's Month

A collection of films celebrating the history and culture of Native Americans.

Tribal Justice

  • Feature Film
  • 2017

Feature Film

In Tribal Justice, two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities and create a more positive future for youth. By addressing the root causes of ...

StoryCorps Shorts: The Bookmobile

  • Short Film
  • 2016

Short Film

At eight years old, Storm Reyes was already working full time with other migrant farm workers in the fields outside Tacoma, Washington. One day, a bookmobile arrived and brought her new worlds — and hope.

Children of the Arctic

  • Feature Film
  • 2016

Feature Film

At the Arctic edge of America, Native Alaskan teenagers strive to be both modern American kids, and the inheritors of an ancient whaling culture, language and tradition. Children of the Arctic is a year-in-the-life portrait of Native youth coming of ...

Class of '27

  • Feature Film
  • 2016

Feature Film

Class of ’27 presents distinct yet complementary personal stories from places too often ignored in America. Each of the three portraits demonstrates that children from distressed communities, despite their circumstances, are more likely to grow into productive and civically engaged ...

Moroni For President

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Every four years, the Navajo Nation elects its president, whom many consider the most powerful Native American in the country. Frustrated about the lack of progress in the reservation, Moroni Benally, a witty academic LGBTQ candidate with radical ideas, hopes ...

Introducing: POV Shorts

You have no idea how long it takes to make 10 minutes.

Earthrise

  • Short Film
  • 2018

Short Film

Earthrise tells the story of the first image captured of the Earth from space in 1968. Told solely by the Apollo 8 astronauts, the film recounts their experiences and memories and explores the beauty, awe and grandeur of the Earth ...

GIVE

  • Short Film
  • 2018

Short Film

GIVE explores collective representations of history, memory and culture; where pasts, presents and futures are molded by the blending of imagination, facts and love.

Public Money

  • Short Film
  • 2018

Short Film

Across New York City, a bold experiment in participatory democracy is underway. Since 2012, the city council has steadily increased investment in a process called “participatory budgeting”, wherein community members gain a role in deciding how to spend part of ...

Balloonfest

  • Short Film
  • 2018

Short Film

The city of Cleveland was abuzz on September 27, 1986. Over 1.5 million balloons were about to be released at once, breaking the world record. What could go wrong?

A Debtor's Prison

  • Short Film
  • 2018

Short Film

In St. Louis County, the home of police-shooting victim Michael Brown, a practice with a long history has become systematic: the operation of modern-day debtors’ prisons. A Debtors' Prison follows two plaintiffs in an unfolding court case, Samantha Jenkins and ...

Into My Life

  • Short Film
  • 2018

Short Film

Growing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera. Today, still living in the same place, Cassandra examines and edits these remarkable films, gaining insight into the ...

A Night At The Garden

  • Short Film
  • 2018

Short Film

In 1939, New York's Madison Square Garden was host to an enormous—and shocking—gathering, where 22,000 Americans convened at an event that has been forgotten by history.

Graven Image

  • Short Film
  • 2018

Short Film

Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument: Georgia’s Stone Mountain.

Airing soon on PBS

Island Soldier

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Filmed in Kosrae, Micronesia, Island Soldier follows the Nena family as they grieve the loss of their son, Sapuro “Sapp” Nena. His death in Afghanistan makes waves through the community where nearly everyone is connected to the U.S. Military ...

Minding the Gap

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Feature Film

Airing January 1, 2019
Bing Liu's debut film is a coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown. In his quest to understand why he and his friends all ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack ...

Moroni For President

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Every four years, the Navajo Nation elects its president, whom many consider the most powerful Native American in the country. Frustrated about the lack of progress in the reservation, Moroni Benally, a witty academic LGBTQ candidate with radical ideas, hopes ...

306 Hollywood

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Feature Film

Airing January 1, 2019
306 Hollywood is a magical realist documentary of two siblings who undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house. They embark on a journey from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in search ...

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