America

A former actress, turned escort, has an unfortunate incident with one of her 'johns.'

Omar’s future is jeopardized when he has to deal with the hardships of living in the streets as an undocumented, gay teenager after his mother and only source of support is deported to Honduras. Getting accepted into a prestigious university intensifies his willingness to persist through the challenges that being alone in this country imposes.

President Nixon declared a total war on drugs over 50 years ago. To stop drugs from entering the U.S., task forces have been created, billionaire budgets allocated, and special agencies keep finding new ways to fight the drug surge. But some say we are focusing on the wrong side of the problem. What is true is that 100,000 Americans died last year from a drug overdose. How are we failing?

America Lost is a feature documentary that explores life in three "forgotten American cities"-Youngstown, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, and Stockton, California. The film reveals the dramatic decline of the American interior through a combination of emotional personal stories and thoughtful conservative commentary. Filmmaker Christopher F. Rufo spent five years gathering these intimate portraits of Americans on the edge, including an ex-steelworker scrapping abandoned homes to survive, a recently incarcerated father trying to rebuild his life, and a single mother dreaming of escaping her blighted urban neighborhood. Ultimately, despite these grave challenges, the film offers a glimpse of hope for rebuilding America's families and communities from the bottom up.

SILICON PRAIRIE: AMERICA'S NEW INTERNET ECONOMY EXPLORES THE POTENTIAL THAT THE OPEN INTERNET HOLDS TO PROMOTE OUR ECONOMY—NOT JUST IN SILICON VALLEY, BUT IN CITIES AND TOWNS (AND FARMS!) ALL OVER AMERICA. Silicon Prairie is a short film following the incredible bus journey that Reddit.com took across America. Filmmakers from Nimblebot.com set out in October, 2012 to show how entrepreneurs, politicians, community organizers, and internet enthusiasts are building vibrant technology hubs in cities and towns across the American Midwest. The film shows entrepreneurial hubs as fragile ecosystems, which hold great potential for revitalization, job-creation, and innovation in America's heartland.

Writes Schneemann: "The 'Americana I Ching Apple Pie' recipe was first enacted in my Belsize, London kitchen in 1972. Unfortunately, the original footage disappeared with the man doing the documentation who may have been working for the CIA. The next presentation was May '77, as a cooking event for the Heresies Magazine performance and jumble sale benefit. With the exception of a dozen apples, flour, maple syrup, and eggs which I brought, all the cooking 'material,' utensils, and props were discovered in the jumble. Objects which functionally approximated actual cooking utensils were used: nails, hammers, an arrow, a flower pot, ball bearings, rags, a watering can. The cook's apron was a ripped mini skirt with which I covered my hair. As I state in the performance, 'traditionally you need an apron, but it doesn't matter where you put it.'

The film traces the history of racism in American healthcare, beginning with the brutal medical experimentation that slaves were forced to undergo. As this story unfolds over our nation’s history, the very same inequalities and biases continue to plague our healthcare system, creating disparities in the quality of care that Black and Brown people are afforded. Interwoven with the testimonies of experts and medical practitioners are the personal stories of patients who have been victimized by healthcare inequities, including the filmmaker’s own experiences as a quadriplegic African American woman.

A documentary film about the Dutch colonies in Latin America, Netherlands Antilles - St Maarten, Saba, St Eustatius, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Dutch Guiana, Suriname.

Documentary about black US immigrants in Germany.

A documentary over the Liberty March held in Washington D.C. in 2008. Includes speeches by Ron Paul, Adam Kokesh, Jim Guest, and G. Edward Griffin.

Hard Soil traces the history and evolution of American Roots music and examines its social and cultural relevance in the 21st century. Nowhere is America's cultural evolution and diversity as palpable as in the music of the people. Folk music or alternately roots music, a collective term encompassing a variety of musical styles from Bluegrass, to Blues and from Country to Gospel. Today a wild and vibrant subculture of musicians has begun to infuse these musical styles with the sounds of the 21st century keeping the evolution of American Roots music that is not only heard in the land of Lincoln but across the globe. To many it has not only become the soundtrack to their lives it has become a way of life.

Substance use disorder kills more people every year than any other disease – and yet only 1 in 10 people who need treatment get access to it. Families share their loss, frustration, and hope for how we can do better.

Singer Joseph Regan performs the songs "Mary Ann" and "Beloved."

American Ocelot tells the story of one of the most endangered and beautiful wild cats in the United States — a species so elusive that high-quality images and video have never been captured until now. With fewer than 100 individuals remaining in the US, the ocelot is critically endangered, genetically isolated, and only exists in Texas.

Cape Spin! An American Power Struggle tells the surreal, fascinating, tragicomic story of the battle over America's most scandalous clean energy project. Cape Wind would be the U.S.'s first offshore windfarm...But strange alliances formed for and against: Kennedys, Kochs, and everyday folks do battle with the developer and green groups over the future of American power. With full access to both sides, a commitment to impartial storytelling and fueled by a satiric 'revolutionary' soundtrack, Cape Spin! is "a gripping and entertaining study of eco-capitalism and grassroots democracy".

This film is about the proliferation of student school shooter and bombers who kill their classmates and teachers in kamikaze attacks.

On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned girl who is secretly in love with him…

The Erie Canal is one of the earliest transcendent tales of the American experience and an endeavor first scoffed at as nothing more than a ditch with a dirt path running beside it. The Erie Canal became the nation’s first great technical innovation and a gateway to prominence. This one-hour documentary marks the bicentennial of the start of construction of the Erie Canal when surveyors and excavators began linking the young United States’ east to its west in 1817 and depicts how a young nation broke through with its first great crusade of ingenuity by willing an impossible-to-build, 363-mile man-made waterway to the American frontier.

This fascinating documentary follows Bess Myerson, the only Jew to win the Miss America title, from her humble beginnings in a Jewish housing project to her eventual surprise victory of the coveted title in 1945. Refusing to change her name to something “less Jewish”, Myerson proudly held fast to her Jewish identity even as antisemitic advertisers and pageant insiders tried to sway judges against voting for her. During her year-long reign, Myerson was denied hotel accommodations and refused entry to country clubs. The experience galvanized Myerson to commit her future to fighting racism by delivering anti-racist lectures in schools and universities.

Shot with a microscope, we follow a few hours in the lives of doomed pond microbes as they are each decimated by a growing air-bubble.