America

A musician and a fireman work against certain expectations in order to pursue their respective dreams.

A portrait of sino-american friendship

A feature documentary following hemp farmers, a hemp food company, and state regulators through one year in the Colorado hemp industry. The film tracks the raw hemp from the fields to the shelves of American grocery stores. Along the way, Evo Hemp partners with Alex White Plume of the Oglala Lakota tribe to create the first Native American hemp products in the United States.

American Waste takes us into the world of Joan and Miles as they navigate through their life of junkyard dogs, public access psychics, and metalhead neighbors. Joan works shifts at the local junkyard to afford the couple’s prized sofa bed. In the midst of this seemingly never-ending cycle, the couple struggles to figure out what their next move is and if they are really ready to move on from their friends and the deadbeat town that they’ve grown to love.

Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular blues artists, including: T-Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Victory Spivey, T-Bone Walker ...

Documentary on drug use in America

"American Shopper" is a feature-length film about one man's passionate and comic struggle to start an unlikely new sport, and about the citizens of a small town who overcome their initial skepticism and get swept up in his crazy dream. The film follows the stories of several townspeople who decide to participate in the sport and compete in the 1st National Aisling Championship, and whose lives are turned upside down in the process.

An attempt at an endurance record of James' own creation becomes a struggle for something much more important.

On the eve of the US election, with the backdrop of Covid and racial tension, this documentary examines the experience of poverty through the eyes of three children in the battleground state of Ohio.

Montana-area Native Americans speak about the Earth that drilling is taking from them.

The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a word ball, gives a literal stroke and makes an imaginary goal in this film about football, passion and poetry. João Cabral's America goes beyond the four lines of the field or paper, it transcends time and the field; update the memory to the fact that the love of football will not be volatile or ephemeral, neither in defeat nor in victory.

Joseph Smith (1805-44), the founder of the Mormon Church, is profiled. "When so many were looking for answers to questions larger than life," says narrator Gregory Peck, "[Smith] said that he had them." But many disagreed, and the life of "Brother Joseph" - as chronicled here in readings, re-creations, and comments by historians (some of them Mormons) and LDS officials - was marked by frequent flights from enemies.

An investigation into how teenagers from Central America were smuggled into the U.S. by traffickers who promised them jobs and a better life — only to force them to live and work in virtual slavery to pay off their debt.“Trafficked in America,” produced by Daffodil Altan and Andrés Cediel, with Altan as correspondent, shines light on a major labor trafficking case in which Guatemalan teens were forced by a third party contractor to work against their will at a farm in Ohio. Through the lens of this case, the documentary presents a look inside the reality of labor trafficking in America.

SOLD IN AMERICA is a glimpse into the world of sex trafficking in the United States through the stories of three women sold at an early age, whom we now meet as empowered survivors. On the streets of our own neighborhoods, an immigrant is lured into a fake job that turns out to be a trap; a child is sold by her relative to sexual predators during weekend visits; and a teenager is forced by her boyfriend to turn tricks in motel rooms. After conquering their tragic past, Maria, Miriam, and Michele offer voices of hope for those still in captivity today, and a call to action for us all to create awareness and eradicate modern-day slavery.

Woody Allen talks about his career and his creative process with excerpts from some of his movies

Documentary about the inmates and penal officers of Alabama's Limestone Correctional Facility and Arizona's Estrella County Jail, the first prison ever to put women on a chain gang.

The director paints a car with the Canadian flag and embarks on a road trip through America in search of the meaning of the so-called American Dream, ultimately searching out Hunter S. Thompson to hear his wisdom.

A freshman Philadelphia city councilman pressures police to reduce traffic stops by 30 percent, decreasing interactions between officers and people of color.

Three college boys think that everything American is fabulous; everything Indian is backward. Determined to get to America, they cook up one hair-brained scheme after another to get the all-important 'letter of sponsorship' from America.