America

Their families were already struggling to make ends meet. Then came the coronavirus. Director Jezza Neumann, who made 2012’s Poor Kids, once again delves into how poverty impacts children. With the 2020 election approaching, Growing Up Poor in America follows three children and their families in the battleground state of Ohio as the COVID-19 pandemic amplifies their struggle to stay afloat. As the country also reckons with issues of race and racism, the children share their worries and hopes about their futures.

A diptych collection of vignettes focusing on the migrant workers of Liberty City, a polygonal metropolis that resembles the heart of America.

A moving portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting that fragile community of memory connecting ourselves with parents and grandparents. It uses the “biographical model” of folklore filmmaking to tell the story of Erikki Vourenmaa, a 92-year-old Finnish immigrant, and his family living near Ironwood, Michigan. This three-generation farm family works, celebrates, reflects, and grieves together. The film explores the meaning of family, ethnic history, aging and intergenerational bonds. It contrasts between the immigrant elder, his American-born son and the partially assimilated grandchildren to illustrate change and continuity in the "sauna belt" of the Lake Superior Region. As Dr. Sharon Sherman concluded, “Loukinen’s focus on the bonds between generations will strike emotional chords about family relationships and ethnic identity for numerous cultural groups.”

Ulli Lommel was an obsessive and productive filmmaker of the Fassbinder era. He died in December 2017 leaving behind his 64th film, an angry but not entirely gloomy satire about the state of his adopted country, the USA.

A dysfunctional family try to connect at a Sunday brunch.

Director Remso W. Martinez ("Haunted Republic" and the Remso Republic podcast) follows Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas on election day, 2017 to discover not just why this young representative is capturing national attention, but also why so many people of different life experiences are taking time out of their lives to not just push a candidate, but a vision for the future focused on liberty.

This is the story of the first African American artist to earn worldwide acclaim.

Written + Directed by David OReilly for Adult Swim. Animation by Mike Scott + DOR. Sound by Brent Busby. © DPRK 1992

Andrew Graham-Dixon, a leading UK art critic, crosses the Atlantic to explore the story of American art.

Drag racing documentary. See the stars of funny car racing with their crews and hang arounds. An absolute must see if you're into drag racing.

A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.

A visual celebration of the beauty, strength, perseverance and spirit of the Black community in these troubling times.

1 in 3 children is impacted by this environmental illness- 22,000,000 U.S. children today, but chances are they've never even tested your child. It conservatively costs the U.S. $100 billion annually, however a carefully crafted political campaign has made you think it's not your problem. Think again.

Winter in America is a stop-motion animation video that recreates the events leading up to the robbing and murder of Hank Willis Thomas’s cousin, Songha, in February 2000 outside a club in Philadelphia. Basing the narrative on eye-witness accounts, the artists use G.I. Joe action figures, similar to those they played with during childhood, to tell the story. The video examines a culture in which young boys are encouraged to act out such violent scenarios before they can even read. More generally, it is critical of America’s unquenchable thirst for material goods.

This United States Army film tells the story of a Japanese woman who marries an American serviceman and moves with him to the United States.

An aspiring dancer, fresh off the boat from Bulgaria is taken under the wing of a French-Israeli choreographer battling cancer. She is finally empowered to take a stance against her abusive Bulgarian rock star boyfriend and sees her dream through. A Jordanian Muslim doctor, secretly leading a gay relationship with an American, is surprised with a visit from his Jordanian fiancée. He painfully juggles the two opposing worlds until he is pressed in all directions to make a choice. A hard working widower and father from the Ivory Coast is at odds with his troubled teenage daughter who takes desperate measures to try to fit in with her American schoolmates.

PBS doc series about the Chicano Civil Rights Movement.

1990 documentary by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, featuring sociologist Rebecca Adams, PhD, who examines Deadhead subculture through a theoretical framework based on the ideas of social theorist Georg Simmel. Aired on PBS in the early 90s.

The documentary shows us the latest porn cinema in the city of Quito, they tell us their experiences and how they have managed to survive over the years, which allows a broader view of how an old porn cinema works.

Using obscure archival footage, animated illustrations and interviews, this film tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of five Vietcong veterans: a soldier, an officer, an informant, a guerilla, a My Lai survivor, and the leader of the Long Hair army.