Film Americ

THE GREAT WHITE HOAX, featuring acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores how American political leaders of both parties have been tapping into white anxiety, stoking white grievance, and scapegoating people of color for decades to divide and conquer working class voters and shore up political support.

After an attempt to bring Syrian refugees into the predominately white New England town of Rutland, Vermont, unleashes deep partisan rancor, a longtime Rutland resident emerges as an unexpected leader in a town divided by class, cultural values, and divisive politics.

Haunted by the nightmares of abused children, a young American woman, Rony goes to Pakistan to investigate Child Labor. When she is captured by a child slaver in Death Valley, her handsome Pakistani guide, Ben Hur tries to save her.

A short film about Mardi Gras in New Orleans from the point of view of those who make Carnival happen.

In July 2014, mainstream US media became flooded with images of what they termed “unaccompanied Central American children.” Most of these children—many coming with their parents—were fleeing from the violent consequences of U.S. intervention in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Once in the United States, they were detained in what migrants have come to label “hieleras” (ice boxes) in makeshift detention centers around the country. Rather than providing asylum to these refugees, the Obama Administration used this “humanitarian crisis” to expand the previously defunct practice of family detention.

Moral injury is a war inside. No one should fight alone.

In this beautifully animated short documentary, we hear from Dr. Regina Davis-Sower--scholar, lecturer, and Black aunt--about the crucial legacy and role of the Black aunt.

Dinosaur Wars is the story of two talented scientists, O.C. Marsh and Edward Cope, whose once professional rivalry soured into a bitter personal feud. Together, Marsh and Cope were responsible for identifying more than 142 different species and for introducing dinosaurs into the American imagination, but their legacy would be forever marred by two decades of ruthless infighting, espionage, and sabotage.

This program includes three of Bruce Brown's short films: "The Wet Set," featuring the Hobie-MacGregor Surf Team; "America's Newest Sport," presenting the Hobie Super Surfer Skateboard Team; and an early television special which includes the first surfing trip to Japan with 12-year-old Peter Johnson and Del Cannon in a segment filmed, but not used for, "The Endless Summer."

Filmed in 1987, this documentary chronicles the journey of Via Rail's The Canadian as it makes its way across Canada.

This adventure, directed by John Matthews, tells the story of the very first fateful meeting between George and the man with the yellow hat. Upon seeing him in the jungle, our nameless hero takes the little monkey to America with him, where he embarks on his very first series of urban antics!

An American and the owners of a dance studio face off against a druglord who has his sights on the property to further his opium trafficking enterprise.

An ordinary camping trip turns into a horrifying nightmare when four friends, arm with a 16mm camera, uncover the existence of a race of giant reptilian monsters that emerge from a nearby lake to terrorize a small town

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown

By the time he died in 1931, Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most famous men in the world. The holder of more patents than any other inventor in history, Edison had achieved glory as the genius behind such revolutionary inventions as sound recording, motion pictures, and electric light. Born on the threshold of America's burgeoning industrial empire, Edison's curiosity led him to its cutting edge. With just three months of formal schooling, he took on one seemingly impossible technical challenge after another, and through intuition, persistence, and a unique team approach to innovation, invariably solved it. Driven and intensely competitive, Edison was often neglectful in his private life and could be ruthless in business. Challenged by competition in the industry he'd founded, Edison launched an ugly propaganda campaign against his rivals, and used his credibility as an electrical expert to help ensure that high-voltage electrocution became a form of capital punishment.

A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.

In the United States, many children die each year from neglect, due to reasons related to the religious practice of their parents who are not allowed to seek for a doctor, even in the case of a life-saving emergency. A glimpse into the life of those families who are followers of the healing faith: for them, only prayer and God should heal their members.