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  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place

    51967HD

    The time is early autumn. The woman wakes and dresses the boy. He practices with his sling while she spreads a caribou skin to dry. The boy picks...

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place
  • 1978
    Death of the Grandfather or: The Sleep of the Just

    Death of the Grandfather or: The Sleep of the Just

    Death of the Grandfather or: The Sleep of the Just

    5.51978HD

    A tale, told by his five daughters, of the life and death of a man very representative of a Protestant Switzerland in the early 20th century where...

    Death of the Grandfather or: The Sleep of the Just
  • 2021
    A Reckoning in Boston

    A Reckoning in Boston

    A Reckoning in Boston

    02021HD

    Kafi Dixon dreams of starting a land cooperative for women of color who have experienced trauma and disenfranchisement in the city of Boston. By day...

    A Reckoning in Boston
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp

    5.51967HD

    It is late autumn and the Eskimos travel through soft snow and build karmaks, shelters with snow walls and a roof of skins, in the river valley. The...

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimo Series, III: At the Spring Sea Ice Camp

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, III: At the Spring Sea Ice Camp

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, III: At the Spring Sea Ice Camp

    5.51967HD

    Two Eskimo families travel across the wide sea ice. Before night falls they build small igloos and we see the construction in detail. The next day a...

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, III: At the Spring Sea Ice Camp
  • 2001
    A Calling to Care

    A Calling to Care

    A Calling to Care

    02001HD

    A Calling to Care is the inspiring story of 55 year-old Grace Stanley, a Canadian nurse who left her home and prestigious career behind to answer a...

    A Calling to Care
  • 1970
    Inside the Khmer Rouge

    Inside the Khmer Rouge

    Inside the Khmer Rouge

    01970HD

    Inside the Khmer Rouge takes an in-depth look at the history, domination, and current status of the Khmer Rouge (a Communist regime) in Cambodia. The...

    Inside the Khmer Rouge
  • 2006
    Punk the Vote!

    Punk the Vote!

    Punk the Vote!

    02006HD

    Roach and Starbuck, two hardcore punks from Montreal, try to form their own political party, but run out of time due to Canada's electoral process....

    Punk the Vote!
  • 1967
    Netsilik Series

    Netsilik Series

    Netsilik Series

    61967HD

    These films reveal the live reality of traditional Eskimo life before the European acculturation. The Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay region in the...

    Netsilik Series
  • 1970
    First Film

    First Film

    First Film

    01970HD

    FIRST FILM was edited and narrated by Lorna Marshall and is comprised of footage shot in 1951 on the second Marshall family expedition to the...

    First Film
  • 2014
    Beyond Recognition

    Beyond Recognition

    Beyond Recognition

    02014HD

    After decades struggling to protect her ancestors' burial places, now engulfed by San Francisco's sprawl, a Native woman from a federally...

    Beyond Recognition
  • 1996
    A Hard Life

    A Hard Life

    A Hard Life

    01996HD

    Kalliopi Kalogerou has spent her whole life in the Greek village of Ano Ravenia where she was born in 1900. Simple witness of the century, she lived...

    A Hard Life
  • 1970
    The Last Kamikaze

    The Last Kamikaze

    The Last Kamikaze

    01970HD

    This film explores the minds of former suicide bombers who participated in the first well-orchestrated suicide mission in modern history, the one...

    The Last Kamikaze
  • 1978
    If It Fits

    If It Fits

    If It Fits

    01978HD

    The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film's subjects, "a...

    If It Fits
  • 2000
    I Like Hearts Like Mine - Markos Vamvakaris

    I Like Hearts Like Mine - Markos Vamvakaris

    I Like Hearts Like Mine - Markos Vamvakaris

    02000HD

    This film will help to introduce rebetiko, a relatively unknown musical form outside of Greece, to an international audience. It includes musical and...

    I Like Hearts Like Mine - Markos Vamvakaris
  • 1970
    Thread of the Needle

    Thread of the Needle

    Thread of the Needle

    01970HD

    Ano Ravenia, a mountain village in Greece, young men leave to find work, learn a trade or serve in the Army while a young woman may leave her...

    Thread of the Needle
  • 1974
    Naim and Jabar

    Naim and Jabar

    Naim and Jabar

    01974HD

    The hopes, fears, and aspirations of adolescence are expressed in the close friendship of two Afghan boys. As their acceptance of the filmmakers...

    Naim and Jabar