This is a 6 video collection.

While discussing politics at their dinner table, filmmaker Julie Winokur’s 17-year-old son called her ‘one of the most intolerant people he had ever met.’ The accusation stopped Winokur in her tracks and made her realize that she actually wasn’t listening to people with different political views. In fact, she was as much to blame for the divisive tone of politics in America as the people whom she blamed. So rather than continue to be a part...

Cody High: A Life Remodeled Project focuses on the efforts of Detroit’s impoverished Cody Rouge community to remove blight and create a safe environment for students at the local schools, including the hundreds of students who attend Cody High School.. In 2014, residents of Cody Rouge, in partnership with Life Remodeled, a Detroit-focused non-profit organization and 10,000 volunteers rose up to bring new life to the troubled neighborhood. Together...

SERMONS AND SACRED PICTURES profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Memphis-based Baptist minister who in the 1930s and 40s built a fiery reputation by lacing his sermons with parables, fables and dramatic visual descriptions. Taylor was also an inspired photographer and filmmaker with a keen interest in preserving a visual and aural record of the fabric of black American life. He photographed and filmed businesses and schools, the National Baptist Convention,...

White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society...

This documentary uncovers the largely unknown and pivotal role played by Black landowning families in the deep South who controlled over a million acres in the 1960s. They were prepared to put their land and their lives on the line in the fight for racial equality and the right to vote in America’s most segregated and violently racist state.. In the face of escalating terror, Black landowners and independent farmers provided safe havens, collateral...

In this one-hour election special, award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa takes us on location to: Cleveland, Ohio where Arab Americans who are Muslim and Christian register to vote and run for office to combat Islamophobia; Orlando, Florida as Latino Evangelicals find their political voice and support conservative causes as well as immigration reform; Orange County, California, where Asian American candidates face off in one of the state's predominantly...

In much of America, progress in HIV/AIDS treatment suggests the worst is behind us, but every year 50,000 Americans are still diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS. Astonishingly, it’s one of the leading causes of death of African American women. And nearly half of the Americans with HIV live in the South, where the AIDS epidemic has taken root in rural communities.. WILHEMINA’S WAR is an intimate, personal narrative that tells the story of...

In a mountain estate a group of Chileans make a radical decision: to leave behind their comfortable existence to isolate themselves in the country and practice an intense Christian lifestyle. When one of the group's members dies under strange circumstances, a harsh judicial process threatens their future as a collective. This is a story about faith, social prejudice, and the fine line between normalcy and insanity.

This inspiring story reveals the power of football to change people’s lives. Hundreds of millions of kids play football every day. For many of them, football grants are the only way to access education or the ticket to a better future. In some cases, it is their only way to survive.. The life of Mubiru Rigan depends on one of these sport grants. Rigan dreams of being the next Fernando Torres and scoring the goal that brings Uganda their first African...