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They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only to...

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They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families...

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The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mako

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Melvin Van Peebles

This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely...

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A film by Hugh King and Lamar Williams - a powerful mix of archival material, news clips and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barbara Grant

The career of iconic and influential poet and writer Audre Lorde is seen up until death.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Audre Lorde

Three black families, observed in their daily lives, their thoughts, values, and aspirations expressed on the soundtrack, and their different...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lauren Craig

This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins...

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech captured by Third World Newreel

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Luther King Jr.

This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and Whites live in a complex world of cotton, work,...

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This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina...

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An introduction to Kim-Trang's video series on metaphorical and physical blindness, ALETHEIA explores the interconnected issues of cosmetic surgical...

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Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, WE ARE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yasser Arafat

During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase....

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In 2003, Sakia Gunn was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. She was fifteen years old and called herself an Aggressive, an...

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As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police...

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This short film offers a rare look at Noam Chomsky in the late 1960s as he speaks candidly about the war in Vietnam and articulates critiques that...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Noam Chomsky

Art, dance, music and poetry became a vital necessity for the liberated areas of South Vietnam in their daily efforts to survive the bombings and...

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Documents the life of a member of a transsexual sect, both at her home in the countryside and with a group of her fellows in a Hamam in Bangalore.

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