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- A documentary about the 1930s drought of North American prairie farm land, and its consequences during the great depression.
- A documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement from 1952 to 1965.
- Young lesbian parents Shareen and Claire are raising their 5-year-old daughter Honey in a converted garage on Staten Island. Shareen salvages refuse with her pickup truck while Claire waits tables at the hip Naga Saki restaurant in Manhattan, caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. As a ghost barge bearing nuclear refuse circles the planet in search of a willing port, household pets begin to glow ominously, then disappear; and people start speaking in tongues. The crisis escalates when a multinational corporation is implicated, the couple's daughter Honey mysteriously vanishes, and a group of young New Yorkers strike back in an unlikely alliance with activists in the developing world.
- Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.
- A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
- An avant-garde omnibus that features works by off-the-wall artists in many different disciplines.
- This film involves three interwoven stories with the only seeming connection being the delusions of the involved leads. In the first element of the film, a hot-tempered world tennis star loses endorsement contracts when the press outs him even though he claims the report is false. In the second, a talent-less woman struggles to make it in the world of fashion design or the music video business. In the last, an animal activist runs a dog-adoption agency and has an imaginary friend who appears in a St. Bernard suit.
- The only series on television in the US to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists, "Art in the Twenty-First Century" is a Peabody Award-winning biennial program following artists at work as they transform inspiration into art.
- An African American couple search for intimacy and friendship.
- The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover. The final fifteen minutes of the film are the premiere performance in its entirety.
- When Darius Clark Monroe was only 16, he and two friends decided to rob a bank. It altered the course of his life forever-and led to an unexpected connection.
- A film showing Homer Croy on his trip around the world in India. The film contains the following scenes: Medical missionaries examining patients, then giving medicine by permitting each seated patient a sip out of a cup containing medicine; scene outside the hospital of an English doctor questioning new applicants, one by one, with an interpreter; a yard, patients squatting on the stone pavement; it is dinner time and the meal consists of some greens and capsules; natives listen to a sermon; the women are in a separate department. Later the eye doctor examines dozens of women who are blind.
- In many African countries, fewer than 20% of girls ever enter a classroom, and across the continent, only one woman in three learns to read. "These Girls Are Missing" offers small sets of stories, sharp glimpses into a few intimate relationships layered to mirror the complex reality.
- Two health care workers Sierra Leone face the Ebola epidemic in their country.