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9 August 1999Documentary on a gang-related murder/suicide that left four teenagers dead in the small town of Appleton, Wisonsin.
16 August 1999A look at the media circus during the O.J. Simpson civil trial.
11 October 2005
2 January 2007
5 April 2005
12 December 2006
11 January 2005The remarkable teacher Albert Cullum broke the mold for the boring, uninspiring public school teachers in the 1950s and 60s. This film depicts how he inspired his students of all ages through movement and imagination, and how he challenged them to want to learn more through acting in theatrical productions of the classics. The productions were unconventional by every school standard, but gained recognition throughout the state for being groundbreaking and inspiring.
23 November 2004
27 December 2005
21 February 2006Follows the daily lives of senior residents and the staff of a retirement community in Milwaukee, Wisconisin.
10 August 2003
19 February 2008
11 June 2003
23 January 2007
2004
1 February 2007
16 June 2006
1 April 2008
27 May 2003
21 November 2006
4 May 2004
January 2005Corporate audio and videotapes tell the inside story of the scandal involving one company's manipulation of California's energy supply and its, and how its executives wrung a billion dollars out of the resulting crisis.
9 December 2003
2002
12 March 2005
21 October 2003
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17 January 2006
26 February 2008
January 2006A hip-hop fan addresses the art form's problems with sexism, masculinity, violence, and homophobia.
10 March 2002An intimate portrait of 76-year-old jazz vocal legend Jimmy Scott. The film explores Scott's odyssey of loss and redemption through reminiscence, song, and lush Japanese travelogue.
26 April 2005
27 December 2005
14 February 2006In the 1950s and 1960s, Rochester, New York became known as a successful city with a thriving business community and few problems. On the other hand, large numbers of poor black southerners had been moving to the city in the recent years. Those black citizens were largely denied the good jobs at local factories. These underprivileged citizens also felt themselves the victims of excessive police scrutiny, as well as police brutality. On a summer night in July 1964, there were altercations between the police and African-American Rochesterians. Those events escalated into riots. Over several nights, Rochester stores were looted and the streets were scenes of chaos and violence. Governor Nelson Rockefeller called out the National Guard to help the police keep order.
2 March 2007A born rebel and innovator, Lupe Yoli aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi was renowned for her emotional performances. Her renditions of classics such as "My Way," "Fever" and "Going Out of My Head" were known worldwide. But beyond her musicianship, celebrity and scandal, Lupe Yoli was also a single mother of two, a survivor of domestic abuse, a Santera who later became a Christian Evangelist speaker. Shot in New York City, Miami, La Habana and San Juan, this documentary evokes two groundbreaking cultural periods through rare archival footage -- pre-Revolutionary 1950's La Habana and the burgeoning Latin music scene in New York City in the 1960's and 1970's. The documentary begins with her funeral in 1992, attended by fans, family and the whole of New York's Latino music aristocracy and follows her from poverty to celebrity and back again. La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul tells La Lupe's story through character driven interviews in first person anecdotes, in an oral history much like those found in a folk ballad or a bolero. She was born in a small rural town in Cuba in 1936, one that La Lupe herself loved to describe as "so poor that no one knew it existed until I got famous". Her older sister Norma Yoli describes her as "just another black girl from Santiago", one who loved to imitating the singers she heard on the radio. One of these was Olga Guillot, Cuba's reigning bolero singer - our Latin Frank Sinatra. When the rebellious teenage Lupe wins a radio contest, much like our present day's American Idol, she gets to meet Olga Guillot in La Habana and to sing on the radio. By 1957 La Lupe was the rage in the thriving competitive nightlife in La Habana. Rare archival footage showcases Lupe's peers - Perez Prado, Beni More with Mongo Santamaria, a young Celia Cruz. Helio Orovio, the noted Cuban musicologists describes La Habana in the late 50's as having the most "intense" nightlife in the midst of the onset of Cuba's revolution. Lupe's gay following adores her, and the avant-garde follows. A newspaper headline appears: "La Lupe Divides Cuba in Two". While her inimitable style is described as one befitting the revolutionary times, the headline was a prescient one: like many artists at the time, she leaves Cuba: "there was no room in Cuba for me and the revolution." La Lupe arrives penniless in New York City in 1962. She befriends the world-renowned Afro-Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria, and records with him. Mongo proudly recalls how he introduced La Lupe to "an American" jazz audience and how Tito Puente stole La Lupe from his band once she became the "hottest thing". La Lupe and Tito Puente went on to record a mayor hit in 1964, a Latin classic: "Que Te Pedi" (What Did I Ask of You). Fred Weinberg, La Lupe's favorite recording engineer recalls their collaboration and the early recording sessions. "She was like a hurricane coming in" with Tito urging him to just "start recording". For the next four years they recorded classics and toured the Latin music circuit at the time, in the US, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama and Spain. Ralph Mercado the Latin music impresario (who was also Tito Puente and Celia Cruz's manager) recounts their falling out with the hit "Oriente" where La Lupe herself sings: "Tito Puente kicked me out". La Lupe had gotten too big and Tito had begun to record with Celia Cruz. Striking out on her own in 1968 La Lupe appears on English language television shows. In a present day interview of Dick Cavett, her appearance on his show is put into context for an audience watching in 1973 - though her performance remains thoroughly contemporary. Johnny Pacheco the composer, arranger and music producer recounts the birth of Fania records and the origins of "salsa", the new Latin music sensation. By 1975 La Lupe's career is on the decline while Fania has a new rising star -- Celia Cruz. By 1985 Lupe Yoli has rebounded from a descent into homelessness. Having taken on the preacher's pulpit she recounts this period in her evangelical testimonials. Ahead of her time and often described as the first performance artist and a long-time gay icon, La Lupe's story is universal in its appeal; with the current boom in Latin pop music, it is also timely in trying to discover who Lupe was. The documentary is also a collective portrait of mid-20th century Latin musical history.
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25 March 2003
12 January 2004
15 November 2005
14 February 2007Medical care for Afghan women, after the U.S. invasion.
19 October 2006Life gets turned upside down for Kimberee and Aimee Fung when their father decides to leave his well-paying corporate executive job in San Francisco and move the family to Bakersfield to live with their grandparents and help out with the family business, a massage parlor called "Touch of the Orient." If the social pressure of starting a new high school in the middle of the school year wasn't enough, Kimberlee and Aimee are only two of a handful of Asian American kids at North High. They are constantly challenged by having to make choices that ultimately affect how their peers perceive them as they try to find acceptance.
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