We Believe in Dinosaurs is an exploration of the scientific and historical veracity of the Bible and the construction of an authentic likeness of Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky. Known as “The ...
In King Corn, two recent college graduates plant a single acre of corn and set out to follow it on its journey from the seed to the dinner plate.
An Israeli soccer club's fans waged a racist campaign after their team, Beitar, added two Muslim players from Chechnya.
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness examines the life and work of the Jewish-American anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, whose writings challenged prevailing notions of race and culture.
The $100+ billion video game industry is big. So big, in fact, that it dwarfs both the film and music industry combined. Gaming as a hobby has become much more popular every year since the 1990s, ...
“Besides a well, one does not thirst. Besides a sister, one does not despair.” — Nüshu poem Inspired by a bestselling book that featured Nüshu, filmmaker Violet Du Feng was surprised at how little she ...
July '64 explores the genesis and outcome of a three-night riot that erupted in two predominantly black neighborhoods in downtown Rochester, NY in 1964, a significant event in the Civil Rights era.
There’s a slippery slope in the climb toward social acceptance. Why do people do what they do to be part of something, not just in college environments but in foreign policy war rooms, in workplaces, ...
The ancient sport of sumo traces its history back more than two thousand years. But as more and more Americans enter professional sumo rings both home and abroad, Sumo East and West asks if sumo will ...
The Atom Smashers tells the story of the quest of a group of scientists to find the most elusive sub-atomic particles ever theorized: the Higgs boson.
We count on indie filmmakers to sniff out the conspicuous absences in mainstream media. Journalist and investigative reporter Amy Goodman once said, “The role of independent media is to go to where ...
The one-child policy was introduced to China in 1979, written into the national constitution in 1982, and subsequently ended in 2015. Over the 36 years of the policy, entire generations have been ...