Girls on the Wal
The teenage girls of Warrenville Prison get a shot at redemption in a most unlikely form: a musical based on their lives.
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Full Signal
With over 3.5 billion cell phone users around the world, thousands of cell phone towers popping up in people’s neighborhoods, children’s schools and neighbor’s rooftops, people are starting to feel the effects. Full Signal talks to scientists, lawmakers, lawyers and…
Food Fight
A fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement rebelled against big agribusiness to launch the local organic food movement.
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world’s living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological…
Dancing Across Borders
On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker Anne Bass came across a 16 year old boy who moved her immensely with his amazing and seemingly natural charms and grace as a dancer. Having…
Automorphosis
What if you could morph your car into a mobile work of art, and drive it down the road for all to see? What would it look like? What would the world think of you? How would you be changed?…
A Thousand Suns
Tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region.
Wild Blue Yonder
A portrait of the late documentarian David Maysles by his daughter, Celia.
Who Does She Think She Is
In a half-changed world, women are often forced to choose: Mothering or working? Your children’s wellbeing or your own own? Responsibility or self expression? Who Does She Think She Is?, a documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll,…
Torn from the Flag
A sociopolitical historical documentary-thriller about the international decline of communism and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
This Dust of Words
Thirty years after he last saw her, Stanford English professor John Felstiner finds mystery and wonder in the life of a former student, and in her death.
The Linguists
David and Greg are “The Linguists,” who document languages on the verge of extinction. In the rugged landscapes of Siberia, India, and Bolivia, their resolve is tested by institutionalized racism and violent economic unrest.