A Sad Flower in the Sand
A Sad Flower in the Sand captures writer John Fante’s deep-rooted love of the city of Los Angeles in a film about a dream and a city of dreamers. Read More
Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire
Narrated by Tom Brokaw, Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire pays tribute to a legendary journalist and artist who epitomizes the fiercely independent voice that has been vanishing from American news media in recent years. Read More
Muskrat Lovely
Muskrat Lovely follows eight beauty contestants in the weeks leading to the 50th crowning of Miss Outdoors in an attempt to answer how a beauty pageant and a muskrat skinning contest came to co-exist. Read More
The World According to Sesame Street
The World According to Sesame Street explores the drama and complexities behind producing international versions of the world’s most popular children’s television program. Read More
Music from the Inside Out
Featuring the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Music from the Inside Out weaves together a mosaic of the stories, ideas, experiences and music making that form the heart of these musicians’ lives, inside and outside the concert hall. Read More
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Tracing the history of professional bowling in America from its glory days in the 1950s and 1960s to its near extinction by the late 1990s, A League of Ordinary Gentlemen follows the fate of four pro bowlers as they compete on tour. Read More
Trudell
Combining images and archival footage with interviews and performances, this biography reveals the philosophy and motivations behind Native American activist and poet John Trudell’s work and its relationship to contemporary Indian history. Read More
The Loss of Nameless Things
In 1978, Oakley Hall III was a brilliant 28-year-old playwright who lost everything after a single moment on a slippery bridge snatched his brilliant mind, and left him a stranger to himself and those who loved him. Read More
Race Is the Place
Race Is the Place presents the creative visions of a group of multicultural actors, poets, visual artists and musicians on America’s most pressing social issues. Read More
Mirror Dance
One embraced the Cuban revolution, the other American democracy. Separated by time, place and politics, identical twins Margarita and Ramona de Saá continued to share a passion for dance. Read More
Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
From a 1960s barbershop doo-wop group to 1970s masters of funk, through pitfalls, comebacks, to becoming the world's most sampled band, P-Funk continues to perform, record, and funk on into the 21st century. Read More
Brother to Brother
This film invokes the glory days of the Harlem Renaissance through the memories of Bruce Nugent (Robinson), who co-founded the revolutionary literary journal Fire!! with legendary authors Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Wallace Thurman. Read More