The Longoria Affair

In Texas after World War II, a funeral home refuses to care for a dead Mexican American soldier’s body “because the whites wouldn’t like it,” sparking nationwide outrage and helping to launch a civil rights movement. Read More

Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian

Take an entertaining trip through the evolution of North American Native people ("The Indians") as portrayed in famous Hollywood movies from the silent era to today. Read More

Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)

A young Latina filmmaker chronicles the emotional journey of her uncle, a U.S. military vet deported to Mexico, and uncovers the secrets of her family’s past, when they had to start over and forge new lives in an unfamiliar “homeland.” Read More

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

An examination of the life and work of the Jewish anthropologist Melville Herskovits, whose writings challenged prevailing notions of race and culture, opening a deeper civic discussion about who has the right to define someone else’s identity. Read More

Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

From a man nearly destroyed by crime, drugs, and poverty to an admired media icon, Petey Greene defied labeling. With his patois of street talk, Bible citations, rhyming rap, and quotes from his grandmother, he was America’s original shock-jock. Read More

Power Paths

Power Paths follows a grassroots coalition of Native Americans and environmental groups determined to transform their reservation’s economy to green energy, preserving their land for future generations. Read More

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. More than 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by. Welcome to South Central Los Angeles. Read More

Arusi Persian Wedding

Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to Iran as he travels with his American wife to have a traditional Persian wedding and explore his lost heritage. Read More

The Order of Myths

The first Mardi Gras in America was held in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. Three hundred and five years later, the city’s annual Carnival is split down the middle, with separate but not quite equal celebrations — one for whites and one for blacks. Read More

Tulia, Texas

Tulia, Texas is the story of a small town’s search for justice and the price Americans pay for the nation’s war on drugs. Read More

March Point

The journey of three teens from the Swinomish Indian Tribe who make a film about the threat from two local oil refineries to understand themselves, their history, and the environmental threat to their people. Read More

Writ Writer

Writ Writer tells the story of an indigent and under-educated Mexican American sentenced to prison in 1961, and his extraordinary legal battle against the violence and abuse of prisoners’ rights in the Texas prison system. Read More