BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez offers unprecedented access to the life, work and mesmerizing performances of renowned poet, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez who describes herself as "a woman with razor blades between my teeth."
ARLIT DEUXIEME PARIS is a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger. Here European corporations extract nuclear power and profits leaving behind disease, contamination and unemployment. In French, Bariba, Hausa and Tamashek with English subtitles
A moving, in-depth biography of a Southern white woman organizer and journalist who for a remarkable 60 years participated in the most significant movements for racial and economic justice in this country's most conservative region - the South.
Old home movies, newsreels and a prison diary are interwoven to link personal and public history in this assessment of human rights abuses in Guinea-Conakry. in French with English subtitles
A Sudanese immigrant to the UK returns to her homeland to understand why the seemingly racially harmonious country of her memories has become the scene of one of the worst instances of ethnic cleansing in recent history. What she discovers is that race may be too crude a concept to understand the crisis…
AFRO@DIGITAL looks at the impact of various digital technologies across a broad swath of present-day African life and asks how the technology is affecting African culture and how it can best serve the interests of Africa and the global South. in English, French, Jula and Yoruba with English subtitles
A biography of the labor, activist and pioneer civil rights leader who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters led the fight to desegregate the military and defense industries, and planted the seeds for the 1963 March on Washington.
In August 2017 Mark Row arrived in Edinburgh to perform his stand-up comedy show ‘A1: The Long Road to Edinburgh’ for the entire 25-night run. Just twelve months earlier he had never stepped on stage to perform stand up at all. This documentary follows the story of a man facing his biggest…
A look at people who express themselves musically to escape the violence that surrounds them. Directed by 2-time winner and 13-time nominee DGA Director of the Year, Leslie Dektor.
Sunny San Diego is the place to be if you like lots of Red Trolley, BNSF and Amtrak action. We'll also see new "Surfliner" GM F59PHI engines as they speed under the international airport approach, traveling south to the historic Santa Fe depot, downtown. We're caught in a rare downpour…
This is a visual exploration of what is considered to be one of American railroading's "seven wonders of the world" - the Tehachapi Loop in Southern California. In Volume Two we visit the Mojave river wash, Cameron Crossing, the defect detector at Monolith, the town of Tehachapi, a working…
This is a visual exploration of what is considered to be one of American railroading's "seven wonders of the world" - the Tehachapi Loop in Southern California. Volume One visits Tunnel 3 at Bealville, Mojave Yard, a quarter-mile long "ribbon rail" train, the famous "Loop",…
