Bleeding Green (WATCH-TRAILER)

On April 13, 1997 the Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League played their final game in Connecticut. The team moved to North Carolina (you know, hockey country) and changed their name to the Hurricanes. Though the team has been gone for over a decade the Hartford Whalers Booster Club has remained active
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Elegy for the Elswick Envoy (WATCH-TRAILER)

Disabled artist Nancy Willis is in search of a home for her much loved, but aging car - the Elswick Envoy. This unique small car was designed to be driven directly from a wheelchair. Launched in the early 1980’s only two hundred were ever made. Nancy’s distinctive red version is one of the last survivors of this rare breed
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Here, Kitty, Kitty (WATCH-TRAILER)

In 2005, the state of Wisconsin became the laughing stock of the nation as it debated a proposal to legalize the shooting of cats. 'Here, Kitty, Kitty' scratches beneath the media blitz to reveal a surprisingly nuanced tale involving ruthless cat-lovers, unapologetic cat-drowners, slandered scientists, death threats, and deposed politicians
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Katrina's Children (WATCH-TRAILER)

Katrina's Children is a multi-faceted portrait of nineteen children, ages 5 through 13, from different neighborhoods of New Orleans. Told entirely from the children?s point of view, the film captures with vivid poignancy the tragic ramifications of the greatest man made and natural disaster in modern American History
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Killer Poet (WATCH-TRAILER)

For the past twenty years, Norman Porter has been Massachusetts’ most wanted fugitive: A convicted double-murderer who walked away from prison, Leaving behind an ideal prison record, A new constitution for the prisoners of Norfolk Prison, An impressive scholastic record, And the hope of being granted parole somewhere down the road
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Ladies of the Land (WATCH-TRAILER)

Ladies of the Land tells the story of four women who never thought they’d be farmers, but today have dedicated their lives to goats, grains and green beans. Although women have always been involved in farming, it has long been thought of as a “man’s job.” That’s all changing....more

SS United States: Lady in Waiting

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Designed to be a secret weapon in the cold war disguised as a luxurious passenger liner, the SS United States was the pride of America during her flawless service career from 1952 to 1969
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Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later

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After Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus defied the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling and ordered the National Guard to prevent nine black teenagers from entering Central High School, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops from the U.S. Army to protect the students as they entered the building
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Red Gold (WATCH-TRAILER)

At the headwaters of the Kvichak and the Nushagak Rivers in Bristol Bay Alaska—the two largest remaining sockeye salmon runs on the planet—mining companies Northern Dynasty and Anglo American have proposed to extract what may prove to be the richest deposit of gold and copper in the world
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Secrecy (WATCH-TRAILER)

In a single recent year, the U.S. classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress. We live in a world where the production of secret knowledge dwarfs the production of open knowledge
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Salt Harvesters of Ghana (WATCH-TRAILER)

Stunning images of women working on a moon-like landscape, frame the unrelenting cycle of work of the women of Ada who harvest salt with their bare hands in the dry season and farm in the rainy season. Located in rural coastal Ghana, the natural forming salt lagoon has provided income for the local women for over three hundred years.
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The Big Read: A Conversation With Ray Bradbury

'In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon. In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel' -Ray Bardbury, from Fahrenheit 451
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The Dhamma Brother (WATCH-TRAILER)

East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison-the end of the line in Alabama's correctional system-is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts who will never see the light of day
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TODAY THE HAWK TAKES ONE CHICK (WATCH-TRAILER)

Witnessing the highest rate of HIV infection in the world and the lowest life expectancy TODAY THE HAWK TAKES ONE CHICK moves delicately between the lives of three grandmothers whose experiences highlight a rural community at the threshold of simultaneous collapse and reinvention
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Very Young Girls (WATCH-TRAILER)

Very Young Girls chronicles the journey of young women through the underground world of sexual exploitation in New York City. It follows the girls in real time, using verite and intimate interviews with the girls both when they are still working and when in recovery, The film also uses footage shot by pimps themselves that illustrate exactly how it all starts...more.

Waiting for Hockney (WATCH-TRAILER)

Waiting for Hockney explores the sometimes precarious line between dreams and delusion. An art school graduate living with his parents in rural Maryland, Billy decided that he would reinvent realism. He spent ten years on one drawing, a painstakingly precise recreation of a Richard Avedon photograph of Marilyn Monroe
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Weiner Takes All (WATCH-TRAILER)

Take a journey into the unexplored world of wiener dog racing, home to capacity crowds, healthy dachshunds and rabid owners. 'Wiener' unleashes the truth as it tracks America's fastest weenies on a tour of the professional dachshund racing circuit
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