Documents the as-yet-untold WWII story of young Jewish men and women who escaped certain death at the hands of the Nazis…and returned to fight them in Europe and North Africa. Told via the recollections of these brave men and women, the film chronicles the journey from Nazi victim, to refugee and finally, to Allied soldiers and spies.

Explores the life and music of the legendary drummer, bandleader and social activist--a remarkable series of creative peaks, personal struggles and reinventions--from Jim Crow to the Civil Rights years, from the heady days of post-war modern jazz to hip hop and beyond.

At a time when many claim that systemic racism in America is a myth, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A PROBLEM? exposes it.

After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of BAD AXE, Michigan,at the start of the pandemic, Asian American filmmaker David Siev documents his family’s struggles to keep their restaurant afloat. As fears of the virus grow, deep generational scars dating back to Cambodia’s bloody “killing fields” come to the fore, straining the relationship between the family’s patriarch, Chun, and his daughter, Jaclyn. When the BLM movement takes center stage...

The extraordinary life of Abdus Salam, 1979 Nobel prize winning Pakistani physicist, today, even as he casts an outsized shadow on the world of physics, Salam’s legacy remains deliberately blotted out in Pakistan. The epitaph on his tomb initially read “First Muslim Nobel Laureate”, but ‘Muslim’ was scratched out on official orders. SALAM: THE FIRST ****** NOBEL LAUREATE depicts this extraordinary yet ultimately tragic life, intertwining...

Fannie Lou Hamer was a leader in the civil rights movement, founder of the Freedom Democratic Party in Mississippi, and the organizer of Freedom Summer, a volunteer-based campaign launched in the summer of 1964 in order to register as many Black voters in Mississippi as possible. FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA, a documentary produced by her grand-niece Monica Land, is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her...

Award-winning filmmakers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi release a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood – they follow Mir and his familyfilmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe. They form a portrait of embattled Afghanistan that no other film has ever captured. War, politics, poverty, and heartbreak – all seen from the level of a child frolicking in a muddy, bullet-laden pool, playing soccer on a dirt pitch,...

Emily Ford sets out with a borrowed Alaskan Husky sled dog to hike the entire 1200-mile Ice Age Trail in winter in subzero temperatures, the first woman and person of color to attempt this challenge.

As the world grappled with pandemic isolation, Edith Espinal entered her third year of sanctuary in a Midwestern church. A SHELTER FOR EDITH sheds light on the solitary life of one undocumented woman and the threat that sent her indoors--not the pandemic, but the fear that ICE could tear her family apart.

An insightful and moving documentary feature film exploring in rich detail the remarkable story behind the Polynesian Pipeline to the NFL.A contemporary American story, the film transports viewers deep inside the tightly-knit and complex Polynesian community in Salt Lake City, Utah, one of the chief sources for the modern influx of Pacific Islander NFLers. With unprecedented access and shot over a fouryear time period, the film intimately portrays...