This gripping historical documentary brings to life the many voices who tried to make sense of one of the lesser-known tragedies of World War II: Japan's brutal 1937 invasion of China's then-capital city, known as "the rape of Nanking."
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Thousands of players around the globe train hard and compete to be part of the Homeless World Cup.
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A little-known chapter in American history in which towns forced their entire African American populations to leave.
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Enter a culture that only happens 30 minutes a day in the women's bathroom of the Staten Island Ferry.
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- 'August in the Empire State'
'August in the Empire State' delves into the forgotten debate over the growth of poverty in America.
- 'Churning the Sea of Time'
Director Les Guthman travels by boat up the Mekong Delta, through the exquisite, complicated, surprising terrain of Vietnam and Cambodia to the great ruins at Angkor.
- 'Danielson: A Family Movie'
Follow multi-media artist and musician Daniel Smith as he creates a musical phenomenon using his siblings and friends.
- 'Everything's Cool'
A film about America finally "getting" global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action.
- 'Ferry Tales'
A sneak peek into a culture that only happens 30 minutes a day in the women's bathroom of the Staten Island Ferry.
- 'Going Back to New Orleans'
The story of rock and roll told through the eyes of Big Easy musical icon, Deacon John Moore.
- 'The Ground Truth'
Real stories from Iraq war veterans on the difficulties they face upon their return home
- 'Horns and Halos'
The unlikely connection of three men whose paths to power and popularity become tangled in a controversial book about President George W. Bush
- 'In Debt We Trust'
While many Americans may be "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands.
- 'Knocking'
How Jehovah's Witnesses have helped shape history beyond the doorstep.
- 'The Making of a Martyr'
A journey into the world of a child suicide bomber
- 'Media That Matters'
The Media That Matters Film Festival is the premiere showcase for short films on the most important topics of the day.
- 'Occupation: Dreamland'
An unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Falluja during the winter of 2004
- 'Off The Menu'
For fifty years, Chasen's restaurant and bar was the gathering place for Hollywood's elite, U.S. presidents and royalty.
- 'Please Vote for Me'
Want to find out how democracy really works? Then head to China.
- 'Reel Works'
Poignant shorts filmed by Brooklyn teens on subjects ranging from Muslim identity to the loss of a parent
- 'Sentenced Home'
Raised as Americans in inner-city Seattle, three young Cambodian men are unwillingly deported back to Cambodia.
- 'Summercamp!'
Follow the day-to-day drama of 90 kids let loose in the woods at Swift Nature Camp in northern Wisconsin.
- 'True Stories At Sundance 2007'
Watch exclusive interviews and conversations with filmmakers at the premiere showcase for independent film.
- 'Weapons of Mass Deception'
Busts through the myth of so-called "objective reporting" to challenge media complicity with the government and its cooperation in presenting the Iraq War the way it did.
- 'The World's Best Prom'
Racine, Wis., an otherwise humble, sweet-natured Midwestern town, mightily obsessed with the senior prom
Shadow Company
"Colin Powell calls it a coalition of the willing. I call it a coalition of the billing."
Robert Young Pelton, Author, The World's Most Dangerous PlacesMore >
Ferry Tales
Irma
"It's a big mystery to most people, because they keep wondering why are all these women coming in here. It's this black hole almost, you know, they seem to go in and they don't seem to come out. And it's not that they don't come out, it's just that they come out looking like different people." More
Liz
"In my mind, you know, every day is really a fairy tale. Because you wake up and you really don't know what's going to happen. So you have the opportunity every day to create a new fairy tale for your life, a new reality for yourself, a new truth for yourself." More
Diana
"This is what we do in the morning. We have a cup of coffee and I used to always call us the Transformers, 'cause we walk in there lookin' like pure sh-t, and walk out lookin' like glamour girls." More
Rachel
"I think whenever you talk about something, the more you speak about it, the less power it has over you." More
Justine
"I think it's a comfort that, you know, if ... what you say is gonna stay there within those ... that circle, within that group of people." More
Kamillah
"It's in the moment. It's an in-the-moment type of thing that you can't duplicate from one day to the next. But it's addictive. It's really addictive."More
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'Born Ready' is a web series dedicated to following the life and pursuit of basketball glory by high school phenom LANCE STEPHENSON, a Junior at Lincoln High School in Coney Island, NY. Lance is already being touted as the "next" LeBron James. At 6 feet 6 inches, he is widely regarded as the number one high school basketball player in the country. His team has won the New York City Championship for the last 2 years, and if all goes well, Lance will become the first player in New York history to win 4 championships.
'Darfur Now' is a story of hope in the midst of one of humanity's darkest hours - a call to action for people everywhere to end the catastrophe unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. In this documentary, the struggles and achievements of six different individuals from inside Darfur and around the world bring to light the tragedy in Sudan and show how the actions of one person can make a difference to millions.
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"I can still hear him hollering and coaching.."
-- William Haley (L) and his brother Glen remember their father, Joseph Howard Haley, founder of Jackie Robinson West Little League in Chicago. More
'Fears of Your Life', by Michael Bernard Loggins, read by Tom Wright
What are you afraid of? Michael's afraid of exactly 183 things. He counted. More
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Nick Bicanic, Director, Shadow Company
"In 2004 I watched 4 gruesome charred bodies hanging from a bridge in Fallujah and assumed--like many others--that these were soldiers caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. After discovering these men were in fact 'private security contractors', I became determined to in find out everything I could about this previously secretive world of military contracts and contractors." More
Robert Young Pelton
"When you're driving from the airport to the green zone, you don't give a s--t about hearts and minds, you just care about staying alive." More
James Ashcroft, Private Military Contractor
"I spent the whole drive back trying to open up a pack of Skittles with one hand, holding my weapon in the other. Doesn't tell you how to do that in the Tom Clancy books does it?" More
Cobus Claassens, Private Military Contractor
"I really like the comraderie among everyone, the black dudes, the white dudes, the hilarity and funniness of serving together under extreme conditions and surviving and then relaxing with your buddies and a couple cases of beer." More
Madeline Drohan, Journalist
"It didn't work in Sierra Leone, it didn't work in Papau New Guinea, so let's try it in Iraq. It's failing upwards." More