Independent Television Service
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a young African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a 'post-racial' America.
22) Beyond the call
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Beyond the call follows Ed Artis, Jim Laws, and Walt Ratterman, collectively known as Knightsbridge, as they bring humanitarian aid to some of the world's most dangerous places, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and the Burmese border of Thailand.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivet©♭, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America. With the help of real farmers, powerful fertilizer, government aid, and genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hidden truths about America's modern food system
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Description
What is it like to have God-like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh openly confronts the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship on his latest mission to the Ukraine.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"Craft in America is an exploration into the hearts and minds of artisans devoted to a diverse array of mediums -- from furniture making and basket weaving to pottery and metalsmithing. Each episode reveals that craft has earned itself a place within the realm of fine art"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Working alone in Iraq over eight months, director/cinematographer Laura Poitras creates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation.
"Keenly observed...Better than any Iraq doc thus far...Desperately hopeful and unrepentantly cynical."--Time Out New York.
"The definitive non-fiction film about the occupation of Iraq! Indispensable, heartbreaking, and ferociously wise."--Village Voice.
"Illuminating...fascinating"--Hollywood...
28) Nine to ninety
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Nine to Ninety is the love story of Phyllis and Joe Sabatini, who at age 89 and 90 live in the home of their daughter and her husband, relishing time with their young granddaughter Jacqueline. But as their health problems escalate, Phyllis becomes determined to free her daughter from the burden of caring for everyone from nine to ninety. When Phyllis makes a difficult decision to move 3,000 miles away to live with their other daughter, she faces...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Follows the fortune of two arch enemies as they struggle over the fate of the free-flowing Animas River. Sage Remington, an outrageous, gay, Native American activist, in his fight against the obstruction of the Animas, has pitted himself against the government of his tribe and their powerful gold-old-boy lawyer, Sam Maynes. Their case ends up in the halls of Congress, revealing the peculiar intricacies of Western water, Anglo-Indian relations, and...
30) Sunset story
Pub. Date
c2005. c1976
Description
"Sunset Story is a funny and intimate documentary that will make you think differently about growing old. It tells the story of Irja (81) and Lucille (95), two friends at a rest home for retired radicals. As they attend demonstrations, register their fellow residents to vote and debate everything under the sun, Irja and Lucille's verve and humor delight us. Sunset Story doesn't shy away from the sadness of old age; it reveals two elderly women's lives...
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hern©Øandez killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of ten of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discriminiation against Mexican...
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"[T]he epic account of our tempestuous relationship with the iconic symbol of wild America. It details the inextricable relationship of the Plains Indians with the animal, and recounts the harrowing near-destruction of the species in the late nineteenth century -- from an estimated 30 million bison to a mere 23 individuals by 1885. It graphically exposes the annual slaughter of bison outside of Yellowstone National Park, where the largest genetically-pure...
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Reveals...
Pub. Date
p2006, c2001
Description
Presents the potential signs and causes of teen suicide as discussed by parents, teens, and experts within the dual formats of talk show and docu-drama. Contains interviews with teens who attempted suicide and discusses options available to such individuals or their parents.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
For academic and athletic teens Thomas and Tamara, home is an impoverished town on the Navajo reservation, and leaving means separating from family, tradition and the land that has been theirs for generations. Erica Scharf's documentary shows one year in the lives of two gifted kids who must not only become young adults, but also learn how to be both modern and Native. A PBS POV (Point of View) documentary.
39) The mole agent
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
Pub. Date
©2011
Description
Story of the group's rise and fall told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. In 2005, McGowan was arrested by federal agents in a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), labeled by the FBI as America's number one domestic terrorism threat. Weaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison and a dramatic investigation of the events that led to his...
