“The Apology” investigates an incident in the 1960s in which Alameda County and the City of Hayward…
Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight
Sponsored by Mary Strauss
Directed by David Boaretto
Indebted to Hayao Miyazaki's work, “April in France” is a documentary about April, a 5-year-old…
Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker (Muscogee Creek), Joe Peeler
When the Muscogee Nation government abruptly repeals its landmark Free Press Act to muzzle the tribe…
Directed by Eric D Seals
An African-American filmmaker explores health disparities within the Black community through the…
Directed by Monique N. Matthews
America’s medical inequities have turned giving birth into a battlefield for too many Black women…
Directed by Lagueria Davis
Love her or hate her, almost everyone has a Barbie story. For filmmaker Lagueria Davis, it all…
Directed by Markie Hancock
"Bloodlines of the Slave Trade" examines the lives of two people whose only connection is a genetic…
Directed by Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
“The Body Politic” follows Baltimore’s idealistic young mayor into office where he puts his personal…
Directed by Arthur Musah
At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and…
Directed by Shay Fogelman
“Budapest Diaries” documents the final year of World War II and the Holocaust of the Jews in…
Directed by Sav Rodgers
In Sav Rodgers’ debut feature film, he explores the unexamined legacy of Kevin Smith’s cult classic…
Directed by Sandra Itäinen
“Coming Around” follows 28-year-old, second-generation, Palestinian-Egyptian Brooklynite Eman as she…
Directed by Sascha Just
Chronicling the life of Ellis Marsalis Jr., the film follows the exceptional New Orleans composer,…
Directed by Lois Lipman
“First We Bombed New Mexico" follows the intimate journey of indomitable Hispanic cancer survivor…
Directed by Barbara Kopple
“Gumbo Coalition” follows two visionary Civil Rights leaders, Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, as they…
Directed by Olivia Kuan
The Houston Herricanes were a part of the first women's full tackle football league in the 1970s.…
Directed by Thaddeus D. Matula
A theater program in Dallas gives adults with disabilities an opportunity to celebrate their…
Directed by Buddy Farmer
This is the courageous journey of Pamela Hayden, voice of the plucky, resilient Milhouse on "The…
Directed by Pete Davis & Rebecca Davis
Follow the half-century story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of legendary social…
Directed by Timothy Harris
A champion of loving one’s country while simultaneously holding valid criticism of it, Malcolm…
Directed by Ashley Sabin, David Redmon
For two decades, New York City cinephiles had access to a treasure trove of rare and esoteric films…
Directed by Elaine Sheldon
A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, “King Coal” meditates on the complex history and future of…
Directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten
George Anthony Morton is a classical painter who spent 10 years in federal prison for dealing drugs…
Directed by Gelila Bekele, Armani Ortiz
Writer, actor, filmmaker, studio head and media titan, Tyler Perry is America’s consummate…
Directed by Changjun Lee
Youngsoon defected from North Korea in 2007. Her husband killed himself and her eldest son is in…
Directed by Elan Golod
At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, an 18-year-old Jewish U.S. Army private from New York, was…
Directed by Kevin Willmott
The legacy of free-state battles in Kansas continues with modern-day friends of Dorothy who find…
Directed by Kaoru Ishibashi, Justin Taylor Smith
In “Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi,” internationally acclaimed composer and songwriter K…
Directed by Jennifer Takaki
For 50 years, Chinese-American photographer Corky Lee tirelessly documented Asian Pacific Americans…
Directed by Tracy Droz Tragos
A determined group of blue state advocates, midwives and doctors have been networking to increase…
Directed by Sara Newens, Mina T. Son
Was the planting of tamarisk trees along the historically Black Lawrence Crossley neighborhood in…
Directed by Katja Esson
Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the Liberty Square public-housing…
Directed by Isaiah Smallman
A filmmaker returns to his hometown neighborhood in West Baltimore, where he hopes to rediscover his…
Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Both skeptical and hopeful, “Shot in the Arm” explores vaccine hesitancy historically and in the…
Directed by Hideaki Ito
In 2001, 85,000 baby teeth were discovered in Missouri, collected 50 years earlier in a study on the…
Directed by Caroline Suh, Cara Mones
In 2017, The New York Times published an article in which five women accused comedian Louis C.K. of…
Directed by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Lisa Cortes
“The Space Race” uncovers the little-known stories of the first Black pilots, engineers and…
Directed by Sandy Cummings
Marvel at the journey of Charity Woodrum, who overcomes poverty and then tragedy while chasing her…
Directed by Joanna Rudnick
“Story & Pictures By” is the first feature documentary to take audiences behind the scenes to…
Directed by Rick Goldsmith
“Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink” is the story of one secretive hedge fund that…
Directed by Jen Markowitz
Buried within the woods of Alberta, Canada, sits camp fYrefly, a haven for LGBTQIA2S+ teens, far…
Directed by Madeline Burke, Kyra Newnam, Emily Guske
Featuring the stories of five women veterans who live in the greater Rockford, IL, area, the…
Directed by Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba
A New York music journalist goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance…
Directed by Claudia Ymi Sanchez
Transwomen face more difficulties in Latin America than in any other part of the world. In most of…
Directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman
“We Are Guardians” follows Indigenous forest guardian Marçal Guajajara and activist Puyr Tembé as…
Directed by Waad al-Kateab
“We Dare to Dream” is the story of refugee athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon who…
Directed by Michael Warren Wilson
In 1919, Black workers’ decades-long efforts to challenge exploitation in the Arkansas Delta…
Directed by Alex Rappoport
An intimate, provocative series of conversations with 80-year-old abstract painter Peter Bradley. At…
Directed by Jeanie Finlay
“Your Fat Friend” charts the rise of writer Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger to New York Times…
