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  • The Important Places

    Movie

    In 2013, filmmaker Forest Woodward took his 77-year-old father, Doug, on a Grand Canyon river trip, Doug’s first time back on the Colorado since he paddled it 43 years ago in a homemade kayak. Forest, hoping the trip will help him learn what his father was like as a young man, discovers different...

  • The Honeys and Bears

    Movie

    Members of the Harlem Honeys and Bears, a synchronized swim team for seniors, describe the freedom of the water.

  • The Hole Story

    Movie

    Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie’s The Hole Story continues in the same provocative vein as their earlier Forest Alert.
    The history of mining in Canada is the story of astronomical profits made with disregard for the environment and human health. The story of nickel in Sudbury, silver in Co...

  • The Heart Within: The Seat of Sultans

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    Delhi's rich and powerful past extends way back to the early 13th century. The city became a place of importance to rule from, a seat of pride for the mighty Sultans.

    The Sultanate era in Delhi's history is marked by emerging empires and falling dynasties. The warring sultans came from differen...

  • The Heart Within: Shahjahanabad

    Movie

    What adds color and magic to the capital of India, also used to be the capital of the Mughal Empire.

    The walled city of Shahjahanabad or Old Delhi is survived by the culture and heritage that blossomed within its gates. Witness the mystical and old-world charm that still prevails in the bustling...

  • The Heart Within: Partition 1947

    Movie

    The Heart Within : Partition 1947 is a film based on the most prominent human displacement in recorded history. It brings out true accounts from survivors such as the legendary Indian athlete, late Milkha Singh, who started from scratch and painful memories and overcame all difficulties to become...

  • The Hammer and the Axe

    Movie

    A master blacksmith and his apprentice learn from one another at a red-hot forge on the ice-cold prairie.

  • The Great Fallacy (La Gran Falacia)

    Movie

    A documentary about what affects the psyche of Puerto Rico.

  • The Great Battle of the Volga

    Movie

    Story of the Volga.

  • The Good Mother (La Madre Buena)

    Movie

    A Mexican mother embarks upon an epic journey across land and through her politics, to find her son's birthday request - a Donald Trump piñata.

  • The Girls of Meru

    Movie

    Over five years, acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Dorfman follows the heartbreaking yet uplifting story of the girls of Meru and their brave steps toward meaningful equality for girls worldwide.

    In Kenya, one in three girls will experience sexual violence before age 18, yet police investigations are t...

  • The Gates of Jerusalem Part 2

    Movie

    A history of the holy city.

    Countries: United States of America

    Languages: English

    Cast:
    Richard Kiley as The Host

  • The Gates of Jerusalem Part 1

    Movie

    A history of the holy city.

    Countries: United States of America

    Languages: English

    Cast:
    Richard Kiley as The Host

  • The GF Club

    Movie

    In 2007, my sister was asked out on her first date. We were in middle school. It all happened on Google Chat. These are the transcripts.

  • The Fortune Wild

    Movie

    A small group of surfers set out to seek their own kind of riches on some of the most remote beaches of the Canadian coast. "The film is a homage to Wes Anderson, I always wished he would make a surf film" - Ben Gulliver

  • The Forgotten Treasure

    Movie

    It is perhaps the most beautiful parallel world in recent art history: the non-conformist scene of the former GDR. United in silent but stubborn resistance to the dictatorship and yet linked to it in passionate disloyalty, populated by highly qualified, introverted individualists. It still exists...

  • The Forgiveness Journey

    Movie

    Take the Road Less Traveled.

  • The Fisherman's Son: The Spirit of Ramon Navarro

    Movie

    Born and raised at Punta de Lobos, Ramón Navarro found his passion riding the biggest waves on the planet. But his accomplishments in giant surf are just one part of a bigger vision to protect the culture and environment of the Chilean coast.

    Punta de Lobos por siempre: Protect the Point Forever...

  • The Final Scene (La Última Escena)

    Movie

    Heine Mix (78), an important playwright that now lives as a hermit in a shack with his dogs, faces the uncertainty of staying or having to leave the land he lives in, because it does not belong to him. Heine will be frustrated by the course his life has taken y the consequences of his past actions.

  • The Eruption of Mount St. Helens

    Movie

    Mt. Saint Helens is explored.

  • The Empowerment Project

    Movie

    What would you do if you weren't afraid to fail? Driving over 7,000 miles from Los Angeles to New York over the course of 30 days, five female filmmakers spotlight 17 positive and powerful female leaders across a variety of lifestyles and industries to inspire the next generation of strong women.

  • The Doctor's Wife

    Movie

    Sometimes behind a great man ...

  • The Dispossessed

    Movie

    The Dispossessed is an impressionist journey that sheds light on the daily strife of the world’s hungry farming class. In this era of industrialized agriculture, across the globe, people who produce food are paid less than almost any other profession. Part cinema-vérité, part essay, our film exam...

  • The Democratic Promise - Saul Alinsky and His Legacy

    Movie

    "The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky & His Legacy," narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, examines the life and legacy of the controversial community organizer Alinsky and his modern-day legacy. The first half of the program chronicles the Chicago-based organizer Saul Alinsky and three key Alinsky org...