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Explores a little-known side of Dr. Seuss and some interesting inspirations behind his works.

Each July for more than 30 years, polka lovers from around the United States have descended on the tiny rural town of Gibbon, Minnesota, for the Gibbon Polka... read more

Filmed by the first-ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this uncompromising film reveals the effects on Afghan women of the Taliban'... read more

Look beyond Hollywood to create a fresh candid portrait of America's second largest city.

Young girls whose lives were shattered by the child sex trade describe the day they were abducted from their villages as "the day my god died." By weaving fo... read more

Follows teenager Tara Neal as she deals with fierce policy debates while facing boys on the mat.

Fine.: When factory worker Ed is confronted by a co-worker's pressing question over lunch, he begins to question his own decisions and his current life as a ... read more

Five shorts ranging from funny to creepy to downright scary prove that just because they're short, they don't have to be sweet. "Title" Director "The F... read more

A gang member, a hustler and a small-time dealer. They served their sentences and they're on parole. Now they're about to discover that walking out the priso... read more

Stunning footage and interviews showcase the lives transformed by maverick teacher Albert Cullum.

Amid pervasive blackouts and corruption, an American energy company purchases a formerly state-run electricity company in the former Soviet Republic of Georg... read more

A sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in North Carolina in 1960 was a pivotal civil rights event.

Greg Smith and his family bare all in this unflinching portrait of a 65-pound man striving for the American dream. Fueled by discrimination, Smith created "O... read more

When the filmmaker's cousin was elected Guyana's president seven years ago, Janet Rosenberg Jagan -- considered one of the founders of Guyana along with her ... read more

On an historic weekend in November 1977, 20,000 women and men attended the first federally funded National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, where they c... read more

Eighty-one-year-old Irja and her 95-year-old best friend Lucille are the only lucid residents at a senior citizens' home for political progressives. This pro... read more

Easter in Washington, DC, means children hunting for eggs on the White House lawn. But blocks away is one of America's poorest neighborhoods, where a storefr... read more

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Legendary jazz bassist Milt Hinton (1910-2000) was also a skilled photographer and storyteller. This insider's view of jazz and life in 20th-century America ... read more

An illiterate Zulu musician wrote Africa's most famous song, "Mbube" -inspiration for the pop classic "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" - and received pennies for hi... read more

In 1974, a new sound hit New York City's underground music scene: a band of misfits called The Ramones. This film follows this quartet of unlikely rock stars... read more

A Jewish woman in a Ukrainian city seized by the Germans in 1941 writes her son a final letter.

How has Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, managed to court, coddle, use and abuse power for nearly four decades? News clips, propagand... read more

An in-depth look at modern-day Vietnam, where communism and capitalism are going head-to-head.

In 2000, an experimental court opened in Brooklyn's Red Hook, a neighborhood plagued by a cycle of unemployment, poverty and crime. Instead of jail time, off... read more

As Hollywood stuntwomen for "Wonder Woman" and "Xena: Warrior Princess," Jeannie Epper and Zoe Bell have been set on fire, thrown off buildings, dragged by w... read more

Narrated by Cheech Marin and scored by Ry Cooder, this film shows how a community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy and good intentions gone astray.... read more