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# 7 Train: An Immigrant Journey
Hye Jung Park & JT Takagi
Producer: Third World Newsreel
1999, 29 min., Color
Every day 500,000 people from 117 different countries ride a red subway that runs from Flushing to Times Square, going through Queens, the most culturally diverse region in the United States. This doc...
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1994 Videobook
Beverly Singer
1994, 6 min., Color
In this video diary, Beverly Singer, a documentarian and member of the Santa Clara Tewa Pueblo, has created an introspective examination of her life and memories. She muses aloud about history, person...
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79 Spring Times of Ho Chi Minh
Santiago Alvarez
Producer: ICAIC/Cuba
1969, 25 min., Color
This impressionist biography on the leader of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam skillfully interweaves still photos, newsreel footage, and Ho Chi Minh's poetry. Depicting a life that spanned three r...
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Acting Our Age
Gurinder Chadha
1992, 11 min., Color
This humorous and thought-provoking film documents the residents of a South Asian home for the elderly in Britain. Gurinder Chadha, director of Bhaji on the Beach, assists the residents in directing t...
Adventures in Assimilation
Richard Dean Moss
1992, 8 min., Color
In this engaging performance video, Moss experiments with his own choreography and dance, using movement within a fixed frame to express self-discovery and the aesthetics of identity....
Afro-punk
James Spooner
2003, 66 min., Color
Afro-Punk explores race identity within the punk scene. This film tackles hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power. We follow the lives of four people w...
After 9.11: New Politics & the Left
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2002, 35 min., BW
Political theorists Tariq Ali (Editor, New Left Review) and Manning Marable (Black Radical Congress) meet at the 20th Socialist Conference in New York to analyze the state of the Left in the post 9.11...
After the Earthquake
Lourdes Portillo & Nina Serrano
Set in San Francisco, this film chronicles a day in the life of Ilena, a newly arrived refugee from Nicaragua. The beautifully crafted narrative focuses on her adjustment to life in the United States...
aletheia
Tran T. Kim-Trang
1992, 16 min., Color
An introduction to Kim-Trang's eight tape series on metaphorical and physical blindness, aletheia explores the interconnections issues of cosmetic surgical alteration of the eyelids, technology, langu...
alexia
Tran T. Kim-Trang
2002, 10 min., Color
Alexia is an experimental video about word blindness and metaphor. Word-blindness is a condition that usually afflicts people who have suffered a stroke, causing them to lose the visual recognition of...
All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11
Lillian Benson
2003, 28 min., Color
Twelve African American firefighters were among the World Trade Center victims on September 11th, 2001. This moving documentary profiles these heroes, their families and the ultimate sacrifices they ...
All the Love
Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos
1987, 30 min., Color
Young, stoic and wise before their years, war wounded Salvadoran guerrillas re-habilitate in Cuba. Their stories, hopes and prospects for the future are recounted with startling clarity and acceptance...
amaurosis
Tran T. Kim-Trang
2002, 28 min., Color
Amaurosis is an experimental documentary about Nguyen Duc Dat, a blind, American Asian guitarist living in Little Saigon, California. Dat was a 'triple outcast': blind, Amerasian and an impoverished o...
Ambushed
Jared Katsiane
1992, 12 min., BW
George Bush Sr. declares a "War On Drugs." Meanwhile, two generations of black males find their lives invaded by that war's foot soldiers--the police....
America
Producer: Newsreel
1969, 30 min., BW
Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front. Conversations with Vietnam veterans, young teenagers, and ...
Among Good Christian People
Catherine Saalfield & Jacqueline Woodson
1991, 30 min., Color
This is the story of an African American lesbian raised as a Jehovah's Witness whose spiritual yearnings and self-image provide rich material for exploration. Unable to abandon either her religious b...
Among the First to Die
Paul Barrera
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2005, 8 min., Color
The life and death of one of the first American casualties of the War against Terror - Lance Corporal Jose Gutierrez, a 28 year old Guatemalan, who joined the Marines because "he wanted to give back...
Among Women
Renata Gangemi
1996, 32 min., Color
Using interviews and experimental techniques, AMONG WOMEN is a wide ranging exploration of the social perceptions of pregnancy, the medical professions approach towards it, and midwifery as a healthy ...
...and Justice For Whom?
Faith Pennick
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2001, 11 min., Color
Taking up themes of freedom, privacy and policy after the attacks on September 11th, this video looks at how legislation ostensibly geared towards domestic security will affect various communities in ...
Angels
Tatiana Gaviola
1988, 45 min., Color, English subtitles
The first fiction film directed by a woman in Chile since the 1973 military coup, ANGELS recreates the lives and hopes of the generation of Chileans who reached maturity during the Popular Unity gover...
Angola
Roberto Berliner
1991, 55 min., Color
This new documentary from a Brazilian filmmaker captures the tenacity and diversity of Angolan society today. Beginning with a brief history of Angola's war for independence from Portugal, the documen...
Animal Appetites
Michael Cho
1991, 18 min., Color
Michael Cho's biting critique on popular cultural stereotypes centers on the case of two Cambodian immigrants tried in California on charges of slaughtering their pet dog for food. Contrasting animal ...
Another Brother
Tami Gold
1998, 51 min., Color
Through found photographs, audiotaped interviews and archival footage, “Another Brother” tells the story of Vietnam veteran Clarence Fitch. Clarence Fitch was a man of and for his times, an African A...
Apollo Kids
Mike Torres & Third World Newsreel Workshop
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
2000, 5 min., Color
One morning, Gio misses the #6 train which too frequently bypasses his Spanish Harlem stop. For Gio, one missed train means public humiliation by his teacher, suspension from school, and harassment b...
The Army Forced Them to Be Violent
Tino Saroengallo
2002, 43 min., Color
After the fall of President Suharto in May 1998, the student movement in Indonesia had to face the military/police repression in their fight for overall reform. Because of the repression and force th...
Asian Boys
Angel Velasco Shaw
1994, 19 min., Color
Newly available, this documentary was produced in collaboration with performance artist Nicky Paraiso for his critically acclaimed multi-media performance at P.S. 122. Eleven different interviews wit...
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B.E.S. (Bangla East Side)
Sarita Khurana & Fariba Alam
2004, 45 min., Color
B.E.S. (Bangla East Side) is a documentary portrait of four Bangladeshi teenagers growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City. Initially started as an after-school workshop at a local high sch...
Bamako Sigi-kan
Manthia Diawara
2002, 76 min., Color
This original documentary shot by Arthur Jafa brings a new look to the modern African city and enables a better understanding from the inside of how democracy takes root in Mali. Discover how politic...
The Beach
Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos
1980, 14 min., Color
A fictional essay on the detainment, torture and assassination of Salvadoran teachers during 1979, shortly before the war of resistance....
Behind These Walls: Mumia Abu-jamal and the Long Struggle For Freedom
Jule Buerjes & Heike Kleffner
Producer: KAOS FIlm and Video Team Cologne
1996, 70 min., Color
On August 17th 1995 Mumia Abu-Jamal journalist and former Black Panther Party Member was scheduled to be executed in His case -- he is one of 3,000 death row inmates in the US -- has raised internat...
Beyond Good and Evil
Chyng Sun & Miguel Picker
Producer: Chyng Sun & Miguel Picker
2003, 37 min., Color
We are taught from an early age that ”good triumphs over evil.” This video examines in detail how this rhetoric, in both the entertainment and the news media, perpetuates the negative impact of media ...
Birth of a Nation: 4*29*1992
Matthew McDaniel
1993, 60 min., Color
After criminal charges were dropped against four Los Angeles police officers accused in the brutal beating of Rodney King, L.A. erupted. This video offers a rare view of the rebellion that began withi...
Bittersweet Survival
J.T. Takagi & Christine Choy
Producer: Third World Newsreel
1982, 30 min., Color
This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-east Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins with a montage of riveting footage depicting the deva...
Black and Blue
Hugh King & Lamar Williams
1987, 58 min., Color
A powerful mix of archival material, news clips and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia poli...
Black Body
Thomas Allen Harris
1992, 7 min., Color
Thomas Allen Harris uses text, special effects, and a single bound male nude to emphasize the humanity underlying the multiple definitions of black identity and subjectivity. The audience may be asked...
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
Shari Frilot
Producer: Frilot and Black Nations/Queer Nations?
1995, 59 min., Color
This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The conference brought together an array of dynamic sc...
Black Panther
Producer: Newsreel
1968, 15 min., BW
A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison interview with Party Chairman Huey P. Newton as well as footage of the aftermath of the police assault ...
Black Russians
Kara Lynch
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2001, 116 min., Color
“Black Russians” is a feature length documentary that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. Their experiences chronicle two ideological ...
Black Women, Sexual Politics and the Revolution
Producer: Not Channel Zero
1992, 30 min., Color
Black women speak candidly on issues of sex, class and gender roles. The video examines how African American women deal with issues of poverty, abortion, battering and lack of health care and address...
Bobby Seale
Producer: Newsreel
1969, 15 min., BW
At the time of this moving prison interview, Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale had faced a series of charges of conspiracy in connection with his involvement in the Black Liberation and Anti-wa...
Bodily Functions
Jocelyn Taylor
1995, 14 min., Color
Exploring the notions of body image and sexual expression as they intersect with family and society, this short interweaves three narratives: first, a "naked fugitive on the loose" as she runs, walks ...
Bombay Calling
Ben Addelman & Samir Malla
Producer: Adam Symansky
2006, 71 min., Color
Bombay provides American and British outsourcing firms with access to well-educated, English-speaking youths eager to get ahead and willing to sacrifice almost anything to do it. For their efforts, th...
Book of Ezekiel
LaTrice A. Dixon
1999, 20 min., Color
A young flautist, Freeda Breedlove, draws on the inspiration of her ancestor Ezekiel, an enslaved poet, to make a difficult decision about her future. By reinterpreting Ezekiel's legacy, Freeda finds...
Boom: The Sound of Eviction
F. Cavanaugh, A. Mark Liiv & A. Wood
2002, 96 min., Color
With visions of instant wealth during the dot-com boom, the world largely ignored the disastrous tidal wave of gentrification that came with the new industry that has changed the city's landscape fore...
Border Brujo
Isaac Artenstein
Producer: Cinewest
1989, 60 min., Color
Border Brujo is a ritual-linguistic journey across the U.S./Mexico border written and performed by artist Guillermo Gómez Peña. In the guise of a cross-cultural shaman, Gómez Peña shifts into 15 diff...
Born in Brazil
Cara Biasucci
2002, 52 min., Color, Brazil
The World Health Organization suggests a maximum cesarean rate of 15%. Although research shows the majority of Brazilian women prefer natural birth, statistics provide a different story --- 65% - 85% ...
Borne in War
Va-Megn Thoj
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
1996, 9 min., Color
This semi-autobiography traces the maker's birth on a secret CIA military base in the hills of Laos to his anti-war college years during the Persian Gulf War. Mixing archival footage, family photograp...
Boston Draft Resistance Group
Producer: Newsreel
1968, 18 min., BW
A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups across the country during the Vietnam War. Using the l...
Braz
Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos
1984, 35 min., Color
A portrait of the FMLN's Rafael Arce Zablah Brigade (BRAZ), the rebel army, and its development in the context of Salvadoran history....
Break and Enter
Producer: Newsreel
1970, 42 min., BW
This film captures the militant antecedents to today's housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the ...
Breakin' In: the Making of a Hip Hop Dancer
Elizabeth St. Philip
2005, 45 min., Color
The images are everywhere: young black women shaking their assets in music videos featuring the biggest names in hip-hop. The dancers appear to be pretty props, gyrating to songs with misogynistic lyr...
Bringin' in Da Spirit
Rhonda L. Haynes
2003, 60 min., Color
Through the use of first person narrative and rare archival images, this documentary provides a moving glimpse of the women who have skillfully brought scores of children across the threshold of exist...
La Bruja: a Witch from the Bronx
Felix Rodriquez
2005, 50 min., Color
Art, labor and family blend in this intimate documentary about performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better know as 'La Bruja'. Born and raised in the Bronx, this daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants t...
Burning an Illusion
Menelik Shabazz
1981, 101 min., Color
A young British-born woman of color comes of age while seeking security through marriage. But the false arrest and merciless beating of her boyfriend by police forces a turning point in both their li...
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Call For Change Series 2005
Various
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2005, 133 min., Color
A series of 16 shorts on how NYC communities of color view their "State of America" and what they're doing to make changes. These shorts aim to provoke discussion and more. Topics range from the cont...
Call to Manhood
Narcel G. Reedus
1994, 57 min., BW, US
"Call to Manhood" is an emotional testament to the brothers who are reaching back into the community to save young black boys. This documentary traces the steps taken by the Fulton County Human Servic...
Call to Media Action
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2001, 140 min., Color, US
14 short videos made in the wake of the September 11th tragedy, focussing on communities of color who were mostly left out of the media coverage. From African American childrens' reactions to the even...
Camp Arirang
Diana S. Lee & Grace Yoon-Kung Lee
1995, 29 min., BW
A gritty look at the camp towns surrounding U.S. military bases in South Korea. This documentary follows Yon Ja Kim, a charismatic 50 year old ex-sex worker through American Town, a government subsid...
Cancer of Betrayal
Producer: Facts Africa
1972, 20 min., Color
This film records the last speech by Amilcar Cabral, leader of the Guinea Bissau independence movement. The address was delivered at the funeral of Kwame Nkrumah, the great African nationalist and pre...
Can't Jail the Revolution and Break the Walls Down
Kenyatta Tyehimba & Ada Gay Griffin
Producer: Third World Newsreel
1991, 60 min., Color
These two 30 minute videos use footage compiled from over 40 social justice media productions to chronicle the perspectives of political prisoners and of war within the United States. Historical foot...
Los Cartoneros
Michael McLean
2006, 26 min., Color, US/Argentina
Juanchi, a 21-year-old from a small town outside Buenos Aires, supports himself and his family by digging through trash. Six days a week, he roams the street of the Argentine capital in search of card...
The Case Against Lincoln Center
Producer: NEWSREEL
1968, 12 min., BW, US
More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony. This film examines the patrons of art" complex (corporation...
El Charango
Jim Virga & Tula Goenka
2006, 22 min., Color, Bolivia
This short documentary is about a little instrument, a large silver mine and the highest city in the world. Cerro Rico in Potosi, Bolivia, was discovered by Spanish conquistadors in 1545, who enslaved...
Chasing the Moon
Dawn Suggs
1991, 4 min., BW
This fascinating film presents the meditations of a Black lesbian grappling with the memory of an attack that makes her wary about being out on the street....
Cheating Death
Eric Geringas
2005, 25 min., Color
CHEATING DEATH is about choices and second chances. For ten years, Trinidanian Gyasi Ferdinan...
Chicago Convention Challenge
Producer: Newsreel
1968, 17 min., BW
Using footage taken in the midst of demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention of 1968, this film conveys the immediacy of anti-war organizing in meeting rooms, at rallies and in the str...
Children of Fire
Mai Masri
1990, 50 min., Color
This film offers a rare view of the Intifada as seen through the eyes of Palestinian children. At age five, Fadi is already throwing stones, while for Hana, 11, the Intifada is a new way of life which...
Children of the Cold War
Gonzalo Justiniano
1985, 75 min., Color
In his debut feature film, Justiniano presents a comic and critical tale that points to the apathetic complicity of Chile's middle class with the Pinochet dictatorship. The feature’s two mid-level off...
The Chinatown Files
Amy Chen
2001, 57 min., Color
This documentary brings to the public, for the first time, a story that was classified as secret by the US government for over four decades. Exploring the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chine...
Chronicle of Hope: Nicaragua
Allan Siegel
Producer: Third World Newsreel
1985, 50 min., Color
Narrated by American documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio, this is an intimate look at a journey made by ordinary Americans to provide humanitarian aid to Nicaragua during the U.S.- sponsored contra...
Cinema Fouad
Mohammed Soueid & Tele Liban
1994, 28 min., Color
A documentary on the life and ambitions of a young Lebanese cross-dresser. The video follows her journey from soldier to cabaret dancer in an effort to raise funds for her sex change operation. Shot...
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
Yvonne Welbon
1992, 26 min., Color
This is an in-depth interview with filmmaker Julie Dash, whose first feature film, Daughters of the Dust, has become a critical and word-of-mouth sensation since its release in the Winter of 1992. Her...
Claiming Open Spaces
Austin Allen
1995, 87 min., Color
Claiming Open Spaces explores African-American culture as it clashes with the design of the modern American city. The film includes a comprehensive section on New Orleans -- the vital place of histori...
Close to Home
Rodney Evans
1998, 24 min., Color
CLOSE TO HOME documents the filmmaker's journey as he comes out to a conservative, Jamaican family and negotiates a painful relationship with a 21-year old heterosexual man....
Clouds
Scott Haynes & Fumiko Kiyooka
1985, 26 min., BW
A synthesis of documentary, dramatic, and experimental styles, this film follows two women recollecting their personal and familial experiences from World War II. One woman recounts the story of an au...
Color Schemes
Shu Lea Cheang
1989, 29 min., Color
COLOR SCHEMES uses the cycles of a generic laundromat washing machine as a metaphor to tackle misconceptions about racial assimilation. Twelve writers and performance artists from various cultural bac...
Columbia Revolt
Producer: Newsreel
1968, 50 min., BW
In April 1968, black and white students rebelled against the university administration, occupying five buildings, including the president's office in one of the first campus revolts of the Civil Right...
Commander Clelia: Political Prisoner
1984, 28 min., Color
Five women, including FMLN Commander Lilian Mercedes Letona "Clelia", speak about their imprisonment after they are released from the Women's Prison of Ilopango when the Salvadoran government declared...
Community Control
Producer: Newsreel
1969, 50 min., BW
This film documents one of the most important struggles for education in the sixties. In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three ...
Community Plot
J.T. Takagi
Producer: Takagi Productions
1984, 20 min., Color
This satiric comedy takes place in a building on New York's multi-ethnic Lower East Side. Four neighbors form an uneasy alliance after a case worker from family court is accidentally killed in their b...
Comrades
Edward Wong
1999, 26 min., Color
COMRADES is a personal documentary essay about two men who took part in the violent socialist struggles of the mid-20th century, only to face resistance and disillusionment. The producer's father, Yoo...
Conakry Kas
Manthia Diawara
2003, 82 min., Color
In January 2003, Director Manthia Diawara visited Guinea-Conakry to see what was left of the artists (Ballets Africains, Bembeya Jazz National) and intellectuals (D.T. Niane, Telivel Diallo) of the Gu...
Corner Store Blues
Kaizad Gustad
1994, 48 min., Color
Although he feels trapped working in his uncle's corner store in Little India, Rahul dreams of someday making it as a blues musician. A real black blues musician. Now if only he can overcome his Bomba...
Corrections
Ashley Hunt
2001, 59 min., Color
CORRECTIONS is a documentary about private prisons. A story of justice turned to profit, it presents the new investors in the "war on crime": venture capital and for-profit prisons. With the highest i...
A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality
Shari Frilot
1992, 20 min., Color
A humorous comparison between female sexuality and cosmic structures, this video interviews five different women on topics such as menstruation, masturbation and ejaculation. The video proposes how se...
The Couple in the Cage
Coco Fusco & Paula Heredia
1993, 30 min., Color
Over the last five hundred years, non-western human beings have been exhibited in the taverns, theaters, gardens, museums, zoos, circuses and world's fairs of Europe, and the circuses and freak shows ...
Cowtipping: the Militant Indian Waiter
Randy Redroad
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
1992, 17 min., Color
In this original short drama, a Cherokee cafe waiter faces customers who insist on sharing their ignorance about American Indians--or are they Native Americans? His efforts to educate others often end...
Creative Detours
Bridgett Davis
1992, 10 min., Color
In this short narrative, a young woman moves to New York City from the Midwest in order to "develop her writing" and to share an apartment with her boyfriend. Distracted from her new creative life-sty...
Crocodile Conspiracy
Zeinabu Irene Davis
1986, 13 min., Color
This charming tale focuses on Willa Ledbetter, an African American middle-aged school teacher in Watts, and her longing to visit her parent's homeland of Cuba. In the face of unexpected political and...
Cruisin' J-town
Duane Kubo
Producer: Visual Communications
1974, 30 min., Color
This is the story of the formation of the popular jazz fusion band, Hiroshima, in the late 70s. The musicians reflect on their culture, musical influences, and the political movements from American mu...
Cuban Roots/bronx Stories
Pam Sporn
2000, 57 min., Color, US/Cuba
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories highlights the experience of a black Cuban American famiy, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to ...
El Culebrero
I.P. Montoya
1995, 9 min., Color
Representing the transient aspects of the gay Colombian experience in New York City, Montoya's tape uses deep cultural signifiers from Colombian folklore and a contrasting English voice-over to explor...
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Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity
Kevin Lee
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2005, 12 min., Color
A restaurant owner beaten. A policeman fired. A 20 year subway conductor born in the U.S., threatened with job loss: All for wearing the signature turbans of their religion, Sikhism. Since 9/11, h...
A Day of Plane Hunting
Producer: Democratic Peoples' Republic of Viet Nam
1968, 20 min., BW
This film demonstrates the crucial role that Vietnamese women played in the war. It focuses on the attempts made during the war to achieve the total participation of women in production, education and...
De*fat*ting
Michelle Lewis & Third World Newsreel Workshop
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
2000, 13 min., Color
Today is the first day of the "elusive diet" for Lewis' main character. A funny, poignant and cutting meditation on American society's fascination with thinness, "de*fat*ting" exploring food, addicti...
December 7/September 11
Ann Brandman & Paul Nishijima
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2001, 15 min., 1
A comparison of how the events and possible after effects of September 11th may mirror those of the attack on Pearl Harbor. A collection of interviews with Japanese-American veterans who witnessed the...
Decision to Win: First Fruits
Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos
1981, 75 min., Color
This unique and moving film depicts the Salvadoran heartland in the early years of the war. It presents different aspects of daily life in El Salvador in areas called popular power zones. Its intimacy...
Deft Changes: An Improvised Experience
Alonzo Speight
1991, 10 min., Color
Through short improvised sketches, this video explores the generational conflicts between a father and son who are each musicians. It features performances by guitarist Mark Whittfield, and the late m...
Demarcations
Kym Ragusa
Producer: Third World Newsreel Worshop
1992, 5 min., Color
Demarcations uses the female body as a landscape to explore memories of a rape. Ragusa focuses on ways in which identity and exoticism are played out on the level of the body....
Desi Remix Chicago Style
Balvinder Dhenjan
1996, 46 min., Color
Shot in Chicago and London this energetic documentary follows three very different Punjabi bands and their attempts to use their music as a bridge between the competing cultural influences of India an...
Devotion
Barbara Hammer
2000, 85 min., Color
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and hierarchical relationships among a loyal group of filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years making films for one man - Ogawa Shinsuke. These heartbreakin...
Diabetes: Notes from Indian Country
Beverly Singer
Producer: Beverly Singer
2000, 23 min., Color
In 1993, the U.S. Public Health/Indian Health Service reported that 40% of all persons, 40 years and older, residing on American Indian reservations are diabetic. This video visits the Winnebago Indi...
Diaspora Conversations: from Goree to Dogon
Manthia Diawara
2000, 47 min., Color
Actor Danny Glover and director Manthia Diawara travel through West Africa from Goree to Dogon, creating conversations that link different sides and accounts of the African diaspora. "Diaspora Convers...
Doing What It Takes: Black Folks Getting and Staying Healthy
Donna Golden
Producer: Not Channel Zero
1994, 23 min., Color
Black communities are disproportionately affected by cancer, heart disease, low birth weight and infant mortality rates. Facing political, economic and racial barriers to good health, this video docu...
Double Exposure
Kit-Yin Snyder
2003, 26 min., Color
A poetically inspired documentary, exploring the conflicts and contradictions of the "cultural statelessness" experienced by a first generation Chinese-American immigrant. It uses a series of first-pe...
Dreaming Rivers
Martina Attille
Producer: Sankofa Film and Video Collective
1988, 35 min., Color
Evoking the colonial experience of Caribbean immigrants in Britain, DREAMING RIVERS presents an impressionist rendering of a middle-aged Black on the past, present and future from her death bed. Atte...
Dreams Inside and Out
Sylvie Thouard
1990, 52 min., Color
The Family, a repertory theater company composed of former inmates and actors, is most well-known for Miguel Pinero's play "Short Eyes". This film documentation, conceived in the aftermath of the Atti...
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E Minha Cara
Thomas Allen Harris
2001, 56 min., Color
A mythopoetic feast of self-discovery that crosses three continents and three generations, e minha cara traces the filmmaker's journey to Salvador Da Bahia, the African heart and soul of Brazil, as he...
Echando Raices
J.T. Takagi
Producer: The American Friends Service Committee/Rachel Kamel/Third World Newsreel
2002, 60 min., Color
Made in collaboration with local community groups, this three part documentary looks at the lives and struggles of a range of immigrant and refugee communities. In the Central Valley of California, m...
ekleipsis
Tran T. Kim-Trang
1998, 23 min., Color
"I came across a New York Times article about a group of hysterically blind Cambodian women in Long Beach, California, the largest group of such people known in the world. Hysterical blindness is sigh...
El Salvador
Producer: Sistema Radio Venceremos
Third World Newsreel maintains a collection of videotapes that chronicle the Salvadoran people's struggle for democracy. The following videotapes are available for viewing at Third World Newsreel by l...
Encounter at the Intergalactic Café
Thomas Allen Harris
1996, 17 min., Color
A videotape of a live performance -- a mythopoetic rendering of the original encounters between African, Indigenous and European peoples in the day "border regions". Saint, comic, demon, deity, infant...
Enemies of War
Esther Cassidy
2001, 58 min., Color
Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her fifteen year old daughter were assassinated in El Salvador in 1989. The US government appointed Congressman Joseph Moakley to lead an investigation. What...
Ent-homo-philia
Hima B.
2003, 10 min., Color
With traces of Kafka, this experimental short locates us in an altered state of reality as the set for an unsuspecting beetle's participation in her mate's metamorphosis. Influenced by Kafka's "The M...
Environmental Racism
Ada Gay Griffin & Kenyatta Funderburk
Producer: Third World Newsreel
1990, 60 min., Color
In two 30 minute programs that combine footage from over 20 sources, this tape focuses on educating and organizing disadvantaged communities to act on environmental issues and conditions affecting the...
Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life
Tran T. Kim-Trang
How can we make visible the invisible? How can we "see" our lost loved ones? In EPILOGUE, Tran looks for answers to these questions in the audio recordings of her dead mother, the handwritinng of the...
Extra Change
Carmen Coustaut
1988, 28 min., Color
A realistic view of a 12 year old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence: peer pressure, friendship and love. Focusing on society's expectations for young women, Extra Change is an e...
Ex-voto
Tania Cypriano
1990, 7 min., Color
Both artistic production and spiritual offering, EX-VOTO was created by the artist as an expression of her gratitude for surviving near fatal burns in a fire when she was ten years old. Cypriano mixes...
Ezekiel's Dream
Narcel G. Reedus
1994, 15 min., BW
"Ezekiels Dream" starring Steve Coulter is a visual poem describing the last thoughts of a black man perparing for the fight of his life. One of Reedus' earliest works. "Ezekiels Dream" has garnered n...
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Fade to Black
Tony Cokes & Donald Trammel
1991, 33 min., Color
This videotape is a meditation on contemporary race relations. In voiceover, two Black men describe events that typically go unnoticed or discounted by the white mainstream. They examine gestures, hes...
A Family Called Abrew
Maureen Blackwood
Producer: Sankofa Film and Video Collective
1992, 42 min., Color
This documentary profiles a fascinating family that has been based in Scotland since the end of the 19th century. It also traces the history of people of African descent living in Europe before the g...
Farouk Abdel Muthi: Political Prisoner
Konrad Aderer
2003, 9 min., Color
The late Farouk Abdel-Muhti was born in Ramallah, Palestine in 1947. His mother died when Israeli Occupation forces refused to let his family through a checkpoint to reach a hospital. He came to the U...
Fathers, Sons & Unholy Ghosts
Danny Thompson & Glen Noble
Producer: Sankofa Film and Video Collective
1994, 13 min., Color
This moving narrative is a unique exploration of the multi-layered and often underexamined relationship between fathers and sons. When Martin, a young father, is left alone one weekend with his son, h...
Fei Tien: Goddess in Flight
Christine Choy
1983, 23 min., Color
Based on the play, "Pigeons," by Ginny Lim, this film focuses on the meeting between an older immigrant and younger American-born woman living in Chinatown. The linkages in their pasts and possible fu...
Fight Black: Urban Martial Arts
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
1991, 15 min., Color
Marcus Salgado is a young martial artist from the South Bronx who leads the viewer through a stunning array of community martial arts activity in New York City. The tape shows classes that promote hea...
Finding Christa
Camille Billops & James Hatch
1991, 55 min., Color
This documentary presents a moving yet unsentimental view of motherhood and adoption. It explores the feelings surrounding the reunion of a young woman with her natural mother 20 years after being gi...
Finding Common Ground in New Orleans
Walidah Imarisha
Producer: Phil Fivel Rothberg
2006, 23 min., Color
In this short documentary, activist and poet Walidah Imarisha travels to New Orleans and other neighboring towns shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. In her path she encounter grassroo...
Five Minutes For the Soul of America
Cesar Galindo
1992, 5 min., Color
A surreal and powerful short film that was made in protest against the festivities celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus' "discovery" of the Americas. Galindo uses a single shot that encompass...
Flag TV
Susie Lee
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2001, 10 min., Color
Can one, or many, comprehend a tragedy without either condoning it or committing to an uncritical call for retribution? This video interrogates the shifting meaning popular symbols have in competing s...
Floristas
Ruben Gonzalez
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
1995, 18 min., Color
Floristas are immigrant flower vendors who scratch out a living by hawking their wares on the streets of New York City. Gonzalez depicts a world where survival depends on not only selling your wares,...
Flow
Yau Ching
1993, 38 min., Color
FLOW is a multi-layered investigation of contemporary political, cultural and psychological dislocations. Interweaving interviews with image processing and a critical and formally flexible use of the ...
Food, Water, Revolution
Danya Abt
2006, 13 min., Color
In March 2006, Veterans Against the Iraq War organized a march from Mobile, Alabama to New Orleans in support of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Did you see any media coverage of this event? Neither...
For Colored Boys Who've Considered Homicide
Narcel G. Reedus
1995, 27 min., Color
In this spiritual drama an ancestor (Thomas Merdis) travels through time and space to interrogate a murderer (Chong Thi Nguyen) to find why young black boys are killing each other. "For Colored Boys.....
Forbidden to Wander
Susan Youssef
2003, 35 min., Color
A chronicle of the experiences of a young Arab-American Christian woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the summer of 2002. The film is a r...
Forgotten Lessons
Nashid Fareed
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2001, 11 min., Color
A dialogue between two unlikely historical interlocutors is set against a compelling collection of images that situate the horror of recent events within the context of foreign policy, popular mobiliz...
Forgotten Warriors
Kim Jin Yoel
Producer: PURN Productions
2005, 99 min., Korea
A fascinating documentary about one of the little known legacies of the Korean War (1950-53), FORGOTTEN WARRIORS tells the stories of women guerilla fighters for North Korea who were captured, held fo...
Four Women
Julie Dash
1979, 4 min., Color
An imaginatively choreographed dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone on four common stereotypes of Black women....
Fragments
Barbara McCullough
1980, 10 min., Color
This work is a montage of magic centered imagery. It contains some of the footage from Shopping Bag Spirits plus new material....
Frankie & Jocie
Jocelyn Taylor
1994, 20 min., Color
Examining the relationships between brother and sister, hetero and queer, male and female, this video weaves a provocative discussion between a Black lesbian and her straight brother. In an eloquent ...
Freckled Rice
Steven C. Ning
1983, 48 min., Color
This is a story of Joe Soo, a 13 year old boy coming of age and coming to terms with his Chinese America heritage in Boston during the 1960s. His Boston encompasses Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the Kennedy...
The Friends
Kathe Sandler
1996, 26 min., Color
A coming of age story about the friendship between two young Black girls growing up in 1957 Harlem, Phyllisia Cathy from a newly arrived, upwardly mobile Caribbean family and Edith Jackson, Harlem-bor...
From Asia With Love
Sari Dalena
2002, 12 min., Color
A critical look at the proliferation of the mail-order bride industry in Asia and its representations of Asian women in the West....
From Harlem to Harvard
Producer: Four Square Productions
1982, 30 min., Color
An excellent discussion film for college bound students, this thoughtful documentary captures the alienation, prejudice and insecurity that often confront African American students at predominantly wh...
From Spikes to Spindles
Christine Choy
Producer: Third World Newsreel
1976, 50 min., Color
This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join...
Frontier Life
Hans Fjellestad
Producer: Ryan Page
2003, 92 min., Color
A feature-length documentary that explores beyond Tijuana s sin-city heritage and searches for the heart and identity of a city that is much more than a cantina-strewn throwback to the Old West. It a...
Fuera Yanqui
Producer: Newsreel
1970, 15 min., BW
This film provides a short history of the Dominican Republic and an analysis of the control exerted on its economic structure by U.S. interests. The people of the island talk about the "elections", t...
Fuori/Outside
Kym Ragusa
1997, 12 min., Color
In FUORI/OUTSIDE the videomaker, a woman of African American and Italian American descent, examines her relationship with her Italian American grandmother. The lives of the two women are inextricably...
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Gaman...to Endure
Bob Miyamoto, Drawings by Betty Chen
1982, 6 min., Color
An animated film told through a young girl’s eyes, it combines the drawings of Betty Chen and haunting music of Nobuko Miyamoto to tell of 110,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in U.S. concentration...
Ganja and Hess
Bill Gunn
1970, 110 min., Color
This extraordinary foray into the realms of Black consciousness has acquired deserved status as a cinema classic. The vampire film genre is used to create a mythical vision of the forces that shape Dr...
Garbage
Producer: Newsreel
1968, 10 min., BW, US
During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decide to use the situation to make a political statement. They collect garbage...
The Gift of Diabetes
Brian Whitford
2005, 58 min., Color, Canada
After Brion Whitford was diagnosed with diabetes, he felt that Western medicine wasn't helping with his symptoms, and was reinforcing his feelings of inadequacy, hopelessness and despair. By going bac...
The Good Son
Michael Sandoval
2002, 9 min., BW
Pummeling abag, a young Filipino-American fighter forges a space for himself in Queens, New York City -- a house dominated by the sermons of his minister father. Beneath the surface of this unspoken t...
The Grand Circle
Richard Ray Whitman & Pierre Lobstein
1995, 12 min., Color
Two brothers and a friend take a cross-country journey through Indian Territory in Oklahoma. They use image projection and text to convey a highly abstracted and experimental vision on their journey: ...
Grove Music
Henry Martin
1981, 60 min., Color
This film explores the deep ties between politics and music in England's Caribbean community. As economic conditions in England worsen, it is the Black working class Scenes filmed at a 1980 reggae ...
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Haircuts Hurt
Randy Redroad
1992, 10 min., Color
A Native American woman and her young son encounter everyday racism when they visit a local barbershop. The situation leads her to reflect on her own childhood and reconsider her son's first haircut. ...
Hair-tage
Shawn Batey
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
1997, 10 min., Color
This short documentary examines the decisions involved in growing and wearing dreadlocks in African-American communities. Through interviews and playful camerawork, Batey explores the motivations and ...
Hanoi, Tuesday the 13th
Santiago Alvarez
Producer: ICAIC/Cuba
1967, 40 min., BW
Filmed in Hanoi on December 13, 1966, this documentary records the lives of people in the Vietnam capital and surrounding countryside at the height of U.S. bombing. Their daily activities are presente...
Hasta la Victoria Siempre
Santiago Alvarez
Producer: ICAIC/Cuba
1965, 28 min., BW
This film presents a strong indictment of U.S. military involvement in Bolivia. It contains televised speeches by Ernesto Che Guevara, intercut with photographs and footage from the hills of Bolivia....
He Wo Un Poh: Recovery in Native America
Beverly Singer
1994, 54 min., Color
A critical look at the effects of alcoholism on Native American communities. Singer, a member of the Santa Clara Tewa Pueblo, introduces us to the experiences of seven Native Americans on the road to...
The Healing Passage: Voices from the Water
S. Pearl Sharp
2004, 90 min., Color, US
Cultural artists, along with historians and healers, look at present day behavior that is connected to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. For more than 300 years Africans were carried from their homeland...
Heart of Harlem
Brian Lindstrom
Bob McCullough
2001, 9 min., Color
Heart of Harlem traces the life and times of Holcombe Rucker, who founded a summer basketball league while working for New York Citys Parks Department in order to give young people a positive alternat...
Heaven, Earth and Hell
Thomas Allen Harris
1994, 26 min., Color
Reflecting on the "trickster" figure in African and Native American culture recounting the story of his first love, this beautiful work incorporates the critical texts of Frantz Fanon, bell hooks and ...
Her Israel
Marjan Tehrani
2004, 57 min., Color
A documentary that follows three women, a Jewish-Israeli, a Jewish-Ukranian and a Palestinian, through their daily lives in the
bustling microcosm of TelAviv/Yafo. HER ISRAEL presents a much-nee...
Her Uprooting Plants Her
Celine Salazar Parrenas
1994, 17 min., Color
Ten years after immigrating to the United States, three Filipina sisters move out of the family house and open a sari-sari (corner) store. On Christmas Eve their family meet in the store and share sto...
High Horse
Randy Redroad
Producer: Randy Redroad
1995, 40 min., Color
A provocative narrative on the concept of "home" for Native Americans. The film opens in what the filmmaker calls "the artificial world of the colonizers" - a modern American city. From a cop to a y...
Hip Hop Sp
Francisco Cesar
1990, 11 min., Color
Young Black members of Sao Paulo's hip hop movement depict their experience and views of Black Brazilian history through their music, dance and graffiti....
La Historia de Jonas
Luisa Sanchez
1992, 5 min., Color
Using a collage of urban scenes and voice over narration, this video explores the feelings and issues faced by a new Puerto Rican immigrant to New York City in his own words....
Historia de una Batalla
Manuel Gomez
Producer: ICAIC/Cuba
1965, 40 min., BW
In 1961, 100,000 young Cubans went into the countryside to end illiteracy. That same year, U.S. trained mercenaries invaded the Bay of Pigs. This film relates these events as two battles: against il...
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Duane Kubo & Robert Nakamura
Producer: Visual Communications
1980, 90 min., Color
This poignant drama chronicles the contributions and hardships of Japanese Americans from the turn of the century to the late seventies. This history is told by Oda, a feisty Issei - one of the elder...
Home
Akram Zataari
1994, 33 min., Color
This series of shorts documents the lives of Beiruti women. "Make-up" (8 min) is a meditation on age, death and the cycle of life as a widow who lives overlooking the Bashoura Cemetery reflects on the...
Homecoming
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
1991, 20 min., Color
This sensitive drama adeptly portrays the clash of two cultures and the difficulty of finding a healthy balance in the process of assimilation. Constance is a young Jamaican American woman who has re...
Homeland Insecurity
Third World Newsreel
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2001, 6 min., Color
A recent string of hate crimes in the months following September 11th is set within the historical context of jingoism and nationalism in the United States....
Homeland Resistance: Words from the Peace Protesters
Nashid Fareed
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2003, 11 min., Color
Using a compelling array of montage and interviews, this short traces a series of protests from October 2002 through February 2003 to create a vision of resistance in solidarity in the months prior to...
Homes Apart: Korea
J.T. Takagi & Christine Choy
1991, 56 min., Color
They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart. Today, while the rest of the worl...
Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story
Maria Binder
1997, 28 min., Color
A moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Afro-German poet May Ayim which contains both performances by Ayim and places her in the history of the emerging Afro-German movement. In the ...
Human Touch: Pain and Power
Vejan Lee Smith
1995, 30 min., Color
In a powerful and moving reclamation of the body and human touch, this video documents how survivors of sexual abuse reaffirm their sexuality and physical selves. Intercutting dance footage, intervie...
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I Call Myself Persian: Iranians in America
Tanaz Eshaghian & Sara Nodojoumi
2002, 27 min., Color
From the Iran hostage crisis of '79 to the WTC attacks, images of hostile Iranians and Middle Easterners have been well-ingrained in the American psyche, but no informed images come to mind representi...
I Exist
Peter Barbosa
2003, 56 min., Color
“I Exist” is a documentary exploring individual journeys of Lesbian and Gay people of Middle Eastern cultures living in the United States. The cultural and religious challenges that many Lesbian and ...
I Have a Dream
1963, 15 min., BW
Coverage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the unprecedented 1963 march on Washington. This speech was among the most compelling and inspiring orations of the Civ...
I Never Danced the Way Girls Were Supposed To
Dawn Suggs
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
1992, 7 min., Color
What makes Black lesbians so special? Suggs takes a fresh and funny approach to explore this and other questions using a mixture of scenes shot on film and video with running commentaries by women in...
I Told You So
Alan Kondo
Producer: Visual Communications
1973, 18 min., BW
"Allthis identity thing. What is it you're looking for?" asks the elderly aunt of leading Japanese American poet, Lawson Inada. Through this intimate portrait, we explore Inada's answer to this comp...
I Won't Drown On That Levee and You Ain't Gonna Break My Back
Ashley Hunt
Producer: The Corrections Documentary Project
2006, 30 min., Color
I WON'T DROWN... began with an invitation to travel to New Orleans as part of a delegation to investigate what actually happened at the Orleans Parish Prison during and after Hurricane Katrina. What c...
Ideal Narration
Yau Ching
1993, 3 min., Color
A music video of the Internationale as a meditation on contemporary Chinese history, this short combines archival imagery and text, mapping out a space between idealism and propaganda....
Illusions
Julie Dash
1983, 34 min., BW
Set in a fictitious Hollywood studio in 1942, this elegant drama contrasts society's views of Black women with their self-perceptions. An ambitious movie executive, Mignon Dupree is perceived by her...
I'm British But…
Gurinder Chadha
1989, 30 min., Color
This unique look at Asians in Britain offers first-hand views of second generation Asians, adding archival footage and invigorating Bhangra and Bangla music--traditional Punjabi songs updated with hip...
The Imagined, the Longed-for, the Conquered and the Sublime
Roddy Bogawa
1994, 8 min., Color
The video is a collection of 'pure images' of landscape, redeeming these images for what they are. Taken, but unaltered, in the order they appear, from the films Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger ...
Imagining Place
Anita Chang
1999, 35 min., Color
For one year, with a curious eye and a curious mind, the filmmaker asks herself and a cross section of individuals, "What does belonging feel like in America?" Amidst increasing social, technological...
In Search of Africa
Manthia Diawara
1997, 26 min., Color
In 1996, the filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara, now living in New York, returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. Despite the years...
In the Event Anyone Disappears
Allan Siegel
Producer: Third World Newsreel
1974, 25 min., Color
Although filmed twenty years ago, this documentary examines conditions faced by US prisoners that have remained virtually unchanged. Shot inside men's maximum security prisons in Trenton and Rahway Ne...
In the Spirit of Peace
Al Santana
Producer: Third World Newsreel
2001, 8 min., Color
After September 11th, religion becomes the vehicle for a community looking for commensurability in the midst of an environment that would rather seek quick answers to a larger problem....
In Whose Name?
Nandini Sikand
2004, 11 min., Color
In Whose Name? is a filmic essay which explores the co-opting of icons by political agendas. This experimental short is told through personal narrative, Super 8mm home movies, Bollywood film clips an...
Ina Mae Best
Charlene Gilbert
1993, 25 min., Color
A documentary portrait of a courageous African American woman, who after 18 years working at a textile factory in Goldsboro, North Carolina, became a passionate and outspoken leader in a struggle to u...
Inbetween
Robert Crusz
Producer: Sankofa Film and Video Collective
1992, 25 min., Color
"When I was a child in Sri Lanka, my father encouraged me to concider everything European and Western to be of greater value than things Asian and Eastern...I arrived in England with great excitement ...
Indian Having Coffee With Kerouac, Ginsberg and Hemingway
James Luna
1994, 23 min., Color
Visual and performance artist James Luna takes these famous American writers and parallels their spiritual, political and emotional state to the American Indian community. The icons are played by Indi...
Injustice
Ken Fero
2001, 98 min., Color
The story of the struggles for justice by the families of people who have died in police custody. Between 1969 and 1999, over one thousand people died in police custody in England. Not one police offi...
Inside Out in the Open
Alan Roth
2001, 60 min., Color
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