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This dramatized documentary drawn verbatim from testimony examines the painful story of the only known Jew to be lynched in America. Originally from New York, Leo Frank was the manager of a pencil factory in Atlanta in 1913, when he was falsely accused and convicted in the rape and murder of a worker, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan. The case was a key factor in launching the Ant-Defamation League. more »
This documentary explores the Greensboro Massacre of 1979 and its aftermath. Members of the Communist Workers Party massed for a “Death to the Klan” rally when a caravan of Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis arrived. The Klansmen opened fire. A quarter of a century later a truth and reconcilliation committee explores the tragedy. more »
Who decides how life ends? The patient? The family? The physician? The healthcare system? Last Rights is a compelling documentary film looking at the choices available to four dying people. The intent is to introduce viewers to the complexity of end-of-life choices. more »
Olga Samaroff, born Lucy Hickenlooper, had to battle anti-American sentiments and Old World prejudices against women, to forge her remarkable career as a concert pianist in the early years of the 20th century.. more »
By 1908, Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago. He traveled to Mason City, Iowa, to design a unique business block-- a bank and an adjoining hotel, the Park Inn. This unique film traces the life, death, and possible rebirth of a Midwest downtown through the prism of the decaying hotel. As a last resort, the city decided to place it on E-bay in an effort to sustain this landmark structure. more »
This unique film series presents intimate portraits of five major American poets: John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, Anthony Hecht, Kay Ryan and W.S, Merwin. It takes viewers inside their homes and lives as they reminisce about their formative years, reveal their poetic processes, and read some of their best-known poems. more »
Water Flowing Together offers an intimate portrait of a remarkable dancer, Jock Soto, who retired from the New York City Ballet at age forty, after a twenty-four-year career. Soto's journey as an openly gay man of Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican descent provides a rare glimpse into the life of a dancer and the disparate worlds which shaped this important artist more »
Because of a genetic predisposition, the Bedouin village of El Sayed in southern Israel has an extraordinary number of deaf people. The people of this village never regarded deafness as a handicap. They even created their own sign language. When one child was offered a cochlear implant by the Israeli government, the community was very conflicted. more »
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