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	The Un -Americans In this film both the anti-Communists and the victims of the notorious McCarthy witchhunts, between 1945 and the early 50's, talk candidly about the era of anti-Communist hysteria and blacklists. more »
	Unbreakable Minds A poignant, humorous and unforgettable portrayal of three men struggling with schizophrenia. We learn how they and their families cope with the vagaries of the illness. more »
	Uncommon Images: James Van DerZee This is a touching portrait of one of the first and foremost photographers of black American life, who set up shop in Harlem and spent sixty years taking stunningly direct pictures there. more »
	Uncovered "Uncovered" puts a human face on America's health care crisis by chronicling the harrowing struggles of the Nazaretyan family to care for their disabled children without insurance. more »
	Under the River: Exploited Children of Ghana In Ghana, children as young as three and as old as sixteen are often sent away from home to work in bondage for small payments, desperately needed by impoverished families. more »
	Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese Women in Canada Using old photographs and interviews, this film tells the remarkable tale of the courageous Asian women who left their families and all that was familiar to settle in the New World and marry men they had never met. The men had come to build the transcontinental railroad. The film is a testimony to the strength, resourcefulness and dignity of these women. more »
	Undying Love One does not usually associate the word 'love' with the Holocaust. Yet this tender documentary relates how love did surface, against all odds, in the DP camps after World War II. These tales of love blossoming in such unlikely circumstances is artfully captured on film by Helene Klodawsky, the noted documentarian whose own parents are part of the story. more »
	The Unholy Tarahumara This is a poetic representation of the lifestyle and culture of the Tarahumara Indians who live in the vast, astonishing and isolated Copper Canyon area of Chihuahua, Mexico. more »
	An Unlikely Friendship A film about a surprising friendship which emerged between an embittered Ku Klux Klan leader and an outspoken black woman activist. more »
	The Unquiet Death of Eli Creekmore Told through moving accounts by family members, teachers, and doctors, this powerful documentary documents the brutal child abuse case of Eli Creekmore, a boy who was beaten to death by his father after a startling failing of the state's child protective laws. more »
	The Unsexing of Emma Edmonds This is the amazing true story of a nineteenth century Canadian girl who ran away from home disguised as a travelling Bible salesman. Still disguised as a man, she served in the American Civil War in the Union Army as a dispatch carrier, nurse and spy. more »
	Untangling the Mind: The Legacy of Dr. Heinz Lehmann Documents the work of the pioneering psychiatrist whose work helped to humanize the care of mental patients. more »
	Up at Dawn: The Working Children of Egypt An investigation of child labor in Egypt, where youngsters work in carpet factories, workshops and on farms. more »
	Up Close And Personal: Our Secret Ecology Using 3D animation, time lapse, infrared, and macro photography, this documentary takes us on a fascinating exploration of the invisible teeming life that surrounds us. more »