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  • 2023
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    How to Have an American Baby

    How to Have an American Baby

    0 2023 HD

    An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2021
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    Through the Night

    Through the Night

    8 2021 HD

    When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Deloris 'Nunu' Hogan

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  • 2022
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    Midwives

    Midwives

    8 2022 HD

    Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2024
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    Brief Tender Light

    Brief Tender Light

    0 2024 HD

    At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Sante T. Nyambo

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  • 2020
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    And She Could Be Next

    And She Could Be Next

    0 2020 HD

    The story of a defiant movement of women of color transforming American politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Jennifer Caroll Foy

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  • 2017
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    Motherland

    Motherland

    6.4 2017 HD

    The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2005
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    The Hobart Shakespeareans

    The Hobart Shakespeareans

    4 2005 HD

    Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Michael York

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  • 2018
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    The Feeling of Being Watched

    The Feeling of Being Watched

    6.5 2018 HD

    Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Assia Boundaoui

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  • 2013
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    American Promise

    American Promise

    6.7 2013 HD

    In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Idris Brewster

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  • 2018
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    93Queen

    93Queen

    7.8 2018 HD

    Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Amy Ackerman

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  • 2021
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    North by Current

    North by Current

    6 2021 HD

    Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2015
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    Thank You for Playing

    Thank You for Playing

    7.3 2015 HD

    For the past two years, Ryan and Amy Green have been working on That Dragon, Cancer, a videogame about their son Joel's fight against that disease....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ryan Green

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  • 2022
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    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    0 2022 HD

    The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Fannie Lou Hamer

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  • 2011
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    I'm Carolyn Parker

    I'm Carolyn Parker

    6 2011 HD

    A documentary about a survivor of Hurricane Katrina.

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2022
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    After Sherman

    After Sherman

    0 2022 HD

    Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history,...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2022
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    Let the Little Light Shine

    Let the Little Light Shine

    8 2022 HD

    When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2020
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    Natours Grocery

    Natours Grocery

    0 2020 HD

    Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents' emigration from...

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