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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

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Dear Future Children (2021)

documentary film, Documentation

The film explores the challenges and motivations of activism to recognize what drives activists and studies the modern organization of protest movements. The project follows activists on the protests in Hong Kong against the Beijing-influenced administration under Carrie Lam, the protests in Chile against social inequality in the country, in Uganda at the local Fridays for Future protests and actions for climate justice and on the C40 World Mayors Summit 2019 in Copenhagen.

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The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013)

documentary film

The Ghosts in Our Machine follows photojournalist and animal activist Jo-Anne McArthur. The documentary opens with images of animals and sound bites on animal rights, before McArthur introduces herself. She describes herself as a war photographer and activist, more concerned with changing the world than with art.

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Milwaukee 53206 (2016)

documentary film

The film centers on families grappling with the long-term effects of incarceration. Among the stories is Beverly Walker, a mother of five whose husband, Baron Walker, has spent more than two decades behind bars. Chad Wilson, a young man recently released from prison, works to rebuild his life while confronting the stigma and obstacles of reentry.

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Koch (2012)

documentary film

First-time filmmaker and former Wall Street Journal reporter Neil Barsky's 2012 documentary film Koch explores the origins, career, and legacy of Edward Irving “Ed” Koch, who served as Mayor of New York City for three consecutive terms from 1978 to 1989. With candid interviews and rare archival footage, the film offers a close look at a man known for being intensely private in spite of his dynamic public persona, and chronicles the tumultuous events which marked his time in office – a fiercely competitive 1977 election, the 1980 transit strike, the burgeoning AIDS epidemic, landmark housing renewal initiatives, and an irreparable…

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The Shakers (1974)

documentary film

The Shakers opens with the Narrator, Tom Davenport, reading a quote Benson John Lossing from an 1857 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, speaking of the order, neatness, and beauty of a Shaker community. "Simple Gifts" is sung by several Shaker women while the camera pans over Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. Shots of Shaker sisters sweeping, cooking, filling bird feeders, and washing clothes are shown, with numerous cuts to show historical images of the Shakers accompanied by the Narrator discussing their growth and decline.

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