Ellen Brodsky’s delightful film about a young group of Texas history students who embark on a quest to return General Santa Anna’s wooden leg to Mexico. Don’t know who Santa Anna is? Watch the trailer!
On the banks of the Ganges, in India’s holiest city, the gods descend to earth once a year to celebrate. And the boatmen carry the faithful who come to honor them.
Director Frances Causey examines the impact of white privilege on American society today through the lens of her family’s colonial past as slave owners.
Short film docu-series featuring three women from Micronesia who are transforming their lives and the lives of their families through higher education. Part of the Pacific Pulse online series, Pacific Islanders in Communications.
Trailer for 39 1/2, an independent feature film which mixes narrative drama, comedy and animation to follow the journey of a single, female filmmaker pushing 40 and determined to have a child by virtually any means necessary.
In Adios Amor, the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Maria Moreno, a migrant mother driven to speak out by her twelve children’s hunger. Years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta launched the United Farm Workers, Maria picked up the only weapon she had—her voice—and became an outspoken leader in an era when women were relegated to the background.
An intimate chronicle of hippie elders and their adult children, filmed over a 10-year period at a communal ranch in New Mexico. The founders of this back-to-the-land experiment are slowing down and facing declining health. Will the next generation be able to sustain the community?
Just One Drop tells the little known story of homeopathy: the highly controversial system of medicine. Homeopathy is a specific form of medicine that uses minute doses of a highly diluted substance that stimulates the body to cure itself. The film explores the controversy, dispels myths and misconceptions, and asks whether or not homeopathy been given a fair shake.
Shipped thousands of miles away from the tropical islands of Hawaii to a private prison in the Arizona desert, two native Hawaiians discover their indigenous traditions from a fellow inmate serving a life sentence. It’s from this unlikely setting that David and Hale finish their terms and return to Hawaii, hoping for a fresh start. Eager to prove to themselves and to their families that this experience has changed them forever, David and Hale struggle with the hurdles of life as formerly incarcerated men, asking the question: can you really go home again?
Trailer editor & editor of PBS version: Shirley Thompson
