In Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos, director Juan Mandelbaum returns to Argentina to discover what happened to friends and loved ones who were among the 'desaparecidos' -- citizens that were ...

Weaving stunning archival footage with interviews of Albert Cullum and his former students, A Touch of Greatness is a portrait of the lives transformed by a maverick teacher who enabled children to ...

They say hindsight is 20/20 and, historically, stories about real BIPOC characters in both mainstream film and television have had an obstructed, blurred, or blinded view—depending on the topic. This ...

What do Pepe the Frog, the Spanish Inquisition, the blinking guy, the French Revolution, concern for the environment, and the Third Reich all have in common? These are all ideas that spread until they ...

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness examines the life and work of the Jewish-American anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, whose writings challenged prevailing notions of race and culture.

We Believe in Dinosaurs is an exploration of the scientific and historical veracity of the Bible and the construction of an authentic likeness of Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky. Known as “The ...

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An Israeli soccer club's fans waged a racist campaign after their team, Beitar, added two Muslim players from Chechnya.

Born in a Thai refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. In New Year Baby, she ...

Jeff Smith teaches political science as an adjunct instructor at Washington University in St. Louis. He has also taught at Dartmouth College and the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His courses have ...

This film contrasts the harsh lives of the rural women of Afghanistan with those of the film’s young camerawomen, who are experiencing newfound freedom and opportunity while attempting to use their ...

A haunting exploration of lynching and racial violence in America.