Film Library

Civil rights legend James Meredith never fit in – not as the first Black person to attend the University of Mississippi, not surrounded by fellow activists on the Meredith March, not working for ultraconservative Jesse Helms or stumping for ex-Klansman David Duke. “Mississippi Messiah” is a nuanced exploration of Meredith’s complicated life as a public figure.

Mississippi Queen follows Paige, a southerner returning home, digging past the mask of hospitality examining the ex-gay ministry, interviewing southerners on both sides, including her parents who help convert homosexuals.

This first-person documentary-memoir follows a very personal and poignant mother-daughter investigative journey that seeks to find out why genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not labeled on food products in the United States and Canada, despite being labeled in 64 countries around the world.

There are unexpected moments that stay with you. Little breaths that make you feel alive. Anne, a young professional is getting ready for her day when two men show up at her door and her calm morning is filled with anticipation.

Two-dimensional clay animations melding and merging the work of 35 famous artists.

Sisters Cynthia and Rachel watched their mother suffer the indignities and pain of struggling with cancer when they were younger. Now the owners of a beauty salon in Islip, Long Island, the sisters open their doors every third Monday of the month to women living with cancer. With great compassion and support, the women undergoing treatment face their fears together and rediscover their beauty in a whole new way.

MOONLIGHT SONATA is a deeply personal memoir about a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Ludwig van Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata. Their lives weave a story about what we discover when we push beyond loss.

Mugeni’s story starts with the sound of bombs when she awakes in the night in her small village in the Congo. Separated from her family at fourteen, she struggles to survive while also trying to find her family and maintain some stability.

With its red-and-gold fall colors, Morgantown seems an unlikely battleground for the soul of Islam in America. But that’s what happens when journalist Asra Nomani enters a nondescript mosque. Her demand that women be allowed to pray with the men, instead of being relegated to the backroom, ignites a national controversy.

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

THE MOSUO SISTERS is a tale of two sisters living in the shadow of two Chinas. Juma and Latso, young women from one of the world’s last remaining matriarchal societies, are thrust into the worldwide economic downturn when they lose their jobs in Beijin…

The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest countries: the Philippines. There, women face devastating consequences as their country struggles with reproductive health policy and the politics of conservative ideologies.