Film Library

Tucson High School students and teachers form the front line of an epic civil rights battle to save their Mexican American Studies classes.

Sexual exploitation of children is a problem that we tend to relegate to back-alley brothels in developing countries, the province of a particularly inhuman, and invariably foreign, criminal element. Such is the initial premise of Libby Spears’ sensiti…

This documentary features people in their 90s and 100s who are living extraordinary and passionate lives. Filmmaker Susan Polis Schutz has interviewed some of the most incredible people you can imagine – people who aren’t aware of chronological age at…

In the early afternoon of June 8 1968, following a funeral mass in St Patrick´s Cathedral, New York, the Kennedy family and their guests boarded a train at Penn Station to take the body of Robert F Kennedy, assassinated two days before, back to Washing…

One Revolution opens as dawn breaks atop Africa’s tallest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. Briefly, glimpses of the mountain frame Chris Waddell as he transfers to his specially designed handcycle. The air is tense as Chris begins the fifth day of his asce…

Once Upon a Crime comically deconstructs the fairytale of Snow White by pulling the princess out of the story book and putting her up on the witness stand where she must defend herself and be held accountable for the story she’s been telling for 152 ye…

Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, “Miss Representation” uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the…

Sometime love lasts a lifetime as an old woman who waits for her late husband to return knows while her neighbor waits only for death to come and take her away. When their fates connect, they are both miraculously freed.

A film about place and memory, a farmhouse in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home.

Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman put it on one of his Top Ten lists. More than 15 years later, the McDonald’s coffee case continues to be cited as a prime example of how citizens use “frivolous” lawsuits to take unfair advantage of America’s legal system. But is that an accurate portrayal of the facts? First-time filmmaker and former public interest lawyer Susan Saladoff uses the infamous legal battle that began with a spilled cup of coffee to investigate what’s behind America’s zeal for tort reform. By following four people whose lives were devastated by the attacks on our courts, this thought-provoking documentary challenges the assumptions Americans hold about “jackpot justice.”

This film follows a young black woman’s quest to become the 2005 Homecoming Queen at the University of Alabama, running against a strictly segregated Greek system, internal black politics, and a secret all-white association that has been controlling campus politics at the University.

Umoja  – No Men Allowed tells the amusing and life-changing story of a group of impoverished tribal Samburu women in Northern Kenya who reclaim their lives, turning age-old patriarchy on its head when they set up a women’s only village.Their story bega…