Film Library

Strong Coffee tells the story of Café Femenino – the first and only coffee beans grown entirely by women farmers. Café Femenino is an initiative of some of the poorest women in Peru.It involves them growing their own coffee, keeping it separate from ot…

Striking A Chord, a documentary from director Susan Cohn Rockefeller, brings the audience along on a band’s tour of remote American military bases in Kuwait and Iraq. They find great soldiers – men and women – forced to deal with daily challenges such as the constant threats of the ongoing war, crushing boredom and great physical and emotional distance from their families. They discover their visit, attention to the soldiers and music have a surprisingly profound impact on many of the soldiers, helping them open up to discuss their experiences.

Sun Come Up follows the relocation of some of the world’s first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders – a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean. When rising seas threaten their survival, the islanders face a painful decision: they must leave their beloved land in search of a new place to call home.

Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door.

In 1967 in rural Kentucky a man was killed. As happens sometimes, outsider’s good intentions are perceived as intrusive and threatening. The murdered man was Hugh O’Connor, a Canadian documentarian. The man who shot him was Hobart Ison, a reclusive lan…

A Jewish teenager and an injured soldier join a doomed plot to kill Hitler. They face almost certain death, yet luck and love shine upon them as they outwit Nazi terror and become the first couple married in post-war Berlin.

Flying in the face of ageism, this film explores the intimate lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white, women ages 65 to 87 express with honesty and humor, how they feel about themselves, sex, and love.