American Documentary Movies

  • 2013
    American Promise

    American Promise

    American Promise

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    In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and...

    American Promise
  • 2022
    Midwives

    Midwives

    Midwives

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    Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the...

    Midwives
  • 2005
    The Hobart Shakespeareans

    The Hobart Shakespeareans

    The Hobart Shakespeareans

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    Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at...

    The Hobart Shakespeareans
  • 2021
    North by Current

    North by Current

    North by Current

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    Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his...

    North by Current
  • 2018
    The Feeling of Being Watched

    The Feeling of Being Watched

    The Feeling of Being Watched

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    Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored...

    The Feeling of Being Watched
  • 2017
    Motherland

    Motherland

    Motherland

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    The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face...

    Motherland
  • 2020
    And She Could Be Next

    And She Could Be Next

    And She Could Be Next

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    The story of a defiant movement of women of color transforming American politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm...

    And She Could Be Next
  • 2018
    93Queen

    93Queen

    93Queen

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    Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their...

    93Queen
  • 2024
    Brief Tender Light

    Brief Tender Light

    Brief Tender Light

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    At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries...

    Brief Tender Light
  • 2011
    I'm Carolyn Parker

    I'm Carolyn Parker

    I'm Carolyn Parker

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    A documentary about a survivor of Hurricane Katrina.

    I'm Carolyn Parker
  • 2023
    How to Have an American Baby

    How to Have an American Baby

    How to Have an American Baby

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    An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.

    How to Have an American Baby
  • 2021
    Through the Night

    Through the Night

    Through the Night

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    When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become...

    Through the Night
  • 2022
    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

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    The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
  • 2015
    Thank You for Playing

    Thank You for Playing

    Thank You for Playing

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    For the past two years, Ryan and Amy Green have been working on That Dragon, Cancer, a videogame about their son Joel's fight against that disease....

    Thank You for Playing
  • 2022
    Let the Little Light Shine

    Let the Little Light Shine

    Let the Little Light Shine

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    When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s...

    Let the Little Light Shine
  • 2020
    Natours Grocery

    Natours Grocery

    Natours Grocery

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    Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents' emigration from...

    Natours Grocery
  • 2022
    After Sherman

    After Sherman

    After Sherman

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    Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history,...

    After Sherman