Accepted follows four high school students at T.M. Landry, a prep school in Louisiana known for its viral videos of seniors being accepted to the Ivy Leagues, and sending 100% of its graduates to college. But an explosive NY Times article exposes the controversial methods of its dynamic founder -- and the fiction of higher education's promise.
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their major leagues dreams. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, these athletes try to hold onto their hope while fighting for a better life.
Palawan is a tropical island paradise and one of Asia's tourist hotspots. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they brave violence, death threats and murder while trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ last ecological frontier.
Filmmaker Judith Helfand documents her life as a daughter caring for her terminally ill mother and as an “old new mom”, single parenting an adopted baby girl at 50+. This multigenerational love story asks: what do we really need to leave our children?
A hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, a place where one commodity – khat, a euphoria-inducing plant – holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures intimate moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from political strife.
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?
Stories on home and how it shapes us.
Explore how Christine works to assure dignified lives for herself and her brother Peter, born with multiple disabilities, while she faces uncertainties about becoming his primary caregiver.
In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first steps towards economic renewal and political sovereignty.
Inter-generational women from Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an unexpected alliance to defend the land and water at Manzanar, site of the WWII concentration camp the foot of California’s snow-capped Sierras.