Movies: Corporation For Public Broadcasting

  • 2011
    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)

    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

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    Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a profile of Oregon ELF member Daniel McGowan, who w...

    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • 2019
    The Silence of Others

    The Silence of Others (2019)

    The Silence of Others

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    The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, th...

    The Silence of Others
  • 2021
    Try Harder!

    Try Harder! (2021)

    Try Harder!

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    In a universe where cool kids are nerds, the orchestra is world class and being Asian American is the norm, seniors at Lowell High School compete for the top prize: admission to the college of their dreams....

    Try Harder!
  • 2019
    Always in Season

    Always in Season (2019)

    Always in Season

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    When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present....

    Always in Season
  • 2017
    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017)

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

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    On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters...

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
  • 2025
    Third Act

    Third Act (2025)

    Third Act

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    Filmmaker Tadashi explores his father Robert A. Nakamura's life as an influential Asian American artist and activist, while grappling with Robert's Parkinson's diagnosis, navigating themes of art, grief, and their father-son relationship....

    Third Act
  • 2020
    Represent

    Represent (2020)

    Represent

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    In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms....

    Represent
  • 2015
    A Ballerina's Tale

    A Ballerina's Tale (2015)

    A Ballerina's Tale

    6.32015HD

    A feature documentary on African American ballerina Misty Copeland that examines her prodigious rise, her potentially career ending injury alongside themes of race and body image in the elite ballet world....

    A Ballerina's Tale
  • 2020
    The People vs. Agent Orange

    The People vs. Agent Orange (2020)

    The People vs. Agent Orange

    8.82020HD

    Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination exposing a massive cover-up....

    The People vs. Agent Orange
  • 2013
    The Kill Team

    The Kill Team (2013)

    The Kill Team

    6.82013HD

    In 2010, the media branded a platoon of U.S. Army infantry soldiers “The Kill Team” following reports of its killing for sport in Afghanistan. Now, one of the accused must fight the government he defended on the battlefield, while grappling with his ...

    The Kill Team
  • 2016
    National Bird

    National Bird (2016)

    National Bird

    6.72016HD

    Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections, traumas, and responses—of three American military veterans whose lives have been shaken by the roles they play...

    National Bird
  • 2021
    Storm Lake

    Storm Lake (2021)

    Storm Lake

    6.52021HD

    A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence....

    Storm Lake
  • 2023
    The Lie Detector

    The Lie Detector (2023)

    The Lie Detector

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    In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a machine. Popularly known as the “lie detector,” the dev...

    The Lie Detector
  • 2016
    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)

    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

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    A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the De...

    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
  • 2019
    Words from a Bear

    Words from a Bear (2019)

    Words from a Bear

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    A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history....

    Words from a Bear
  • 2018
    Into the Amazon

    Into the Amazon (2018)

    Into the Amazon

    7.82018HD

    A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon....

    Into the Amazon
  • 2018
    93Queen

    93Queen (2018)

    93Queen

    7.82018HD

    Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, "93Queen" follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City. With unpreceden...

    93Queen
  • 2010
    Boxing Gym

    Boxing Gym (2010)

    Boxing Gym

    6.62010HD

    Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best....

    Boxing Gym
  • 2020
    City Hall

    City Hall (2020)

    City Hall

    6.42020HD

    An epic look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more....

    City Hall
  • 2018
    Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal

    Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal (2018)

    Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal

    6.52018HD

    In Namibia, conservationist Maria Diekmann found herself on the frontline of the battle to save these wanted animals after unexpectedly becoming a surrogate mother to an orphaned baby pangolin named Honey Bun. On an emotional journey, Diekmann travel...

    Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal