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  • 1980
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    Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

    Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

    1 1980 HD

    The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in...

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  • 1991
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    Homes Apart: Korea

    Homes Apart: Korea

    1 1991 HD

    They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families...

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  • 1976
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    From Spikes to Spindles

    From Spikes to Spindles

    1 1976 HD

    This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely...

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  • 1996
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    The Women Outside

    The Women Outside

    1.00 1996 HD

    They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only to...

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  • 1995
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    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

    1 1995 HD

    The career of iconic and influential poet and writer Audre Lorde is seen up until death.

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  • 2012
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    Salty Dog Blues

    Salty Dog Blues

    1 2012 HD

    The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

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  • 1978
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    Mohawk Nation

    Mohawk Nation

    1 1978 HD

    In May 1974 a group of Mohawk activists reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh. This abandoned territory was reclaimed...

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  • 1982
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    Bittersweet Survival

    Bittersweet Survival

    6.00 1982 HD

    This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins...

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  • 1984
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    Mississippi Triangle

    Mississippi Triangle

    1 1984 HD

    This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and Whites live in a complex world of cotton, work,...

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  • 1979
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    People's Firehouse #1

    People's Firehouse #1

    8.50 1979 HD

    "We're making our point to the whole United States: you can fight the system; and win!" The Polish Americans of Northside, Brooklyn realized their...

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  • 2008
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    Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project

    Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project

    1 2008 HD

    In 2003, Sakia Gunn was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. She was fifteen years old and called herself an Aggressive, an...

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  • 1991
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    Tapestry: Asian Women in America (a.k.a. Tapestry II)

    Tapestry: Asian Women in America (a.k.a. Tapestry II)

    1 1991 HD

    Through archival photographs, oral histories and folk songs by Nobuko Miyamoto, this video weaves the history of 200 years of Asian women's...

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  • 1978
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    Percussion, Impressions and Reality

    Percussion, Impressions and Reality

    1 1978 HD

    This is the first comprehensive U.S. film to explore the origins and growth of traditional Puerto Rican music. Interviews with musicians living in...

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  • 1969
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    Wreck of the New York Subways (Newsreel #47)

    Wreck of the New York Subways (Newsreel #47)

    1 1969 HD

    During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase....

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  • 1969
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    High School Rising (Newsreel #38)

    High School Rising (Newsreel #38)

    1 1969 HD

    An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to...

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  • 1969
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    Army (Newsreel #36)

    Army (Newsreel #36)

    1 1969 HD

    Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S.military, and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military....

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  • 1969
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    She Is Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)

    She Is Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)

    1 1969 HD

    This film documents a play given at the March 28th, 1969 abortion rally by some very angry women. A beauty contestant is primed by her mother, her...

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  • 1968
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    Boston Draft Resistance Group (Newsreel #7)

    Boston Draft Resistance Group (Newsreel #7)

    1 1968 HD

    A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups...

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  • 1971
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    My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)

    My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)

    1 1971 HD

    In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful...

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  • 1968
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    Pig Power (Newsreel #23)

    Pig Power (Newsreel #23)

    1 1968 HD

    As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police...

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