Independent Television Service
1) Wildland
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping yet deeply personal account of a single wildland firefighting crew as they struggle with fear, loyalty, dreams, and demons. What emerges is a rich story of working-class men, their exterior world, interior lives, and the fire that lies between.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
What happens when love runs out of time? For a 92-year-old mother, Mimi, who has cared 64 years for her daughter, Dona, who has an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable. She will not outlive her daughter. This poignant, heartbreaking and, at times, humorous documentary traces this process through the story of a wonderfully quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo.
3) Chiefs
Publisher
Active Parenting Publishers [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows a team of Native American teens from Wyoming Indian High School in the town of Ethete on the Wind River Indian Reservation as they strive to recapture the state basketball championship while battling against poverty, alcoholism, drugs and racism. After graduation, the young men's next challenge is to convert the pride and success they experience on the basketball court into success in their adult lives--including higher education...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Time for School puts a human face on a global crisis, by following five children in five countries, from their first days of school through the next twelve years as they try to get a basic education. Told primarily from the point of view of the children and their families.
"The following program contains mature content which may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion advised."
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Convicted felons at Kentucky's Luther Luckett Correctional Complex rehearse for the Shakespearean production, The Tempest, as part of the Shakespeare Behind Bars Program. The play's underlying theme of forgiveness parallels themes of transformation and redemption in the lives of the prisoners.
Publisher
Question Why Films
Pub. Date
2008]
Language
English
Description
A documentary examining the life of Bayard Rustin who, although one of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, and an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was forced to play a background role in landmark civil rights events because he was homosexual.
Publisher
[Collective Eye Films?]
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Language
English
Description
A group of incarcerated teenage girls get a shot at redemption in a most unlikely form: a musical based on their lives. As they write and stage their play, the girls must re-live their crimes, reclaim their humanity, and take a first step toward breaking free of the prison system.
8) Tower
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On August first, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes in what was a previously unimaginable event. This documentary combines archival footage with animated re-enactments of the dramatic day, based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes, and survivors, in a seamless and suspenseful retelling of the unfolding tragedy.
Publisher
Zipporah
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frederick Wiseman's film, Ex Libris- the New York Public Library, goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals it as a place of welcome, cultural exchange and learning. With 92 locations throughout Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, the library is committed to being a resource for all the inhabitants of this diverse and cosmopolitan city, and beyond. The New York Public Library exemplifies the...
10) Eating Alabama
Publisher
Moon Winx Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A native Alabamian and his wife return home and decide to eat like their grandparents did, locally and seasonally. But everything about the food system has changed since farmers populated their family histories. A story about the South and sustainability, ultimately Eating Alabama is about why food matters.
11) Oil & water
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Oil & Water is the true story of two boys coming of age as they each confront one of the world's worst toxic disasters. Hugo and David were born on opposite ends of the oil pipeline. Hugo comes to America to fight for the survival of his tribe in the Ecuadorian Amazon, while David goes to Ecuador to launch the world's first company to certify oil as fair trade. Can Hugo become the leader his Cofán tribe so desperately wants him to be? Will David...
12) Mariachi high
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The program documents a year in the life of Mariachi Halcon, a top-ranked competitive high school mariachi band in the rural ranching town of Zapata, Texas. Using the band and its music as a lens, this spirited documentary focuses on Mexican-American teenagers pursuing excellence and finding strength in themselves, as well as a connection to their cultural heritage.
14) Herb and Dorothy
Publisher
Arthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Follows the creation of the San Francisco Opera's celebrated production of The Bonesetter's Daughter, based on Amy Tan's book of the same name. Bringing together artists from China and the U.S, the opera tells a deeply moving story about the difficult but unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters.
16) 93Queen
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The inspirational story of Rachel 'Ruchie' Freier, a no-nonsense Hasidic lawyer and mother of six who is determined to shake up the boy's club in her community by creating Ezras Nashim, the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City. In the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, EMS corps have long been the province of men. Though the neighborhood is home to the largest volunteer ambulance corps in the world, that organization...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[c2007]
Language
English
Description
Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence, Dr. Riyadh struggles to understand...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by Deborah Willis's book, Reflections in black, Through a lens darkly casts a broad net that begins with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris's family album. It considers the difference between black photographers who use the camera to define themselves, their people, and their culture and some white photographers who, historically, have demeaned African-Americans through racist imagery. The film embraces both historical material (African-Americans...