After Stonewall
A Film by John Scagliotti, Janet Baus & Dan Hunt. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, this sequel to Before Stonewall chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the millenium.

America Betrayed
Narrated by Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss, this searing documentary about the collapse of America's national infrastructure is both a cautionary tale for those who trust their government, and a wake-up call to Washington and Americans everywhere.

American Outrage
Two elderly Western Shoshone sisters put up a heroic fight for their land rights- and their human rights- in this award-winning documentary about a dispute that went to the Supreme Court, and eventually the United Nations.

Arguing the World
With the Cold War raging and competing political philosophies vying to exert influence in every corner of the globe, four brilliant men -- Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol -- tried to change the world with their ideas.

Been Rich All My Life
Meet the Silver Belles, five tap dancers who performed in 1930’s Harlem. Together again, after a few decades hiatus, they're dancing to standing ovations - as sassy as they ever were.

Before & After Stonewall: 25th Anniversary Edition
These two seminal documentaries tell the remarkable tale of how homosexuals, a heretofore hidden and despised group, became a vibrant and integral part of America’s family, and, indeed, the world community..

Before Stonewall
When the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, three nights of rioting sparked a national gay liberation movement. This acclaimed documentary tells the dramatic story of gay and lesbian life from the 1920s up until Stonewall.

Behind the Burly Q
Burlesque was one of America’s most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century, yet now it is often vilified and misunderstood. This film tells the intimate and surprising stories of burlesque from its golden age.

Berkeley in the Sixties
A Film by Mark Kitchell. The Sixties come to life in this gripping film that captures the decade's events - the Free Speech Movement, Civil Rights marches, anti-war protests, Black Panthers - in all their immediacy and passion.

Blood in the Face
A jaw-dropping view of America's white supremacy movement. Rare archival footage, darkly humorous interviews, and their own promotional materials bring to light the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan and other radical right groups.

Bright Leaves
Using the Hollywood melodrama "Bright Leaf" as a jumping off point, filmmaker Ross McElwee reaches back to his roots in this witty rumination on American History, tobacco, and the myth of cinema.

Brothers in Arms
In the early months of 1969, six men met on a swift boat on the Mekong Delta during some of the worst fighting in the Vietnam War. Their commander happened to be a young Yale graduate named John Kerry.

Bulletproof Salesman
A self-confessed war profiteer, Fidelis Cloer always had an on eye on growth opportunities and found the perfect war when the US invaded Iraq. But as the war evolved, Fidelis quickly found himself engaged in a pathological arms race.

Camden 28, The
An award-winning documentary that tells the story of the group of 28 activists, mostly conscientious objectors from the Catholic left, who broke into a draft board office in Camden, New Jersey in the summer of 1971.

Champagne Safari, The
The true story of Charles Bedaux, wealthy businessman, glamorous playboy, daring adventurer, who hobnobbed with the rich, powerful and famous all over the globe - including Nazi Germany.

Commune
Black Bear Ranch was the prototypical 1960s commune, with the motto “Free Land for Free People.” This acclaimed documentary offers a candid look into the joys and difficulties of communal living.

Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter tells the story of two of America's most important designers, the husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames.

Feed
Using footage shot during the primaries and intercepted satellite feeds of unsuspecting candidates, Feed presents the wild, wacky world of American politics. Watch Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, Jerry Brown snort nose inhalers, and more!

Fidel
A unique look at one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time through exclusive interviews with Castro himself, Alice Walker, Harry Belafonte, Nelson Mandela, and many more.

Fire On the Mountain
A Film by Beth & George Gage. The story of the 10th Mountain Division, America's only winter warfare fighting unit, who fought the Nazis on skis in the high mountains.

Full Battle Rattle
Full Battle Rattle is a revelatory look at the soul of the American war machine – an astonishing journey inside a once top-secret military base where U.S. soldiers train to confront a new kind of enemy.

Garbo: The Spy
This documentary thriller tells the tale of self-made counterspy Juan Pujol García, the only person to have been decorated by both the Allies and the Axis for service during World War II.

Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It, The
Narrated by Ed Asner, this important film tells the story of a previously ignored chapter of WWII – the American conscientious objectors who refused to fight. It is a story of courage, idealism and nonconformity based on both ethical and religious beliefs.

History Lessons
A Film by Barbara Hammer. Lesbian history is presented in an extraordinary array of archival footage that is playfully manipulated to make it seem as though lesbians were everywhere!

Hitler Chronicles, The
This collector's edition box set features four riveting documentaries about Adolf Hitler and the rise and fall of the Third Reich: The Architecture of Doom, Dear Uncle Adolf, Hitler: A Career, and The Top Secret Trial of the Third Reich.

Hole in a Fence, A
Chronicling the changing fortunes of Red Hook, Brooklyn, A Hole in a Fence explores the complicated issues of development, class and identity facing one of New York City’s most unique neighborhoods.

Homemade Hillbilly Jam
This enjoyable documentary captures the rich and wonderful sounds of “hillbilly” music by following three families of modern-day hillbillies back to the roots of their music-making heritage.

Homo Sapiens 1900
Homo Sapiens 1900 is a stunning exploration of the history of eugenics, race hygiene and the quest to improve the human race featuring startling archival footage and long-hidden documents.

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train - Commemorative Edition
A new Commemorative Edition of our best-selling DVD, Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train, featuring over an hour of new bonus materials including speeches, college talks, interviews, and excerpts with Studs Terkel.

Internationale, The
The Internationale tells the story of a legendary song that has been a rallying cry of the oppressed and exploited in nearly every nation on earth, and explores the power of music as a force for change.

Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War
In this enthralling documentary, 16 brave and idealistic nurses, writers and journalists who volunteered to help fight the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War, share stories of courage and commitment.

James Castle: Portrait of an Artist
Born deaf in 1899 in rural Idaho, James Castle mined the local landscape and his own deeply private world to produce an astonishing body of drawings, collages, and constructions that eventually gained worldwide recognition.

Lenny Bruce Without Tears
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble is here profiled by a close friend who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears.

Life Apart: Hasidism in America, A
A Film by Menachem Daum & Oren Rudavsky. Seven years in the making, this extraordinarily intimate film takes us into the mysterious and joyous world of the Hasidic Jews, revealing a place few outsiders have seen and fewer yet could imagine.

Making the Boys
This documentary explores the legacy of “The Boys in the Band” - the first ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. With Edward Albee, Mart Crowley, Dominick Dunne, Tony Kushner and more.

Man Nobody Knew, The: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
Told by William Colby’s son Carl, this documentary is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows, and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nation's most cloaked actions.

Man on a Mission
Richly funny and invigorating, Man on a Mission tags along with computer legend Richard Garriott on his years-long quest to follow in his father's footsteps, all the way to outer space.

Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he fought to preserve the American wilderness for future generations.

Most Dangerous Man in America, The: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
This Oscar nominated documentary is the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a Pentagon official, who in 1971 concluded that the Vietnam War was based on decades of lies and leaked top secret documents to The New York Times.

Moving Midway
Godfrey Cheshire's film about his family's Southern plantation - and the colossal feat of moving it to escape urban sprawl - is a thoughtful and witty look at how the racial legacy from the past continues into the present.

Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
In 1964, a mob of Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. Neshoba tells the story of these three American heroes and the long struggle to bring their killers to justice.

New York in the Fifties
A Film by Betsy Blankenbaker. The story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expression, free love, drinking, hot jazz and radical politics.

One Bright Shining Moment
When presidential candidate George McGovern took on Richard Nixon in 1972, he didn’t win- but in his bold, grassroots campaign, we find the genesis of today's progressive movement.

Paralyzing Fear, A: The Story of Polio in America
Seldom has society come full circle in the cycle of a disease - from illness, to epidemic, to cure. Polio is the 20th century's most notable exception. This fascinating story is told here using thousands of photographs and films bringing to life an America that was both brave and innocent..

Perfect Candidate, A
A Film by R. J. Cutler & David Van Taylor. Sometimes horrifying, often hilarious, this twisted journey into the underbelly of American politics offers an astonishing look at Oliver North's run for the U.S. Senate.

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
A Film by John Junkerman. POWER AND TERROR presents the latest in Noam Chomsky's incisive and controversial thinking, through interviews and talks given in the spring of 2002.

Pruitt-Igoe Myth, The
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.

Roses in December
On December 2, 1980 lay missioner Jean Donovan and three American nuns were brutally murdered by members of El Salvador’s security force. The film chronicles Jean’s life, from her affluent childhood to her tragic death.

Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti brings to life the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial.

September 11
Eleven acclaimed directors each make an 11 minute short film in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The result is a daring and moving global cinematic reply that "forces us to look at the entire event afresh." (The New York Times).

Sex & Justice
Narrated by Gloria Steinem, Sex & Justice presents the highlights of the dramatic confrontation between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings before the United States Senate in 1991.

Sons of Tennessee Williams, The
Interweaving archival footage and contemporary interviews, The Sons of Tennessee Williams charts the evolution of the gay Mardi Gras krewe scene in New Orleans over the decades.

Stonewall Uprising, The
Filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner explore the dramatic 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn that gave birth to the modern gay rights movement.

Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
From the director of Bonhoeffer, Martin Doblmeier, a story that tears at the heart of America. This critically acclaimed film explores Thomas Jefferson and his personal and public dilemma about race and slavery.

Tiger Next Door, The
Dennis Hill has been breeding and selling tigers from his backyard in Indiana for over 15 years. But now, after a surprise government inspection, he’s lost his license to keep exotic animals, and the state is threatening to shut him down.

Trials of Henry Kissinger, The
A Film by Alex Gibney & Eugene Jarecki. The Trials of Henry Kissinger explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in U.S. history.

Unborn in the USA
A riveting look into the deep secrets and deep pockets of the pro-life movement. Exclusive interviews are interwoven with astonishing archival footage to document one of the most controversial social movements in American history.

Waiting for Armageddon
America’s 50-million strong Evangelical community is convinced that the world’s future is foretold in Biblical prophecy. Waiting for Armageddon explores this apocalyptic worldview, from the homefront in America to the future battlefield of Israel.

War At Home, The
A film by by Glenn Silber and Barry Brown. One of the most important political films ever made, The War at Home chronicles the anti-war movement of the 60's and 70's, which grew into a genuine people's revolt as war in Vietnam escalated.

With God On Our Side
What makes George W. Bush tick? While much of the world is confounded by his righteous rhetoric and his boundless certainty, Bush's story makes perfect sense to one group: America's conservative evangelicals... also known as the Religious Right.