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Life of Folk dancing

Folk dance is not just about dancing, it's also about community, family and heritage.

Total votes: 851
Rarefied

In a search for answers, nine families struggling with undiagnosed genetic conditions have their DNA sequenced.

Total votes: 566
Does the Sand Hear the Waves?

Journey of a girl raised in an Eastern culture, but who resides in a Western country.

Total votes: 769
The Women In The Sand

Guided by the spirits of their ancestors, a few feisty elders of the vanishing Timbisha Shoshone Tribe struggle to overcome injustice and keep their ancient

Total votes: 922
Barcelona in Black

Few cities have undergone such a drastic and complete makeover in such short order while successfully retaining its enduring spirit and allure.

Total votes: 504
The Rich Life

Striving to fulfill dreams through strength and character, all the while earning the rich life.

Total votes: 549
I Wish I Was That Bird

A self-taught artist struggles with mental illness and family trauma.

Total votes: 636
Angels Of The Sky

The true life story of WWII pilots from the 8th Air Force, who were shot down over German territory and became POWs...told through the survivors themselves!<

Total votes: 584
PROMISES I CAN'T KEEP_HALIMO

An intimate portrait of a Somali refugee mother who has fled the conflict in her country leaving her two young daughters behind with her mother.

Total votes: 811
Two Languages One Community

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Total votes: 845
The New Gypsy Kings

Filmmaker Liviu Tipurita takes us into the heart of the astonishing world of Romania's super-rich Gypsy popstars - a world of fast cars, lavish houses and ga

Total votes: 670
Parthian

These personal stories illustrate how a generation of culturally mixed school children went from being scattered all over the world by a revolution, to findi

Total votes: 904
Unstoppable Irving Fields

Legendary musician Irving Fields decides to resurge his career - at age 99!

Total votes: 869
Hollow Dog

Maurice Blik was a man tortured by memories of the past. This is the story of how a therapist, art and some bronze horses saved him.

Total votes: 736
Tracks on the Sand

Hayat was born in Mogadishu (Somalia) in 1989, but had to flee from the country before she was even two years old to avoid the armed conflict that is still g

Total votes: 1011
Behind the Fear, the Hidden Story of HIV

On April 23, 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo announced to the world that a single retrovirus was the 'probable cause of AIDS'.

Total votes: 1000
VEINTE ANOS

The recent transformations of Cuban society through love stories of three Cuban couples, filmed over twenty years.

Total votes: 952
The Nuclear Family

Ari M. Beser is the grandson of Lt. Jacob Beser, the only U.S. serviceman aboard both atomic bomb-carrying B-29s.

Total votes: 1426
The Drover's Boy

This award-winning hybrid documentary is based on a ballad by Australian bush legend Ted Egan.

Total votes: 812
the re-discovery of humanity - ecosystem restoration and migration

An explorative journey through migration hotspots in Africa and the Middle East that looks for answers to a crises of humanitarian proportions.

Total votes: 590
Ron Perron: Always On

Ron Perron left a career in telecom to pursue his dreams of becoming the best fitness photographer in Canada.

Total votes: 542
Buzz One Four

Crashed planes, lost nuclear bombs, and an Air Force cover-up: a filmmaker unpacks the secret history of how his grandfather nearly blew-up the eastern seabo

Total votes: 847
Eyeless in Gaza

In reporting the Gaza War of 2014, these quotes appeared in the international media: “They’re calling it a massacre”, “Children and civilians comprised the v

Total votes: 770
Shakeer: From West Baltimore

Shakeer is a 6th grader from West Baltimore who is striving to overcome countless obstacles to succeed in school and not, in his sister’s words, “become anot

Total votes: 681
My Hiccups Are Gone

This is a story of 5-year-old twin boys with autism and their parents as they try to find the best path for their lives.

Total votes: 738
Like A Lotus Flower

Doco-fantasy told through the eyes of a 10-year old girl looking for the adults that disappeared from her life.

Total votes: 1450
MARCH

MARCH is a short documentary filmdepicting the bond between the seeminglyunrelated people with tenacious spirit–football supporters and a marching band.In ad

Total votes: 766
BROKEN DREAMS 'The Man I Always Wanted to Be' Artist James Dupree

Artist James Dupree fights the city of Philadelphia to save his art gallery and studio after city council seizes his deeds for eminent domain.

Total votes: 769
The California Golden Seals Story

The California Golden Seals were one of the greatest hopes....and biggest disappointments of the NHL's 1967 Great Expansion from six hockey teams to twelve.

Total votes: 742
Life Is A Movie

2017 is the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love.

Total votes: 584
ARMOR: Biracial in the Deep South

Four women share their experiences of being biracial in the post segregationist American South.

Total votes: 922
A Poem of Glass and Steel

The intimate documentation of the architecture and culture of an iconic Detroit neighborhood.

Total votes: 615
Get Lost In Myanmar

Get Lost: In Myanmar is the first in a series of news/travel programs that highlight host Sophie Lui's firsthand examinations of various international destin

Total votes: 598
Kiev Dreamers

You spend a third of your life sleeping. Do something with it.

Total votes: 452
Theatre Beyond Walls with Paul Thompson

This 45-minute documentary examines the radical beginnings of the alternative Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto in the 1960's and then the 'Paul Thompson sty

Total votes: 836
Chinese TransSexual

A story about Chinese TransSexual.TransSexual person in China, is already a very large group, but we don't know!They are mainly from all over the country's s

Total votes: 928
Occupy Central

The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong which shocks the world

Total votes: 1438
Ruben

In the mountain forest of Udzungwa in Tanzania, Ruben, a former poacher, now works together with researchers from around the world to help conserve the fores

Total votes: 1658
TIME OF THE BIRD

The film is a completely personal self-portrait and a totally experimental form of documentary, which tries to utilise the documentary material of life to na

Total votes: 684
Atlantic

Narrated by Emmy-award winning actor Brendan Gleeson, Atlantic follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities - in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland

Total votes: 1660
Hayama Yoshiki Letter Found in a Cement Barrel ~A Reading~

Yoshiki Hayama (葉山 嘉樹 1894–1945) is a Japanese author associated with the Japanese proletarian literature movement,and he had spent a lot of time in jail due

Total votes: 1028
Safely in the Rainbow

The story of a boy, named Pâris, living a full-color life with the daily challenges of type 1 diabetes, spanning from age 2, when he was diagnosed, to his pr

Total votes: 701
SIXTEEN LEGS

Journey into a world like no other, where giant prehistoric spiders the size of dinner plates seek kinky love in the dark.

Total votes: 524
The Checklist Effect

Both scientific and deeply personal: a documentary for anyone who's ever had surgery, or watched someone they love disappear behind those swinging doors.

Total votes: 516
Saving Randy

A trip to the Middle East turns into a rescue mission.

Total votes: 518
Little America

London’s Grosvenor Square has been America’s home in the UK for over 200 years.

Total votes: 929
Voices From Kaw Thoo Lei

Karen People of Burma believe no one hears their pleas for help as their country remains ravaged by a war that has lasted more than six decades.

Total votes: 942

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