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Marjoe
The Academy-Award®-winning MARJOE is the ferocious and extraordinary chronicle of a firebrand evangelical preacher who wholeheartedly and humorously exposes himself as a fraud. An evangelist prodigy at the age of four, the film captures an [...]
Who Are The Debolts?
An Academy Award® winner for Best Documentary Feature and wildly popular upon its initial release, WHO ARE THE DEBOLTS? takes an intimate peek into the world of one extraordinary family that tackles adversity with compassion, joy, and perseverance.
Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases
In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were uprooted from their homes and businesses and incarcerated in desolate relocation camps. Without hearings or trials, men, women and children were [...]
A Time For Burning
Unsparingly honest, A TIME FOR BURNING packs a mighty wallop with its excruciatingly up-close treatment of race issues in a typical white, middle-class church at the pinnacle of the Civil Rights Movement.
Scared Straight!
This Academy Award® and Emmy® award-winning film recounts the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the Rahway maximum security prison with the most dangerous criminals New Jersey had to offer. These convicts gave the youths an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, hoping to change the course of the teens’ lives.
Regret To Inform
On January 1, 1968, Barbara Sonneborn’s husband, Jeff Gurvitz, left to fight in Vietnam. Eight weeks later, on February 29, 1968, he crawled out of a foxhole during a mortar attack to rescue his radio [...]