America ReFramed

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Building Babel
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Building Babel follows a year in the life of Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of Park51, the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque," a Muslim-led community center two blocks from the World Trade .. show full overview
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Radio Unnameable
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Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized late night FM radio by serving as a cultural hub for music, politics and audience participation for nearly 50 years. Long before .. show full overview
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The Medicine Game
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The Medicine Game shares the remarkable journey of two brothers from the Onondaga Nation driven by a single goal; to beat the odds and play lacrosse for national powerhouse Syracuse .. show full overview
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The New Public
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The New Public follows the lives of the ambitious educators and lively students of Bed Stuy’s new Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School (BCAM) over the course of the founding .. show full overview
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Code Of The West
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At a time when the world is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana may now become the first to repeal its medical marijuana law.
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Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
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Once known as the "California Riviera," the Salton Sea is now called one of America's worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, that coughs up dead fish and birds by the .. show full overview
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The Way We Get By
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On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting nearly 800,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. A deeply moving .. show full overview
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My Brooklyn and Fate of a Salesman
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My Brooklyn: As a Brooklyn gentrifier, My Brooklyn director Kelly Anderson journeys to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. A bustling African-American and Caribbean .. show full overview
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Downeast
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In the small lobster village of Prospect Harbor, Maine, the closing of the last remaining Sardine Cannery in the United States was in April 2010. A few months later, Boston-based .. show full overview
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
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It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the .. show full overview
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The Prep School Negro
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Growing up in the ghettos of Philadelphia, filmmaker André Robert Lee's mother struggled to support him and his sister by putting strings in the waistbands of track pants and swimsuits .. show full overview
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Drivers Wanted
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Taking the viewer into the taxi seat to experience accidents, blizzards, and the late night streets of New York City, Drivers Wanted reveals the impossibly eclectic community inhabiting .. show full overview
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The Lulu Sessions
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LuLu is unlike anyone you’ve ever met: A hard-living, chain-smoking rebel with a tender heart. A former cheerleader and current poet with a potty mouth. And a world-class cancer .. show full overview
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Mothers Of Bedford
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Eighty percent of women in US prisons today are mothers of school-age children. Many a parent would find it difficult to be away from their child for a day, or even a week. But .. show full overview
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Town Hall
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Casting an unflinching eye at two Tea Party activists, Town Hall follows Katy and John from the battleground state of Pennsylvania who believe America's salvation lies in a return to .. show full overview
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Deputized
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On November 8, 2008 in a Long Island town, Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero was fatally stabbed by a group of teenagers cruising the streets “beaner–hopping” (a term used to describe .. show full overview
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Come Hell Or Highwater: The Battle for Turkey Creek
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Descendants of emancipated slaves who settled on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the residents of Turkey Creek have been stewards of the creek's rich wetland habitat for generations. Today, .. show full overview
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Rachel Is
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Rachel is mysterious, funny, difficult and full of contradictions but she wants what most people her age want -- to move out of her mother's house. This dream of independence seems .. show full overview
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Dignity Harbor
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The story of a year's time at Dignity Harbor; one of three homeless encampments along the Mississippi River in the downtown area of St. Louis, north of the Arch. They must survive living .. show full overview
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Reserved To Fight
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In May 2003, Fox Company of Marine Reserve Unit 2/23 returned home from combat on the front line in Iraq. Reserved To Fight follows four Marines of Fox Company through their post-war .. show full overview
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Broken Heart Land
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On an early autumn afternoon, gay teen Zack Harrington killed himself with a gunshot to the head in his parent’s ranch in Norman, Oklahoma. One week earlier, Zack allegedly attended a .. show full overview