The Jazz Ambassadors

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation beg...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

Documentary exploring the meaning and history of cool through the American music that started in the 1940s in the bars of New York and LA, and became...

The Arkansas school integration crisis and the changes wrought in subsequent years. This film profiles the lives of the nine African-American students...

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 19...

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the proliferation of nuclear weapons across the globe. She vi...

Since her debut at the age of 18, musician, civil rights campaigner and activist Joan Baez has been on stage for over 60 years. For the now 82-year-ol...

The story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians interned with Japanese Americans during World War II. The wife of a Japanese American, Ishigo r...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war a...

Oscar nominated documentary short from 2008

A documentary on funk and P-funk and the bands and artists that made it all happen: James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Maurice Wh...

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard re...

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injustices of racial segregation while on the road. The N...

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gath...