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1 | Title | Director(s) | Where to find | Subject | Length | Year | Trailer | Website | Tags | NYU Affiliation | Referred by | |||||||||||||||
2 | Fresh Dressed | Sach Jenkins | Vimeo | Fresh Dressed is a fascinating chronicle of hip-hop, urban fashion, and the hustle that brought oversized pants and graffiti-drenched jackets from Orchard Street to high fashion's catwalks and Middle America shopping malls. Director Sacha Jenkins' music-drenched history draws from a rich mix of archival materials and in-depth interviews with rappers, designers, and other industry insiders. | 1:23:00 | 2015 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMunCo7_FWc | http://freshdressedmovie.com/ | Sam Pollard | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Meru | Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth “Chai” Vasarhelyi’ | Ordered from Bobst | In the high-stakes game of big-wall climbing, the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. | 1:30:00 | 2015 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvS6O9lVkkg | http://www.merufilm.com/ | Sam Pollard | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Brothers Hypnotic | Reuben Atlas | For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, "brotherhood" is literal: they're all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. They have to choose between becoming stars or following their father's principles. | 1:27:00 | 2015 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzywHsrilHk | Sam Pollard | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | Stanley Nelson | Bobst | History of the Black Panther movement in the US. Told with archival footage. | 1:55:00 | 2015 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeAsxK7PRa0 | Sam Pollard | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | E-Team | Ross Kauffman, Katy Chevigny | Netflix | Filmmakers Ross Kauffman and Katy Chevigny go to the front lines in Syria and Libya to document evidence of atrocities. | 1:30:00 | 2014 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmPSNhlU8jw | Sam Pollard | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | Seeking Asian Female | Deborah Lum | Streaming on Kanopy | Debbie starts a doc to understand "yellow fever". White men attracted exclusively to Asian women. She finds a documentary filmmakers dream subject, but inadverently becomes involved in his quest to marry and find happiness with a Chinese woman half his age. | 1:24:00 | 2012 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRNBoNfrMMQ | http://www.seekingasianfemale.com/ | Asian-American female director, focus on white male attraction of Asian women. This has really created some good discussion in class. Because it streams on Kanopy, it can easily be assigned to the class. | Alice Elliott & Janet Grillo | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Crossing Lines | Indira Somani, Leena Jayaswal | New Day Films | Crossing Lines is about an Indian American woman's struggle to stay connected to India after the loss of her father. Being born and brought up in the U.S., Indira Somani led an American life, but at home, her world was Indian because of her father's immense love for India and Indian culture. | 2009 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szar5LyHvxg | https://www.newday.com/film/crossing-lines | Alice Elliott | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | American Promise | Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster | Bobst-Avery Fischer DVD | A 12 year story of their own child and another going to an exclusive Manhattan prep school. African-American experience. | 2:22:00 | 2013 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knFReWtLkgc | http://www.pbs.org/pov/americanpromise/ | Alice Elliott | |||||||||||||||||
10 | Red Lines | Andrea Kalin, Oliver Lukacs | After Syria's Bashar al-Assad attacked his own people, activists smuggled aid into war zones and attempted to create civil, democratic enclaves in their homeland. | 2:00:00 | 2014 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogUeI8UNI4M | http://redlinesfilm.com/ | Syria, Middle East | Ramsee Chand-student | |||||||||||||||||
11 | Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed | Shola Lynch | Bobst-Avery Fischer DVD | Brooklyn-based Chisholm was the first African-American candidate to make a major-party bid for the U.S. presidency when she ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972. | 1:16:00 | 2004 | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B6X2T4Y?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_aiv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_aiv-20 | Woman of color director and subject | Lewis Erskine | |||||||||||||||||
12 | A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | not sure | The story of a survivor of an honor killing in Pakistan. | 40 min | 2015 | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5144072/?ref_=nv_sr_1 | Woman of color director and subject | Lewis Erskine | |||||||||||||||||
13 | Tongues Untied | Marlon Riggs | DML | Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. | 55 min | 1989 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2T0UdNaWlo | http://www.pbs.org/pov/tonguesuntied/ | Gay Black man director and subject | Lewis Erskine | ||||||||||||||||
14 | Spies of Mississippi | Dawn Porter | Amazon | Spies of Mississippi tells the story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain white supremacy. | 53 min | 2015 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WY3OIt7aA | http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/spies-of-mississippi/ | Black woman director, race and American history subject. Archival style PBS style doc | Lewis Erskine | ||||||||||||||||
15 | Vanishing Pearls: Oystermen of Point à la Hache | Nailah Jefferson | Netflix | VANISHING PEARLS chronicles the untold story of personal and professional devastation in Pointe a la Hache, a close-knit fishing village on the Gulf coast, in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill | 1 hr 20 | 2014 | http://www.vanishingpearls.com/ | Black woman director, race and environment subjects, sweeping style | Lewis Erskine | |||||||||||||||||
16 | When I Walk | Jason DaSilva | Netflix, iTunes | 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn't get back up. His legs had stopped working; his disease could no longer be ignored. Just a few months earlier doctors had told him that he had multiple sclerosis. | 1hr 24 | 2013 | http://www.pbs.org/video/2365202348/ | Indian American director, personal film, disability | Lewis Erskine | |||||||||||||||||
17 | Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One | William Greaves | DML, Hulu | Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously shooting the behind-the-scenes drama taking place. | 1hr 15 | 1968 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn4rJLzv4Jk | Genre bending | Lewis Erskine | |||||||||||||||||
18 | Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take Two 1/2 | William Greaves | DML | In Central Park, 1968, a director shot scenes of a young couple whose marriage was falling apart - 35 years later they are back in Central Park as the director relentlessly pursues the ever-elusive symbiopsychotaxiplasmic moment. | 1hr 39 | 2005 | Lewis Erskine | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | A Place of Our Own | Stanley Nelson | Snag Films | A bittersweet portrait of a New England beach town that holds a special meaning for many upper middle-class African Americans. For men like Nelson's father the community at Oak Bluffs was a defiant stand against the constant oppression of racism. As Stanley Sr. recalls, "The legend that I wanted to create was that I, a Negro, wanted to own waterfront property on Martha's Vineyard, and let that alone stand for my determination. We wanted to be in a place that made a statement: we too like it nice, we like it in the brightest sunshine, we like to be right at the beach too. | 54min | 2004 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zDtRqPxilg | http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/a_place_of_our_own | Lewis Erskine | |||||||||||||||||
20 | Cesar's Last Fast | Richard Ray Perez | Netflix | In 1988, Cesar Chavez embarked on what would be his last act of protest a 36-day water-only "Fast for Life" to draw attention to the horrific effects of unfettered pesticide use on farm workers, their children, and their communities. A deeply religious man, Chavez's moral clarity in organizing and standing with farmworkers at risk of his own life humbled his family, friends, and the world. | 1hr 40min | 2014 | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3460082/videoplayer/vi535145753?ref_=tt_ov_vi | http://cesarslastfast.com/?page_id=7 | Chicano/Mexican American subject and director, powerful female and male lead characters, political organizing | Lewis Erskine | ||||||||||||||||
21 | Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes | Byron Hurt | An examination of masculinity, manhood, sexism, misongyny, and homophobia in mainstream and hip-hop cultures. | 1hr 1min | 2006 | http://bhurt.com/store | Lewis Erskine | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Trouble the Water | Tia Lessin Carl Deal | Amazon, iTunes, https://gowatchit.com/watch/movies/trouble-the-water-51422 | The flood after Katrina, told through the eyes and camera of Kimberly Rivers Roberts as she lived through it | 1h 33m | 2008 | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X7F9R1I?ref_=imdbref_ttwo_wn_sub_piv_1&tag=imdbtag_ttwo_wn_sub_piv-20 | Lewis Erskine | ||||||||||||||||||
23 | Strong Island | Yance Ford | Netflix | Powerful doc about the murder of the director's brother, William, an event that destroyed their family. | 1h 47m | 2017 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h64qugj_iDg | https://www.strongislandfilm.com | African American subject and director who is also transgender. Family tragedy in a segregated community on Long Island. | Julie Sloane | ||||||||||||||||
24 | The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson | David France | Netflix | A re-examination of the death of Marsha P. Johnson, a transgender activist and Stonewall veteran, who was found floating in the Hudson River in July 1992. | 1h 45m | 2017 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pADsuuPd79E | https://www.netflix.com/title/80189623 | A present-day investigation by Victoria Cruz of the NYC Anti-Violence Project is mixed with archival footage of Stonewall, gay pride events, and transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. (There is a controversy over the rights to some of the footage.) | Julie Sloane | ||||||||||||||||
25 | Graven Image | Sierra Pettengill | https://fieldofvision.org/graven-image | Well done short archival doc about the history of Stone Mountain. Uses contrast and irony well | 10:30 | 2017 | SHORT | short, documentary, arcival, Field of Vision, racism, confederacy, Atlantic | Alice Elliott | |||||||||||||||||
26 | Sammy Davis Jr: I Gotta Be Me | Sam Pollard | Will be on American Masters, then available for educational use. I've asked NYU Bobst to order it. | Well done bio-pic that goes deeper than the usual celeb bio. Great archival footage and delves into complex character who became aware of his part in the civil rights movement. | 1hr 45m | 2017 | https://youtu.be/qu8AV81ANTw | |||||||||||||||||||
27 | Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | Hulu | "Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship." | 1hr 33m | 2018 | https://www.hulu.com/movie/minding-the-gap-efcd9be9-9541-46b4-abbc-dd8b0606b304 | Asian American director and subject, African American subject. Poverty, domestic violence, friendship, skateboarding | Lewis Erskine | |||||||||||||||||
28 | Unseen | Set Hernandez | PBS/POV | An aspiring social worker, Pedro faces restrictions as a blind, undocumented immigrant to get his college degree. But when attaining his dreams leads to new challenges, what will Pedro do? Using experimental cinematography, unseen reimagines film accessibility through an audio-centric experience. | 1 hr 22 mins | 2023 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVdQGjjZsU | https://www.unseen-film.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||
29 | The Sentence | Rudy Valdez | Need to order | Filmmaker Rudy Valdez shows the aftermath of his sister Cindy's 15-year sentence for conspiracy charges related to crimes committed by her deceased ex-boyfriend. | 1 hr 27mins | 2018 | The Sentence (2018) | Official Trailer | HBO - YouTube | https://www.hbo.com/movies/the-sentence | ||||||||||||||||||
30 | Hysterical Girl | Kate Novack | https://vimeo.com/551646437 | This compelling story traces a line from Freud's discredited analysis of a young woman to the modern mire of the patriarchy. | 13 mins | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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