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We Believe in Dinosaurs is an exploration of the scientific and historical veracity of the Bible and the construction of an authentic likeness of Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky. Known as “The ...

An Israeli soccer club's fans waged a racist campaign after their team, Beitar, added two Muslim players from Chechnya.

A haunting exploration of lynching and racial violence in America.

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness examines the life and work of the Jewish-American anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, whose writings challenged prevailing notions of race and culture.

They say hindsight is 20/20 and, historically, stories about real BIPOC characters in both mainstream film and television have had an obstructed, blurred, or blinded view—depending on the topic. This ...

Erika Cohn has made powerful documentaries for Independent Lens before and is no stranger to telling intimate, surprising stories in tense environments: her Peabody Award-winning film The Judge showed ...

Coerced sterilization is a shameful part of America’s history, and one doesn’t have to go too far back to find examples of it. Used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations – immigrants, ...

Weaving stunning archival footage with interviews of Albert Cullum and his former students, A Touch of Greatness is a portrait of the lives transformed by a maverick teacher who enabled children to ...

In King Corn, two recent college graduates plant a single acre of corn and set out to follow it on its journey from the seed to the dinner plate.

What do Pepe the Frog, the Spanish Inquisition, the blinking guy, the French Revolution, concern for the environment, and the Third Reich all have in common? These are all ideas that spread until they ...

The $100+ billion video game industry is big. So big, in fact, that it dwarfs both the film and music industry combined. Gaming as a hobby has become much more popular every year since the 1990s, ...