Documentary
CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary desegregation program. Shuttling between their inner-city Boston neighborhoods and predominantly white suburban schools in pursuit of a better education, they find themselves swapping elements of culture, language, and behavior to fit in with their suburban counterparts – Often acting or speaking differently based on their surroundings, called code-switching.
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The Grammar of Happiness
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The New York Hardcore Chronicles Film
The Color of Fear 2: Walking Each Other Home
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Sociology Is a Martial Art
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IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 2019
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IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 2022
An urban train link, the RER B, crosses Paris and its outskirts from north to south. A journey within indistinct spaces known as inner cities and suburbs. Several portraits, all individual pieces that form a whole. We.Where are the African Gods?
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2018
A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, who has previously worked with powerhouse music video director Khalil Joseph. Reading from her own works, Lincoln’s voice sets the tone for a film that explores the African American experience through fathers and their sons.Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger
IMDB 8 | Sep , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Jul , 2015
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 2022
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1971
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IMDB 5.6 | Jul , 2015
What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.The Grammar of Happiness
IMDB 8 | Jan , 2012
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IMDB 7.9 | Sep , 2020
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IMDB 0 | May , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1997
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 2022
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IMDB 7 | Mar , 2020
The world's largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56.000 inhabitants now want independence. They feel their culture and language is threatened and is the main reason for the many suicides among young people. But the Danish speaking Greenlanders feel discriminated and want to keep the ties to Denmark. The film follows four strong young Greenlanders, who each in their own way insist on taking responsibility for the future of their country. The documentary explores the difficult balance between the right to self-determination and xenophobic nationalism. Between traditional culture and globalization.Gora
IMDB 6 | May , 2017
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IMDB 6.8 | May , 2001
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 1998
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 2020
I was about seven years old the first time someone called me \"black\" on the street. I turned around to see who they were talking to, until I realized they were talking to me.The Judge
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2017
A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice.Project Nim
IMDB 6.8 | Jul , 2011
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.