Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 42 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Late 20th Century (U.S. History)
Borderline Cases
The environmental impact of the 2,000 factories (maquiladoras) on the US-Mexico border.
Bullfrog Films | 1997 | 65 minutes
Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code
From award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster. This title has one or more clips.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 82 minutes
Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story
An allegory for a working class suburb in decline, this film investigates the story of Shawn Nelson, who stole a tank and went on a rampage through the residential streets of Clairemont, CA.
Icarus Films | 2001 | 57 minutes
Deciding Vote
Deciding Vote shares the now-forgotten story of how New York State Assemblyman George Michaels defied his conservative and religious constituents by casting the critical tie-breaking vote on a bill which legalized abortion in the state of New York, laying the groundwork for Roe v Wade.
Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 20 minutes
Far from Vietnam
An epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch and Alain Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam, initiated and edited by Chris Marker.
Icarus Films | 1967 | 115 minutes
Fighting in Southwest Louisiana
A portrait of Danny Cooper, a mailman in the rural American South who has been openly gay since high school in the middle of “redneck” country.
Strange Attractions | 1992 | 27 minutes
The Forest For The Trees
The amazing story of the fight to clear Earth First! activist Judi Bari's name after her car was bombed and she was arrested as a terrorist.
Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 57 minutes
Frenemies
Presents a balanced portrait of Cuban life today and a compelling argument for why the US should lift the devastating 60-year embargo.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 87 minutes
Gorbachev. Heaven
Director Vitaly Mansky's portrait of the storied Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev wherein he presents his final testimony.
Icarus Films | 2021 | 100 minutes
Greetings from Washington D.C.
Documents the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place on October 14, 1979.
Women Make Movies | 1981 | 28 minutes
