Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 221 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is U.S. History
The Activists
The story of activists who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including their lives, the tactics they used, and the historical context.
Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 60 minutes
Almost Home
Almost Home is a stunningly intimate feature-length, cinema verité film that follows the stories of residents, families and workers in a Midwestern nursing home as they struggle with the personal challenges of aging while trying to transform their century-old hospital-like institution into a true home.
371 Productions | 2005 | 84 minutes
Alois Nebel
Lonely train dispatcher, Alois Nebel, has disturbing hallucinations of central Europe's past whenever a fog or snow descends on the station. At that point, he encounters a mute stranger, whose dark past intersects with Nebel's visions.
KimStim | 2012 | 80 minutes
Ama
The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 74 minutes
American Feud
A non-partisan classroom friendly documentary tracing the American story of liberalism and conservatism.
Nerds Make Media | 2017 | 86 minutes
Ancient Sea Peoples of the North Atlantic
A history of maritime adapted cultures of the North Atlantic Rim back to the Ice Age
Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 118 minutes
And Then They Came For Us
Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the demise of civil liberties
GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 51 minutes
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Charts the story of a poor Scottish immigrant who sailed to America in the 1840s, and by the end of the century would be the richest man in the world.
Collective Eye Films | 2015 | 75 minutes
Anonymous Artists of America
The psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America holds a performance at the University of Chicago.
Kartemquin Films | 1970 | 9 minutes
Arid Lands
A moving and complex essay on a unique landscape of the American West, the area around the Hanford Site in Washington State.
Bullfrog Films | 2007 | 98 minutes
