Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 168 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is American Studies
Adios Amor
The discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot - Maria Moreno, a migrant mother who became the charismatic leader of an early movement for farmworker justice
GOOD DOCS | 2018 | 59 minutes
After The Earthquake
A young Latin American woman living in San Francisco is joined by her fiancee, who has escaped the political situation in their homeland.
Women Make Movies | 1979 | 23 minutes
Always in Season
After 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging in North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins - centuries of trauma and lynching bleed into the present
GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 89 minutes
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
Tells the story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature, the North American tallgrass prairie. This title has one or more clips.
Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 60 minutes
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales
Abigail Disney looks at the Disney family legacy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 87 minutes
And Then They Came For Us
Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the demise of civil liberties
GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 51 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
Attla
The untold story of Alaska native dogsled racing champion George Attla and his legacy
GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 60 minutes
Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes
Lynden B. Miller explores the life and work of America's first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 62 minutes
