Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 315 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is United States
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
Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)
An aspiring corrido composer faces two life-changing choices: to traffic drugs or unlawfully cross the border into the United States.
Icarus Films | 2005 | 70 minutes
Almost There
Three freshly retirees in US, UK and Japan, embark on a journey in search of meaning and happiness.
First Hand Films | 2017 | 80 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
An Apollo Legend
One night a week, the stage at the Apollo Theater is an amateur's battleground, where performers have competed for stardom since 1934. Today, the legend of Ella Fitzgerald lives on in the hearts of those who pray for their own big break.
MediaStorm | 2008 | 18 minutes
