The New Americans2004

The impeccably constructed black-and-white images give a view of the pre Disneyfication of New York City in this amazing work from filmmaker Lech Kowalski.

In 1981, Pullman workers found themselves in the midst of a fight not only for their jobs but the future of the American rail car industry.

Ten-year-old Pam Taylor and her twelve-year-old brother Scott are followed around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The kids worry that they'll be forced out of the neighborhood they grew up in by gentrification.

In this cinema-verite documentary, a teenage youth group decides "to bring Christ to their neighborhood" by holding an anti-war Mass at their conservative Chicago parish.

In 1998, World T.E.A.M. Sports organized a 16-day, 1100 mile bicycle expedition through once war-torn Northern and Southern Vietnam.

A provocative coming-of-age story that follows fifteen-year-old Billy as he bicycles through the quiet streets of small town Maine, traversing the frustrating gap between imagination and reality, grappling with isolation and first-time young love.