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.

A chronicle of the work and times of an American artist, taking us from searing images of interrogations and torture to the ironies and dark humor of old-age.

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.