American Studies

Subject Area

https://vimeo.com/209298158

DALYA'S OTHER COUNTRY

A Syrian teen attempts to balance her new life in L.A. while maintaining her Islamic traditions

https://vimeo.com/251373186

A suicide attempt survivor is on a mission to find fellow survivors

https://vimeo.com/385332361

the story of three women in a re-entry house as they battle addiction & recidivism

https://vimeo.com/334762755

The South Bronx is burning. Stay, fight, build.

https://vimeo.com/359359993

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

https://vimeo.com/390097098

HUNGRY TO LEARN

THE HIGHEST COST OF COLLEGE MIGHT BE YOUR HEALTH

https://vimeo.com/301097219

Mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement

https://vimeo.com/296521464

They are undocumented. They are unapologetic. They are THE UNAFRAID.

https://vimeo.com/349813970

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE NOW?

Six Stories. Seventeen Years. The Spiritual Journeys of American Millennials.

https://vimeo.com/365127668

SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM

Musician Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez - from humble beginnings as a California farmworker to receiving the Library of Congress highest musical honors

https://vimeo.com/275912050

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Three seniors at Brooklyn high schools are determined to get their entire class to college

https://vimeo.com/388044398

Mexican-American women fighting for justice after being sterilized against their will

https://vimeo.com/259970632

AND THEN THEY CAME FOR US

Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the demise of civil liberties

https://vimeo.com/270559689

People call them "Dropouts." They tell a different story.