American Studies

https://vimeo.com/347364300
A MAN AND HIS TRUMPET: The Leroy Jones Story
There are millions of musicians in the world, but there’s only one Leroy Jones
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/73748800
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY
The life of Chinese-American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs
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/374458233
ATTLA
The untold story of Alaska Native dogsled racing champion George Attla and his legacy
https://vimeo.com/74592497
CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND
The Legacy of Pat Brown
https://vimeo.com/87819432
CESAR’S LAST FAST
Cesar Chavez, a historic fast and the fight for farmworkers rights
https://vimeo.com/293427422
CRIME + PUNISHMENT
Unprecedented examination of the United States' most powerful police department
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/334762755
DECADE OF FIRE
The South Bronx is burning. Stay, fight, build.
https://vimeo.com/112190350
EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL
One Black man's journey from straight-A student to bank robber — and back
https://vimeo.com/252436998
EXILED
Two military veterans, both green card immigrants willing to die for America, get deported
https://vimeo.com/275941924
FATHER'S KINGDOM
He changed the course of civil rights in this country and you never heard his name
https://vimeo.com/445318942
FIRST VOTE
Asian American voters in battleground states
https://vimeo.com/385332361
GUEST HOUSE
the story of three women in a re-entry house as they battle addiction & recidivism
https://vimeo.com/111571370
HAPPY VALLEY
The Penn State abuse scandal: athletics, fandom, and campus sexual assault
https://vimeo.com/390097098
HUNGRY TO LEARN
THE HIGHEST COST OF COLLEGE MIGHT BE YOUR HEALTH
https://vimeo.com/451339147
LANDFALL
Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL examines a ruined world at the brink of transformation, spinning a cautionary tale for our times.