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/466756881
A PLACE TO BREATHE
explores the universality of trauma, resilience, and healing in immigrant communities
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/478689207
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.
https://vimeo.com/170077110
LUPE UNDER THE SUN
A portrait of migrant farmworkers grappling with the faultlines of the American Dream
https://vimeo.com/184405671
MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART
25 years after Miguel died of AIDS, his niece tracks down his estranged lover and cracks open a Pandora’s box of unresolved family drama
https://vimeo.com/388044398
NO MÁS BEBÉS
Mexican-American women fighting for justice after being sterilized against their will
https://vimeo.com/417411003
OF TWO MINDS
Take your best day and your darkest moment and multiply it by a million
https://vimeo.com/235430953
OUT OF STATE
Native men return to Hawaii after their cultural reawakening at a private prison in the Arizona desert
https://vimeo.com/275912050
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Three seniors at Brooklyn high schools are determined to get their entire class to college
https://vimeo.com/442488146
RAISE YOUR VOICE
These aren’t just kids practicing their first amendment rights, they are living them
https://vimeo.com/453351461
RIVER CITY DRUMBEAT
POWERFUL TALE OF MUSIC, LOVE, AND LEGACIES SET IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
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/204435006
SOLITARY
A daring exploration of one of America's most notorious supermax prisons
https://vimeo.com/112421725
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
Chinese adoptees navigate their multicultural identities and adolescence
https://vimeo.com/252433751
STUMPED
An extraordinary journey through tragedy, comedy and restoration
https://vimeo.com/76011653
SUNSET STORY
Two elderly women activists change the way we look at aging
https://vimeo.com/451931144
THE CONDOR & THE EAGLE
Bringing to light the interconnected nature of social and environmental issues
https://vimeo.com/283361065
THE CORRIDOR
Inside the nation’s first high school inside an adult jail
https://vimeo.com/412933976
THE FIRST RAINBOW COALITION
In a city determined to keep them apart, they dared to unite.
https://vimeo.com/401708734
THE NEW BAUHAUS
An odyssey through the life and legacy of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the innovative artist and educator whose pioneering approach to integrating technology into design continues to influence and inspire.
https://vimeo.com/270559689
THE PUSHOUTS
People call them "Dropouts." They tell a different story.
https://vimeo.com/251373186
THE S WORD
A suicide attempt survivor is on a mission to find fellow survivors
https://vimeo.com/296521464
THE UNAFRAID
They are undocumented. They are unapologetic. They are THE UNAFRAID.
https://vimeo.com/310435279
TIME FOR ILHAN
One woman’s quest to become the first Somali Muslim lawmaker in the United States.
https://vimeo.com/210684465
TYRUS
His art inspired Bambi, his life will inspire you
https://vimeo.com/390097400
UNSETTLED: Seeking Refuge in America
LGBT refugees and asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East fleeing persecution to seek better and safer lives in the U.S.
https://vimeo.com/301097219
WARRIOR WOMEN
Mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement
https://vimeo.com/302731458
WE EXIST: Beyond the Binary
What if the world told you that you don’t exist?
https://vimeo.com/349813970
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE NOW?
Six Stories. Seventeen Years. The Spiritual Journeys of American Millennials.
https://vimeo.com/390630701
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
The religious lives of American teenagers