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Homeland Homeland
ON DVD: Nearly all Indian lands in the U.S. face grave environmental threats – toxic waste, strip mining, oil drilling and nuclear contamination. But a handful of activists are fighting back. Filmed against some of America’s most spectacular backdrops, from Alaska to Maine and Montana to New Mexico, Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action profiles the against-all-odds struggles of Native American leaders who are taking on powerful energy companies and government agencies to protect the environment for all Americans. A moving tribute to the power of grassroots organizing, Homeland is also a call-to-action against the current dismantling of thirty years of environmental laws. more >>
Blessed is the Match Blessed Is the Match
ON DVD: Narrated by Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Hungary’s Jews. Shockingly, it was the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal – first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save her daughter. more >>
Hava Nagilah, What Is It? Hava Nagilah, What Is It?
IN DEVELOPMENT: It's to music what the bagel is to food -- a uniquely Jewish invention that has transcended its origins and become a worldwide hit. But Hava Nagilah...what is it? Hava Nagilah, What Is It? asks that burning question. Part humorous, part informative, this exploration of the history and meaning of Hava Nagilah will uncover the mysteries behind one of the most frequently recorded and performed standards of all time. Scholars will trace the song through the decades. Singers and comedians will provide their own renditions of the song... more >>
Dorothea Lange photograph of woman Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
IN PRE-PRODUCTION: Grab a Hunk of Lightning is a 90-minute film, on the photographer, Dorothea Lange. It's also an exploration of the creative process, and the cost of a creative life. Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose work during the Great Depression resonates more than ever today. She photographed the disenfranchised - the migration to the West during the Dustbowl, extreme poverty in the streets of San Francisco and throughout the United States, the Japanese Internment, and the urbanization of her adopted state, California.more >>
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IN DEVELOPMENT: Most popular histories of American Indians end in 1890 with the massacre at Wounded Knee. But the stories of more than 500 Native American nations didn’t stop 115 years ago at a bloody creek in South Dakota. Far from it. From the birth of the reservations to the birth of Foxwoods, the original Americans have survived and even thrived over the last century.more >>