Musician Daryl Davis has played all over the world, but it's what he does in his free time that sets him apart. In an effort to find out how anyone can "hate me without knowing me," Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Fueled by a YouTube video made by two young conservatives who posed as pimp and prostitute in a sting, community organizing group ACORN's very existence is threatened.

Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, Anita: Speaking Truth to Power celebrates Anita Hill's legacy and reveals the story of a woman who has empowered millions to stand up for equality and justice.

Brick City is a provocative and eye-opening documentary series that fans out around the city of Newark, New Jersey to capture the daily drama of a community striving to become a better, safer, stronger place to live.

This intimate documentary, which features candid interviews and glorious dance performances, demonstrates the talent and uninterrupted creativity of Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, two living legends in the world of American dance.

The most successful high school soccer coach in NYC history partly due to a pipeline of talented kids from Africa, Coach Jake first had to overcome an addiction. Both on the soccer field and off, this season may be his toughest yet.

Polluted by big business and failed by local, state and federal environmental protections...what do you do when the company you work for and live next to is making you sick? Company Town is a modern-day David vs. Goliath story.

In a triumphant career that lasted forty years, Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international reputation, and made an indelible mark on the jazz world.

A deep look at photographer Burk Uzzle. From Martin Luther King Jr. to Woodstock to America's small towns and back roads, Uzzle's iconic photographs offer a breathtaking commentary on American civil rights, race, social justice, and art.

Imagine you're in jail awaiting trial for a crime you didn't commit: do you accept a plea bargain of seven years or risk a sentence of life in jail? In Louisiana's criminal justice system, the choice isn't easy - especially if you're black.

In this update of her 2011 documentary, filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy sifts through the facts and speculation surrounding Lee and both her novels. Includes interviews with Lee’s older sister, close friends and admirers, from Oprah Winfrey to Wally Lamb.

Herman Wallace may be the longest-serving prisoner in solitary confinement in America - 40 years and counting in a 6-by-9-foot cell. This award-winning documentary reveals the remarkable expression his struggle finds in an unusual art project.

This "smile-inducing" (NY Times) documentary tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source for what we would call rock and roll, and in the process helped to break down racial walls in 1950s America.

What's it like to dedicate your life to work that won't be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four remarkable projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question.

Godfrey Cheshire's film about his family's Southern plantation - and the colossal feat of moving it to escape urban sprawl - is a thoughtful and witty look at how the racial legacy from the past continues into the present.

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a colossus of ideas and a man of deeds. 16 years after his death, as the nation sinks into hyper-partisanship and social media frenzy, the first documentary about his life captures Moynihan as never before.

Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a gifted journalist and writer. Now after more than 30 years in prison, Mumia is not only still alive but continuing to report, provoke and inspire.

A documentary that explores the lives of renowned Black artists who emigrated to Paris to liberate themselves from the racism of the United States, including Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Augusta Savage.

In 1964, a mob of Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi (the 'Mississippi Burning' murders). Neshoba tells the story of these three American heroes and the long struggle to bring their killers to justice.

With white Jewish lesbians for parents, Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But her curiosity about her African-American roots thrusts her into an exploration of race and identity that threatens to distance her from her family.

Nat Hentoff is one of the enduring voices of the last 65 years, a writer who championed jazz as an art form and was present at the creation of ‘alternative’ journalism in America. Featuring interviews with Hentoff, Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch, and more.

Wilma Stephenson teaches Culinary Arts at Frankford High School in Philadelphia. Infamously blunt, Mrs. Stephenson runs a “boot camp,” disciplining her students into capable chefs and responsible students.

Epic in scope yet filmed with vérité intimacy over nearly a decade, the Sundance documentary Quest is a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a testament to love, healing and hope.

Part personal odyssey and part chronicle of diplomacy in action, this documentary follows then-Senator Barack Obama as he takes an emotional journey to Kisumu, Kenya - land of his ancestry.

Narrated by Gloria Steinem, Sex & Justice presents the highlights of the dramatic confrontation between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings before the United States Senate in 1991.

Shot over three years in the neighborhoods of Detroit, Street Fighting Men takes a deep, observational dive into the lives of three black men. What emerges is a story of hard work, faith and manhood in a community left to fend for itself.

A story that tears at the heart of America, this critically acclaimed documentary from the director of Bonhoeffer explores Thomas Jefferson and his personal and public dilemma about race and slavery.

The first documentary to explore the American family photo album through the eyes of black photographers, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history to discover images that have been suppressed, forgotten and lost.

Throughout the South, vast numbers of African-American gravesites and burial grounds have been lost or are disappearing through neglect. Unmarked explores these untold stories of our forgotten past and the efforts underway to preserve them.

Welcome to Leith chronicles the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. As his behavior becomes more threatening, the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor.

Directed by Oscar-nominated David Massey, this dynamic documentary features legal experts, local activists, and law enforcement officers delving into ongoing charges of inequality, unfair practices, and politicized manipulations of America's judicial system.

This documentary reveals the extraordinary life of Sidiki Conde, who lost the use of his legs to polio at age fourteen. Today, he balances his career as a performing artist with the almost insurmountable obstacles of life in New York City.