- A former US special forces soldier is forced to return to the battlegrounds of Iraq and Syria when his son, an aid worker, is kidnapped. Determined to overcome the political indifference to his sons plight, he must somehow find the will and ability to stop those who would make the son pay for the sins of the father.
- On July 31, 2010in Brooklyn, New York, the first ever American Beatbox Championship took place. Contestants of all races, from the north, south, east and west coast of the United States competed. Now it's down to the final eight! This film documents one of the most neglected genres of Hip Hop Culture and places it in i…
- Within 48 hours of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii authorities arrested several hundred local Japanese in Oahu, Maui, and Kauai. Within a few months over 2,000 men and women of Japanese ancestry were arrested, detained and incarcerated in Hawaii and later sent to the Department of Justice and War Relocation Auth…
- Between 1926 and 1927, the Italian intellectual and Communist political figure Antonio Gramsci spent 44 days imprisoned on the island of Ustica, off the northern coast of Sicily. Together with his fellow prisoners, he founded a school. This unique institution was open to all, welcoming people of all ages and social bac…
- On New York's rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side sits the Streit's Matzo factory. When its doors opened in 1925, it sat at the heart of the nation's largest Jewish immigrant community. Today, in its fifth generation of family ownership, it remains as the last family owned matzo factory in America.Streit's: Matzo and t…