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Get Fired Up With the Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade
When you think about radical acts, what comes to mind? Protests? Sit-ins? Strikes? What about biking? For the Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade, a group of young women of color in East Los Angeles, you...
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Why Seed Diversity Matters and How to Preserve It
“SEED: The Untold Story” begins with the same statistic that convinced filmmakers Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz that the documentary needed to be made: In the last century, 94 percent of our seed...
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Can You Joke About Something as Horrible as the Holocaust?
It was 1991. Art Spiegelman had just released his groundbreaking graphic novel “Maus.” And filmmaker Ferne Pearlstein was about to get an idea that would buzz around in her mind for 20 years before...
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U.S. Military Drone Operators Tell Their Stories in ‘National Bird’
It’s no secret that drones are probably flying over as you read this. In fact, it’s estimated that 7 million drones will be sold in the United States by 2020. You might even own a drone yourself. But...
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Life Lessons Learned from a ‘Real Boy’
June is unofficially Pride Month in the U.S., a celebration of the LGBTQ community. General acceptance of the community has increased in recent years, but not for everyone. Several states have written...
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Can You Have Love and a Chronic Illness?
I’m a sucker for love stories. I’m drawn to love’s ability to be beautiful, messy, consuming and inspiring–all at once. New “Independent Lens” documentary “Unrest” illustrates a love story with all...
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I Am Not Your Negro: The James Baldwin Story
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X and Medgar Evers hold hallowed places in the United States’ civil rights history. But one man, whose name likely didn’t appear in your history book, provides a thread...
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I Am Another You: Nanfu Wang Explores Homelessness
When filmmaker Nanfu Wang met Dylan Olsen, the subject of new “Independent Lens” film “I Am Another You,” she “wasn’t looking for someone to film,” she said in an interview with Rewire. Dylan Olsen,...
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4 PBS Documentaries That Will Make You Believe in Love
Rom-coms don’t have the Valentine’s Day movie market cornered. There are plenty of real-life love stories captured on film that can get even the most cynical among us in the mood for romance. These...
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Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges
“This is the dream!” These are the first words spoken in the film ‘Tell Them We Are Rising,” director Stanley Nelson’s affirming and informative survey of historically black colleges and universities,...
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