Cato

Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio.

Runtime

1h 26m

Cast

Nina Masseria, Chief Baba Olugbala Shango Obadena, Richard C. Pfeiffer, Jr.

In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild travelled to the country's jungle canyons to film the elu...

Runtime

1h 33m

Cast

Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, Samuel Ruiz García, Javier Elorriaga

A documentary that investigates the ways in which the civil liberties of American citizens and immigrants have been rolled back since September 11 and the passing of the Patriot Act.

Runtime

1h 6m

Director

Nonny de la Peña

Cast

Tony Blair, George W. Bush, John Ashcroft

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. Filmmakers Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler examine modern America’s most controversial political contest: the 2000 election of George W. Bush. What emerges is a disturbing pic...

Runtime

50m

Cast

James Baker III, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush

When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends become enemies, families are d...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan

Cast

Jesse Jackson, Juan Muñoz, Ray Rogers