Showing 1 - 10 of 280 titles with a criteria of Subject is American Studies

Abandoned

Exposé of the horrifying results of the 1996 immigration law.

Bullfrog Films | 2001 | 55 minutes

Addiction Incorporated

The true story of the tobacco companies' commitment to addicting the human brain and how the world came to know about it. This title has one or more clips.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 76 minutes

Adios Amor

The discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot - Maria Moreno, a migrant mother who became the charismatic leader of an early movement for farmworker justice

GOOD DOCS | 2018 | 59 minutes

After Silence

Examines the treatment of Japanese-Americans during WW II, and its relevance to post 9/11 America.

Bullfrog Films | 2003 | 30 minutes

After The Earthquake

A young Latin American woman living in San Francisco is joined by her fiancee, who has escaped the political situation in their homeland.

Women Make Movies | 1979 | 23 minutes

After Tiller

Sheds a humanistic light on the heated abortion debate by going inside the lives of the last four doctors in America who openly provide third-trimester abortions and the reasons their patients seek them.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 88 minutes

Always in Season

After 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging in North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins - centuries of trauma and lynching bleed into the present

GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 89 minutes

America's Brutal Prisons

Exposes the violence occurring inside prisons throughout America, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards.

Icarus Films | 2005 | 48 minutes

America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

Tells the story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature, the North American tallgrass prairie. This title has one or more clips.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 60 minutes

The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales

Abigail Disney looks at the Disney family legacy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 87 minutes