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Showing 1 - 6 of 6 titles with a criteria of Subject is Philadelphia
Fight Hate With Love
Prison-survivor and activist Michael Ta’Bon leads a one-man movement in his community to help other young men avoid the revolving door of the prison system he’s been trapped in since he was a teen.
MediaStorm | 2017 | 79 minutes
Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn
Politial Candidate Malcolm Kenyatta was born, raised, and still lives in North Philadelphia - one of the poorest neighborhoods in America’s poorest big city - where the median income is less than $10,000 per year and gun violence has surged to historic levels.
Collective Eye Films | 2023 | 95 minutes
The Philadelphia Eleven
In 1974, in an act of civil disobedience, eleven women are the first women ever ordained as Episcopal priests. Despite the backlash and harassment they faced, they built a movement that challenged patriarchy within Christendom.
GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 86 minutes
Release
Filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Vijay Iyer turn a single archival panning shot of that scene—originally filmed in 1930 by Jack Painter—and its accompanying audio track—recorded in 1930 by Addison Tice--into a split-screen surround sound panoramic film that continually doubles back on itself, creating a short cinematic meditation on the nature of spectacle and spectatorship.
Icarus Films | 2010 | 13 minutes
The Shooting on Mole Street
A gripping documentary that follows two cops verité-style, while capturing the complex dynamics of a community where selling drugs is seen as the only option for many young men.
Icarus Films | 1998 | 90 minutes
