Videos & Films
Herb Schiller, a distinguished scholar of the political and cultural economies of communication systems, dissects The New York Times with wit and persuasive force. He offers a trenchant deconstruction of the paper’s cultural, economic, and...
Due to their concerns about the kind of health care provided, a committed union of interns and residents at Cook County Hospital, Chicago's only public hospital, are forced to strike for better patient care. This film documents their...
Based primarily in Appalachia, the Old Regular Baptist Church is one of the oldest religious denominations in the area, and is a unique product of Appalachian culture. In the Good Old Fashioned Way captures the spirit and faith of the...
Inside Women Inside exposes the institutionalized injustices that confront women in US prisons. At the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women and the Rikers Island Correctional Institute for Women, inmates discuss how they cope with...
On September 18, 2018, fast food workers with the Fight For 15 Chicago campaign staged a walkout from fast food franchises in ten US cities over their employers’ failure to take action on sexual harassment. In Chicago, workers marched on...
Just Say No goes from North Carolina to Frankfurt, Germany to highlight military resisters and their families and looks at Western Europe’s underground railroad of support. Before the Gulf War started, Deep Dish and Paper Tiger launched a...
La Operación exposes forced sterilization in Puerto Rico, which has the world’s highest rate of female sterilization. Over one-third of Puerto Rico’s women of childbearing age have been sterilized in what is simply known as “la operación...
In this short animation, a sheep drinks water from a toxic factory and turns into a zombie. Legends of the Weresheep was made with hand-drawn images that feature a river next to a factory spewing out black smoke. A herd of sheep graze next...
Los Trabajadores (The Workers) tells the stories and daily experience of mushroom farm laborers based in Kennett Square and Reading, Pennsylvania. It examines their efforts to improve working and living conditions through collective action...
This piece documents a Movement for Black Lives public gathering for mourning, celebration, and community-building in an auditorium in Cleveland in 2015 to memorialize those shot by police. Brothers, cousins, fathers, mothers, and sisters...
Money, travel, and women. Two young men of color discover, at a Queens recruitment office in New York, that those three selling points are still the hook that military recruiters use to lure young men to enlist. Through a combination of...
In the Appalachian Mountains, early settlers did not usually have access to medical assistance from trained physicians or nurses. Instead, mountain settlers invented a workaround: they learned to cure their own ailments using herbs, Native...